The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-08-25
SOLDIERS HOPES FOR
EARLY MOVEMENT RISE
As Possibility OF Great Railroad
Strike Dwindlcs "Interncd"' Mill
tiamcn See Chances Grow.
DESIRE SERVICE ON BORDER
News That Danger OF Transportation
Tfe-Up Is Passing Is Good News TO
Men Tired of Camp-Expcct to
Leave Fair Grounds First OF Month.

Tentatively. troops and the camp
headquarters occupying the Fair
Grounds are to leave the enclosure
on or before September /.
There appears to be an understand
ing between Virginia militia authort-
ties, the Administrative Board and the
Virginia State Fair Association to that
effect. but Uncle sam, through the
War Department, the Department or
the East and the Bureau of Militia
Affairs. may hold that Virginia troops
modified under call of the President
on June IS shall remain in their pres
ent quarters.
Such a contention by the War De-
partment might lead To complications
embarrassing. in a way, 10 the Fair
Association, yet at the same time Ia
yorable, for the presence of the SOL
diers during the fair would prove an
added attraction.
Though the troops now within the
Fair Grounds portion of Camp Stuart
the signal corps, the engineer corps
the infantry recruits held here pend
ing their movement to the border and
their assignment to their regiments
and companies. and the camp head
quarters-are expected to be moved
outside the grounds, no orders have
been received for their removal. Out
side the Fair Grounds are the artil-
lerymen and the cavalrymen.
Good News For Soldiers.
1t may be. it was thought by some
of the military authorities here last
night, that orders to move out the
men now inside the Fair Grounds have
not been issued because of uncertainty
due to the posi- bility of a railroad
strike tying up the transportation
systems of the nation News from
Washington late yesterday and last
night, indicating that the bone of
tention"-whether or not the
eight-hour day should be basis of ar
bitration--had been disposed Of, leads
them TO believe that the theory that
there have been no orders to move
to the border. because Of railroad
strike imminence, was tenable. Now
that the strike situation has been dis
posed Of, apparently, early orders TO
move are anticipated.
Orders to move from Camp Stuart,
including that portion of the camp
within the Fair Grounds, which the
association desires vacated that prep
arations for the big exhibition in Oc-
tober may be made, are expected 10
come within the next rev days. II Is
believed by many of tie soldiers that
these orders will be for movement
to the border They believe that
General Funston was right, that
troops in mobilization camps through,
out the United states should not be
sent on to the Mexican border when
there existed the possibility of a
greater need for services of the MILL
tia elsewhere.
All the men here are anxious to
see service, anxious to get away from
the monotony of camp life routine,
anxious to go to the border, and to
them the news last night that the
danger of a strike that might call
them out to run railroads, or see that
they are run. appears rapidly dwin-
ding. was almost as good news as
would be that of receipt of orders
directing them to the border.