The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-24
Few BrattlebOrO Men Were
Among Detachment Seen
Early This Morning
SHORTAGE OF CARS
HAMPERS MOVEMENTS
pther Detachments Likely to Leave Bur-
hngton Soon-New England Division
Said to be Mobilizing for Service in
France Within Very Short Time.

a train of II coaches containing a
detachment of First Vermont soldiers
went through Brattleboro about 80
TINS morning on its way presumably to
divisional mobilization camp. This
IS the second detachment to pass through
here, the first going through early YES
terday morning.
The few people who were at the local
station in the hope of seeing friends or
relatives among the troops saw that
there We're hardly any Brattleboro bows
IN the detachment although Lieut.. C.
n. Pellet and Sergeant J. J. Garritv
were on board.
Reports from Burlington are to the
| effect that a car shortage has made it
impossible TO transport more than 400
or 300 of the Vermont regiment at a
time so If is not unlikely that a third
troop train will go through here during
the next p hours
1t is understood that the Goth divi-
sion, which includes the New England
National Guard troops, is being mo-
bllized for immediate service abroad
and this Is believed to confirm the rumor
that it will not be sent to Charlotte.
\. G., as was first planned Just when
the boys in the 26th and the 42nd (Rain-
bow division Will sail is of course not
made public but the impression prevails
that II will not be for several weeks.
Ii IS expected, however, that the organ
ration of both will be completed by
the time shipping is available.
H. L
to leave Fort Ethan Allen arrived at
Camp BARTLETT, Westfield, Mass. yester-
day. II consisted of 279 men and three
officers. The men were escorted at the
campground by the band of the old
Eighth Massachusetts They were
cheered as they passed down the reoi-
mental street of the One Hundred and
, Third infantry and took their station
, in the rear of the machine gun battalion.
, , The majority of the Vermonters came
from the companies of Bellows Falls and
+, ST. AIbans.
The NermonterS arrived too late TO
secure tentage. \ few of the men were
taken into the tents occupied bv the
former Rhode Island and New Hamp-
shire cavalrymen, with whom they will
be amalgamated. The troops from the
Green Mountain state did not learn
} their company assignments until last
night at retreat, so they could not pitch
their shelter tents which they carried
Like New Hampshire, the Vermonters
| arrived in heavy marching order. being
' notified by telegraph just prior TO Their
= departure from Fort Ethan Allen not
: to take their tentage or other equip.
'. ment.
: The downpour of rain in the after
t noon which drove everybody TO THEN
/ tents did not help these late arrivals
o Thev pitched camp on side Hill OF
e wet grounds, hut they were cheerful
and there was no grumbling.
y Every effort was made to make tn,
It late arrivals feel at home, and tn,
) verdict among the Vermonters was tn,
/ same as that expressed the previous
II day by the majority of the New Hamp
l. shire officers and men who arrived then
wonderment as to how they happene,
to be the fortunate ones picked to @,
instead of being among the officers an,
men left behind