The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-28

loads of horse equipments and one carload
Of carbines and revolvers arrived to-day for
the Third United States Volunteer Cavalry
and were Immediately handed out for distri-
button.
1t is not known just when the movement
towards Cuba will begin, as General
Brooke as yet has issued no orders except
the one for immediate preparations. The
indications are, however, that the first to
go will get out Wednesday. The two rail-
roads leading from here to the Florida coast
have been prepared for emergency orders
for some time. They have scores of locomo-
tives and hundreds of cars in waiting and
can handle the men rapidly. The fifteen
regiments under orders are the best trained
and best equipped at the camp They are
the Eighth Massachusetts, Sixteenth Penn
sylvania. First West Virginia, Fifth Illi-
nois, ne-hundred-and-sxtieth Indiana,
First New Hampshire, Fourth Ohio, Thir
ty-first Michigan, Third Wisconsin, Second
Wisconsin, One-hundred-and fifty eighth
Indiana, Fourth Pennsylvania, First
Georgia and Twelfth New York.
The officers who will command the bri-
gades under orders to proceed from Camp
Thomas to Cuba are as follows: General
Ernst. First Brigade, First Division; Gen
eral Sanger Second Brigade, First Divi-
sion; General Wylie, Third Brigade First
Division; Colonel Gardner, First Brigade,
Second Division; General Mckee, Second
Brigade, Second Division.
General T. l.. Rosser, recently appointed
a brigadier general from Georgia, yester
day reported to General Brooke for assign
ment in the First Corps. The general was
assigned to command the Third Brigade of
the second division, first army corps, under
General Poland. General Rosser took inn
mediate charge of his brigade. relieving COL
Vandusee, of the Fourteenth Minnesota,
who has been commanding the brigade as
senior colonel for several weeks. This bri-
gade is made up of the First Pennsylvania
Fourteenth Minnesota and the Second Ohio
Captain George Stang, of the Royal Nor
wegian Artillery, having spent three weeks
at the park as the representative of the
Norwegian government, being quartered at
the Twelfth Minnesota Regiment left yes
terday for Tampa. Captain Stang has re-
ceived permission from General Miles to ac-
company the next expedition to Cuba
The mail facilities at the park have lately
been added to in very material way by a
well-perfected system inaugurated by the
various regiment officers. Each regiment
has established a postoffice, appointed a
postmaster and fixed regular office hours.
One or more carriers are appointed from
each regiment. A regular schedule has been
adopted and those carriers go to and fro
between the postoffice and their respective
commands twice a day, having regular
hours for arriving and departing In this
way all regiments have double daily mail
service, and all frst-class mail is promptly
delivered. Since the adoption of this plan
there has been less complaint and the SOL
diers generally are gratihed with the postal
accommodations
Recruits continue to arrive in large num-
bers from various States About eight hun
dred reached the park yesterday and almost
an equal number arrived to-day.
Brigadier General Waties, of Texas. was
the only officer to report at the park to-
day. He was assigned to the command of
the Second Brigade, Third Division, First
Corps.
Lieut.. John G. Hintz Company A, Fourth
Pennsylvania, of Reading, died to-day at
the Letter Hospital, after a months illness
of spinal meningitis.