New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-20
EQUIPPTNG THE SIEGE TRAIN
ARTIrLERYMEN AND AMMUNITION SHIP TO
mum, -rur .pMy uOspTTAI, SHIP

TAMPA-THE ARMY HOSPITAL SHIP.
Further nreparations 70 equip a fu-hedged siege
train for use by the army Of invasion In Cuba were
made yesterday by the shipment OF art'lerymen
and ammunition TO Tampa There VIII De num-
Der 81 b-inch and s-inch rifed cannon conveyed on
the troopahips which land the invading army IN
the vicinity Of Havana To fire them there VIII be
a force Of the most experienced artillerymen in
the Regular Army. Besides Battery W. 9TH Artil-
lery which started southwark yesterday. Battery
X 9th Artillery. will go to-day from Fort Wads-
worth for Tampa. These are the best-driled men
OF tho artillery corps tho fortihcntons Of this
harbor.
Tho place OF Battery VI. 5th Artillery. at Fort
Hancock was filled yesterday by the transfer 70
that fort u Battery NJ 9Th Artillery. one OF tho
newly recruited regiments. II was taken from
Fort Hamilton 10 Sandy Hook yesterday morning
hy the General Megs which brought Battery VI.
I'm Artillery W the bay on It's return and landed
tho mon I'm Jersey city n take their train at
% r. m
For the use q, tho siege-train also the Quarter
masters Department shipped three dynamite guns
and cassous to Tampa yesterday. Five members
Of tho sth Cavalry sent yesterday 10 Fort
Mcpherson. Georgia Arrangements have been
mad, FOR Tho transportation Of the 9th Massachu-
setts Volunteers 20 the Washington camp. at Falls
Church Va. The 5th Vermont Volunteers will start
for Chickqmauga Park from Fort Ethan Allen to-
dav Each soldier will carry four days ratons.
A contract was awarded yesterday TO y. May a
CO. ~ this city for the manufacture OF 25"D cloak
and shelter tents. which the quartcrmasier said
would serve double purpos" admirably They
can l@ used a. rain cioaks when on guard duty IN
o. warm climate. taking tho place OF overcoats ana
when puf together they make shelter-t"nts. which
VII afford aii me protection needed. They are far
better than rubber ponchos. As the canvas ot
which fl,y are made IL not impervious 20 air and
yrf sheds rain almost well as rubber. y con
irac' Wa also awarded for 100 field desks for
company ls~.
Major Torney was Informed yesterday that the
War Department had taken tho John tnglis. ~ the
Maine steamship oWpany for 4 hospital snip.
10 expects ~ wlil take tire" weeks 70 ~ her win
tho necessary apparttu6 and equipment for caring
for several hundred wounded men IN the tropics.
Sle Hii low The army of INVASION Major Tor
r.y VIII B." chief surgeon. and he Will have I'VE
other medical men with him There VIII also be
siN trained women nurses who are 10 be secured
from tho Johns Hopkins Hospital In Baltimore:
Th.s Will Doc hircd FOR this work Many medical
ca..s for Arflf have been purchased. and were
INSPECTED hy Lieutenant Colonel J Morris Brown,
- 'hr Medical supply Bureau. AZ tho Army Build
ms Yesterday
Forts SCHUYLER and Slccum were Inspected yes
to-day ny Major Adams OF the Engineer Corps.
who gave especial attention 10 tho submarine
mines ~ The East River The mon IN Fort Slocum
hayr been supplied with spring beds and mat
ireeees \ supply % seventeen hundred or these
hay. been s'n - M" garrison buildings. together
with twenty-five hundred lockers. and II ia thought
that they FOR tho volunteers 70 be stationed at
the fort as part OF the reserve force along the