Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 161, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1916 — THIRD INFANTRY LEFT FORT AT NOON TODAY [ARTICLE]

THIRD INFANTRY LEFT FORT AT NOON TODAY

Company M Among Those Leaving Indianapolis For Brownsville, Tex.—Others to Follow. The third infantry, Col. Aubrey L. Kuhlman, commanding, entrained at noon today, Friday, for their trip to the south land. Their probable destination is Brownsville, Tex. The other units of the Indiana National Guard are to follow as rapidly as railroad facilities are provided and practically all of the 4,300 guardsmen have gone to the border. The last unit, it is said, probably will be entrained by Monday. The news that the battery units would entrain sometime during the day spread quickly and crowds of considerable size, consisting mostly of members of the guardsmen’s families, or their close personal friends, hurried to the camp. The men were busy but what time they could spare they were allowed to say goodbye. Many affecting scenes were witnessed, especially when mothers were telling thir sons goodbye. The men serious at the time the moment of departure arrived, boarded the train quietly. Several hundred of the in-fantrymen-who watched them depart cheered enthusiastically. The farewells said several days ago when orders to entrain were expected hourly to a certain extent relieved the sadness of the actual departure. Governor Ralston was a visitor at the camp just before the battalion entrained. He mingled with the men. In response to an invitation-he said he wished the soldiers “Godspeed.” The battalion departed in three trains of fifteen cars each. They left the sidings of the camp within a few minutes of each other. Railroad men began work early in the morning to assemble the necessary cars and were ready before the order to start was given. A, B and C batteries of Lafayette were the first to leave for the border, border. Twenty-one flat cars were required to carry the field artillery pieces. Day coaches were provided for most of the troops, the railroad men saying tourist sleepers were not available. One or two sleepers were in each train. At St. Louis it was said the sleepers would be available and from there the men would have more comfort. Unlike the first troops which went to the border, the Indiana men will not be given the opportunity to swim at stops along the rivers. The change was made because a number of guardsmen from other states had been drowned, it is said. Ten days’ rations were packed in each train beforq they left the camp. The fact that -the troop trains did not pass through the Union station caused considerable disappointment to crowds assembled there. The trains were detoured around the station to enable them to get out of the way of the congested districts of the city more rapidly.