The San Francisco call., 1898-05-13

NEW YORK, May 12.-Acting under hurried instructions from the War De- partment, Colonel Amos s. Kimball. quartermaster of the department of the East, sent out to the various railroad and transportation companies call for bids for the immediate transportation to four Southern points of mobilization of 27 GOO troops. The bids will be opened in the office of the quartermaster of the army about noon Saturday.
 The men will be ready to start the following day and will reach their des- tination, leaving the military camps in New York, New Jersey. New Hamp- shire, Vermont, Connecticut, Massachu- setts and Maine.
 This will be the greatest move of troops since the Civil War. In all there will be twenty-five full regiments of infantry, four batteries of artillery and two troops of cavalry. The only regu- lars in the list of troops from this de- partment are the regiment quartered at Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont. This sud- den change in the plans of the War De- partment may have some effect on the contracts for the vessels of the Old Do- minion, Clyde and Morgan lines, for which arrangements were made by Colonel Rimstall on Tuesday.
 Railroad men estimate that 1t will take at least 1000 cars and ninety en- zines to make up the trains to trans port the troops.
 TAMPA, May 12.-The cavalry regi- ments from Chickamauga, the first train of which arrived in Tampa late this afternoon, will be encamped in Tampa A location for the infantry regiments has not yet been definitely decided upon, although it is quite probable they will encamp near the cavalry The place selected is con- venient to the railroad and is fully three miles nearer the port Tampa docks than the camping grounds of the infantry already here.
 The Orizaba, the big Ward line steamer that has been at the quaran- tine station down the bay for several days, passed into the slip near the coal docks last night and to-day took on a full supply of coal. The work of fit- ting her for transport duty will be rushed to a conclusion, including the Olivette and Gussie, both of which boats are expected here by tomorrow night. A fleet of eleven transports will be gathered at Port Tampa ready for embarkation. These boats can easily carry a force of from 1000 to 5000 men, with about 2000 horses and mules.
 The Salvation Army may furnish a corps of nurses for the army in Cuba A delegation of Salvation Army leaders from New York, including Mrs. Cap tain Sam, sent here by Commander Booth Tucker, has asked General Shafter for permission to send fifteen or twenty nurses, all of whom are said to be trained, with the expedition. Permission was refused, it is said, al- though it is intimated that after the troops get into Cuba there would be no oL n Salvation should nurses be required.
 CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, May 12- The Second Regiment of Infantry marched from Camp Thomas to Ross vile station this morning and there boarded the Southern Railway trains for Tampa. The Seventh and Sixteenth Infantry regiments marched nine miles to Ringold, Ga, where the Western and Atlantic trains were taken for At lanta. The First and Tenth Regiments of Cavalry, originally ordered to New Orleans, but later to Tampa, will get out tomorrow.
 The work of removal is progressing more slowly than expected and 1t is now doubtful if the entire army will be carloads of provisions for the volun- teers are arriving daily. Almost every vacant building in the city is being used for storage purposes.
 The Soddy Coal Company of this city has received an order for twenty five cars of coal daily until further orders. The coal is shipped to Tampa and put aboard the war vessels there.
 Recruits continue to come in rapidly. They are assigned to the various regi- ments and sent on to the front Colonel Lee, quartermaster on Gen. eral Brooke's staff, speaking unofficial l ly. said that the Second Cavalry. which