Show litia Si for u sion I. I I I Congress W II Probe ns Ivania a Guardsmen we lter iter in Dilapidated b urban Coaches and arid Without Food for 24 I 0 O ours rs Because of Rail Rail- ay Mismanagement Is harge rge Sent Washington y FREDERICK M M. M KERBY Staff Start Special INGTON D. D C. C July 22 e excursion trains and passenger tc with modern facilities were lIthe ithe right of way over the Penn Penn- nia railroad the Pennsylvania al guardsmen ordered to rush by President Wilson lit t. t is now being charged side- side ed ed delayed for hours and hud- hud Into dilapidated old shuttle es es g which had been beep used for sub- sub many years about Phila Phila- hla a- a merely one of the flagrant Slot mismanagement or worse tsehe h ho railroads of the country att at the he ilof off the tile national guard mo I according to information reach- reach Washington It is the main rea rea- for tor forthe the th passage by the house of resolution Introduced by Moore of I Phil Phil- hit hithia five Uve J J. Hampton I. hia hla calling on the war departs depart depart- t s to REPORT WHETHER AND UNSANITARY WERE FURNISHED THE MI MI- AABY BY THE RAILROADS OF THE N TRY Nany any complaints nave reached declares des declares Tares Moore Not only from sylvania but from Connecticut GIs ls Island and other states 1 have re- re of inadequate fa- fa furnished the militiamen I fa-I Fam tun am not entering any formal tea kes I am simply seeking isito who is responsible know men have been compelled 1st jet on trains three men to two tin in a day coach and have had to get any sleep unless lay down in the aisles of the my lother other complaints have Lave come B my resolution is simply Qed lied to bring out the facts Then legislation is necessary nt have it enacted bre re charges that of the Penn- Penn pia militiamen entrained at Mt 1 fc Pa a Pa were three hours late arMat ar- ar rl Ilat Mat t the station in Philadelphia se their trains had had- been shunted to- to tomako mako makowAy way for excursion jM while their relatives and ands s waited on the station plat- plat In intense heat en en these same men arrived at uis Buis they had been without food four wenty-four hours and had been laIr half fed for two and a halt half days they reached that city the city rUes ties managed to get some somo Soo food lood ri ome m. m e of the tho old day coaches the ight fight the men had was a single lantern hung from the roof So rable were the conditions that wen aen In many cases tore the f tort roff off of the straight backed seats ey might get an opportunity to wn wn The supply of drinking Awas was insufficient pfd and the tho men meni menthe menthe i the old cars in which they rode i dirty and unsanitary y other congressmen have ref re- re f similar complaints and Rep Rep- t laUve Uve Charles Bennet Dennet Smith of has also Introduced a reso reso- directing the committee on lne ine in- in leland e and foreign commerce to tot t un inquiry to determine the theand theand theland land and responsibility for the tho fall fall- railroads railroads to provide ade ade- Iland and proper accommodations to tort lort the national guard of New Mexican border ois cis troops of batteries D and F in a protest against the theas theles les es as offered thorn them saying they transported in old day coaches New V Haven railroad conditions conditions revealed on the va- va railroads concerned have served in the minds Q ot of military ne e absolute necessity for gov gov- t control and operation of theat tho the tt at least in an emergency or in vital necessity of having troops troop Jin in good Mod condition and ready to has bas been demonstrated I by by the facility with which Gere Germs Ger Ger- ms e 8 thrown troops from the east east- the he western battle fronts and ersa moment tile the German and French began at tim the outbreak of ot ar arall all alI civilian and commercial S sidetracked to make mako way fw Mary it ry troop and supply trains United States with Its private private- ped ed roads however the tho troop Jare are In many Instances side side- Ifor more mora profitable passenger I II I t I D s I I c This Thia is the type of car in which the Pennsylvania militiamen w were e herded for their long ride to to- the Mexican border in which they were shuttled from sidetrack to sidetrack and went without food for twenty-four twenty hours according to charges made in a resolution asking government investigation of transportation provided militiamen |