New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-13
pEEKSKILL NEEDS SUPPLIES.
LACK OF CLOTHING AND RIFLES RE-
rARDs DRILLING AND RECRUITS
solpIERs TO BED INSTRUCTED IN COOKING AND
ERECTING SHELTER TENTs-ID-ruREs

ERECTING SHELTER TENTs-LEcTUREs
TO OFFICERS on RAr1oNs
Camp Townsend. Peekskill May II (speciaD.
Seventy cases OF uniforms. overcoats. campaign
hats caps arms and equipments generally. gath
red from the arsenal IN New-York and from the
ssbanded 18th Regiment Armory were received
In camp to-day As many OF the would
.upply the needs Of the 18th Regiment were opened
bv Quarternaster Cowdn. and the Of the
afternoon he was kept busy issuing them. BY
.o-morrow the entire regiment will De fully
equipped with all the State is furnish It. and II
the physical examination OF It's men are completed
the vacancies in Its ranks filled and its muster rolls
made out in time. Captain Parker will muster It
N late IN the afternoon
SUPPLIES DUE TO-DAY
TIE Government supplies should arrive to-mor
row for they have beer shipped by fast freight
from Philadelphia. Authoritative sources to-day
state that these troops kept back from active
ssrvice not on account Of any delay due to the
mastering in medical EXAMINATIONS but on ac
count Of the lack Of supplies. None Of the troops
here have the shoes which are necessary for
marching They wearing poin;ed-toed shoes
and others which would badly injure their feet
after days march. 1t is indispensable that they
should have the Government shoes. They need
nine shirts shelter tents and cooking utensils all
q, which nc furnished by the Government,
and none Of which apparently their way.
except those for the 9th and 18th. They also need
Government have hedged the supplying OF these
articles around with barriers Of red tape, and
this inerferes with and binders the instruction OF
the recruits. The Washington authorities do not
seem understand that half tho men OF these
regiments are raw recruits never having handled
gun and they he drilled properly until they
are IN uniforms and equipped with rifles Ii is in
dspensable that they should have target practice.
but his they cannot have until ammunition al
Ytves
EXAMINATIONS NEARLY OVER.
Speaking Of the examinations that have been
made in camp Townsend. Major Maus, surgeon.
L. s A. said
The 18th Regiment has about eight hundred &C
cepted recruits. and has examined about hfieen
hundred men. The men accepted are up TO the
Army standard. and the regimental officers are now
perfectly sat isfie6 with the examinations All men
not considered At have been dropped out. Most OF
The rejected men have come from the recruits The
s,h and 9th have about finished onchalf % the ex-
srn,na.ions and have about the same proportion
of reflections ! have no; relaxed AT all from me
start All soldiers whose eyes were directive ou'
whose right eve, the shooting eve has proved
normal In sight have been accepted NUMBER Oh
IN. men who were good soldiers. but whose VISION
va. M, ner>ec, have been advised TO go 70 New
York and have their eyes examined ny an ocu's'.
and Il their eyes could be restored 70 norma
vision by the use OF glasses they WILL 'e az
COOKING SCHOOL FOR SOLDIERS.
A Regular Army IN the sth Regiment, VINO
has had much experience with the Buzzacot COON
tnr apnaratus will demonstrate It's use tomorrow
70 tho commissary serCeants OF he various com
nsn,es and the commissaries OF the regiments
Tho other school tina, abandoned to-day be-
o.r.. Of the rain was one in which Lieutenant
Rabcock 9Th United States Cavalry, proposed 70
teach the men how to cree a shelter tent 'hls
n.,nr IRE Kind that will be used by the troops
when they are sent TO the front. third schooi IS
70 be held In the INSTRUCTION tent'-three large
hospital tents put UP end TO end-'o-nisnt and Is
for the commissioned officers OF the regimen ,
lieutenant Granger Adams. OF the ON OnlVto
States ARTILLERY is the lecturer. and ne VIII give
reneral talk the Army ration.
Lieutenant-C Colonel Gregg. VINO yesterday, va W.
offered commission as Chief Surgeon OF the osth
Regiment by Colonel DUFFY. has reconsidercd MS
determination accept the commission az, tiIS
EARNEST solicitation of General Doyle. ana VIII re-
main on Genera Doyle's staff Chief Surgeon OF
the Fourth Brigade.
MOUNTED RECRUITS TO co TO WEST POINT
CAPTAIN James Parker. 4th United States Cavalry
and mastering officer al Camp Townsend. Is the
man who commanded the crack troop OF cavalry
son Square Garden last March He is the COM
mander Of the detachment OF cavalry AT West
Point and he had this say to-day 70 men In
terested In Joining mounted regiments going 10 the
front: An such desiring 70 join such
West Point where they will be put through a
course Of drill that will al once AZ them 70 be sent
TO the front"