The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-14
RE0PEN|NG OF SEA GRIT
Recruits Arrived Yesterday
to Fill Up Jersey Regi-
ments to Quota.
COY. VOORHEES, ARRIVES TODAY.
Men Are Principally From
Newark---Plenty Of Food
in the Commissary
Department..
'OV. VOORHEES, ARRIVES TODAY.

Especial to The Jersey City News."1
SEA GRIT. June IA. 1S9S.-Camp voor-
hees reopened yesterday. sooner than 1t
was expected. This was because of the
arrival of the first batch Of recruits to
be mustered in under the recent order
from the War Department requiring 800
men to fill the ranks of the First. Sec
ond and Third Regiments to their max
mum INIT. kilograms were received
yesterday announcing that the recruits
would be sent to Sea Girt. there to be
mustered in by Capt. Butler, after which
they would receive their full equipments
and be sent to their regiments
At II O'clock yesterday morning twenty
eight men enlisted by Lieut.. c. Albert
Gasser. of the First Regiment. arrived
from Newark. They were accompanied
by Lieut.. Gasser. Corporal Brooks, Com
pany B., and Private McAvoy of Com
pany c.
Recruiting officers report their work as
very slow, a fact that is attributed in
great measure to the stories published
from day to day about the scarcity of
food in the several big camps throughout
the country.
Under the direction of Colonels FELTON,
and Farley, now in charge of the COM
missary department, ~rations, consisting
of fried ham, potatoes and coffee, were
served for the midday meal. Super
intendent Haight was also equal to the
and tents for the recruits were
standing on the camp ground before the
arrival of the troops. Only the large
officers tents are used and three men are
assigned to each tent. Corporal Brooks
will conduct the daily drill.
Captain Butler said yesterday that no
other regiment was likely to be called out
until the maximum required for those
regiments now in the field had been at
tanned, nor was it possible. hi thought.
that any organization of the National
Governor VOORHEES, is expected to arrive
today.
Lieutenant J.. H. Ryno, Of Company A,
Third Regiment. will open a recruiting
station in Asbury Park.
The men now in camp are from New
ark. Another lot of volunteers is expect
ed from the same city Wednesday.
At first it was only intended to add
twenty-five men to each of the
three regiments now In the service of the
United States from New Jersey. but this
number has been increased to twenty-five
by a recent order. This will make 900
volunteers in all which will be required
tc fill up all Of the companies.
They will be sent to Camp Voorhees, as
fast as they are recruited, and will be
fully equipped as soon as they have
passed the regular army doctor.
At first it was said that the new recruits
would be kept at Sea Grit for several
weeks to be drilled, but now it is said
that they will be sent to their respective
companies as soon as they are equipped.
In that case, each lot of volunteers will
remain at Camp VOORHEES, only two or
three days. OF course, there is no telling
how long 1T will take to secure the re-
quired nine hundred volunteers, but re-
c~ruiting is now going on vigorously and
the requisite lumber will probably be
obtained within a week or ten days.
Enough tents were erected yesterday
for the men who ave arrived and more
are being put up as fast as possible, so
tina there will be no ack of accommodate
tons for the volunteers when they ar
rive.