The evening times., 1898-04-19


p IN. Sunday, 10 to IL m.
| CONSULTATION STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL.
posal of this country for aiding the suff-
ering We have an acclimated corps in
| Jamaica which can be sent at once into
Cuba.
| Lee Waits War Order-.
Richmond, Va, April 19.-Consul Cen
eral Fitzhugh Lee is here by leave OF alb
sence from the War Department. and
not the State Department. He is hourly
expecting n telegram recalling him to
Washington.
The general says he does not know
what his position in the Army Will be,
| but ne expects TO do some fighting. He
| says he has not promised Theodore
| Roosevelt to make him chief of his
| staff, as he has no staff 10 name. IL Is
| known, however, that Gen. Lee expects
to be a major general Of militia. anu
would undoubtedly be pleased TO havs
the Assistant Secretary of the Navy on
| his staff.
Gen. Lee says the call for 0000 militia
is ready To be promulgated the moment
the President approves the resolution
the Senate and House agree upon.
Miss Cisneros will return to Washing
| ton with Gen. Lee.
Raising "a Regiment.
New York, April I9.-The regiment
which Col. w. d. Hughes. who runs a
restaurant at No. 19 Bowery. wants TO
| raise and offer TO the governor for sery-
ice has a good start. Up to 8 p. IN. yes
| terday 2s9 men had signed the rolls.
The call for volunteers was hung in
| the window Saturday afternoon by Col.
nd fnli
Wanted to fight Spain, 1899 able-bOd-
| led men, to enlist in the First Regiment
of New York Volunteers. Enrol inside.
| This regiment will be offered to the gov
ernor of New York. Recruiting Station
| No. l.
The response was immediate and sew
| eral names were signed Saturday night.
| No one was allowed to sign Sunday. but
yesterday many did. No man can sign
unless the colonel thinks he is sincere
| and would make good soldier.
| Yesterday III. Z. Page. of No. 9S2 Put
| nam Avenue. Brooklyn. brought over the
names of 100 Brooklyn men who wanted
| TO form a company in this regiment.
| They were accepted. r. K. Burr a mem
! Der of the Ninth Regiment. has written
| TO Col Hughes, offering his services to
who have signed served in the last war,
| and more are ex-memDers of the Ma
| tional Guard.
Ninth Cavalry ON the Move.
Fort Robinson Neb.. April 19.-The
Ninth Cavalry, the famous colored troop
| which has engRged In more than one
| hundred Indian battles during the thirty
one years since its organization, this
morning left for the South. They will go
| through to Chickamauga without stop
| ping. The fort will be garrisoned tenn
porarily by the Eighth Cavalry. from
Fort Meade, which will arrive next week.
| These are the only troops to remain in the
| West There is a division of opinion as
| 10 the advisability of leaving the frontier
| free of regulars. Many timid people be-
| lieve the ), 600 fierce Sioux warriors on the
| northern border of Nebraska are a serious
/ menace to the safety of the people of
| this section. One thousand of these In
dians. under their famous chiefs, Young
| Man Afraid-of- His Horses, Crow Dog and
| Standing Elk, are now organizing to go
| South. They have received Information
| that the Government can use them as
| scouts, and are anxious to show their
| fighting qualities for the great father at
| Washington. This, however, makes the
| several thousand who will be left here
| discontented- All of them are armed and
| dismounted the Sioux after the Pine
| Ridge uprising, and has never permitted
| them to have horses since. Pioneers as
| sert that as the Sioux are without ponies
| the probability of an uprising is very re-
| mote but the Eighth Will remain here
until their services are needed on the
| coast This leaves 500 troopers to guard
| the border and is considered ample.
Troops Reach Tampa Tomorrow.
| Tampa, Fla. April 19.--No troops had
arrived at Tampa this morning. Four
| companies of the Fifth Infantry are
| scheduled to leave Atlanta at 3 o'clock
| this afternoon for this point. 1t will take
| them twenty-four hours to reach here.
| Colonel Cook and his regimental head
quarters will be established here.
Arrivals mt Cbicknmauga.
Chattanooga, Tenn, April 19.-Major
General John r. Brooks and his staff of
/ fourteen officers together with troops C
and G.. First Cavalry. Lieutenant Chas.
ID. Veale commanding and Light Battery
| A. First Artillery from Fort Sheridan.
are expected at Chickamauga Park this
afternoon. General Brooke, who will
command the division composed of two
brigades of cavalry, regiment of light
artillery and one of infantry, will estab-
lsh his headquarters at the Chickamauga
Hotel at Crawfish Springs. The troops
will camp by regiments.
Ninth Infantry starts south.
Syracuse n. Y, April 19.-The Ninth In
fantry. Colonel Powell commanding, left
Madison Barracks, at Sacketts Harbor,
this morning, for Tampa, Fla. The COM
mand consists of eight companies, num-
bering 525 men. and takes its entire equip
ment Twenty-Five cars were required in
two sections to move the regiment, Two
men from each company, six men now in
| the hospital. and a hospital steward were
left as a garrison at Sacketts Harbor.
Regular Army EnIistmcnts.
The enlistments in the Regular Army
have been much disturbed and retarded
by the movement of troops. Recruiting
stations have been broken up and new
ones will have to be established. The
total enlistments recently have been av-
eraging thirty daily
Crowds Greet Troops at New Orleans.
New Orleans April 19.-Additional
troops were expected to arrive over the
Southern Pacific this morning and de-
spite a heavy downpour of rain a large
crowd was waiting at the depot to wit