Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-25
ALL STATE TROOPS
TOGO SOUTH SOON
Clements Announces Move
ment Will Start Within
Eight or Ten Days
ORDER EXPECTED AT ONCE
BD a star Correspondent
AUGUSTA. Ga, Aug. 25

AUGUSTA. Ga, Aug 25.
Within the next eight or ten days orders
Will be issued for Pennsyvania's entire
division to prepare to move south to Camp
Hancock
This was announced this morning by
Major General Charles NJ Clement, in COM
mand of the Twenty-eight Division, COM
prisng all Of the keystone States national
guardsmen
General Clement further announced that
Major q. Il. Stricken. construction quarter
master at Camp Hancock is now prepared
to accommodate the Second Field Artillery,
the field battery. the headquarters train,
the First Field Artillery and the Sixteenth
and Tenth Infantry
IL Is anticipated orders will issue within
the next forty-eight hours for the move
ment of these troops. Major Stricken also
will notify the War Department within
the next forty-eight hours that Camp Han
cock Will be prepared to accommodate the
entire division by August 30
This means that the movement OF troops
halted temporarily, will be resumed as soon
as the railroads can prepare to handle the
troops.
General Clement and his staff today re-
moved headquarters from the Albion Hotel
here to the Hermitage, a cottage near Camp
| aids and the members of his staff
Under instructions from Major General
Clement, the first religious service in Camp
Hancock will be held tomorrow morning
before division headquarters, when the Rev
l.. II. Mcmahon will celebrate a field mass
Father Mcmahon, who IL vicar general of
the Augusta Diocese, visited camp today Y
notifying officers Of all the units on the
field of the services. and the mass will be
read at o'clock Uniformed men will
perform the duties of altar boys serving the
priest during the ceremony
Georgia. said an official OF the city gov
| ernment to the writer last night. feels
honored in having the flower of Penn.,yl-
| vania's manhood within the limits of the
commonwealth
SHOPMEN ORDERED TO BE JUST
This spirit Of cooperation with the Key
| stone State has not expressed itself
| merely in words handclasps and assurances
| of welcome. officers OF the city govern
| ment have seen to II that the soldiers are
not ovcrcharged b. shopkeepers. BARRIERS
and tradesmen generally. Prices have not
| advanced since the troops started to roll in
| rs n result of this. the boys flock into
| Augusta every night and spend what pin
money they have freely Some Of them
not knowing the customs Of the South
| have presumed to speak to women In the
| city streets. OF course they were ignored
| an intruder. Also. they were warned moi
to repeat the offense. Two soldiers caught
! in a row with a Chinese were arrested
| Thursday night. 1t turned out that they
were members Of a Georgia regiment.
General O'Neill came to Augusta wear
ing a handsome ring presented to him b.
| the residents of Allentown at a partlnl
| reception Wednesday night. He and Gen
eral Stilwell were given a hearty wclcom
| by leading citizens when they arrived her
| yesterday afternoon. Lieutenant James
Murrn. of Carbondale, Pa. accompane,
General O'Neill as his aid. and Lieutenan
Louis Jones, Of Philadelphia, accompa ME,
General Stillwell.
| General Clement said last night he wa
satisfied with the progress Of the work o
construction at Camp Hancock. Additiona
labor has been obtained and buildings ar
going up rapidly. Army officers here ar
warm in their praise of the Pennsylvania
troops and of the amount of work the
can perform in a day
1t is hard work the boys from the hill
and valleys of Pennsylvania are tacklinI
under a broling southern sun. But they ar
going about 1t cheerfully and manfully
There is fun in it for them, for to almos
every man this is a new country. new
climate, an entirely new aspect and ex
perence of life. They are delighted witt
the kind-heartedness of the citizens, wit
the humor and cheerfulness of the negroe
and the general all-round favorable situa
ton of the camp itself.
Fun-there is lots of 1t for every man
because the negro population has hocke'
to the camp in hordes and 1t is growin
rich fast selling watermelons for little o
nothing not to mention candy cigarette
and tobacco and other small articles sol
| dierS must have.