The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 4, 1898, Page 7

THE ARMY GHOST WALKS TO-DA THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1898. Artillery Camp to Be Estab- lished at the Presidio Next Monday. Troops Destined for Manila---Progress of Arranging and Fitting Out the Fleet. The muster rolls of the Seventh California, First Colorado and Tenth Pennsylvania * Volunteer regiments went: to. Colonel McClure, chief pay- master, yesterday. The Pennsyl- vania ‘and Colorado troops will be paid to-day, having been selected to sail for Manila next week. The’ commands so far designated for the the ‘second -expedition to pine Islands comprise the ado ‘and: the Tenth Peénnsylvania Vol- Phillp- t Color- unteer . Infantry regiments, the First Battalion of the Eight th United States Infantry, the First Battalion of the Twenty-third United States Infan- try and two light batteries of the Utah Volunteer Artillery. The Utah.artillery was not included in the orders originally issued, but late la night it was given out in a semi ficial - way at the headquarte D General E. Otis that Young's Battery A and C: Battery B, from the Val he Saints, had been embraced expedition. It is regarded as highly prcbable that at least one battery of the Third U ted St Artillery will be directed to join the first outgoing com There was talk at the F terday that four troops United States Cavalry, under tt mand of Major d K would Kellogg, soon embark with tk Sanford reported for dut Th idio yesterday, A LEADER OF REGULARS. Fourth Cavalry, from the Department of the Columbia, will soon arrive in this city. Recruits sufficient for two iitional troops have been enrolled. The second squadron of the Fourth Cavalry will be commanded by Major Rucker. The Quartermaster’s Department of the United Steates Government has de one record in this war which may never be obliterated. One hundred and fif mules were obtained in Baltimore y and shipped to San Francisco to supply army needs of this de- partment. Each mule of the lot deliv- ered in San Francisco cost the Govern- ment $231, a sum sufficient to purchase three good, serviceable mules in this city. Tt is said that the mules were not en out of the cars for exercise dur- ng the trip across the continent and were so badly jammed in transit that many of them will not be able to work. g Bl NEXT TUESDAY OR LATER,. for the Next Orders Expedi- tion Somewhat Indefinite. Influence Invoked. As published in yesterday's Call, an or- der was sued from headquarters late night indicating that the troops to go on the next expedition to a should be ready by next Tuesday. was sent to the nds that will compose the 'he order instructed the dif- anders to be ready to sa'l by Tuesday or later. It is hardly possible that the expedition will sail by Tuesday, COLONEL:-SAMUEL OVENSHINE, Twentu-third United States Infantry,- Commanding First Brigade. Independent Division, of the Expeditionary . Forces Destined for the Philippine Islands. named purely for the purpose of hum—lng: up the supplies of the troops that are 1o | go. The expedition, however, may salil | the latter part of next week, and possibly | not before the first of the week following. | The slate made by headquarters on | Thursday night of the troops to go next| comprised the First battalions of the Twenty-third and Eighteenth infantries, the Engineer Corps, the Tenth Pennsyl- vania Volunteers, the First Colorado Vol- }mteerl and a battery of the Third Artil- ery. The First Battalion of the Twenty-thrid | Infantry is composed of E, F, H and D companies, and will be commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel French. The First of the Eighteenth Infantry comprises Com- panies A, B, E and G, and is under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Bailey. The order to prepare for embarkation states that supplies and subsistence for 8ix months, with 400 rounds of ammuni- tion, will be carried by the expedition. This same order regarding supplies ap- plies to the other commands that are to £0. The two battalions of regulars will be composed of old soldiers, the other com- panies of the two regiménts having ban | rawn upon to furnish scasoned and weli- drilled men. This leaves the Eighteenth and Twenty-third, with one skeleton and one new battallon to recruit, which they will no doubt shortly accomplish, as §0 | recrults are on thelr way here from the | East to join these commands. i ‘'he Furteenth Infantryisrapidly filling | and it is belleved that the day was | expedition, as is also the First Nebraska,| W. Drennan, First Monta.n;_, and each of the commanders of these dif- ‘ferent bodies of troops will bring au_the | influence they possess to bear upon Gen- eral Merritt with a view of having their | regiments selected to_compose a part of the next expedition. The First Nebraska | will be Inspected in heavy marching or- der by Captain Mallory this morning. and | it Is thought by many of the volunteer | officers that Colonel Bratt's regiment will | s be included among the troops golng next | week to Manila. | The Catholic Truth Society erected a| large tent at Camp Merritt yesterday, | next to the Idaho troo)l)‘s, for the purpose | of holding services. To-morrow Father | Yorke will have low mass at 7:30 o'clock | for the soldiers desiring to take com- munion, and at 11 o’clock he will hold high mass and preach. Fho Seventh Regiment will be present- ew at 10:30 o'clock this morning with a handsome stand of colors by the Cham- | ber of Commerce of San Francisco. The | D‘rrfisematiun will take place at the Pre- | sidio. | The Odd Fellows have been erecting small frame buildings in some of the camps for the purpose of having reading | and writing rooms for the soldiers. | The Pacific Coast Baseball League, | through President Bert, has extended an invitation to the officers and men of | Camp Merritt to visit the games free of | charge at all times. The First South Dakota is now comfort- | ably located in camp, and the men were | given & six hours' drill yesterday to stretch their legs after the long overland | ourney. Tents and _subsistence have | cen provided, and when the ordnance | ¥. C. Preb- cott, Seventh California, M. Foote, First Wyoming. The personnel of the Fargo company, First North Dakota Infantry, is not ex- ceiled at the camp. The company includes many professional and business men, .and is representative of the best families in the great wheat State. When the call for volunteers came every member Te- onded. Among its officers are E. C. earey Jr., a son of Judge Gearey of Fargo; M. A. Hildreth, well-known as a criminal lawyer, and “Billy” Edwards, whose father, Major A. W. Edwards, is noted throughout the Northwest as an ed- itor, and is a prominent candidate for the North Dakota Governorship. sbdbsladen AN ARTILLERY CAMP. A new artlllery camp in which will be massed the batteries designated for serv- ice at Manila will be established on the parade plain near the Lombard-street gate of the Presidio next Monday. Major Hess will bring to this field four batter- jes of the Third United States Artillery from_the works at Fort Point, Alcatraz and Lime Point. The Light Batteries A and B of the Utah Volunteers, command- ed respectively by Captains Young and Grant, will leave Camp Merritt and join the camp at the Presidio. The Third United States Artillery or- ganizations ordered to the camp are: Battery G, Captain Randolph, Battery H, Captain O'Hara, Battery K, Captain Efl bs, and Battery L, Captain irk- mer. | BUNKSAND TABLES ON THE three battalions will sail together on the third expedition. | Yesterday afternoon a change was made | In the selection of troops that are to go. | It was reported upon _the very highest | authority that one or both of the Utah | Light batteries would be substituted for | the Corps of Engineers. Captain Young, | teries, admitted that he was hopeful of going to Manila, but he refused to dis- cuss the orders that he received late yes- | terday afternoon. Captain Longfitt of the Corps of Engineers stated that he had heard his corps was to give way to the FIRST INFANTRY REGULARS. Colonel Evan Miles, First United States Infan- try, is now in camp with his regiment at Port Tam- pa, but the command may at any hour be ordered forward to occupy an im- portant position on the Island of Cuba. Colonel Miles fully appreciates the many kindly recognitions and the cheering courtesies @ which the people of San Francisco have bestowed on his regiment. The troops of the First Infantry were stationed in Califor- nia for twelve years prior to their departure to the front, and the regiment is therefore composed large- ly of Californians. The Col- onel desires the fact to be made known to the pro- gressive and patriotic citi- zens of this State that the men of his regiment would be happy to receive con- tributions of magazines or other interesting reading matter. The contributions should be sent to the “First Regiment of Infantry, Regulars,” Port Tampa, Fla. 2900028000868 86008606 ¢ VPPV PIPPPPPPPVP99900PPPPPIIPIPPPPIVNPPPPIOROOPIGO®OO®POG®POPS @ PIPPPPPPOPPPPPVPPPPPOOOPOPSOOO D PPIIPIVIIVP09909P0P90PPVPPRc 0O light batteries, but yesterday he had re- ceived no official notification to that ef- fect, and he declined to discuss the mat- ter further than to state what he had ‘heard. There seems to be no doubt, how- ever, that the engineers will remaln, for the corps has “only sixty men, and it should be recruited up to its maximum strength, which is 150 men, The First Colorado and Tenth Pennsyl- vania were inspected in heavy marching order yesterday by Colonel Hughes and Captain Mallory. ~These two regiments will certainly