New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-03-12

at Atlanta The territory embraced III the HeF
department Is cut from the Department OF IN
East with the exception Of the state OF leHds
which has heretofore been department to ltsel
under General Grahams command. with head
ouar,ers nj san Antonio These headquarters
will DO promptly transferred TO Fort McPhersoh
and from that point military operations on tn
South Atlantic seaboard and Gulf coast VIII ID
directed.
TO MAN COAST DEFENCES
simultaneously with this order another Of
scarcely less significance was issued, sendint
artillery garrisons to the new coast de
fences. These changes of stations are as FOL
lows:
one battery I'd Artillery from Fort Adams tf
the defences al Long Island Head, Boston Har'
Dor.
Two batteries 9TH Artillery from Fort Slocum
y Y. to Fort Hancock Sandy Hook, \. j.
One battery 9TH Artillery. from Fort Wads-
worth to Fort Hancock
One battery. 9Th ARTILLERY from Fort Hamil-
ton to Fort Hancock.
One battery. 18th Artillery. from Fort Nc
Henry. Maryland. 10 Fort Delaware. Delaware.
Battery l remainder 4th Artillery. from
Washington Barracks 10 Fort Mott. New-Jer-
sey.
to Sheridan's Point on the Potomac.
Battery T. "a Artillery. from Fort Monroe to
Fort Casweu. Wilmington. ~ C.
one battery. lst Artillery, from Fort Monroe
TO Fort Morgan. Alabama.
One battery. 1st Artillery. from Fort Monroe
to Tybee Island. Savannah. Ga.
Headquarters and band from ST Augustine
Fla 20 Sullivan's Island South Carolina
Light Battery p 4th Artillery from Fort
Riley. Kansas. TO Jackson Barracks. Louisiana.
Light Battery f. 4th Artillery from Fort
Riley 10 Fort Monroe.
Light Battery F. 9th Artillery. from Fort
Riley to Savannah.
Light Battery K 1st Artillery, from San An
tonic to Galveston.
1t is further ordered that where quarters are
not available or buildings cannot be rented, the
batteries will go into camp until suitable quar-
tiers are provided. All posts Will be put INTO
communication with headquarters by telegraph
or telephone with as little delay as practcable'
BATTERIES Will be sent from Jackson Barracks
TO drill With the guns at Fort St. Philip. below
New Orleans. as soon as guns are mounted
there. so that there will be always present there
at least one battery for immediate service.
when guns are mounted at Fort Point APP
proaches to Galveston, one battery from Jack
Barracks VIII take station al lHdN I'd'''
HEADQUARTERS FOR NEW REGIMENTS.
Other orders to-day designate Fort Slocum
New Rochelle y. Y, headquarters or the
new eth Regiment of artillery. and Fort Nc
Henry Baltimore, as headquarters OF the new
9th Regiment.
The War Department also entered upon con-
tracts to-day for twelve million cartridges for
magazine rifles and automatic and machine
guns. which were divided between the Win
chester Arms Company. the Union Metallic
Cartridge Company and the New-Hampshire
Cartridge Company. These contracts call for
the works 70 run on their full capacity night
and day until deliveries completed.
Directions were also given 10 the contractors
for all supplies usually required by the Army
To go ahead and make all the supplies they can
until further notice the Government guaran-
was written and sent to a number OF large con-
Germs
Secretary Alger authorized General Greedy. the
Chief Signal officer Of the Army, 10 establish
telegraphic or telcphonic connections between
all seacoast defences located in the same nelSn-
borhood and to provide similar connection be-
tween all forts and headquarters. This VIII he
Immediately carried out as an emergency meas
IRE without much regard 10 expense. ieneYal
Greedy secured these instructions after a start
ling presentation TO Secretary AlSer Of the con
dlton of affairs He showed that even In New
York Harbor where the War Department has
devoted IT'S best energies 10 the perfection Of the
fortincati0ns It requires three-quarters OF an
hour to pass a message from one battery 10 an
other Fort McfIenry. Baltimore. the main de-
fence of that city is worse off. while. strange as
It may SEEM the only method Of communication
between Washington and It's most important
defensive work. Fort Washington, on the Poto-
mac, is by means Of a messenger