New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-07
$500 Guardsmen of
In High Spirits; Expect
Steady Movement Nou

About I 500 officers and enlisted me'
Of the Ammunition Train, Military 70
lice and Field Hospital corps of inc
27th Division left for Camp Wads'
worth. Spartanburg, S. c., yesterday
afternoon. They were scheduled &c
leave Communipaw and Jersey City ter
minals at a given hour. and il was Jus'
thirty minutes later when the specials
glidcd of TO the music of shouting and
singing brown clad men leaning 'u'
OF every coach window.
Starting at noon from their various
encampments, scattered from mamma
tan TO the hinterland of The Bronx
the military units were expected by me
officers in charge of entrainment 20
be late by several hours. Coionei
Charles |. De Bevoise, commanding 'h1
departure of the troops, and MAJORS
Edward Olmstcd and J. I. Loree, OF the
division headquarters, gave the sol
diers a tight schedule, hoping Tor the
best results. They were delighted al
tho speed with which the entrainmen'
was accomplished.
The departure of the Guardsmen yes
terday was looked upon by all the sol,
diers Of the 27th Division as the rea
beginning of troop movements, which
would be kept up without much inter
ruption till all the Guardsmen were
gone. 1t was reported that the ith
18th, list, l4th, 23d, LIST. I'd and 80 nae
received orders TO strike camp to-mor'
row.
This was denied by Major Olmsted
chief of staff of the Division Headquar'
tiers. who said, however, that he expect
ed more or less continuous movement
of troops TO Spartauburg from now on
Major 'O,msted said he expected that
the soldiers would leave, about 1000 al
q time. as rapidly as camp facilities
could be furnished in Spartanburg.
The Ammunition Train. under the
command Of Lieutenant Colonel Cleye-
land {. Lansing. and consisting of slN
companies Of the artillery section IN
der Major Lanstord !. Sherry, and SIX
companies OF the small arms section
under Major Walter l.. Bell, and the
I'd Field Hospital, under the command
Of Major Louis II. Gaus, had to come
from Pelham Bay Park, with then
equipment Without a hitch the Off
GERS transported their commands or
barges from City Island, around the
Battery to Communipaw. The troops
were IN their trains on the minute set
for the departure.
City Sees Troops
The city caught aectinc glimpses OIL
some Of the troops, who marched
through the streets 20 the Twcnty-thir-
and Liberty Street ferries. The Isl
New York Field Hospital unit, com
handed by Major Moses a. Stivers, de-
CidCd 10 use leg instead of clec:rit
power ID moving itself and its equip
mc0. from the SiXty-si%th Street
armory 10 the Twenvy-third Street
ferry. The boys were rewarded by
cheers along the route. and gifts OF
cigarettes. boxes OF candy and fruit.
The military police, commanded by
Major I. II. Stanton, took the Third
Avenue a. from their armory. in Nine
ty-fourth Street TO the City Hall
From there they marched to the Lib.
cvty Street ferry, gathering a patriotic
crowd of spectators along the road.
The 4th Field Hospital company. with
Major Frank Harnden in command, left
Van CQrtlgndt Park in motor trucks snC
took d route through The Bronx anc
Manhattan.
With the military police went TIE
Headquarters Of the division train
which WAS left behind when the head
quarters staff went. These two units
and the lst Field Hospital company
divided one lengthy special Of touris
and Pullman coaches between them 4
Communipaw. Another section was oc
cupied by the ammunition train.
,hird section carried horses and equip
mcnt. The other field hospital units
left In a special from Jersey CITY
Berlin or Bust"
The military police section carried
the horors for decorations 'Berl!l
or bust Germany started it; the y
/ S. A. will finish it." we are the boy.
who will pinch the Kaiser and PA
. him IN the cooler were some of III,
legends inscribed in chalk on the m
/ p coaches.
/ The supply train of six companies
! chartered in the Ninety-fourth Stree
armOry. and the 1st. ID, Sd and At
ambulance companies, ordered Soutl
/ with the ammunition, field hospita
and military police units, leave thi
morning for SpartanDurg. All Of tn
ambulance units except the Sd ar
upstate, and they will leave direc
from their posts Tor Camp Wadsworth