New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-11
INTRENCBING IMPLEMENTS ORDERED.
GENERAL MILES MAKES HAsTr REorIsITfoN
FOR TOOLS on orARrERMAsTER KIMBALL.


FOR TOOLS ON orARTERMAsrER K1MBALI~
Mator.General Nelson a. Miles commanding the
Army. telegraphed TO Lleutenant-Colonel Amos
s Kimball, Deputy Quartermaster-General. IN the
Army Building yesterday afternoon 10 forward 20
Por, TAMPA Fla AT once a large quantity OF In
trenching tools II Is supposed that they are need
cd for immediate In the Cuban INVASION as thes
are 10 be sent 10 Brigadier-General William Lud-
low OF the Corps OF Engineers. on the heeis OF
the lrs; dispatch came another directing that the
tools be forwarded by express in small lots as fast
secured
The order called for 800 pickaxes. 2.fO spades.
100 AIDES Zoo hachets. q grinds,ones "a sledge-
hammers. As large hammers. n cases OF crosscut
saws As cases OF blacksmths tools 4s cases OF car
penters tools. 90 kegs OF 0-penny nails, % kegs
o, 2o-penny nails Il coils of S-inch rope IL coils OF
ii.-inch rope 30 narlnspkes. IS sets OF. three
block tackle IS sets OF iwo-bock tackle. "A snatch
blocks go bush scy;hcs. 800 scythe rifles and 800
scy,hA snajhs.
Colonel Kmball sent out invitations 70 twenty
1--WE firms put IN bids to-day. and asked them TO
be prepared TO ship what was ordered at once In
full or part Quantities
train OF ten cars carrying powder and shells
FOR the use Of Admiral Deweys feet at Manila was
dspa tched yesterday for San Francisco. Four OF
the carried powder from the Dover Powder
Works and the Others were filed with shells OF
all sizes from the Brooklyn Navy Yard
captain Amos :. fimoaI. VINO Will ne one or the
assistant qUartermasters OF General Merritts ex-
petition 10 the Philippines will wear the sword his
father Lieutenant Colonel Kimball. OF this city.
carried all through the civil War and used In the
battles Of the Virginia Peninsula. He VIII also
wear the shoulder-straps which Major j. w sum
merhayes wore "a captain in the Civil War. The
transfer OF troops 10 and from Governors Island
Will DO effected to-day. Battery b, 7th Artillery
United States Army: viii 90 TO Fort slocum BY the
quartermastor's boat, the General Meigs. IN the af
ternoon. The Governors Island Band will play In
honor OF tho battery, which numbers hundred
and sky /; Is expected that The boat 10 take
them away will carry Colonel Barber OF the lst
New-York Volunteers. Major Scott and Companies
e. and II 10 Governors Island. where they will be
the garrison Of For; Columbus. a detail OF the
regulars Will remain a guard for the prisoners
IN Castle William.
- There have been no orders received by Brsadier
General Gillespie TO join the Army Corps a;
Chlckamauga. 70 which he has been assigned
Major Summerhayes has inspected the yacht
Golden Rod for War Department dispatch boat.
He VIII Inspect the steamship Arcadia when she Is
put In order for inspection.
Lieutenant Royal Lyons, OF the STAFF Of General
Frank. was in Providence yesterday I'm regard TO
the arrangements for the New-York troops which
have been sent 10 garrison the Notifications about
Narragansett Bay.
TWO prisoners. under guard OF n sergeant cor
poral and private OF Battery q. 9Th Artillery,
were brought TO the military prison on Governors
Island yesterday from Fort Monroe