Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-14
CAMP EDGE SOLDIERS
WAIT WITH PATIENCE
Calmly Return to Routine Labors
Pending Delay in Moving
Southwark
CAMP EDGE, Sea Glrt, N. j., Sept H.

CAMP EDGE, Sea Girt, n. j., Sept. ~.
The First Field Artillery, the hospital
corps and signal corps. which we're to have
left for Anniston tomorrow. have settled
down again TO the routine of camp life,
nothing having occurred to change the
probability that they will be ten days to two
weeks more at Sea Grit The several regi-
ments of Maryland, Delaware, District of
Columbia and Virginia troops that were
ordered south at the same time leave early
Sunday morning, and the only reason the
Jersey boys are not going with them. as
first Planned, In that the transportation
companies are handling so many troops this
week they couldn't get sleeping cars in
which to move them. There is n probability
that the Field Artillery and the Third In
fantry will be Joined here shortly by the
Second Field Artillery, which Is not yet
fully recruited but may pass under control
OF the Federal Government next week, in
which case the camp will again be as large
as at any time this summer.
The names Of sixteen men who failed TO
pass the heart and lung test administered
"a few days ago by army physicians from
Governors Island We're posted this morning
by Colonel Galpcn, The men still are in
camp. but will be given an honorable dis
charge from the service and will leave to-
night or tomorrow. Instructions to this
effect were received from Governors Island
last night, but not made known until to-
day. Seven Third Infantry men are effected,
being Private Allen Hutbs. Company A
Private Ridgeway B. Wood, Company F;
Private Joseph X. Miller, Company G.;
Privates J, Maurice Thompson, Harold H.
Bovine and Alonzo &. Steward, Company
II, and Private John H. Tussey Company
|. The others. all members of the Field
Artillery, are Privates Alfred Harrison and
Martin j. Sheridan. Battery A Privates
Howard A. Allen, Ernest +. Budd, Frederick
F. Schminke and William A. Watson, Bat
terry b Corporal George Lesh Private
Charles II. Sales, Battery B, and Private
Vernon NJ Smith, Battery D.
Companies L and NJ of the Third In
fantry being respectively. from Mount
Holly and Burlington, returned late last
night on special train from the Mount
Holly Fair. They had the Third Regiment
Band with them and reported a rollckinG
day. Governor Edge and members of his
staff also attended, going over from Tren-
ton. The Governor will return to Sea
Girt tonight and remain over the Weekend.
one OF the most satisfactory try-outs of
the heliograph since the camp opened was
made r. a couple of squads of the Signal
Corps yesterday afternoon The sun was
brilliant and the air unusually clear. Lieu
tenant Robert A. Simpson. in charge of
one squad, went to Belnar and dispatched
Sergeant Hitler to Point Pleasant with
the other The two resorts are distant
from each other about eight miles. HileC
flashed upon hotel building as n refec-
tor. Many messages were read distinctly.
There was an entertainment in the Y.
NJ. G. A. tent last night Mary Lawson
Leech, of Asbury Park, in negro dialect
work. being in the leading role. The night
before Ex-Governor Penniwell, of Delaware,
lectured there on the seriousness of the
work set for the soldiers