New-York tribune., 1917-07-17
Thongs Surround City's
Armories as $4,000 Are
Modified
No Demonstration
Marks Ceremony
Soldiers Will Perfect Equip
ment While Awaiting
Call to Camp

r,s,sen thousand young men in
u,. went quietly to their armories
,,,..rday morning. They arrived there
:, calmly and unostentatiously as
s,grh they were merely to attend
,.n By twos and threes they gath
- There was no cheering as they
.,,..S into the buildings, yet each man
=. stepping out OF civil life into the
.riee Of the nation.
By $50 o'clock the entire force of
y,g Yorks Guard was ready TO enter
i. Federal service. BY 9 the act had
..,n accomplished, without excitement
v,hout demonstration.
When assembly was blown first
.,sesnts stepped TO the front and
onsi the rolls. By that one act, re-
,,,,.d throughout this and ten other
,,.s, about l25,OOO men joined the
.,o,,. Before the final command,
.s.niss." is sounded all Of them will
,,,h,blv have been tried and tempered
,,he FIRE Of war.
How soon the Guard may 20 to bat
s,only those in command az Washing
-, know 1t is probable that some of
..- may 20 10 France within a month
gR
Throngs About Armories
Ttrongs here pressed about each az
-o-y door, a bit put out, may be, at
4. lsck of splendor which invested
4. event. But their presence. despite
Il. vu,inels. who denied all civilians
,,-,,s. lent the proper touch. II
Sr,i assurance 70 the men inside
eavss;ever they do, wherever they 60
e, svirit Of the homefolks is with
iisr. AN day long the crowds lin
,.g;. and last night every street for
g,;n about an armory was a prom
rl:s where the prettiest girls had
5ss for none but the man in uniform.
This had a particularly salutary ef-
ha on the recruiting in some regi-
-sn.s. notably the 69th Infantry.
When the transfer to the Federal
uss,sr rolls was completed the men
i.I OFT TO attack the tasks which re-
-sin before the Guard is formally abb
w'bsd into the regular army and sent
70 begin its schooling for overseas at
CAMP Wadsworth, Spartanburg, 5. I.
Itsn the anxious wait for new prop
Giy There will be rigid physical ex-
s-iastions for everybody. When the
rsr 20 South nobody knows for certain
possibly next week, but at any rate,
b August 3.
Nsv Workers To Train Together
One uncertain point apparently was
.ssFed up yesterday when Major Allan
I Regan, assistant adjutant Of the
Srih Division. said in his opinion all
Neg York troops would 90 to the
s,'sworth oantonment. If this is true
j vii spell JOY 70 the 1st Cavalry,
~ and 47th Infantry. Of Brooklyn;
re 18th Infantry, negroes, of Man
i''iar, and the 10th Infantry. of AL
hry.
Ihese regiments were not included
Z me hrst announcement of organiza-
u'a' composing the Sixth Division,
"nnsnded by Major General John F.
VAlsn. and it had been thought they
WIG he attached for training and
N''ioly foreign service to troops from
WI states. New Workers want TO
Ess together.
'Ns'oay's muster applied only 10
Ngnai troops e the 71st Regi-
'' and % small detachments Of the
- she l7th Infantry. as these organi-
4'a' With the 1st Squadron, lst
s''H and one company Of the 22d
"'ssfs, have been in Federal service
- several weeks guarding railroad
rr'rFy and public utilities. Adjutant
"a "a S.otesbury, at Albany, is at
t,a plan by which home defence
,.slslions will be drafted into state
,,,m or some other means devised
n,,s 'eH.f OF these regiments from
a.. muttsr OF the lst Field Artil-
q. Dok place az Plattsburg. where
esss--.sfa.rnen are training with the
Ms,.s.., onicerg. and the 9Th Field
r4s Dofps and the 18th Infantry
"a, r,'1'' az Camp Whitman. at Beck
Reflections Are Few
sy.,.,sr ss5'sr army surgeons appeared al
t,., oi the srmOries and began
,.,,,s 'ne soldiers through the new
-, Fsrnsulingf which every Of
l.,.a1 enlitted man must take.
"a, me examinations arc the
f,., spfcDs that ever have been
A. ~. ehumoer Of rsiections reported
G,s, pf'n and lat Field Hospital
hofifs were reported small,
'rs.Ss.s zDout z per cent. To insure
In, Hom pulmonary affections an
xsT Elimination IN made Of each
h,,,. w. Tpberculosis IL the moEt
~, q trereh disesses.
aa.] Commanders last night per.
ies., .hs.f men 20 return 20 their
. Ifsa, = hssp, but many preferred q
ed a. We srmories. Fifteen hun.
sess,. mf ~ Infantry slept on their
70 a, 49,, ,,'f' They took their meals al
hYr..,T' 20, and this il what IN,
y a. :. eooks ssryed up for luncheon
s,k,, - cents a dSy the voye,n,o.p,