The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-25
Indiana's Troops VIII Probably Be
Sent from Here TO Wash
ingtOn.
REGIMENT OF COLcRED MEN
MOST OF THE COMPANIES IN TT WILL
BE FROM INDIANAPOLIS.
Huge Crowd Witness the Erjl! cS Rat-
terry A-Infantrymen NalcCxer-
ing Down Town.

Governor Mount received nc official COM
munication from Washington yesterday re-
garding the call for State troops. He will
not issue the order for the mobilization OF
the Indiana National Guard until he gets
the order from Washington. The fair
grounds have been put in readiness for the
reception of the troops to the extent or
laying off the streets" for the camp ana
of laying water mains to the camp, but no
provisions have been taken there and there
is not tent in the place. Nothing will be
removed to the camp until the order is re-
ceived from Washington.
The Governor expects this order will come
early this morning. The President withheld
it yesterday in order to give the soldiers a
last Sunday at home and announced that he
would issue it Monday morning. If 1t comes
early this morning, and there seems to be no
doubt of this, it is expected that before
the middle of the afternoon Camp Mount
will see it's first soldiers, although it is not
yet settled whether an attempt will be
made to bring companies here to-day. 1t is
probable that the order for the mobiliza-
ton of the troops will be sent out as soon
as the order is received from Washington,
but that no company will receive orders to
leave home until tomorrow. This plan will
bring the entire brigade to Camp Mount
by Tuesday night
Adjutant General Gore, Quartermaster
General Richardson, Brgadier General Nc
Kee, Colonel Wilson, Lieutenant May and
several other high officers in the Indiana
National Guard visited the fair grounds yes
terday for the purpose of making prelim-
mary arrangements for the establishment
of Camp Mount. D. M. Brown, the custodian
of the fair grounds, had already carried out
the orders of the State Board of Agricul-
ture in regard to repairing the water works
of the place. The visitors found everything
in readiness for supplying the troops with
an abundance of good, cool water. 1t was
decided that the administration building
shall be the officers headquarters.
The woman's building viii be
converted into a hospital and the
barns will be used as barracks. II is be-
lieved that majority of the troops can be
accommodated in the large barns south OF
the grand stand. The others will he pro-
vided with tents, which will be placed in the
open space east of the grand stand. The
field in the middle of the race track will
be used for parade and drill ground.
dispatch to the Journal from Washing
ton last night says the secretary of war
has been advised that Indiana's quota OF
volunteers. forty-two hundred in ALL will
be mobilized at indianapolis before the close
of the week. What will then be done with
them has not yet been determined, but prob
abilities favor their being sent to Wash
ington, where between forty and fifty thou
sand troops will be concentrated pending
the developments of the war; Strong pres
sure is being eXerted to have the War De-
partment select Washington as the camp
for the Indiana boys.