Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-12
Gen. Hastings Issues Orders
Organizing
HIS CORPS OF WORKERS
Two General DepOts for Stores Eleven
sub.Disrricts Established for the Dis.
trfbution Of SuppIies-The Omcers Who
Are To Have Charge of the Various De-
partmeuts-What Their Duties Will Be.
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.ToHNsTowN, June 11.-General Hast
ings consulted with General ]. B. Scott and
other representatives of the Chamber oi
Commerce to-day. 1t has been arranged
that they will stay with him for time, and
William Finn will also be here to give the
benefit of his experience to the General, who
will endeavor to contract with him for a
portion of the work As a result of the
conference General Hastings tonight had
posted the following announcement of the
general organization as it will exist begin
ming with tomorrow morning:
Chiefs of Operations, Johnstown-General
d. H. Hastings, Adjutant General of Pennsyl-
vsnia; Colonel Thomas ]. Hudson, Chief of
Artillery, n. G. P; Lieutenant Colonel William
]. Elliott, Acting Inspector General, N. G. P.
Department of Public Safety-Brigadier Cen
eral Wiley, Second Brigade; Major Samuel
Hazlett, Ordnance Department, Second Brigade;
Major W. W. Greenland, Qusrtermaster, Sec
ond Brigade; Major Frank K. Patterson, In
spector, Second Brigade; Major Wilson F.
Braden, Judge Advocate, Second Brigade; Cap
tain George c. Hamilton. Aide de Camp, Sec
ond Brigade: Captain James II. Murdoch, Aide
de Camp, Second Brigade.
.-Quartermasters Department-Colonel s. W.
Hill, Quartermaster General of Pennsylvania;
Lieutenant General Thomas Patton, Assistant
Quartermaster General of Pennsylvania.
Commissary Department-Colonel ]. Gran
vile Leach, Commissary General of Pennsyl-
vania; Lieutenant Colonel ]. S. Spangler, As
sistant Commissary General of Pennsylvania;
Captain ]. A Lochr, of the Tenth; Lieutenant
W. H. Bean. Second United States Cavalry;
Lieutenant J. P. A1bro, of the Thirteenth;
Lieutenant Charles E. Brown, of the Eight
eenth.
Bureau of information - Colonel John L
Rogers. Judge Advocate General of Pennsyl-
vania; Lieutenant Colonel Henry B. Paxson,
Aide de Camp to the Governor.
Accounting Department-Lieutenant Colo
mel ]. H. Gray, AIDE de Camp of the Cover
nors staff.
Surgeon Generals Department-Major J. B.
Silliman. Surgeon, Second Brigade, National
Guard of Pennsylvania.
Omcers at the supply Stations.
1t has also been arranged that when Gen
eral Hastings takes charge of Johnstown
the Pennsylvania and Baltimore and Ohio
freight stations will be the general depots
for supplies, which will be elssued from them
to IL stations in the afflicted district. Each
of these IL stations will be in charge of a
lieutenant and sergeant. The general
depots will also be district depots for those
in their immediate vicinities. When the
State begins the purchase of supplies, as it
is now seen that it must do sooner or later,
they will be purchased by the Commissary
General and placed in the hands of Major
Spangler, acting Commissary General.
Lieutenant Bean, of the United States
regular army, who had been detailed to in
spect the summer encampment of the Ma
tional Guard, and who offered his services
for duty here, will have charge of the &C .
counts of the Commissary General. Colonel |
Orr, clerk of the Military Board, who ar
rived here to-day from Harrisburg with two |
clerks from the Adjutanf General's Office,
will have charge of the
Accounts of the DIstributIon
of supplies, and his accounts and those of |
the Commissary General must balance. |
Major Spangler will be assisted by Quarter |
master Albro, of the Thirteenth Regiment, |
and Quartermaster Brown, ofthe Eighteenth. |
The general supply depot at the Pennsyl- |
vania freight station will be known as Post |
COmmissary No. 1. Major Horn will be in
charge of it. Major Singer will be ia charge |
of Post Commissary No. 2, at the Baltimore |
and Ohio depot. Under Major Horn there |
will be seven district supply stations where
relief will be given direct to the people, as
follows:
District Nos. i and 2, city, Major Mercer;
District No. 8, Prospect Hill and Milville, |
Lieutenant Richardson, Quartermaster of the |
Ninth Regiment; District No. 4 WoodYale 1
Lieutenant Selden of the Sixteenth: District |
No. s, East Conemaugh, Lieutenant Koons of
the First; District No. 6, Franklin borough,
Lieutenant Meram, of the Ninth; District No. z, |
South Fork, Lieutenant Cox of the Third.
Under Major Singer will be the remain
ing districts, oficered as follows:
District Nc. s, Johnstown borough, Leuten-
ant Baker, of the Sixth; District No. 9, Kern
vile and Grubbtown, Major Curtis, of the
staff; District No. 10, Conemaugh borough,
Lieutenant Williams. Fifth Regiment; District |
No. II, Cooperdale, Lieutenant Nichols of the
Twelfth. SIMPSON,