Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-03

Nieholson and Rail
tfities Agree on Inn !.
provements
MEN s HIFTED
Lis-P Peddlsrs Tell Story Of
4 4oldicrs Freezing to
Death

,11EADE. ADMIRAL. Nd. Jan. ..
Penn Is to get better railroad
This much was assured today
0eneral Nicholson sent for J. j.
Goncral manager of the Washing
oItimore and Annapolis Electric
10 discuss a plan for improved
~ General Nicholson made 1t
- the newspaper men that better
was assured
~ 10 probably the most welcome
that has como for the camp for
" weeks. not only to the 10000
Iofs, but to thousands of relatives
friends who had been forced to ac-
n the wretched and hazardous service
ce thp opening OF the cantonment.
X10X1nk to the curtailed service in the
44Gy1vania Railroad, 95 per cent of the
l0I4kB and other persons connected
MIN the camp arc forced to patronizc
3 blSctric line which operates between
G11morc and Washington. A spur track
~ from Naval Academy Junction to
y 0onter Of, tho camp. but service on
~ l1ne has been OF such a Joke" char
Ne since the opening of tho camp
@9t2tt Is styled the "Tooneryille Troll
e ogercrowding Of cars. failure to main
|41n = definite running schedule and the
.1xuIegoness OF motormen In stopping
Ar1 IN the tracks Of the Pennsylvania
En1lroad, over which express trains are
3Dogpted, form the basis of the COM
1nInts.
[At Odenton Station the electric line
<ocees tho tracks of the Pennsylvania
Abroad Although regarded as "A dam
I1ooue crossing because of the fast ex-
oress trains operated in the Pennsyl-
)41i& system at this point, the tsains
Az tho Washington. Baltimore and An
(Ry>6lis Electric Line are frequently
Itoppsd on the crossing.
Ono OF the more frequent causes for
1puplaint is the infreqeuncy of train
rvice out Of the camp. On days when
~ camp Is thrown open to visitors this
|AuH is more marked. for hundreds of
fI1itors and soldiers are forced to walt
1toro than an hour for cars.
8 The camp continues to lose men to
4her branches OF the service, today's
ND sending more than twenty men in
~ medical department of the National
{fmy. The following men were sent TO
Warrington. ID. c.:
From J1ath Field ARTILLERY. an AlI.Phlla-
eSpAfa orHanization. Robert II. Jones, James
Y. povne and Arthur J. Benner.
4{r0H Sloth Infantry. an All-Philadelphia
fEeq1sation: William II. IIauff. William j.
{(xop, John J. Cummings. Joseph II. Ftr.
1nn1k walter IL. Fundiscr and Joseph NJ.
Ffom 304th Ammunition Train. an ALI
34qeyivanis units: James J. skelly and Os.
|AId W. Noble,
prom Sieth Infantry. an Ali-Pennsylvanla
1); William G. Boyer. Harry j. Becker,
9Axles n. stephen and George W. HoTner
Xrom 314th Infantry. All-Pennsyivania
l4t: Harry =. small. Robert A weible,
e6pse y. brennan. Edgar J. Downio and
~ ID. Jones.
4il Of these men will serve as clerks
~ etenographers.
soerman propagandists are still active
d their efforts to break the morale of
- Liberty Division: they are circu-
l1x q yarn that fifty men of the divi-
~ Wpre frozen to death while on guard
1I6 story gained such a wide cir
4tiop that Generals Nicholson today
onod It necessary to issue n denial. |
~ absurd lie." was the terse COM |
mt Of Little Penn's fighting COM
3nder.