The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-05-29
A GRAND RECEPTION.
Montana Volunteers showed Their Appro.
ciation of the Welcome.

BY Associated Press.
San Francisco, May 2s.-The 1st regi-
ment, Montana volunteers, numbering
1.030 men. under command Of Colonel
kessler. arrived here this morning.
They were given the same hearty re-
ception that awaited the volunteers
from other states who have preceded
them. and the Montana boys showed
their appreciation of the little kind
nesses shown them in the same hearty
manner.
The men gave cheer for cheer as they
marched off the ferry boat, and after
they had been breakfasted by the ladies
of the Red Cross and given bouquets OF
California flowers. they were lined up
for the march to their camping ground
at Fort Richmond. All along the line
of march they were greeted with cheers
and other demonstrations of welcome.
and as they marched along the people
on the sidewalks presented them with
California oranges and flowers.
The Montana men are as sturdy
lot as they entered this city. but they
are sadly lacking in equipment. Many
of them are without overcoats and
their shoes are in terrible condition.
They also need arms and ammunition
They are not far behind other regi-
ments in this respect. however. and as
General Merritt has taken up the mat
ter of equipment. the men viii soon
be comfortably clothed and equipped
for service.
Many OF the soldiers camped at Fort
Richmond are greatly in need of proper
clothing. and owing to the system of
red tape or from some other cause.
the authorities here seem unable to
cope with the situation. There has
been much suffering among the men.
but few complaints has been heard.
Private enterprise has undertaken to
remedy the deficiencies of the commits
sary department and were IL not for
the contributions of food made by the
Red Cross society and others there
would have been real suffering in more
than one of the camps at Fort Rich
mond. The Kansas boys seem to have
been more neglected by the government
than any OF the others, and were IL
not for public donations many of them
would be walking around without shoes.
socks. underclothes and other neces-
saries. II is generally understood that
General Merritt will issue orders to
have all the volunteers fully equipped
at once. and that IL the government
cannot supply the necessary outfits.
that private concerns will be called
upon.
Governor Budd has been asked by the
department at Washington IL he can
supply the 1.016 men necessary to the
maximum volunteers organizations
from this state, and through Adjutant
General Barrett has replied that he can
furnish more than the required number
and all fully equipped.
No orders to prepare to break camp
have been received by any of the regi-
ments and the statements of what
commands shall be assigned to the next
transports are founded upon specula-
tton. but IL seems certain that the four
troops of the tth United States cavalry
will be among the lucky ones chosen
TO embark on the next fleet to Manila.
They will take their own horses. When
40 additional cavalry arrive from Chi
cago tomorrow II will bring the troops
up to the required strength OF 100 each
The men are fully equipped for active
service.
The work on the transports now here
fs being rushed. but the Centennial
and the Ohio will not be here for some
days yet. but as they We're built for
the klondike trade and capable of car
rysng some 500 to 1000 men. they will
need very little alteration