Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-18
JERSEY TROOPERS,
NCAMP, TO VOTE
Commissioners at Mcclellan
Arrange for Casting
Ballot
UNITS ARE REORGANIZED
By a star Correspondent

CAMP MCCLELLAN, Anniston, Ala,
Sept. 1.-THE arrival here OF two COM
missioners, sent TO Camp Mcclellan from the
Office OF Secretary Of State Thomas F. Mar
tin at Trenton for the purpose OF conduct
ing the primary and general elections
among the soldiers insures the men OF all
the New Jersey organizations the privilege
of helping out their favorites back home.
Charles \. Robertson. Of Union Hin. Hud-
son County. and christopher s. Hand. Of
Tuckahoe. cape May County. are here and
have started the task Of assisting the men
to cast their primary ballots. register them
for the general election and conduct the
elections Oh the encsmpment reservation
here The commission arrived on Satur-
day.
Organization of the second unit in the
new division organization has been COM
pleted through tine selection OF the COM
panes that are to form the division ma
chine gun battalion, consisting OF four
companies. Details OF the formation OF
this battalion have been made by Lieu
tenant Colonel George $ Goodale chief OF
staff to General Morton
Ma jor Stanley w Martin. Of the First
Virginia Infantry. is to command the bat
talon and his adjutant will he Lieutenant
Blair Wilson. OF the Fourth Virginia In
fantry. The battalion will consist OF Com
pany \, First Delaware Infantry; Company
r, Fourth New Jersey Infantry: Company
G, Fifth Maryland Infantry. and Company
ID. of the First Virginia Infantry. These
companies have been selected on account
of special qualifications along the lines re-
duired of outfits contributing to the ma
chine gun organizations. The formation Of
the brigade machine gun battalions. each
CT which comprises three companies OF ma
chine gun troops Is also under way now.
r. Strt, inn nf u gte At
which the horses can be exercised is to start
within a day or two. 1t will he located
near the division headquarters and its con-
struction il under the supervision of Chester
Lippncott. formerly Of the Seventeenth
/. $. Cavalry and now orderly TO General
Morton. lie will be assisted by ScrEea mt
Frank II. Hermann, Of the Division Head
quarters Troop. Included in the section
allotted for this purpose will be track
three-eights OF a mile long and about nine
teen feet wide. ON one stretch of this at
intervals Of twenty-five PAGES there will he
placed six jumps. two and half feet high,
including brush, stone and water jumps.
The water jump will be approached by
hedge There will also be "A bull ring for
the exercising of the animals.
The reorganization Of the divisional head
quarters troops. in which an increase from
1913 to 1876 was required. has been effected.
Men were taken from various units in camp
here to fiji up the headquarters troop. Those
who went over are George Mccormack,
Collin Winston. John Howe. David Chandler.
Harvey Freeman, Troop \. New Jersey
Cavalry; Walter Deetjen. Troop e, New ,Ier-
sey Cavalry; Eugene MacGarry and Ed
ward Mclaughlin. Troop D New Jersey
Cavalry; Corporal Henry :. Schenck, New
Jersey Signal Corps; George Hilery and
Lester johnson, Troop A, Maryland Cav
airy; Harold b. Whitman. Second Virginia
Infantry.
Captain John A. Cutchns, of the First
Squadron, Virginia Cavalry, in which he
commanded Troop a, has been assigned to
the division headquarters to the office Of
Lieutenant Colonel George s. Goodae. chief
of staff. Captain Cutchins will have charge
to n great extent of the newspaper situa-
ton, which Is at present causing much con-
Germ.