New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-08-05
MORE TROOPS FOR PORTO RICO.
TRANSPORT HUDSON SAILS WITH PART oF
lsT KENTUCKY AND GENERAL
GRANTS BRIGADE.

Newport News Va, Aug. a (SpeciaD'-lhe
FIRST detachment OF General Frederick d. Grant
brigade sailed fer Porto Rico tbs morning al
3 o'clock on the transport Hudson when car
ried two companies OF the "a battai'oh anu
all of the 81 Battalion Of the LIST keh'uchS
Infantry under Lieutenant-Colonei beihhap'
The Hudson went straight past Old Point nav
ing received her final orders here, ana Is "o"
well started on her voyage. The transport can
not reach her destination In less thar eight' anu
possib,y ten days as she travels at the rate OF
only nine and one-half knots an hour. 1t Is safe
IN saw that the entire expedition will make fOrto
Rico as soon as the Hudson does
ARMY officers here are at a loss to understand
why ship so slow should have been seiec'eo
for service as a troop transport There are mere
now stored in the city postofflce over nVe tohs
of United States mail. sent here from "ashihS-
ton and directed to the United states Mihtary
Postal Station in Porto Rico. There is a guam
tity Of important Government mail. which was
sent ON rush orders but there is no possibil-
fly of getting 1t away until another ship sails
for Porto Rico The postal, authorities here re-
fused to send 1t on the Hudson. on account OF
her speed Two tons of this mail has been mere
sinca the departure Of General Brookes expedi-
ton 1t is probable that the Manitoba VIII take
what ia here now 1t Is understood that the
postal authorities at Washington nave COLI
plained to the War Department about the oeia!
IN forwarding mail, and have asked 10 nave
transports started from this point more resu-
larly. Under the present arrangement or sendihs
mail to Porto Rico. all letters addressed there
must go througa Washington and at the pres-
e,it time Newport News is the only point from
which this nIa is dispatched TO its destination
The Chesap. axe and Ohio Railroad ofhciais
this morning received notice that 't~enty-ohe
trains. carrying the 9th Illinois ana baggage
and camp equi?..erts had passed Ciifton forse'
Va. from Chickamauga
Major Muhlenberg and his assistants finished
paying of the troops here at q o'clock to-nish''
and will return TO Washington to-morro" morh-
ing Something like $4,000 has been sent
through the mails ard the express companies by
the soldiers since yesterday morning Those VINO
contemplated taking money with them were
hustling to-day in an effort to get their pilis
been run on the ranks all day
Yesterday and to-day twenty-four carloads OF
fresh beef arrived in the city 1t has been s.oreo
in the cold storage compartments in the trans
mort Manitoba There are SOO.OOO POUNDS III an
Major Wilson is already making perpetrators ior
the accommodation Of General Waues ProVis-
ional division or the twelve regiments when
have been ordered to embark here The Chesa-
peake and Ohio Will transport all OF tAe Toops
going from Camp Alger. FIVE reg ments, anu
about 6.000 from Chickamauga. Inc oeaoUa na
Air Line will bring 1000 from Chckamauga
ilchtcring the men TO this city from Norfolk
Up to this time Major Wilson has not been IN
formed by the War Department Just Wha NO NO
decision has been reached on TINS Poih', ~ 10
confidently believed by the Army oince,s 81, hete
that the twelve regiments ordered mere VIII DC
sent from, their respective camps In the next
,yeek ar 90 and held here until the expedition is
In readiness to sail