The evening times., 1898-06-21
RECRUITS FOR REGIMENTS
Many Men Are Being Sent South
From New York.
STRENGTHENING COMMANDS
The One Hundred and Ninth ReEi-
ment May he Mustered Into the
mOrrOw-The Astor Battcry-Pay
for the S0.Iiers.

New York. June 21-Every effort is be-
ing made to obtain the recruits necessary
to fill to their maximum strength the
regiments now a part of the American
volunteer army and at the front.
Acting on the Instructions given him by
Adjutant Gen. Tillinghast. Capt Charles
H. Stoddard. of the Seventy-tirst Resi-
ment. opened headquarters for-recruiting
in the Seventy-first Regiment armory
yesterday. He had 5l3 applicants last
night for enlistment to go to the front.
and half of these were members of the
Inst Regiment. Compan A. of Col.
Francis regiment. will give twenty men.
at least. to the Seventy-first Regiment.
Capt. Stoddard Will continue to recruit
men during the next few days and Will
probably have the required 301 men by
the end of the week.
In anticipation of being called out by
Governor BLACK in response to the Presi-
dents second call capt. David Wilson,
of the second Battery. has recruited his
command up to IO, men and nve omcei $.
should the battery go TO the front II VIII
require IA men anu four eomcers. Capt.
wiison SAID yesterday tnat the additional
men wouIu oOIained readuy, SO Inal
When the cali came the full arliuery troop
would De ready TO go Wherever oraered.
II can nav, men 1 want wItnin
a lew nouns, capt. Wilson sald. II have
appucants mere at Ine armory every
nour, ana am selecting my men win
great care. Unless this battery ordered
out I'm afraid II win suner, ii did
when the nrst call FOR volunteers came.
AS the result OF not being called ou., L
lost thirty men, who went INTO the vol
unteer regiments and some into the reg
ular Army"
Fifty men will start today from the
! Twelfth Regiment armory. in charge
| of recruiting officers to join the Twelfth
| Regiment. The men Will go to Chicka-
mauga. Lieut.. Col. Thurston, of the
Twenty-second Regiment. Is sending ac-
cep-ed recruits 10 Fort Schuyler as fast
| as the men are obtained. Col. John 7.
| Camp said that he would have the l22d
| Regiment so far recruited within week
or ten days that it would be possible to
have eight companies mustered inio the
National Guard.
Gen. Charles F. Roe received his COM
mission brigadier general in the Vol
unteer Army from Washington yesterday.
Gen. Roe is now expecting orders. and
/ will probably leave the city for the
front IN lew days.
| Capt Lyons. who came from Chicka-
mauga for men TO fill the Eighth Regi-
| ment. has obtained 2S5. Capt. Lyons will
! probably start South tomorrow with
! full complement of recruits.
Lieuts Patrick Horan and Philip Re
! vile and Surgeon John II. Fuchsius. of
| the SiXty-ninth Regiment, arrived here
yesterday to obtain men for that regi-
! ment. Three hundred recruits are want
ed and as fast as the men are selected
they will be sent South. Lieut.. Horan
| believes he will be able to send 100 men
| away today. There are hundreds of ap
| plicants for enlistment in the l6Sth Regi-
ment and Lieut.. Horan believes that he
will have no difficulty in OBJ aiming all the
! men he requires within short time.
More men of the Twenty-second Reei-
! ment who did not volunteer and go away
with their regiment have been transfer-
red by a formal order to the One Hun
/ dred and Twenty-second Regiment. This
| includes ten officers and i35 men. Victor
Herbert, the bandmaster. is amoiy the
! lot
The officers thus transferred are: Major
| Bennett S. Beach. surgeon; Capt w. "
Dunnell. chaplain; Capt. William B.
Smith: Capt. G. A. Tuttle. assistant sur
geon: Lieut. W. S. Bennett. Lieut.. ]. 4.
Bell, Second Lieut.. r. C. Butler. Ser
geant Major II. w. Haight, Quartermas-
! ter Sergeant W. A. Mahon and Ordnance
| Sergeant E. NJ Bunsman.
| Major Japha. of the One Hundred and
| Ninth Regiment, expects to have his
regiment in such a shape numerically 70
| morrow that 1t may he mustered into the
| National Guard. In this regiment as well
as in all the others. only those men are
| being selected who are likely to pass the
| examination of the United States Army
! surgeons. 1t might well be written ,hat
| only able-bodied men heed Apply. for
| that is the word that is being passed
along the line by all the recruiting Off
! GERS.
The ArtOr battery.
| San Francisco. June 21.-The Astor
mountain battery arrived at tn. Oakland
| Mole on the east side of the bay late
/ last night and r,sS 20 this city
until o'clock this morrIng. The soldiers
were given a most enthusiastic RECEPTION.
| From the time thev crossed the State
| line until they reached Camp Merritt
| they were literally .showerad with fruits
and flowers and loaded down With other