The evening times., 1898-09-03
GEN. Miles PLANS UPSET
His Troops Not Allowed to Pa
rade Up Broadway.
TROUBLE NAY BE BREWING
Critics of the Commanding officer
Assert That He Was DESTROYS of
Contrasting His Men With SHAFT
ter's-Latest Thase of the Contro-
vcrsy With War officials.

New York, Sept. 3-Gen. Miles plan to
have the 1900 volunteers now ON their
way with him to this city from rorto
Rico march up Broadway and pass be-
fore him in review has been upset in
Washington, and army officers here are
asking whether this is anoiner phase of
the Alger-Mi!es controversy.
Gen Miles men are reported to be- in
good condition, and their commander on
this account, is supposed to De anxious
that the people of New York should see
them. His plans for the honeward
movement provided for the disembarka-
tion of the troops in Brooklyn. Gen.
Mics proposed TO hold the troops for Il
few days in one of the brooklyn parks
or on some other camp site near Brook
lyn, to give them rest. Then they were
to march across the Brooklyn Bridge and
up Broadway and Fifth Avenue To Cen
tral Park. Major Gen. Wilson was to be
in command OF the line, and Gen. Miles
was to review the troops.
Transports are expected TO arrive
with the troops next Tuesday or We'd
nesday. President Grout, OF the borough
of Brooklyn, received request two days
ago from Deputy Quartermaster General
kimball asking where in his borough
1900 troops could be camped for a few
days without danger of aggravating any
physical ills. President GroUI yesterday
replied that Forest Park, which is on
high ground, between Brooklyn and ia
maica, would do, and suggested that ap-
plication be made to George V. Brewer,
park commissioner, who would gladly
grant permission to use the park.
While these arrangements were being
made here, it was decided IN Washing
ton that all the soldiers returning from
Porto Rico should be taken direct from
the transports TO trains and sent to their
respective States. AS the troops with
Gen. Miles hail from Pennsylvania and
Western States, the men will be landed
in Jersey City and neither Brooklyn nor
Manhattan Will have look at them. The
soldiers Will be given no time here TO
recuperate, but will be hurried to State
camps and mustered out.
Notified in Porto Rico.
1t is asserted that this decision was ar
rived at before the ome-coming expedi-
tion sailed from Ponce, and that cable
gram was sent to Gen. Miles on the eve
of his departure notifying him that there
would be no review OF his army in this
city.
Governor Voorhees,, Il New Jersey, yes
| terday offered the State camp at Sea
Girt for the use of Gen Miles troops,
and the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
| offered to take the troops from the trans
| ports in this harbor 10 the camp for
/ ninety cents a man. These propositions
| Will be laid before Secretary Alger.
| 1t is certain that the friends of Major
! Gen. Miles will criticise the department
| for its action in Eurrying to their homes
! the troops who, while they did not have
! the hard fighting the Santiago troops en-
| countered, Yet performed all the duties
! 10 which they were assigned in the Porto
| Rico campaign with credit to themselves
and 10 their commander. Such parade
| as Major Gen. Miles contemplated would
| bring out the return of the Porto Rican
| army, strong and vigorous in marked
| contrast with the homecoming of Major
! Gen. Shafters : fever-stricken troops from
| Santiago. and critics OF Gen. Miles have
| charged that il was his deliberate pur-
! pose to present this contrast as an OBJ
| Jcct lesson of the difference in the man.
| agement of the two campaigns. leaving
out OF account the difference in cIimati,
conditions in the two fields of operations
! as well as reference to the character ot
the work which the two armies had L
| perform.