The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-05-22
COMMAND OF THE FIFTH CORPS
MAI. GEN. SHAFTER NOW AT THE
HEAD or THE ARMY AT TAMPA.

ceived for an Advance on Cuba,
and None Looked for Until After
Naval BattIe-CensOrshiD of Press
Dispatches strict.
Tampa, Fla, May 21.-In a general order
issued to-day. Maj. Gen. w. r. shafter
| formally assumed command of the Fifth
Army Corps, composed of the United
| States forces at Tampa and vicinity.
/ He also announced the following Off
/ GERS as members of his staff: First Lieu
tenant r. II. Noble, First Infantry, aide;
First Lieutenant J. D. Miley, Second Ar
/ tillery, aide; Maj S. w. Groesbeck, judge
| advocate and acting adjutant general;
Maj. J. VI. Jacobs chief quartermaster;
Col. J. T. Weston, assistant commissary
general 90 subsistence, chief commissary;
Mai. B. f. Pope, chief surgeon; First
Lieutenant J. 7. Thompson. ordnance de-
partment, ordnance officer; First Lieuten-
ant A. Greene, signal officer. Attached,
Maj. w. c. Hayes, First Ohio Volunteer
Cavalry
! Mai Gen. Wade. with his staff officers,
left for Chickamauga to-day Brig. Gems.
Poland and Bates also left for Chicka-
manga, where they will report to Mat.
Gen Brooke of the First Army Corps.
! Renewed activity is noticeable at Port
Tampa, where a big fleet of transports is
being put in readiness.
| The Plant Line steamer Olvette, which,
it is understood, will be the flagship Of
| the transports when the movement upon
| Cuba takes place, has been placed in the
! slip and is in the hands of carpenters un-
| oorgoing alterations for her use as a
! transport. Several other big steamers
| have arrived including the Ward Line
| boats Seneca and Saratoga
Important developments, of a highly i'm
| portant character, are looked for in the
near future. That any orders looking to-
| ward movement of troops toward Cuba
! have been received is extremely doubtful.
Nevertheless, every one expects prompt
/ action here following a meeting between
| the fleets of Admiral Sampson and Com
| modore Schley, and the Spanish hotiila.
| which again looms up as more than a
| mere possibility and news from Cuban
| waters is eagerly looked for.
| Under orders of Gen. Greedy, chief of the
signal department at Washington, w. f.
| C. Fellers of the Western Union Telegram
company was to-day sworn in as govern
menI censor of all telegraphlc business .ex-
! cept newspaper specials. These will. for
the present, continue to go through the
hands of Lieut.. Miley of Gen. Skaters
staff.
! The hours during which the newspaper
correspondents may have their matter
! passed upon are limited on account of the
/ short time Lieut. Miley is able TO devote To
his new duties and for this reason vigorous
| protests have been made. 1t is very prob
| able that an official censor will be appoint
ed within day or two and the delays un-
| aVoidable under the present ARRANGEMENT.
| done away with
! william Astor Chanler, who was recent
| ~ appointed major of volunteers. was
to-day attached to the staff of Mai. Gen
| wheeler, He has turned over the. COM
mand of his band of volunteers TO his
| brother, Winthrop Chanler, who arrived
| IN Tampa from New York to-day.
Zen. .. o. Howard, who for the past
week has been conducting religious meet
ings about the troops at Tampa, will leave
tomorrow night for Mobile, thence to
nentucky, He viii be accompanied by
Maj, D. w. Whettle.
None of the soldiers In camp around
Tampa enjoy life to a greater extent than
do those who are in camp at West Tampa.
where they are always sure of a cool
breeze.
To-day some soldiers brought in the re-
port that the Sixteenth Infantry would be
moved to San Francisco. This seemed TO
! be unwelcome news to the boys, who are
anxious to distinguish themselves and
their command in Cuba before again
crossing the continent. The report had no
foundation, in fact, and the men were
much pleased when IL was officially de-
MED.
An officer, who seems much pleased with
his stay here, is Lieut.. A. p. X Anderson
of Troop K of the Sixth Cavalry. lie is
n fa1 p,IN L.
| joys the confidence and esteem of his men
The dress parade of the entire Sixteenth
Infantry this afternoon was an elegant
exhibition of military maneuvering, and
brought forth many cheers from soldiers
and civilians who witnessed it,
The Florida soldiers are being vaccin-
ated, and several of them have sore arms
Dr. Izlar, who is personally attending to
this work, does not fear any detrimental
results, or crowdlng of the hospital in con
| sequence.
The physicians of Tampa report the
health of the city as unusually good for
this season of the year. even after making
no allowance for the many strangers at
presnt in Tampa.
Lieut.. Miley, press censor, was making
a round OF the local newspaper offices to-
day admonishing publishers for errors they
have made in the past and cautioning them
for the future. The censorship has been
made even more severe than It was at first
A shipment of 500 mules was received by
the army here to-day. The mules are
principally from the West and are the fin
est stock seen in Tampa.
The report that the water supply is in
adequate to the demand is erroneous The
plant is now running only it's half capac-
| ity, and there are numerous other sources
from which enough water could be secured
to supply 10000 men and as many horses.
Tampa can conveniently accommodate
twice many soldiers as there are at
present in this city.
The work of mastering in the companies
of the Florida state troops to form the
first Florida regiment of volunteers is pro
crossing slowly, but by Monday night It
is believed that physical examination of
the men will be completed and that the
regiment will be accepted as one of the
regiments Of the United States army of
volunteers.
The examination OF the men has devel-
oped one thing that at first appears quite
| strange. 1t is that a much larger percen-
tage OF the members of companies from
the country were rejected than in the COM