The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-15
Both Vessels Should
Leave Tuesday.
wedding OUT THE UNTITLED
KANSAS CAPTAINS COULD NOT
MAINTAIN DISCIPLINE.
Preside Finally Selected by Colonel
Middleton as the Site for
the General Military
Hospital.

The order assigning troops to the trans
port Valencia was issued from depart
ment headquarters yesterday. AS pre-
dicted in The Call earlier in the week, the
troops assigned are battalion of the
First Washington and portion OF Bat
teries A a.i d of the California Heavy
Artillery. The Third Battalion of the
Washington Regiment, which has been
stationed at Angel Island, has been the
one selected to go on the Valencia. 1t is
composed of Companies f, G., L and l.,
under the command of Lieutenant Col
onel Fife. From the two batteries there
are 100 men and two officers to go.
Including the assistant surgeons and the
members of the Hospital Corps the Va
lencia will carry altogether 500 men, sol
diers and officers. No notification was
sent the troops yesterday to go aboard,
but it Is expected to-day. The troops Will
in all probability go on the transports on
Monday, and the Senator and the Va
lencia will sail together. The ONO and
Indiana will be ready the last of next
week, and the Newport by the last OF the
month 1t is generally conceded that
General Miller and his headquarters,
with a battalion, possibly from the Ten
nessee Regiment, viii sail on the New
port.
are expected to arrive any day. The lat
ter has number of sick soldiers aboard,
who are TO be cared for at the Division
Hospital Major Matthews stated yes
terday that he was prepared to take care
of the men just as soon as they should
arrive. With these two transports in it
will hardly require over four more to re-
move all of the troops that have been or
dered to the Philippines.
Major Field, Second Artillery, acting
inspector general, began the work yester-
day of wedding out the undesirable men
from the Tennessee Regiment. When the
Tennessee Regiment was mustered in it
was already recruited up to the 81 maxi
mum, and when the order came to recruit
up to 106 the regiment was about TO start
for San Francisco, and under the circum-
stances several hundred men were rapid
ly recruited without very close attention
being paid as to their desirabtlity or nit
ness for soldiers. 1t Is these men VINO
have been largely responsible for the
regiments bad name, and 1t is the same
men that are to be dismissed from the
service.
The board of officers appointed to pass
upon the efficiency of Captains Towers
and Watson of the Kansas Regiment did
not meet yesterday. Colonel Funston
said Yesterday regarding the fact of the
two officers having been ordered before
the board, that there were no specific
charges against either of the captains,
but that they did not possess sufnclent
ability to command companies and pre-
serve discipline. Personally, the colonel
stated that he thought highly OF both
officers, but that as he was responsible
for the discipline of the regiment 1t was
necessary to have men who could control
the men under them.
Cpon the application of Colonel Long
the following board of survey was ap-
pointed yesterday for the purpose of as
sessng the damage to the transports that
are to be turned over to their owners by
the Government: Major S. F. Thorn,
First Lieutenant J. A. Lockwood, Fourth
Cavalry; and Second Lieutenant f. 5.
Mum, Eighth California.
At last a site has been selected for the
general military hospital. Colonel Mid
dIeton has finally decided upon the Pre-
sidio as the best suited location, and
General Merriam has approved his selec-
ton The hospital is to be built upon
the present camp of the Third Battalion
of the Twenty-third Infantry, which is In
close proximity to the Post Hospital.