The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 25, 1898, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1898. A ff 1- am Whitt- es Infantry, Kernan, cruits that have to service for the Fir ent into camp y e men are ded into d nder the com- A and 1 a Regiment. tched on the Tenth to Manila Regiment. GOING: [ TO ~“THE PALACE.i State Military Headquarters Will Be Moved From the California Hotel. arters of the State military ave been located in the st call for ving one's 1 has rooms a long w henever is W dozen times or more valuable time.” EIGHTH ARMY CORPS. Personnel of the Various Staffs Organized by General Merritt. General Orders, No. 1. Headquar artment of the Pacific Army Corps, “al., June 23, 1598. the Presid. command of -the composed of the pine expedi- sembled and to ent, command zation of rrival of an- de- are al pectively ted States Vol- the | States Volun- | RMY CORPS IS ORGANIZED AND A BRIGADE ASSIGNED TO TRANSPORTS » B ? T\,Sinf B0 ek xx‘;}o 0006060060600 60060060066606000000066000000800660600000000000600000600000000:0000006 60000000606006006066000 Corps were busily 2ngaged yes-g terday in pac ap and getting their traps in readiness to be sent | ® ’ aboard ship. Major Gen Merritt, | © U. S. A, announces in official orders | & - . that the Indiana, flagship of the third g fleet, sa xt Monday, and that the Newport l¢ next Wednesday. All ‘g the as: of staff ¢..cers, corre- | L : e £ . . and enlisted men have . . d ® i : oo : High Estimate Placed Upon the Troops Composing His Command—Patriotic ] : il e i i n pause in the work of . e gl Generosity of San Francisco Appreciated. rections have been issued that all must | o o 5 el e be vaccinated. A few may receive the | J Alth h the work of Major General Wesley Merritt, Governor General of the Philippines, is nearly at an end in San Francisco, yet he will be a very busy man up to the ¢ R virus in the .rm after. going aboard ffi emharkntim\mf‘é% A};;il‘;ogn %’Vcdi’:sday next. He \zill sail. on the Newport, a speedy steamer and able to easily overtake the transport fleet, which according to the present programme is to take ship, but nearly all the ot. signed | o s departure next Monday. The Newport will join the fleet before it reaches Honolulu. 5 to the expedition have complied with| J Yesterday General Merritt, in the course of a conversation with a representative of The Call, said: the direction: n this r ard. b Sas B s v t7: H Che at the Presia.o and Camp 2 “Everything is moving very smoothly with the command of the Philippine expeditionary forces, both at Camp Merritt and at the Presidio. The command thira 'w,"“:.(‘:"‘,‘,fl ;::f,f",,‘ b q;l\n“” ‘p): ¢ has made very rapid and marked improvement during the last three weeks, through the efficiency of the officers and the zeal of the men. The troops have been con- pectation of orders to hreak camp and ;\ stantly and well drilled, and are in excellent condition for active campaign work. : A BT | e “I cannot give too much credit to the staff officers, who have been cAlnefiy instrumental in bringing abc‘>ut th‘lS r}mch desired result in so short' a It_;n}& THIRD EXPEDITION. i: General Hughes, my inspector general, has been in attendance at Camp Merritt every day and has performed his duties in a most thorough manner. Major ae‘; Order From Brigadier General | ¢ ajd-de-camp on my staff, and Captain Mott have each rendered important services at Camp Merritt, and I think the command has been greatly benefited by the wor ‘\MCA'EI:"::'n:\f*:{"“‘”g + they have done. . s . e Ay some time to-day | & “The men, without exception, have shown a disposition to learn. While I don’t wish to dlscnm3nate, I must say that in some of ; the organizations the FROEEOmOLINE iV | : men have manifested even more zeal than some of the officers. But everybody has done well, and there exists to-day a most adm'1rable esprit de corps. » ®. “The prospects are that the whole command will be en route to Manila before many days, as arrangements are now being perfected by the War Depart- morning ® to which they | ¢, ment to carry everybody. : o i 54 “I shall go withtheexpedition sailing next week because I consider my presence at Manila now of much more importance .than it is here. I feel perfc:lt) f; safe in taking my departure at this time as the remaining troops, soon to follow me, will be left in good hands. I leave behind me, in c!mrge of these troops, Ma- ; @ jor General Otis, Brigadier General Miller, Brigadier General King and Brigadier General H. G. Otis, all of whom are very efficient officers, and are doing every- erday by Major 2 thing in their power to get the command on a war footing. : 0 Dreson Bests | & “Every organization of the command is now well supplied with arms and ammunition. Furthermore, the command is made up of excellent material, Nobrasca : and if the opportunity offers I feel confident that these men will make a record on the field of battle of which their countrymen may well feel proud. 