Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-24
EVERYTHING PREPARED
FOR JERSEY GUARDSMEN
Sea Girt Expectant on Eve of
Annual Encampment of
State Troops
STATE CAMP. SEA GIRT, July 24


A final checking up on the preparations
for the incoming here tomorrow of approx
hately $500 State troops for the annual
encampment will show virtually every de-
tail worked out to n nicely.
Adjutant General Charles w. Barber,
who is the senior officer of the State or
ganization subject TO the call of the War
Department, will be in command Of the
troops which will include the Third Regi-
ment of Infantry of Camden, the First
Squadron Cavalry of Newark. the First
Regiment of Field Artillery with batteries
at various points in North and South Jer-
sey, the Divisional Headquarters Troop Of
Newark, the First Ambulance Company of
Red Bank the Field Hospital Cnit from
Elizabeth and two batteries of Coast Ar
tilery. simultaneously with his assumption
of command. n new headquarters staff for
the First Brigade of New Jersey will be
created General Barber has selected
Major Harry V. d. Moor, of Englewood at
present the adjutant of the First Brigade,
for the same post on his staff. His two
aids will be Captain Henry Stevens, OF
Montclair, and his son, Russell Barber, or
Woodbury., whom he Is appointing from civil
life
Mastering officers from the regular army
arrived here late yesterday and are pre-
pared to start work on the examinations
of the men and their muster in as rapidly
as the first units arrive on wednesday.
Throughout the day yesterday detail
of men connected with the Quartermaster s
Corps hustled provisions from long line
of freight cars and twice during the day
the empties were hauled away and fresh
cars run up to the railroad sheds
Troops of the Twenty-second Regiment
of regulars who have been hero for rife
practice, left camp today
Tho arrangement of the troops on the
reservation provides for the location of the
infantrymen nearest the beach. excepting
| for the two coast artillery companies. Ihe
signal corps, engineer corps ana the cav
| alry will be located next In the order mem
| toned, and the artillery regiment, one-hail
| of which has it's field equipment, VIII nank
| tho other organizations on the south.
Major Quincy Gilmore, who was recently
| wade colonel of the First Regiment Field
| Artillery came down yesterday 10 perfect
| some details in the movement or the ar
| tilery unit. He announced the appoint
ment of Captain William X. Cookson, for-
merlv adiutant Of the Third Regiment In
| fantry of Camden, as the adjutant or the
regiment of field artillery.
II is the intention Of the officers to en-
| force the Federal laws governing the DIS
| nosal of Intoxicating liquors to pen In uni
| forr, r,lind tigers and round GDout agen-
oIas tbrough which whisky might be SNUG
! oIod IN the men are to be investigated ana
| o nroyost guard may be thrown out around
the entire territory in which the men may
operate. . A., uo;oot
| hoing undertaken by Miss Margretta Fort,
of South orange. daughter of Federal
Trade Commissioner John Franklin FORT
has been expressed by the officers here
Miss Fort intends to establish recrea-
tional center for the soldiers ana tneir s.s
friends, 1t will in no way interfere with
| 49, GOOD work of the Y. NJ. C. A. =
Lieutenant Colonel William G. Schauiner,
| surgeon general, announced yesterday that
Major Donald Miner. of Jersey City. had
been assigned as the senior medical oiiicer
with the First Regiment Field Artillery.
Cantain Watson A. Rodemann, the ranking
| osIcer of the First Battalion, will remain
| as such.