Weekly journal-miner., 1917-11-07
ASH FORK DO|NCS PLEASED HE
 TROOPERS
JUDGE McLANE, WHO SU- PERINTENDED THE DIS TRIBUTION OF FOOD SUPPLY. GIVES INTER ESTING REPORT.
(From Saturdays DaIly.0

stationed since Sunday as the Spcclal representative of Governor Campbell to supcrintcnd the distribution of the food supplies to the Arizona troopers during the days when the boys passed
 that station on their way from Camp
 Funston, Kans., to their new location
 at Camp Koarncy, Cal.
 Mir. McLanc states that during the
 days of Monday. Tuesday, Wedncs-
 day and Thursday, more than l 800
 men were fed, trainload of the sol
 dicrs having passed through Ash | Fork on each of the above days. The
 majority of the expenses of the big
 feed were taken care of by the ladies
 of the Phoenix chapter of the Red Cross, although much of the food served came from the residents of | Prescott, Ash Fork, and other points in the northern part of the State. Arrangements had been made where 1 by the Harvey House at Ash Fork
 furnished about co gallons Of coffee | 10 the boys on each train, and lunch boxes containing a homemade sand, wich, apples, pie and cake and cookies were given to the boys with the com plimonts of the Red Cross workers. The ladies of Ash Fork kindly CO., operated with the Phoenix ladies by baking and serving large number of pies and cakes each day. Owing to the fact that the rations dealt out to the boys on the train were of the very poorest sort, the fellows were indeed pleased at the reception which had been prepared for them at Ash Fork, and expressed their apprccia~ ton by cleaning out all of the cdiblcs in sight Aside from the lunch boxes, many of the boys were presented with other supplies of food from their friends, many oi whom were at the junction to meet their acquaintances.
 Up until the time the special trains entered this State, the boys had been compelled 10 cat the food furnished them by the government, but after big feeds had been rendered to the occupants of the trains at Williams, Winslow, Flagstaff, Ash Fork, etc, the men were no longer compelled to endure the bum food which had been handed them by the war department, but had eoodly supply O. regular food sufficiently large to last them un- til their destination was reached.
 \ large number oi the boys who ! went through were from the southern part Of the State, and according to the /, statements oi those who helped hand out the food, the boys from down I State were the hungricst oi them all, and the ladies from down south who 1 so kindly provided the largest part oi ! the food, can rest assured that the l boys from their own sections got their l share of the good things. ]
 The barrel oi tobacco and cigarettes which had been collected at the Owl Drug & Candy Company $ store in i this city, was placed aboard the train ! which carried inc majority of the 1. Yayapai county boys, and an effort was made to sec that most of the ! contents of the barrel went to the i local lads
 Mr. McI.anc states that most oi the i fellows were feeling fine but that many of them had bad colds, caused . by the wiutcrish weather which prc- 1 vailed at the time they left the Kan ] sas camp. There are still number of the boys from this locality station ed at Camp Funston, being non-com- EIissioncd officers, and the suggestion . vas made by some of the boys who | were going westward. that if would | be q inc idea for the relatives or friends of the men still at the old camp to send them sweaters, aS the heating plant has not vet been erect cd and much discomfort was being experienced on account of the cold.
 While some of the boys in the party were uniformed in khaki, many of them wore garments which had been originally intended for the soldiers Ot the Spanish-Amcrican war, and many of the outfits bore the stamp, limit for Use" it is said, having been gath cred up out qf the discard when it became apparent that the government was not in a position to furnish new uniforms for the members of the new army.
 All oi tho cars in which the troops were travelling had been covered with chaiLcd inscriptions which were high ly indicative oi the sentiments of the fellows toward the kaiser, Camp Fun ,tou, and yariouS other institutions. One car bore large sign, "To Hell l. With Camp Funston, while the phrase. TO He'll With the Kaiser was lbcrally marked on many of the coaches. The occupants of one car had proclaimed themselves a. the l. Dutch Clcauscr>, and had their moniLcr chalkcd in letters a foot high on the side of their sleeper.
 Charlie Mclauc, formerly am cm ployc of the Journal-Alincr office, who