1 Hiehierath Thlted > 5 “I have, of course, mapped out, in a preliminary way, a system of government for the Philippines, but my plans nfay be somewhat changed owing to cir- - soldiers of the | ¢ cumstances that may arise after my arrival at Manila. The necessities of the immediate situation must be taken into consideration, and, of course, I cannot be- come acquainted with those necessities until after I reach the Philippines. The Philippine enterprise is a new venture with the United States, and while the final dispositic;n of the territory is, of course, problematical at this time, the first thing to be done is to bring order out of chaos. As yet there is nothing so mature as to permit me to make any castiron plans. : : “1 do not anticipate any serious difficulty in adjusting affairs with the insurgents under Aguinaldo, who, according to advices as published in the news- papers and other information in my possession, are keeping in close touch with Admiral Dewey. “I have informed myself as much as possible at this distance from the scene of action as to the laws, customs, commerce, climate and resources of the Philippines. For this I have depended almost wholly upon staff officers who were especially engaged in gathering everything available, and they have collected a mass of valuable information, properly digested. “I take great pleasure in saying that the people of San Francisco and California have done everything in their power to make most pleasant our stay in the city. This is especially true of the benevolent societies. I have never seen such generous hospitality displayed anywhere as there has bee_n in San Francisco. It is som.ething to be proud ofy It has certainly infused a chivalrous and gentlemanly spirit among the men, who have conducted t!]emsel\'cs in a most orderly man- ner. The dispensers of this hospitality seemed to know just where to do their good work so that it would benefit the' men needing and dgservmg it. I hope and believe that the kindness of these people has been well bestowed, and that it will be rewarded by our future conduct. . We shall carry away with us the most pleasant recollections of the hospitable city at the Golden Gate. If, upon our return, we shall receive as hearty a reception as our entertainment has been generous we shall all feel amply compensated {or whatever we may have accomplished.” ‘5006\@"'@@'@0®®@®®®©®®@ chief of staff and inspector ot o should they rebel against American so tenant Colonel Thomas H. Barry, United ereignty: in'the falands. t. Volunteers, adjutant general Lieutenant Colonel Charles L. Jewett, United States Volun Judge advocate. % eutenant Colonel Charles L. Potter, United Volunteers, chief engineer officer. | "he following officers, not otherwise re- are attached to t fAepartment staff: eorge Ruhlen, United States Volun- ritt would be a fallen hero in the eves his countrymen. across the continent. If Merritt safls wi the third expedition not another man depot quartermaster. 2 or W. A. Wadsworth, United States Vol- | . to chief quartermaster. | . United States Volun- the fact that since the close of the R thing but friends. —— ARTILLERY TO AID DEWE ical purve 3 : | Major United States Vo | surgeon, | voodruff, tant assistant to Artillery Regiment to Sail for Manila on Monday. The entire Manila Battalion H. Whipple, paymaster, Army. ONE OF HENS L » CAPTAIN J. J. WARD Command Will Join the Volunteers. HAW’S OFFICERS 000000000006000006666 cope with the insurgents under Aguinaldo Consequently, his campalgn would prove a failure, and Mer- Such is the rumor_that has traveled to follow him if Alger can prevent it. Wild as it may seem. there still remains hellion Alger and Merritt have been any- Four Batteries of the Third of the Third United States Artillery Regiment, now encamped at Camp Miller, on the Presidio reservation, will sail for the Philippines next week with the third ex- edition. Batteries G and L, commanded y Captain Randolph and Captain Birk- himer, respective the latter being In command of th battalion com; nseg of these two batte , received orders sev- eral days ago to get in readiness for em= barkation on the transport Ohio. Tha loading of their belongings was coi rgleted yesterday, and they will go on board ship to-day or Sunday. Brigadier-General Miller, of whose bris gade the Manila Battalion of the Third Artillery form a part, held a consultation Thursday afternoon with its commanding officer, Major Hess, and upon being in- formed that the remaining batteries—H and K—were prepared at a moment’s no= tice to embark for Manila, he stated that these two batteries would be ordered to sail on the Newport. The officers of H battery are Captain James O'Hara and Lieutenant