The San Francisco call., 1898-05-05
SIX THOUSAND MEN
 TO ASSEMBLE HERE
War Operations on the Pacific to Have a Base in This Citg, Whence Soldiers and Munitions Can Readily Be
 Sent to the Front.

may go to the reservation next satur- l day.
 There was quite correspondence | over the wires yesterday between Major General Merriam and Major Field respecting the equipment of the volunteers with rifles of approved pat tern and the issue of ammunition to | the troops. An inventory of all the clothing and military supplies availa- ble in the San Francisco depot was taken.
 Major General Merriam, accompan- jed by Major Thomas H. Barry, adju- tant-general of the Department of the Columbia, may leave Vancouver Bar racks to-day en route to this city. No doubt the headquarters of the major general will be transferred to this city, in view Of the important work to be done here in the way of organizing the volunteer forces recently called into the field. It was said at army head quarters yesterday that the appoint ment of Merriam to the rank of major general indicated that there would be at least three brigades mobiliZed here, and consequently there would be com- mands for three brigadier- generals. In the regular army it is the impression that the first column for Manila will consist of regular troops and that the volunteers will remain here to garrison the harbor forts.
 Three companies of the Fourteenth United States Infantry are stationed in Alaska and may remain there until relieved by volunteers. Seven compan- ies at Vancouver Barracks will doubt less leave there immediately for the Presidio of San Francisco. These or ganizations are: Company B, Captain Richard T. Yeatman; Company c, Cap- tain William B. Reynolds; Company D, Captain William w. McCammon; Company E, Captain Frank Taylor; Company F, Captain John Murphy; Company I, Captain John c. F. Tilson, and Company K, Captain Leon A. Matile.
 Colonel Thomas M. Anderson of the Fourteenth has been promoted briga- dfer-g general Field officers of the Fourteenth Infantry are: Lieutenant Colonel George B. Russell, Major Charles F. Robe; First Lieutenant Lieutenant Charles H. Martin, quar- termaster. and Major John Van R. Hoff, surgeon.
 Lieutenant Boyd, recruiting officer at the Presidio, received thirty applica- tiOns for enlistment in the several branches of the army yesterday. A ma jority of the applicants are men who have served in the past and express desire to re-enlist in their old regiments now stationed in the East. Immedi- ately after having passed medical ex- animation their names will be forward ed to the War Department at Washing ton, and upon instructions from the Secretary of War transportation will De furnished and the men forwarded to the different regiments in which they desire to serve.
 Captain Thomas Maclay First Lieu tenant A. H. Cassidy, Second Lieuten- ant E. R. McDowell and Second Lieu tenant Joseph A. Brown, all of the Fifth Infantry N. G. C.. were exam ined by the regular examining board of the National Guard at the Califor- nia Hotel Tuesday night. The officers have only been recently reelected. The examining board was composed of Ma jor Hayes, Colonel Smith and Captain Filmer of the N. G. c.