Jersey Brings 3 574 To Colors Sea Girt Mobilizes Guardsmen
Sea Girt prepares to care for all as New Jersey National Guard units mobilize for summer camp. Units from Newark Jersey City Paterson Trenton Camden Red Bank Plainfield Hoboken Bayonne and more converge at Sea Girt while officers debate brigades and a possible change in command. Burlington signals patriotism as residents push for a citizen company and local industry gears toward military support.
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National Guard
New Jersey
Sea
Newark
Jersey City
Paterson
Orange
Camden
Red Bank
Plainfield
Signal Corps
Trentor
Butler
Trenton
Delaware
National Guard of
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New Arna
Towne
Edwin W. Hine
Albert M van Walraven
Henry P. Styer
United States Army
New Jersey National Uated
Arthur J. Steele
Hoboken
Bayorine
6Th Infantry
Hackensack
Passaic
Montclair
Burlington
Jeterday
International Motor Company
Sloan Company
New York Guards Mobilize Amid Citywide War Alarm
Crowds gather as New York National Guard units move toward mobilization. Governors officials and officers coordinate food transport medical and equip supply for 12,000 men. Armories bustle with men women and officials awaiting orders to leave for Camp Wickham.
Mobilization boosts New York militia recruiting drive
Colonel Conley said the effort could expand to 1 000 men, boasting 1 050 in drill as officials noted strong recruitment from veterans and regulars. The move would free 4 400 regulars from forts guarding New York harbor, with examinations by Major Wadham to screen recruits at city stations as rail and steamship lines ready equipment for government use on short notice.
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Hoth
Conley
Aaid
Gund
Fork
New York Harbor
Remu Dar
Twenty-five Recruits for 22d Engineers
Twenty-five recruits were accepted for the 22d Engineers after physicals and inoculations. One man failed to appear at roll call. Recruits prepared for transport from the 1th Street and Fort Washington Avenue armory to Camp Whitman with trains departing from High Bridge. John J. Laror, son of Colonel Eugene Van C Vuens, was a notable figure among the crowd.
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1Th Street
Fort Washington Avenue
Camp Whitman
15Th Street
North River
High Bridge
12Th Street
John J. Laror
Eugene van C. Vuens
Whitman
2D. Battalion
24 Field Artillery
168Th Street
Franklin Avenue
Bronx
van Cort Innit Park
Read of wartime orders for regiment troops at armory
In a night of cheers the 7th Regiment received orders turning the ith Regiment Armory into a military port with curfews. Soldiers were to stay housed, roll calls at reveille, and rations set at 40 cents daily. The regiment, lacking horses, awaited a large Westbound animal shipment due Thursday.
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Tth
7Th Regiment
Ith Regiment
Reveille
Willard Fiske
Tts
7Th
Uenery
Kiaeine
William B, McCor
Guardsmen pack 40 pounds of camp gear in NYC unit
National guardsmen from New York City begin camp with 40 pounds of equipment each. The load includes an olive drab uniform, a gun with bayonet and 100 rounds, a woollen shirt, leggings, pale tan shoes, web belt, blanket, shelter tent with poles and haversack, pan, knife, fork, spoon, cup and first aid pack.
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National
New York City
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Cold Spring Harbor rector completes seven years service
A rector from Cold Spring Harbor has finished seven years of duty and spent the night in the Squadron A armory at Madison Avenue and Ninety-fourth Street. The armory drills mirrored earlier orders and procedures, though the group did not stay overnight this time.
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Cold Spring Harbor
Madison Avenue
Ninety-fourth Street
Connecticut Guard Encamps Today for Mobilization
The Connecticut National Guard, about 2,600, will camp on the state reservation at Niantic by tomorrow evening after mobilization orders issued today by Governor Maret, Holcomb, and Adjutant General George M. The Yale Battery, numbering 446 tents, faces leave and possible race impact as Yale and Harvard prepare their New London meet. Captain Mor rie Hadley and crew members await leave approval, Roland Vaughn to join roll call then still for the first Yale game, while several officers resign and others are named to replace them.
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Father Knickerbocker
National Fund
Sternerger
Sternberger
New York Central
Farrell Vnd Monitz
Kinewich
U.S. A
William Force
U.S A
Stolesbury
State Arsenal
Seventh Avenue
Thirty-ifth Street
Stotesbury
O'Ryan
Peekskill
Goseonor Whitman
Albany
Stotenbury
Deak
Agas
Bostwick
Gener
Philadelphia
New York
National Guard
Europe
New Haven
National Guard of
Connecticut
Niantic
Maret If
Holcomb
George M
Yale
New London
Seth Low
Morrie Hadley
Robert Gilflian
Hadley
Roland V. Vaughn
Hbre
Yale Battery
Stuart Lodge Alliant
Paul ¥. Slocum
Tragic Gas Suicide at 120 Fant ork Street
A woman, identified as a pet owner and mother, killed herself yesterday morning in the parlor by turning on the gas after placing pets and child near playthings. Her husband John fibosh found her body in the kitchen at noon upon returning for lunch. no reason was given for the act.
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Fantork Street
John Fibosh
Rookies Pining to Join Border Army at Camp
Plattsburg, N Y June 19 A training camp buzzed with talk of joining the border army as rookies fire practice with 11 000 rounds. Captain Dorey invited volunteers for the regular army or officers reserve noting 1 500 vacancies for second lieutenants and praising earnest volunteers over privileged background. The camp assumed a concentration-camp air as Mexico news quickened pace and cooks prepared early meals to speed up drills.
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Heim Geat
The
Tribune
Plattsburg
N.Y
Mexico
Washington
War Department
National Guard
Halstead Dorey
Gene Wood
Remarkable World War Era Marksmanship Camp Lessons
An early war simulation trains rookies in kneeling sitting and prone firing from 200 to 490 yards. About 60 percent score thirty five or better of fifty. Only thirteen national guardsmen left today with more expected. several New York and Massachusetts men listed for transfer to units. Camp commandant says no official mobilization word beyond telegram about Governor’s call. The rookie class grows enthusiastic and requests a night war session.
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New York
Ath Regiment
John Healy
James M. Miller
Healy
Miller
Grand Central Terminal
East Fifty-ther Street
Madison Avenue
Ninety-fourth Street
Willie Wright
Crack
Hur
Malas Peter Murray
National Guard
Massachuattts
Iety W. M. Locke
Gosyy
HW Mason
Leonard Street
Com M
Mings
Pany B
A. W. M. Baotay
Cumberland Street
Jin Troup
William J. Granger
Charm Cey Street
Brooklyn
Harrison
Fireman killed as ladder fails during drill for annual inspection
Elizabeth fire department reports William Elmer aged thirty two was killed when an extension ladder collapsed amid practice for the annual inspection. He fell into a tangle of charged wires. Frahtz sustained injuries. The squad was preparing for Thursday’s inspection when the accident occurred.
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Elizabeth
William Elmer
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