Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-07-21
WAR UPON A
LARGE SCALE !!
Mckinley Decides to
Take Porto Rico
at Once.
AN EXPEDITION OF 5000 MEN

| Startlng-Thousands Have Embarked Wat
| sons Mission to Span-Ammunition on the
| Way to 7eet the Commodore at a Rendezvous
Agreed Upon-Hot Work Ahead.
From The Philadelphia Record.
Washington, ID. c., July is
President Mckinley practically
gave up to-day all present hope of
peace with Spain, and personally
directed that the Porto Rico expe-
dition and that of Commodore Wat
son should be dispatched at the
earliest possible moment.
Commodore Watson's fleet will
this week take on board the ammu-
milton and other necessary supplies
which the Yankee, just off from
New York, is to get to them by
Wednesday, at a secret point of
rendezvous, while General Miles
and Admiral Sampson are to begin
the Porto Rico campaign within
ten days or two weeks.
MUST CONFER WITH MILES FIRST.
General Miles, who is to be the
COMMUNICATIVE of the land
forces at Porto Rico, with General
Brooke as his chief subordinate,
was to leave on the Yale tonight
from near Santiago for New York
city, and not Porto Rico, as was
reported this afternoon.
At New York the Yale is to get
coal and supplies and prepare to
take some of the troops to Porto
Rico.
General Miles is then expected in
Washington at the end of the week,
so that the President and Secretary
Alger may confer with him person.
ally about the plan of campaign and
the policy to be pursued in the
island of Porto Rico after it comes
into our possession.
FROM SANTIAGO TO SAN JUAN.
In the meantime, General Brooke,
who made his farewell visits to the
President and Secretary Alger this
afternoon, is to organize the troops
that are to be sent from the United
States. These will not have to be
so numerous as was expected, now
that General Miles reports that d
large part of the army at Santiago
has not been infected with the vel
low fever, and will be utilized in
the Porto Rico expedition.
But the War Department is
moved to limit the number of
troops to be taken from Santiago
rather closely beyond the artillery
and Roosevelt's Rough Riders.
ARMY OF 10000 MEN TO GO.
In order to have an OverWhelm-
ing force, in view of the conflicting
reports about the number Of Span
ish regulars in Porto Rico-varying
from 5000 to E5, 5,0OO-for the Span
ish volunteers are not seriously con-
sidered, and to allow for all the con-
tingencies suggested by the Santiago
campaign, the Administration may
send $4,000 troops in all to Porto
Rico.
President Mckinley said to-day
that he did not propose to have a
repetition in this case of the annoy
ing delays that held back the Santi-
ago expedition at Tampa, and that
he had no reason to expect it, since
the men and the munitions, equip
ments and supplies were now so
nearly ready.
OVER 10, 900 ALREADY EMBARKED.
Between 10000 and $4,000 of
the troops for Porto Rico are re-
ported as already on transports
. with their guns and supplies.
All the regulars at Tampa, 620O
in number, including - batteries
of heavy and light artillery, were
reported as embarked on transports
to-day, while part of Gen. Brooke's
corps, numbering 5000 or 1000 men,
is reported as on transports at
Charleston, and four batteries of
artillery besides other troops sent
to Santiago, but never landed, are
still on the transports there.
ON BOARD TOO SOON.
The embarkation of the troops at
Tampa and Charleston seems pre-
mature, since it is not proposed to
send the army to Porto Rico in de-
tachments, according to the author
tiles here, as was done at Santiago,
but to send it all at once and in
conjunction with Admiral Samp-
sons squadron. Gen. Brooke can
certainly not get the rest of his
army in this country embarked be-
fore the end of the week.
PENNSYLVANIA REGIMENTS GOING.
General Brooke said this after
noon that it was certain that Gen
cral James II. Wilson's division,
including the Fourth and Sixteenth
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