The San Francisco call., 1898-05-31
Baseball at the North.
MILES AND STAFF
 TAKE THE FIELD
And Now No Time Will Be Lost in Completing the Invasion
 of Cuba

Completing the Invasion
 of Cuba.
 WASHINGTON, May 30. = Major General Miles, commanding the United States army, accompanied by the mem bers of his fan1il! and his personal and official staff, left at II o'clock tonight for Tampa. The party, comprising sixty-four persons, occupied a special train on the Southern Railway, con- sisting of one Pullman sleeping car, one special car, one combination bag gage and day coach and one baggage car. Secretary and Mrs. Alger were at the Sixth street station to see the party off, as were also about hundred other persons, friends and relatives of the officers. No demonstration of any kind occurred as the distinguished party took it's leave. General Miles will proceed directly to Tampa, where he will establish temporary head quarters of the army. He will person ally direct the movement of the troops and the invasion of Cuba.
 Following is the personnel of the party which left tonight: General Miles, Mrs. Miles, Miss Miles and A. Herman Miles, General Rodgers, Gen
 
 Ter, Colonel Usgood, Major Daily, Chief Surgeon Major Seyburn, Major Davis, Captain Alger, Lieutenant Rowan, Lieutenant Parker and Lieutenant Townsley.
 General Collazo and Colonel Herman deg of the Cuban army were of the party, as were also four privates of the Sixth Cavalry, who will act as order lies, and eleven secretaries and clerks. Adiutant General Corbin said to-day that 121 800 troops had been mustered into the volunteer army under the call for 125, ,000 men, and that t--e remaining $500 men were In t9e State camps ready for the visit of the mastering officers. He said that all the States and Territories had filled their quota. so far as the recruiting of troops is 1 concerned, and that while tn. ee States were apparently behind, it was not their fault, bu was due to the inability of the mastering officers to complete their work The apparent shortage is divided between the States of Iowa, Mississipi and North Carolina. The troops in these States are in camp, however awaiting the action of the Government officers, and will be mus tered into the volunteer army in day or two.
 TAMPA. Fla. May 3o-Information has been received here of the successful landing of a Florida expedition which left Port Tampa for Cuba on May 16. As a result 380 Cuban soldiers, who en- listed here are now in Cuba, together with several thousand stands of arms, large supplies of ammunition and quantity of military supplies. The force is commanded by General La cret, General Julio Sanguilly and Col onel Baldomero Acosta.
 CKICKAMAUGA, May 30. = The greatest excitement prevailed in Camp Thomas to-day over the runaor that general order had been issued to all troops in camp here to proceed at once to Tampa. Every man seemed to be glad, and there was a general hustling about in the various camps, each man acting as though he expected to be or dered to pack his traps on the instant to be ready to move to the front. The rumor when traced to it's source proved to be only partly true only eight regi- ments being affected by an order from the War Department, as follows: First Ohio, One Hundred and Fifty Seventh Indiana, Third Pennsylvania and First Illinois, to be commanded by Briga- dier- General Simon Snyder; Second New York, Sixty-ninth New York, Fifth Maryland and First District of Columbia, under command of Briga- dier-General Lewis H. Carpenter.
 These regiments are ordered to pro- ceed at once to Tampa, and the work of preparation began tonight. It Is understood that four of the regiments will leave tomorrow and the other four Wednesday. The regiments ordered out are regarded as the best equipped and most thoroughly prepared in the camp This order is regarded by the officers and men as an indication that a speedy forward movement is to be made on Cuba and Porto Rico and as a consequence there was as great re- joicing among the volunteer soldier boys as there was among the regulars when they went to Tampa under the impression that they were going at once to Cuba.
 With those regiments that arrived to-day the troops at the park number 5,OO0 The regiments ordered away number 5000.
 ATLANTA, May S0.-Ten hundred and thirty-thr recruits left for Tam pa to-day. The men were not uni formed and lacked guns. One thousand men will be started for San Francisco and the Philippines as soon as their equipment reaches Fort McPherson.
 NEW ORLEANS, May 30.-The Sec ond Regiment of Louisiana Volunteers, under command of Colonel Wood, broke camp to-day and marched to the Louisville and Nashville depot, where they took the train for Mobile. This Is the first Louisiana regiment to leave the State and the troops received great ovation on their march to the train. Women threw flowers In their path. while children sung patriotic songs. The First Regiment will leave the city for Mobile on Wednesday. Torrey's rough riders are expected in the city this afternoon on their way to Tampa
 NORFOLK, Va, May 30.-The Uni- ted States steamer Armenia left the navy yard here for Key West with 25OO tons of ammunition. A large num- Der of 13-inch shells are in the consign- ment.