Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-01
liberty Division Will March
on Monumental City
This Week
WILL PARADE SATURDAY
c.,.hrote First Anniversary of U. s.
n War and Aid Liberty Loan
Campaign
sy a sta6 Correspondent

much prouder when you see MN
W. ..rousb the winding streets of
s"ns aro next saturday in what army
- rs feel will be the most spectacular
-u,,.rv event in fifty years. -
~. olive drab, coupled with months
Intensive training, has transformed
u. selects from a body Of willing ano
..s recruits into an organization
~. q virtually 100 per cent perfect.
= true that the Liberty division is not
..rrosed of veterans. for It is yet 10
-..iorce the thrills of an "actiCn,"
y. !, appearhnce in training camp
..nrt for anything, 1t is as near perfect
!. suv outfit Of regulars in the service
Of Uncle Sam.
Tho real efficiency test begins next
,.nrsdsy morning. when more than w.
eeo men leave the pine barracks at
ssstie penn and begin their long nike
!. baltimore. without an admiring and
sbsarIng crowd of friends and relatives
NAV will make their way over the snake-
,lks ribbon of asphalt that connects the
camp with Baltimore. and late that
asternoUn pitch camp at Shipley, PIC
,uresoue and old-fashioned town just
midway between the big camp and the
metropolis Of Maryland.
sunmerfield Benson, a prosperous
farmer Of that community, has given
csneral Joseph r. Kuhn permission to
pitch camp on his tract OF l5S acres
which in this section is known as Lake.
VOID Farm.
After supper, which will be prepared
an fleld ranges, the boys will pitch their
dor tents, and after listening to their
officers explain how Baltimore is being
aheled by the heavy artillery prepar-
atory to the advance of the infantry,
they will turn in for the night.
with birds they will get up on Fri
day morning. and after leaving the
Benson farm as clean as the proverbial
whistle they will start for Baltimore.
Unless the Huns put up a stubborn re-
sIstance at the gates of that city, and
that IL not likely, the soldiers will ar
rive in the big town shortly before
supper and proceed to the parks that
have been delegated for their use.
And Saturday is to be the big day,
for the Liberty division, for the first
tina will be dressed up for show pur-
poses and like an organization of Sir
Raleigh's demonstrate to the citizens
Of Maryland's first city that it Is ready
10 cross swords with the Kaiser's best.
Hiking to Baltimore will. be anything
but a cinch for the boys in olive drab,
because in no sense is this affair a
picnic. Although the Baltimore spectacle
will be staged for the purpose Of celee-
brating the first year of Americas en-
trance in the great war and to stimu-
late Interest in the Liberty Loan cam
paign, the maneuver has much deeper
Importance.
Since September 10, when a Philadel-
phia youth named Barnett arrived at
Little Penn, and was greeted by General
Kuhn as the camps first selected soldier,
the commander and his staff of officers
have worked with Trojan-like energy 70
build an effective war machine. 4 is
true that the drafts on Little Penn have
interfered with the program and robbed
me division of thousands of men, but
those who are here are trained to the
minute and form the neucleus Of what
General Kuhn terms a dandy outfit"
To test the mettle of the men and to
try the machinery of the camp. General
Kuhn decided to lay siege to Baltimore.
TO accomplish that he will take more
man ten thousand men and many units
o. the division. Four infantry regi-
menis. Including the S13th, 314th 316th
and Sl6th, the 310th Field Artillery. one
battery Of the S11th Field Artillery; a
medical unit; the 304th Field Signal
battalion, with its wireless and tele.
graph equipment, and many smaller or
sanlzations will participate.
with their supply trains heaped with
Ioca camp dunnage and battle equip
mehN these organizations will take 10
me roads and function in every particu.
~ as though they were housed in the
somiortable quarters at Camp Meade
ne iniantrymen will trudge to Balti.
seIe with fifty-pound packs, that con.
.n everything needed by fighting
nn IN, IN word the hike to Baltimore
~ entail the same details. the same
e ana problems that would be in.
.1 the men were advancing to
s-ahe positions In France.
.,;,s nAt the movement will be executed
1l,si. uock-hke precision is certain, foi
c@,n ds rsnn has a bunch of seasoned
49, "1refs. First on this list is Brig.
49,. NsheraI William j. Nicholson
r,d- SM,,'er M OF the l57th Infantry bri
fp-,.,cn ~hlcn includes the 313th Infantry
q
cx an all-Pennsylvania outfit
seneral Nicholson entered the arn,I, i,
n ~, re,enues and as an Indian fighter
Y ne West won an enviable ran,tstion
me Spanish war he distinTIIshe,
plni'elf too. Colonel Claude n Sweensv
sS'.''nander of the 31sth, and Colone
',omAs W. Darrah, skipper of the 314th
~ veterans of the Spanish war anI
a'npplne insurrection, so that they ar,
'Ps green at the army game.
ne lbsth Infantry brigade will h,
t,''nsnaed by Brlgadler General Ever
~ n Hatch. also a veteran Of IN,
,'Fth wars and Spanish war He will
command of the Sl5th (Phlia,
rp,'polas own) and the 3f6th an All
e-enssivania regiment. Colonel o. b
e1snnaum, the genial boss of the Phil
''ppla regiment, and Colonel Oscal
nAfles, eof the 316th, have tasted
.,a % many times that they are gen
enuney morning the division will he
@". nomeward journey, and by Mon
~ Hlyht tuck itself away on the sof
ile springs that are provided for Ma
"paal Army soldiers.
A hgements have been complete,
'tosfe the Philadelphia selects. VIII,
IN, .SAeauled TO arrive this week. The,
~, assigned to the 154th Demo
p units. W issu
IA. etowa estimated at more than 500
|s. Wy sne camp yesterday and heIpe,
+ 4. 4. r,'''eFs spend a joyous Easter sun
Bethlehem R...o. 4. ,~u.