The morning call., 1890-05-09
ROLLING EASTWARD.
Departure of the First Artillery
From the Preside.

fright forN ardl Fours right March,
aud then Column rightr passed regi-
mental headquarters and then down the
avenues on which front the barracks, and
the batteries of the First United States Ar
tillery Regiment, the band playing the time
honOred The Girl Left Behind Me-" and
colors flying, marched about II 80 o'clock
yesterday morning from the upper drill
ground at the Preside to the landing and
embarked on the stern wheeler Sonoma,
which is running for the Government
steamer General McDOwall, and were in
due time conveyed to the Oakland mole,
there to board the train which, about 2
o'clock, took them on the overland journey
to Jersey City for distribution afterward at
the military posts of the harbOr of New
YORK.
The departure of the regiment from the
post, which it has garrisoned since the 18th
OF November, 1881, was attended by no
greater demonstration or display than has
been witnessed ON these many days, in the
forming of line as for a dress parade. only
tnat the troops were in marching order
MaJor-General Miles appeared at the Pre-
sldIo TO bid farewell to Colonel LOOMS /.
LaBgd0n, ana as il was his first visit since
bis promotion he was honOred with a salute
OF thirteen guns.
The battalion which left the Preside con-
sisted OF Batteries A, g, ID, IL and and
Light Batteries L and X, joined by Battery
q from Alcatraz Island, Battery Is from
Fort Candy, Wash, attaching itself on ar
rival OF the train at R0seYilie junction, in
Placer County. This leaves of the regi-
ment. under Major HaskiD, Batteries l. ut
Fort Mason and Nj at AlcairaZ Island, which
will not depart eastward until after the
arrival of the Fifth Regiment, which left
New York yesterday; also eighty-seven
enlisted men, who, being married or having
only short terms to serve on their enlist
ments, chose to remain and were trans
ferrad to the Filth, and last, but not least.
Lieutenant Oyster, the Quartermaster. on
leave of absence.
While the embarkation of the troops was
accomplished speedily enough, it was all of
l2:15 O'Clock before the stern-Wh eeier cast
oil her mO0TIngS and steamed for Oakland
! his delay was due TO the shipping of the
personal baggage OF the trU0ps and Others
The number OF souls that lett the Preside
yesterday was 2I9 enlisted men, twenty
seven commissioned officers and forty
women and children, and to convey the
troops and their traps train of ten tour
lists, three PuHmanS and ten freight-cars
was provided.
With the departure of the steamer every
thing had settled itself in the old grove
again. The sentry paced his beat near the
guard-house as ii nothing had occurred TO
shake from center to circumference the
little world encompassed by the reservation
limits. The casual visitor, who peered into
barracks and officers quarters, or entered
the officers mess and club-rooms, at the
upper end CT the parade ground, would
have found them untenanted, gloomy and
pillased. But this was apparently the only
outward sign of the wholesale evacuation
which had taken place.
Battery L, which recently came from
Vancouver Barracks, will leave its pet
brown bear, which it had offered to the
Park Commissioners, but who had refused
It, His bruln majesty will not have tpine
and 1ret long, Tor he will tind himself III
spirit some nice day gracing the officers
mess table. Eight pet dogs, and goodness
knows how many pet cats, were left behind
with the rear guard.
With the departure of Colonel Langdon
the command OF the post will devolve upon
Lleutenant-Col0nel Bartlett of the First In-
tantry, whose promotion as Colonel of the
Ninth mas been confirmed, but who has not
yet received his commission. He is tile
senior of Lieutenant Colonel Graham, con-
corning whom the mistaken report has been
published that the command would again
TALL 10 his lot. Lieutenant Colonel Graham
recently effected a transfer from the First
to the Filth Artillery. Until the arrival of
the Filth, which Is due here in four OF five
| days, the garrison al the Preside will con-
slst of Troops A aud K of the Second Cav
airy and Companies ID and K of the First
| Infantry. besides three field and eight line
officers and two of the medical staff. not in
| GLIDING the Chaplain.
Company Il of the First Infantry was
transferred yesterday from Angel Island
to Aieatraz Island, replacing Battery G for
| guard duty, and Battery ID of the Fifth,
which was stationed at Fort Douglass.
| tab. will be tie first to arrive, probably
to-day or tomorrow. The Two troop, of
| cavalry will leave on or about the 10Th
| inst, completing the exchange between The
Second aud the Fourth Cavalry, and will
| travel In the tourlSt-carS in which the ar
| tlllerlstS VIII arrive. Until the coming of
the latter there will be little going en- at
the reservation in the matter of parades.
save IN the usual mounting of guard ia the
morning. Besides this and the guarding of
prisoners at work in and about the Pre-
sldIo, the two light batteries left over sixty
horses which must be cared for, and The
routine work Will keep the men employed
without dress parades, there being, more
over, no band at the post and dress parade
without the band having been compared to
Hamlet with Hamlet left out.
Inc Filth Artillery viii take stations as
follows on arrival: Headquarters, Senior
Major, band, Light Batteries ID and and
Batteries B, c, K and NJ at the Presidio !:
Lieutenant-Colonel and Batteries A and /
at Aicatraz; Battery ii at Fort Mason
Junior Major and Batteries and l. at Fort
Candy, Wash. The Firsps will be assigned
as follows: Headquarters Colonel. Major
Egan, band, Batteries A, g, l and Light
Battery K. Fort Hamilton; Major Haskins,
Batteries u, II and NJ, Governors Island
Lieutenant-Colonel LOder, Batteries c, b
and l., Fort Wadsworth, n. y; Light Bat
terry Il, Utan, and Battery L at Fort MOI
roe, Va. being already there with G OF tie
Filth In the artillery school.