go on the next expedition, and the quartermaster's department has orders to stop everything else so as to have these two commands in readiness by Tuesday. There s a suspicion that political wire- yulllng is having much to do with the roops that compose the second expedi- tion, and open expressions are to be heard among the officers of the regi- ments that remain regarding this lu’b- ect. i The Thirteenth Minnesota and Seyenth California regiments and the two Idaho battallans are anxious to g0 on the next | ZEALANDIA ©« s THREE BUNKS | TURNED INTOA SETTEE_AND THREE | JTHERS READY FOR USE AS,BEDS o°°” its ranks, go that in all probability the the senior officer in command of the bat- | < of the The steamer Centennlal arrived from Seattle yesterday and will dock at Fol- som-street wharf to-day to get ready for her trip to Manila. According to the agents of the vessel, she is ready to go out with 680 soldiers as soon as the stores have been put aboard. The chances are, however, that she will be delayed several days, as the army au- thorities contemplate making a number of changes in her accommodations. The Centennial was built in 1859, and was then known as the Peninsular and Oriental steamship Delta. Being a roomy ship she was employed for a number of years in carrying coolies from port to port on the Chinese coast. Later she was sold to the Nippen Yusen Kaisha Company of Japan and her name was changed to the Takasago Maru. She was employed in carrying contract laborers between Yokohama and Honolulu for some time and dur- ing the Chinese-Japanese war she car- ried troops up and down the coast of Japan for that Government. When running to Honolulu she carried 1200 Japanese each trip, and on one occa- sion she carried 1500 soldiers on the coast. From the Japanese flag the vessel was changed to the Danish and was given the name which she now bears. She was brought to Victoria, B. C., and there fitted out for the Klondike trade. At that time the rush via Dyea and Skaguay was at its height and on one occasion the Centennial carried " as many as 685 gold-hunters to the north. She is a good stout vessel of 1287 tons net burden, 324 feet long, 35.6 feet broad and 30.5 feet deep. In the matter of accommodation for the troops, the Centennial is away bé- hind either the Australia or the Zea- dier has a separate berth, which. he can enter and leave at pleasure, but on the Centennial the men must be crowded into all kinds of holes and corners, and as many as twelve bunks would ordinarily accommodate six. There is an entrance to the bunks from three sides, so that the four men at the crawl into the space allotted to them without much trouble. The four men |in the center, however, have to get | into their beds the best way they can, UNKS IN THE CENTENNIAL ooe HOW TWELVE SOLDIERS WILL BE BERTHED @0 © CEN CAUSING TROUBLE ocoe THE FOUR IN THE TER CANNOT GET INOROUT WITHOUT and quartermaster departments fill the requisitions already in for the regiment a finely trained body of fighters will be ready to start for Manila. The regiment is most fortunate in having secured so competent an officer as Colonel Frost, who is an ideal commander. Colonel Kessler, commanding the Fourth Brigade, {ssued an order yester- day announcing the following members of ORDERS TO EMBARK. In Hne with orders from division headquarters Colonel Ovenshine, Twen- ty-third United States Infantry, has issued the -following instructions: HEADQUARTERS TWENTY- THIRD INFANTRY, Camp Merritt, S8an Francisco, Cal. General Orders No. 33. Pursuant to instructions received from headquarters independent di- visidn Philippine Islands expe- ditionary forces, Camp Merritt, San Franciseo, Cal., June 2, 1898, a bat- tallon of the Twenty-third Infan- try, consisting of Companies D, B, F and H, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel J. W. French, Twenty-third Infantry, will be pre- ared for an embarkation to the hilippines in one of the ships which will leave this port at an early date. TF~ command will be in readiness t epart by Tuesday of next week, supplied with cloth- ing, camp and garrison equipage and ordnance and ordnance stores for six months’ period of field serv- jee, taking 400 rounds of ammuni- tion per man. Subsistence stores, in bulk, for six months will be fur- nished and delivered at the steam- er's wharf in San Francisco, By order of Colonel Oversnine. By D. HOGADUR, First Licutenant and Adjutant Twenty-third Infantry. e VPO PPIPIOPPPVPIDP0DDPDOOP0H00OS his staff: Captain Edward Murphy, Sec- ond United States Volunteers, assistant adjutant-general; First Lieutenant L. L. Dynna, First South Dakota Infantry, acting chief quartermaster; TFirst Lieu- tenant J. D. Fredricks, Seventh Califor- nia Infantry, acting chief commissary; First Lleulénnm L. P. Sanders, acting ordnance officer. Colonel Kessler has also detailed the following officers as a field officers’ court to try such persons as may be brought before it: Lieutenant-Colonel Lee Stover, First South Dakota Infantry; Majors J. ANOTHER TROOP SHIP. landia. On the latter vessels each sol- | are fixed into a small square space that | head and the four men at the foot can | Overhauling Troopships Im- properly Fitted Up for Service. o The Vessels Must Conform to the Plans Australia and Zealandia, and that means that they must crawl over each other. These bunks are all three tiers high, so that thirty-six sol- diers will be squeezed Inte- -a. 