The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-11
READY FOR SECOND CALL
One Battalion Of the Fourth
May Go to Sea Girt
Next Week.
OYERHAULIHG THE CAMP GROUND
Order for Additional Troops
to Be Issued After Recruits
for Regiments Are at
Sea Girt.
OYERHAULIHG THE CAMP GROUND

Especial to 1.-THE Jersey city News.']
SEA GIRT, June 1.-THE recruits needed
to fill the quota Of the First, Second ano
Third Regiments. now in the field, have
been secured and the Newark contingent,
in charge Of Lieutenant G. Albert Gasser, OF
the First Regiment. are expected here Mon
day morning, and the recruits for the Second
and Third Regiments. in charge of Captains
Clark and Compton respectively. Will be IN
camp by Tuesday or Wednesday.
The camp ground has been thoroughly
o~verhauled by Captnin Haight, the caretaker,
and the tents for the volunteers will be erect
ed today. The commissary department has
been directed by Governor VOORHEES, to be
prepared to issue rations to the recruits BY
Monday moor
Lieutenant Gasser called at headquarters
today and consulted with the Governor re-
garding the disposition of the recruits for
the First Regiment. The Governor suggest
ed that the men be sent here and equipped at
the expense of the State, and after a course
Of drills sent to their regiment. Lieutenant
Gasser accepted the Governors offer, and
his recruits win be here Monday.
The Hull volunteer army bill provides hat
the maximum number of enlisted men in
each regiment shall be l06. This necessitated
the recruiting of 297 men for the First. 26'
for the Second and 27l for the Third.
Quartermaster General Donnelly has secured
the necessary arms and clothing for the
835 recruits, and when they leave here to
join their regiments they will be fully
equipped.
The order calling for volunteers for the
provisional regiment, to be furnished by
New Jersey, under President Mckinley
second call, viii not be issued by the Gov
ernor until after the recruits for the regi-
rlents in the field are in camp. The order
win probably be promulgated by next Tues
day, and the provisional regiment will arrive
here not later than Thursday of next week.
The Governor has not yet selected the
officers for the new regiment The applica-
lions for commissions now on file number
several hundred. Captain James Parker. OF
Newark. a son of Cortland Parker, is being
urged for the colonelcy and wiseacres pre-
dict that he will secure the coveted plum.
AS exclusively predicted in the News"
two days ago, the provisional regiment-to
be known as the Fourth New Jersey Volun-
teer Infantry-will be made up of one bat
talon from Jersey City, one from Trenton
and one from South Jersey.
The topic uttermost among the Third Regi-
ment boys stationed a Pompton Lake is
money. The paymaster has no cash for the
soldiers, and the Governor does not know
exactly when the troops will be paid The
next session of the Legislature is a long way
off and no money from the State may be forth
coming until that body meets. The amount
allowed by the State to the Guardslnen in
regular en~campments in time of peace was
S1.50 per day. Whether that amount will
now be received is not certain. The amount
due by the State dates from April 80 to May
10, the day on which the soldiers were sworn
into the United States services. The money
is badly needed, as most of the men at pres
emit are unable to buy even postage stamps
The quartermaster has just issued pro-
posals for rations to be supplied from June
II and July /.