B. M. Kessler, adjutant of Camp Miller; and of K Battery the offi- cers are Captain Charles W. Hobbs and Lieutenant Lloyd England. The Manila Battalion will go to the front with its full strength of 800 men—200 to each battery. The other batteries of the Third Artil- lery are stationed at various posts: Ona rt Stevens, at the mouth of the Co- lumbia Rive one at San Diego; one at Fort Monroe, V: three—A, 1 and E—un- | der command of Major Kinzie at Fort Point, who is also the commander of the regiment: and the two light batteries are with General Shafte forces. . LONG NOT TO BLAME. R RORCROR. RCRORCRCR R R R RORCORC ) Py Local Commercial Bodies Ex=, onerate the Quartermaster of Employing Chinese. | The following resolutions were adopted | by the Chamber of Commerce and the | Board of Trade yvesterday and forwarded | to Senator Perkins: . Perkins, United States D. C.: Kindly present statement to each mem- delegation and to the Quartermaster’s Department, the Navy De= | partment and the War Department in Wash- | ington: | Whereas, Certain statements have been made | | | in the San Francisco papers derogatory to the character of the depot quartermaster, U. S. A., this city, charging that he has favored Chi- eference to white labor; ntleman, who to our knowl- red in every practicable way btain from the markets of San Francisco from the manufacturers of the coast all tecessary supplies for this department and for the equipment of the expedition to Manila. edge has end: to o al PPPPPPPPPPPPPL VPPV POPOPOOPQOPOPOPIPS We, the undersigned, officers of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce and San F co Board of Trade, hereby certify that to our personal knowledge Major Oscar Long has stipulated in all contracts that only white labor should be employed in manufac- turing the supplies required for the army, and 12 have been laid before him s that contractors have deviated rements he has at once can- F. nj howi e OF COMMERCE OF SAN President. FRANCISCO, TROOPS IN SAN FRANCISCO. An Army of 17,062 Officers and Men at Camp Merritt and the Presidio. The grand total of officers and men now at Camp Merritt is 14,062. These figures do not include the execus tive officers at the headquarters of Major General O nor the quarters of Briga- dier Generals Otis, MacArthur, Miller and King. The number of headquarters at- taches will average six each. This will i“m thirty to the total of the figures be- ow. @ Enlisted. i b Tnited States Vol- ULEI{ Ol l l IE ISLANDS- of transports cut a commanding figure | Resiment— Men, Officers. Total. ~Captaln X ;Bentley Malt, it e l { and caused many vexatious delays. Bug | Fourteenth Infantry.. = -~ DEPARTMENT STAFF. i goffiy.‘;”&o :;';L'fl‘lm‘;lnr:r:}é ;lrxlfdu;ehdigg :n{; 2 1 329 eral J. B. Babcock, United | carry enough more troops to make up | iieenin = i States chiet of staff ai | &huudt half the force assigned to his com- | Twentietn Ka 6 12719 B fajor S. D. Sturgls, United States Volun- mand. First Idaho . 31 715 Major S | One d. o oitant adjuant general. 5 | One day the general announced that he 36 1,341 Ticutenant Colonel C. A. Whittler, United would accompany the third expedition, 1 38 States Volunteers, inspector general. | leaving General Otis to dispatch the re- 3 103 Lieutenant Colonel Enoch H wder, United mainder of his forces as rapidly as pos- 51 1,331 States Volunteers, judge advo . ttea ] sible. A number of ships would be avail- 46 1,070 Licutenant Colonel James W. Pope. able by the middle of July to transport 3 §%9 Siates Voluntears, chief quAHEIRSteL. . ard. the bulk of the troops, and General Mer- 2 Igae - | Uhited States Volunteers, chief commissary of ritt was anxious to reach the scene of his 8 15 United States [ operations and begin the establishment of s ] B s AL 3T TADpinGot: Saepnr ] a military government at the earliest Pos- | Rrrnits tor general, chief surgeon. g sible day. ments . 10 530 Charles McClure, paymaster, Unitad | When " this announcement reached | pngincer 2 101 States Army, chief paymaster. s i Washington Secretary Alger saw in it = N‘ln)ur R. x};';r Ben et United States Vol z‘lin’n(horfnr%r’mrlunll,\'};? accomplish the un- Totals . 464 14,062 unteers, en ¢ ; 3 £ oing of Merritt. s plan was nothing i ant Col Charles 'W. Whipple, v . r At the Presidio the organization of reg- = lunteers, chief orinance of less than to stop the forwarding of re- | ujar artillery and cavalty, together with cer. 5 enforcements, leaving Merritt with half | }8" Yoiuntcer infantry’ and. artillery: Major Richard E. E. Thompson, United | the force he had béen promised. This | numpers 3000 enlisted meh and officers: States Voluntees fef signal officer. | would naturally Erm'ent him from doing | “The army at pr t in San Francisco ajor W. A on, United States Volun- | anything more than to occupy Manila. | yererore numbers 17.062 OMeers and men: teers, chief of arti | H»‘mulrli not nn'droritake a campaign iped it \ORPS STAFF. against the enemy t retreated beyond . 