'space which eighteen men - would consider - meager. % In one or two favored spcts the ven- tilation is good, but wind sails will have to be uesd freely in the tropics or otherwise the soldiers - will smother. The Centennial has a fine flush upper deck, however, and in thé tropics the soldier boys will be able to bring their | blankets up and sleep ‘under awnings in the open air. ‘She is also fitted with an electric light plant and the men's. quarters will ‘be. well lighted through- out during the tropical nights: The army :authorities are going to thoroughly overhaul the vessel. Major. Long and the Medical Board will -go over her’ to-day and will see that the accommodations conform with the cu- .bic air ordinance. Supervising Inspec- tor of Hulls and Boilers Bermingham and his assistants will go over the steamer and see.that she conforms to all the requirements .of law and .a board of naval officers- will see to it that she is fit to act as a United States troop ship. After inspecting the Cen- tennial Major Long will visit the Colon and China at the Mail dock, and the Zealandia at Tacific street wharf. and they also will be passed upon by the different boards of officers. The Colon was to have been fitted out in a somewhat similar manner, to the Peking and Sydney, but the work on her was stopped and she will now be fitted out like the Zealandia, with the Turner patent bunks. These all have iron frames and wire woven mat- tresses. When not in use they can be folded up in a few minutes and.turned into settees upon which the soldiers can sit or lounge at pleasure. “The Zealandia is splendidly fitted out for carrying troops,” said Major Long yesterday. “The patent bunks things of the kind I have seen, and I ve ordered the contractors to.work night and day in order to get a supply | of them read The chances are that after the inspection to-day the Certen- nial will be fitted out with them and all the vessels that will be chartered by the Government in the future vwrill ave them put in..- In order that noth- ing that will go toward making the sol- | diers comfortable during their voyage should be overlooked, I asked for the appointment of the Medical Board to examine ‘the sanitary conditions of all the troop ships before they leave port. My request was granted and.now every vessel .will have to be thoroughly equipped before <he will be allowed to g0 to sea.” Orders have been issued to. have the troop ships ready for sea next Tuesday. Captain Howard will have the Zealan- dia ready to the hour, but the chances are that neither the China nor Colon will have their coal all in, let alone be preépared to receive troops. When the Australia, Peking and Sydney got away the Australia was ready before the Government wanted her, but the sail- ing of all three Vessels had to be de- layed until the Peking was made ready to go. —_— - War. Incidents. At State headquarters, California Ho- tel, new commissions, printed ‘on .parch- ment of the first quality, are being issued to the officers In place of the paper ‘ones that were given them upon their enlist- ment. A Major H. W. Cardwell, who, according to a Washington dispatch, is to be made chief. surgeon of a division, is a well oung physician of Portland, Or. | For many years he has been prominently identified with the Oregon National Guard. The officers and men:of the Sixth Cali- fornia Infantry- are wrought up to a high pitch of indignation over an articla | in an evening payer a few d ago in | which the regiment w referred to in uncomplimentary term v man is anxious to see ve service, and Thurs- day evening -a large delegation waited upon Colonel Johnson. and asked him to | make every effort to Secure assignment to the Philippines. They have little fancy for coast patrol duty, and unless the - | Sixth is ordered abroad many will seek ! to be transferred. to some more fortunate organization. e ey = The Steamer Centennial Arrived From Seattle Yesterday and Will Be Added to the List of Troop Ships To-Day. She Has Accommoda- tions for 680 Soldiers, but as They Are Not Up to the Standard the Chances Are That the Present Bunks WillBe Torn Down and the Vessel Fitted Out in the Same Way as the Zealandia. with' which she is fitted are the best .