New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-16
Reorganization
OF 9th to Thin
Officers Ranks
Merger of Division Into
Four Regiments Blow
to Scores
Organ Holds Names
Will Break News to Men Be-
fore Announcing 1t to
Press
Organ Holds Names
fstaY Cmr,pndence

CAMP WADSWORTH, S. c., Sept ID.
The four enlarged regiments which
will constitute the infantry strength OF
the eth Division under the War De-
partment's reorganization plan will be
known as the 105th, 106th, 10th and
1OSth United States Infantry. They
will make up the SD and 64th brigades.
This was officially announced to-day.
While it was admitted that the reor-
( ganization plan is complete in every
particular, information regarding the
units which are to constitute the divi'
sion was withheld. There are now
nine infantry regiments in the division.
| Five Of these will have to be disbanded.
Five colonies, five lieutenant colonies
and scores Of subordinate officers will
| lose their commands. Their names are
locked in the headquarters safe, and
only Major General John F. Organ and
| Colonel II. II. Bandholz, chief OF staff
and reorganizer of the division, know
them.
Men to Hear News First
General Organ has told intimate
friends that he would rather fight the
German army single handed than break
! the sad news TO the dropped officers, all
| of whom are his long-standing friends.
, He will break the news to the men first
and then give it out for publication.
Speculation is rife concerning the
units TO be disbanded or merged. One
report has it that the 7th and 18th are
/ TO combine, and there is CONSERVATION
along the company streets OF the 9TH at
the thought. There was more depres-
sion in that locality to-day, however, on
account of the extremely balanced
rstions dealt out at the company
messes. Somebody Murdered in the
quartermasters department, and as
result bread and jam, beans and coffee
were all the Dandy 7th" had to eat.
The regiment. enjoying its first leave
from camp tonight, swept down on
Spartanburg's restaurants and engaged
/ in steak and pie eating contests until
the supplies gave out.
The 18th Regiment is due here to-
morrow morning with che LIST and I'd
Infantry Brigade and lst Artillery
Brigade headquarters outfits. The lat
/ ter include non-commissioned officers
and enlisted men who compose the sub
ordinate part Of the headquarters
stats. Drills will begin on Monday,
and by Wednesday the eth will be in
"the first line trenches" These have
been constructed by the ODD Engineers.
Barbed wire entanglements have been
erected and other obstacles placed for
the special edification Of thu It'll.
Defence Head on Visit
Brigadier General c. f. Phillips,
commanding the LIST Artillery, returned
to-day after trip North on sealed
orders" He went into conference with
Captain Cornelius Wickersham, OF the
military police, who, lawyer in civil
lifc, has been commissioned to arrange
for the leasing Of the artillery range
which has been selected at Dark Corner,
twenty miles from here. Fairfax Har-
rison. president OF tn" Southern Railway
system and chairman of the Railroad
Committee CT the National Council OF
/ Defence. arrived here to-day to confer
/ with General O'Ryan on troop trans
portation problems. He was accom-
! panied by officials OF the road.
Several Guard officers to-day were
| ordered to Fort Sill, Okla. to undergo
special training in the use Of the
havonet, the construction OF fortifca-
tons, the use Of grenades and Of au-
tomato rifles. They are Major William
A. Turnbull Sd infantry; Captain
RAYMOND i. Hodgdon, list Infantry;
/ Captain Albert W. Putnam, Squadron
/ A; Captain Ernest f. Robinson, 22d
| Engineers. and First Lieutenant Harry
/ l.. Stratton, 18th Infantry.