3 CoRER g : range of Dewey’s guns, nor could he even | TREADMILL FOR HORSES. Brigadier .G al R. P. Hughes, United V- To Be Used on Shipboard for Exercise of Cavalry Horses Shipped to Manila. Major Sanford T. Kellogg, in command of the six troops of the Fourth United States Cavalry and of the Nevada troop, which has been attached to his command, has had assigned to him an experimental task of great responsibility. BEach of the six troops of the Fourth Cavalry will take to Manila fifty horses, making a total of 300. The distance is about 6500 miles, and the only stopping place is at Honolulu. Whether the fleet of the fourth expedi- tion will stay at Honolulu long enough to have the horses taken ashore in order to give them needed exercise remains to be seen. Even should the fleet stop there, of th is e Y Continued on Page Seven. ) ERRITT, the New Governor General of the MAJOR GENERAL WESLEY M ; Philippines. Major Charles BE. Kilbourne, paymaster, | whisper of which has reached here | until the close of the war. The busy jade, vaited states Army. through a member of the charmed circle | Rumor, proceeds o lay bare the secret Major Herbert M. Lord, additional paymas- | —which, if true, may have much to do | thoughts and plans of Secretary Alger for ter, United States Volunteers. @ nal pay. | With the Philippine cxpeditionary forces | the. discomfiture of his old-thne enemy, Major Henry C. g master, United States Volunteers. Major William B. Rochester Jr., additional paymaster, United States Volunteers. Major Timothy D. Keleher, additional pay- master, United States Volunteers. Major Willlam G. Gambrill, additional pay- master, United States Volunteers. ‘Major John M. Sears, additional paymaster, United States Volunteers. 5.—The following named officers of the corps staff will report to Major General E. S. Otls, commanding independent division, “for duty With the division, and to assist in the organi- Brigadler General R. P. Hughes, United States Volunteers, chief of staff and inspector ral. nl.r,lleeutemnt Colonel Thomas H. Barry, United and upset completely the carefully lgio | as follows: plans of General Merritt, if it does not wreck the success of the great undertak- ing. %he rumor has to do with the u|-fee1|n§ that is known to exist and has existe between Secretary of War Alger and General Merritt ever since the war of the rebellion. An old story Is revived of an act on the part of Secretary Alger, then an officer in the volunteer army, which nearly resulted in his having to face the ordeal 6f a court-martial, General Merritt being one of those most insistent upon his punishment. Through the long years of peace that followed, Alger could only nurse his ani- With Dewey's fleet In possession of the harbor, Alger figured that it would re- quireg an insignificant land force to hold the Islands, and it would be a master stroke to place Merritt in command and thus shut him out from all chance of sharing in the glory of an active cam- paign against the enemy. General Mer- ritt in due time was named as the heaa of the expedition, but here the Secre- tary’s plans miscarried. Daily the Philippines grew in impor- tance, and the possibilities for the mem- bers of the invading army increased. Hints of trouble with Germany over their final disposition, together with grow- lunt jutant _general. it d wait. Even after he assumed B O NTIT, Major Genera U. B. A. | T iiremtion ot the. e car faoassumed | ing talk of thelr permanent oceupancy by Ornclgis' T. BENTLEY MOTT. Ald: War no_opportunity prasented itself for | theUnited States, added to the importance him to show the general that he still re- | 3% L SOTImAN S0 e o Rately. Ul e mberes e affair of a cen- DOES ALGER, PLOT TNy Sko. Gt WhE With Siain broks it ";d been lgv‘oll;;efl to :hemposrlg%:t ;:nmd MERRITT’S DOWNFALL ? | and Dewey scored the first great vietory | there seemed to be no way to p; from reaping as much, or more, glory as those who led the forces in Cuba. 5 But_Alger still hoped, and, hoping, re- newed his scheming, The general had de- manded an adequate force to carry out the plans of the administration and his demands had been acceded to, but when it came to moving his troops the qQuestion of the struggle. Then, according to the ton Gossip, the Secretary fancie opportunity to even up the old score—an opportunity of which he lost no time in tnglnx advantage. The capture of the Philippines—then an unknown quantity— necessitated their occupancy, at least e of Dame Weird Rumor That Troops WIll Be A Withheld From the General. There is a rumor current in the inner- most army circles of Washington—a of Woodland, Whose mand in the GRASS VALLEY’'S LEADER. Captain P. T. Riley, Who Will Retain His Com- Eighth Regiment.