Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-20
SELECTMEN LEAVE
TO BEGIN TRAINING
With Smiles and Cheers, City's
40 Per Cent Quota Starts
for Camp Lee.
NJ ANY PATHETIC PARTlNGS
Enthusiastic Demonstrations as
Trains Pull Out for
Petersburg.
MANY PATHETIC PARTINGs

With smiles and cheers 10 relatives
and friends and to one another oo4
Richmond men. composing this city's
second increment Of 40 per cent for
the new National Arm. began the first
leg of their journey '.over there" In
freedoms cause yesterday when they
entrained for Camp Lee for period
of intensive training. Fully 1000 peo-
pie had gathered II the railroad sta
lions during the morning hours to bid
fond farewell to the flower of Rich
monds manhood. and tho departure
was one of the most impressive Of any
military movement away from the city
in years.
The crowd was truly democratic, and
testified to the great &C ntribution Rich
nond Is making to the cause OF Amer
lea in the great war The selected
men. after having been entertained in
their various districts by community
celebrations appeared in the best OF
spirits. Yet when the hour for de-
parture came strained expressions ap-
peared on the faces OF many when they
were saying good-by to wives and
mothers. sweethearts and sisters.
brothers and friends and many fought
hard to keep back the .ears.
III the crowds that jammed the sta
tions emotions were less controlled,
and tears trickled freely down the
cheeks OF many women and not a few
men. While the selected men are only
going to Camp Lee, I'd will be able
to return home at intervals on short
furloughs. the breaking of home ties
and relations was 70 lesc hard because
those men are accustomed to enjoy to
the fullest these pleasures.
MOVEMENT CARRIEE OUT
WITHOUT ANY TROUBLE
The movement Of the men was car
ried out without hitch. Recruits
from Divisions l, 3 and left the Byrd
Street Station at 1890 o'clock, and
those from Divisions 2 and departed
from the Main Street Station about an
hour later. aIany of the people who
had waved a farewell to the now SOL
diers at Byrd Street Joined the crowd
at the downtown station until the plat
form and train sheds were pack ed and
jammed whit the throng. The men were
In charge of ~. w. Lee, Division ::
Fred 5. Jones and L. {. Floyd. Divi-
sion 2; w. NJ. Yarbrough. Division g.;
Thomas Chalkley, Division 4, and James
T. Priddy. Division 5.
Featuring the departure OF the
selected men were the exercises held
for those of Division No L. They
were assembled at the Prevocational
School at o'clock. and were met by
tho reception committee OF that divi-
sion. members Of the local board and
by relatives and friends Mayor
George Ainslie made short address,
commencing them for their patriotism,
and Rev. Il. y. Hartness. pastor Of the
Denny Street Methodist Church, spoke
briefly TO the men. especially those
from Fulton. Members of the God
mothers League for the district wore
present. and presented each man with
Il pink rosebud and post cards ON
which To write home
Following the exercises, the men
were assembled in Marshall Street,
and. led by detachment. OF bicycle
police. the Forty-seventh New York
regiment Bnnd. Mayor Ainslie and
members OF the reception committee
and local board, the men were marched
across the Marshall Street Viaduct by
the City Hall and to the Eleventh
Street entrance to the Capitol Square
There they were reviewed by Governor
Stuart. the band rendered several pa
triotic airs, and the men were marched
to tn railroad station for entra .nment.
ENTHUSIASTIC OUTBURST
AT MAIN STREET STATION
The arrival OF these men at the
Main Street Station was the signal for
q general outbur-t Of, enthusiasm from
the hundreds pa ;ked into every avail
able nook and corner. The band also
contributed TO the general spirit of
the farewell. while the men were en-
training with patriotic music
Most of the Individual tarcweIIs that
one saw on every hand were awkward
enough. perhaps, but there could be
no doubt of their sincerity. One or
two men in each division would not
be serious. and yelled cheerfulncss ut
the absorbed little groups. These
served only to strike out i'm bolder
relief the genuine sorrow OF the
parting.
Shouts went up from the crowds
when the long trains, each one per-
haps thirty minutes late, pulled out Of
the sheds and began their journey to
the camp. The cheering continued un-
til tho last car passed from view
Officers at Camp Lee have made ex-
tensivc preparations for the reception
i'll charge of several officers have been
assigned to the railroad stations in
Petersburg to direct the men to the
camp Arrangements have been made
tor. the operation of shuttle trains ho-
tween that city and Camp i.ee. and the
mobilization OF the second quota was
being carried out last night without
hitch. Local military men said that
all selected men from Virginia would
probably arrive at the camp during the
night. while the men from other states
will begin to reach the camp this
morning.
LOUISA COUNTY 4UOTA
PASSES TEROUGH CITY
The second quota OF Hfty-three Wig
orous young men from Louisa County
arrived I'm Richmond yesterday morn
ing at $3.50 o'clock and travelled to the
camp with the quota from this city
as the mon from Henrico County The