Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-19
ENGINEERS AWAIT
CALL TO FRANCE
comn Meade Unit to Sail
Within Three Weeks,
Is Report
OFFICERS MAKE READY
1;berty Loan Campaign Takes on
New Life-$50,000 Subscrip-
tions This Morning
BIZ q star Correspondent
CAMP MEADE, Nd, Oct. 1


- ,.ariv 200 men attached to one of
,,,,. Penn's engineer units Will leave for
nm. within three weeks is the substance
,sport which gained circulation today,
fo-.,of confirmation of the story cannot
.A,o,rad at division headquarters, be-
., q, not the policy OF General Kuhn
!. 40. out information IN regard to the
s...r,ure Of troops until few hours be-
~. thew are scheduled to leave.
n..pite that several officers asserted
a., thew were arranging for an early de-
.r,,ra and made no secret of the fact
,,sv we're going direct to France. The
.,,,stion IS made UP of volunteers and
h..r in the service more than four
-, Every man designed TO go is
.-.,nAd to the minute and, with an addi-
49,, two months of intensive training
-, r,uI he ready for actual service.
rSSt these men are scheduled TO leave
,.s,n three weeks comes as no surprise
~ the camp, for General Kuhn In talks
Dvh newspaper men has intimated that
w. would be withdrawn from the camp
,bsv were needed. He amplihed that
...nosrt & by saying that technical men are
..Ssd and that such men are subject to
~ 81 aIl times and that they will be sent
s.ross the seas whenever the War Depart
e,nt feels that there is real need for
,bsir ssrvicss IN France, Owing to the cen
sarsb,n the identity of the unit cannot be
i revealed
BOOM FOR LIBERTY LOAN
rbs camps Liberty Bond campaign took
- nevy life today and in the early morning
Sa,rv subscriptions totallng $4,000 were
nsoa,yed from the boys in olive drab. One
..rye officer, who feels that he Is not
soinv all that he can for Uncle Sam by en-
,isting walked to the headquarters of Gen.
.rai Nicholson this morning and announced
ttat he would take bonds to the amount or
4 $4,000.
.,si Nicholson but you can say that he Is
r.g,Ilar patriot and the kind that will
81 rir the war. Many officers have bought
. $1,000 bonds and few have topped that
figure" ...,,-.-
y.stsrday's Liberty Bond rally, returned
10 their regimental commanders and sub
scribed for amounts ranging from $50 to
$500 The camps total is 100000.
ARrILLERYMEN OFF FOR SOUTH.
One thousand men from the 311th and
sigth Artillery Regiments left today for a
southern training camp. Most of the men
IN the 312th were Philadelphians, while
those in the 311th came from Luzerne,
Iackawanna and Northampton counties
The Northampton boys we're disappointed
when they learned that r. A. Williams, the
. Texas cowpuncher and deputy sheriff, who
has been the training sergeant, was not
going South. williams is giant and
has a disposition that corresponds with his
physical proportions He was loved by
all the men and. next to General Kuhn was
considered the best soldier In camp by the
n upstaters.
The cosmopolitan makeup of the Seven
ty-ninth Division was emphasized today
when the 311th entrained at Disney. The
r first men to board the train were Johr
n Miskalis, a Lithuanian, of Luzerns. ant
Gregory Papatolo, an Italian, of Wilkes
Barre They led the cheering when thu
band played Let's All Be Americans Now
One member of the regiment was taker
RI III on the train and was removed to thu
regimental hospital.
ZIMMERMANN'S BAD GUESS
Zmmermann, one of the fifty-seven va
rietes Of "vons" whom former Ambassado
r Gerard has described in his book on Ger
4 many, stated that in the event OF wa
against the fatheriand 100000 Germans II
this country would \spring to arms AM
make Uncle Sam look like sieve
n Just to prove that he was two plus In hi
. reckoning let's take the cases of Herb Wert
4 helms father and the male parent of Henr
. Ziegler Both of these chaps are member
b Of e Company, 304th ammunition train.
The fathers of these two Americans ar
n Prusslans. First, we'll consider Werthein
& Senor He was born in Berlin, while tn
n mother Of the Wertheims is native o
Baden. Up to the present time they hav
n bstted 1000 in the Patriots League, for the
h have offered the following to the service o
ri the country:
III Walter. twelfth ammunition train, Cam
Hancock, Ga.
III Milton, sergeant. Troop A, Sixth Unite
II States Cavalry. who may be now "som'
where in France"
Herbert. private So4th ammunition trail
beventy-ninth division, National Army.
That takes away all the boys" sal
Herbit Wertheim, proudly, but father sal
u he ought to do something for countr
that had been good to him as this. MI
n ION got into the cavalry many years ag
pnd he has always told us that there wa
no place like the army"
And now to the Zeglers.
They live in Tioga, and both came
THIS country forty years ago, direct fro
Berlin
did your father object to your goir
10 hght against the Kaiser7" young Hem
was asked
Did he?" hung back the surprise
youngster, He told me that II didn
get down here and start in to give II
Kaiser licking, the old man would ui
me himself Mister, my father could
mot at sunrise in Germany for the thin
ee thinks about the Kaiser every minut
ne hates him. and so do all the old German