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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1916
Page
19
Troops prepared for immediate departure in Yonkers and camp worked at Ven Cort yard Park drew crowds of visitors. Relatives and friends gathered outside the entrance while troops lined up in their assigned streets awaiting orders amid tight security and shifting schedules.
The 2d Battalion of the 1st Field Artillery began moving from Van Cortlandt Park to Yonkers with 500 horses and mules, many untrained for artillery duty, amid delays, accidents, and logistics as Battery D and supporting units transfer long trains of guns and wagons. Spectators bid farewell as trains departed, while Texas-mourced transport aided the lengthy move to the border area.
In New York City Mrs. Mel Sheppard voices pride in her husband delaying enlistment with the 6th Regiment to stay home with their children and care for their family. Mel Sheppard explains he chose to remain at Camp Whitman while considering duty to country and advice from his Colonel and chaplain Father Duffy.
The Union Pacific and sixteen additional firms announced full pay or similar benefits for National Guard members, with positions kept open and life insurance for those with one year service. Marconi Wireless plans partial pay to 1917 and open positions. a summer school in Edison Building starts July 6. New members include Ajax Rubber, Atlantic Fruit, George L. Dyer, Kohler, Moller & Schumans, National Zinc, Platt & Washburn, Ritz-Carlton, Tide Water Oil and Pipe Co.
Washington reports 250 Americans in Tampico refuse evacuation as a naval transport brings refugees to San Diego. The State Department seeks to grant partial face recognition for those landed to return home, with some roads already consenting to aid refugees.
Lieut Col Cornelive Vanderbilt testified before the grand jury against a broker suspected of using Vanderbilt name to promote stock. The broker allegedly circulated prospectuses naming B F Yeskum as a stockholder of Ontario and Western Railroad. Authorities consider possible indictments for several offenses based on the promotional scheme and improprieties.
Simon Pacific pays half. workers hold positions open. Vulcanite Portland Cement Company and T. E. Waterman Company offer full pay. some positions kept open.
The seventeen year old David Lieberman slipped into the 12th Regiment Armory to enlist as his father a contractor obtained a habeas corpus writ. Benjamin Lertmann of Broadway secured return 1 as the regiment prepared to move to the border.
Judge Julius Mayer hears a writ application in which a father argues the boy lied about his age to avoid parental consent. The father contends the youth seeks to enlist though physically unfit and unready for army discipline, risking delay as the date passed and David faced a long march toward Mexico.
Helen Keller directs her publishers to send all royalties from German book sales in the war period to the German Blind War Relief Fund. Her offer and a $100 check were received yesterday and will be formally acknowledged at the grand gate ceremony tonight in the Bandbox Gate area.
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