Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-13
NATIONAL GUARD
PERFECTS DETAILS
OF MOBILIZATION
Will Go Under Canvas Soon
After Command Is
Given
BANDSTAND ON ISLAND
Col. Finney Plans to Have
Concert Sunday Evening
by Band

Men at the headquarters of the re-
| spective companies OF the National
Guard to-day are hard at work get
ting everything into shape for the
actual mobilization Sunday morning.
Everything is in readiness to put the
men under canvas in a few hours,
once the order is given and the actual
work begins. 1t is possible some tents
may be erected tomorrow afternoon,
but the major portion of the tents
will be erected Sunday morning il
the weather is favorable.
Colonel Finney this morning an
nounced he hopes to have a concert
Sunday evening at Island Park If tne
weather is favorable. Permission has
for the erection of a small platform
to accommodate the band. 1t is pos
sible that other concerts will follow.
Reports made last evening to the
adjutant general shows the EigntH
Regiment still lacks 147 men. APP
pointments made were as follows:
Harry S. Barton, captain; Abraham
S. Gennaria, first lieutenant, and
Floyd A. Bradstreet, second lieuten-
ant. Company l, Thirteenth infantry;
Paul S. .Wynne, captain, quartermaster's
department. to administrative staff;
George \. Dietrich, captain Battery A,
anu marry L. 1GODSlt captain Ddt-
terry +. Third artillery; Raymond A.
Brown, first lieutenant. Second bri-
gade headquarters; Edward Brown,
first lieutenant. Battery d, Third ar
tillery; Henry James kernick, sec
ond lieutenant and assistant Veteri-
marian. First artillery; Major Fred
erick o. Wage, retired.
Band Is Enlisted
At the request of Captain Harrell,
Lieutenant r. w. Lesher went to
Pottsville yesterday afternoon to in
spect the band organized by Charles
L. Hoffman, a prominent businessman
of that place. The band, which con-
sists of twenty men and a leader,
will be called the First Volunteer
War Band. 1t is the first band to be
organized as a unit and sent direct
from the home town to another e"-
campment.
Accompanied by a special car or
Pottsville citizens, the banG will leave
there tomorrow afternoon and go to
Syracuse, n. Y. Three regiments are
stationed at Syracuse. all regular
army men. and 1t is intended to eX-
pend the three into nine complete
regiments. Arrangements have been
made whereby any vacancy occurring
will be filled with Pottsville man so
flldl lHt SnllTe unit may DF hSpL lu-
tact as organized. Lieutenant l.esher
reports the entire unit 20 oe n high
class organization. not only as a unit
but in it's individual makeup.
Eighth Enlist stmcnls
II. w. Nell, arrested in Duncannon
by Lieutenant Ira PartIn after Dun
cannon citizens had reported that
Nell was impersonating an officer
while in drunken condition, is n
the Dauphin county Jail awaiting or
ders. He is enlisted as a private in
| the Ninth Engineers sand yesterday
refused to admit that he did not have
a commission. Nell has HAD d previ-
Gus bad record in civil life and jnht
what disposition will be made of the
case by the War Department is nov
known. Yesterdays enlistments were:
Robert r. Bentz, MechanIcsburg,
medical department:
Robert S. Drawbaugn. r. r. y.
No. 4, Harrisburg, medical depart
ment:
Benson r. spangler, 1873 East Main
street. Mechanicsburg, medical de-
partment;
Robert NJ. Fox. Hershey medical
department:
Paul X. Bryan, 22o5 Logan street.
medical department.
Charles NJ. Housor, 40 South Twen-
ty third street. medical department:
Nathaniel S. Bador. 1881 Berrylill,
medical department;
Roger w. sprenHle. 1851 Derry.
medical department.
Navy Recruiting Light
Lieutenant Amthor. in Charge Of
the recruiting for the signal corps
In Room of the Victnria Theater.
this morning said he was still anx-
! ious for recruits who could snecialIze
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