Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-05-10
TO MOVE UPON CUBA
Within Week Troops Will Be on
Their Way From Florida.
GENERAL NILES TO LEAVE TOMORROW
Gen. SeweII to Command Local
Camp at Falls Church.
POINTS OF MOBILIZATION
NERAL MILES TO LEAVE TOMORROW
POINTS OF MOBILIZATION


cruiser Buffalo, formerly the Nicthe-
roy.
Mr. Roosevelt said farewell today
to the officers and clerks of the Navy
Department
Gen. Miles will leave tonight for
Tampa, Fla, and will 60 with the
first military expedition to Cuba 1t
is expected that within week the
first troops will be on their way from
the United States to Cuba.
Mr.. Palma, representative of the
Cuban republic, arrived from New
York and is expecting important ad-
vices from Gen. Gomez.
The Senate passed a bill providing
for volunteer signal corps and con-
Cured in the House amendments to
the bill providing for 10000 immunes
and volunteer brigade OF engineers
There was a conference between
the President and Secretaries Long
and Alger today in regard to the de-
tails of the invasion of Cuba. Gen.
Miles was called in.
The order calling out one regi-
ment of the District National Guard
was issued today.
Gen. Sewell has been assigned to
command the camp of concentration
near Falls Church, Va.
BY Friday morning the commanding gen.
eral of the Uniteu States army, Major Cen
eral Miles. will have assembled his staff
around him at Tampa Fla He leaves
Washington tomorrow at 10 o'clock taking
with him Colonel MichIer, Colonel Maus,
Colonel Greenleaf, Major Osgood Major
Humphries Captain Seyburn and Captain
Scott Only one member of the staff Cap
tain Davis, will remain at army headuuar-
ters here, and he will follow the general
within two or three days. or as soon as he
can turn over the of the business at
army headquarters to another officer, who
is to be designated to that place for that
duty General Miles and his staff will be
quartered temporarily at one of the hotels
at Tampa. and unless this plan is changed
ldteI on, Ine general VIII go with the first
military expeditionary force to Cuba. He
is not expected to relieve the major gem
erals already selected for that task of the
conduct of that campaign allotted to them
but in Florida and in Cuba he will exercise
the same general superintendent over the
campaign that he now does from his head
quarters in Washington. The arrange
ments for the move upon Cuba are being
hastened with such energy that it is evil
dent to any observer that the beginning of
the campaign is imminent 1t is expected
here that within week the first troops
will be On their way from the United States
to Cuba. The only delay will arise from
the difficulty of securing the necessary
number of transports in the shape of char
tered merchant shipping, and the quarter
masters department is making superhu-
man efforts to assemble a sufficient number
II these ships at the gulf ports in time to
receive the troops who are even now on
their way there.
General Wheeler left for Chckamauga at
ii O'Clock today, and the statement is made
on high authority that 10000 American SOL
diers will be landed in Cuba before Satur-
day. 1t is said that from this on there will
be no dragging in either military or naval
operations. Sampson will either destroy
the Spanish fleet and take Porto Rico, OF
take Porto Rico without seeing the fleet
within day or two, and that by that time
matters Will be far advanced toward the
occupation of Cuba by the large army in
tended to be sent there.
Orders have been given for 10000 ham
mCcks To be furnished Immediately for the
Use of the army, and these are to be de-
hvered, beginning Immediately within the
next fortnight. Experts have reported that
u hammock is an absolute necessity in a
iS ba
escape the vermin which otherwise makes
sleep impossible TO the soldier. and 1t is
also the only way he can escape the fatal
dampness of the dank, rich soil.
Several oil the major generals were
at the War Department today endeavoring
to arrange for the detail of their staffs
and other matters necessary TO their TAX
ing up active service. Among them were
Gen. Lee. Cen Wilson and Gen. Wheeler.
Probably Gen. Lee is under more pressure
than any Of his brother major generals in
the appointment of his staff. There are
probably twenty applicants for every place
tribute to the personal popularity of the
general he declared today that he had
not yet been able 10 complete his selection.
Promotion of Capt. Black.
day for promotion were selected with a
view to their assignment to staff DUTY.
Included in the list is Capt William NJ
Black, at present one of the Commissioners
of the District of Columbia, who is nomi-
mated for promotion to the rank of lieu
tenant colonel Lieut.. Col Black bears n
very high reputation a scientific and
capable engineer officer, and several of
the new major generals are having a con-
test to secure his assignment to duty on
their staffs- Lieut.. Col. Black was among
the first engineer officers to volunteer for
active service IN this campaign, and with
that end he expected to reiinquish the i'm
portant post to which he had been assign
ed as Engineer Commissioner of the Dis
trtct Of Columbia 1t is said at the War
Department. however, that lnasmuch as
the District regulations permit the assist
ant to the Engineer Commissioner to as
sumo the duties of that Office during the
absence of the Commissioner. Capt Beach.
Lieut.. Col. Blacks assistant, viii under