The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-25
MORE RECRUITS
FOR OTIS ARMY
Ten Additional Regiments
Will be Raised.
TAD uEEI ROvc MANTED
TAR HEEL BOYS WANTED
LIEUT.. SETTLE INSTRUCTED TO
MAKE ENLISTAIENTS.
RECRUITS TO GO NEAREST .RENDESyOUs
Location and Commanding Offer Of Each
of the New Regiments North Caroli-
mans Have Five Regiments
from Which to Choose.


Gently that the ten additional regiments
of fnfantry volunteers to be organized
for service in the Philippines would be
raised entirely in the North and West
This is not true. As In the forma-
ton of the ten regiments just conn
pleted, the South will be given an equal
chance with the rest of the country,
and recruiting officers in the South have
been instructed to make enlistments for
the regiments that may be stationed
nearest TO them.
In accordance with this policy, Lieu
tenant Settle, the recruiting ofhcer
here, last might received telegram from
Assistant Adjutant General Ward, say
ing:
'.Authorized to make enlistments I'M
der general orders No. 100, for 4lst,
42nd, Ard, 10th, Attn infantry volun-
teers, as applicants elect, and send to
respective regimental rendezvous. Send
recruits having no choice to nearest regi-
ment"
The general orders (No. 800 above
referred to give the location and COM
handing officer of each of these reg-
ments The order is as follows:
BY direction OF the President, ten adj
ditional regiments of infantry volunteers
will be organized under the provisions
of the act of Congress approved March
2, 1899, with rendezvous at the follow
ing named points:
Thirty eighth, Colonel George S. Am
derson (major, 9th Cavalry, at Jeffer-
son Barracks, Missouri;
n, wtx- mi, tr1a OH t., PlIl-
lard Captain, Subsistence Department.,
at Fort Crook, Nebraska;
Fortieth. Colonel Edward A. Goodwin
(major, 18th Cavalry at Fort Riley,
Kansas:
Forty-frst, Colonel Ephraim r. c..
Richmond captain, ID Artillery, at
Camp Meade, Pennsylvania;
Forty-seeond, Colonel j. Milton
Thompson (major, 9th Infantry, at
Fort Niagara, New York;
Ferty-third, Colonel Arthur Murray
captain. 1st Artillery, at Fort Ethan
Allen, Vermont;
ty-fonrth, Colonel Edward j. Nc
Clernand Captain ID Cavalry, at Fort
Leayenworth, Kansas;
Forty-ffth, Colonel Joseph III. Dorst
tmajor, I'd Cavalry, at Fort Smelling,
Minnesota;
Forty-sixth, Colonel Walter s. Schuy-
Ter captain, 9th Cavalry at South
FraminghanL Massachusetts:
Forty seventh, Colonel Walter Howe
captain, 4th Artillery, at Camp Meade,
Pennsylvania.
Each regiment so organized will. for
the purpose of discipline and supply,
be subject to the orders of the COM
handing general of the department in
which the rendezvous is located, except
that the ordnance and quartermaster's
supplies will be provided under the di-
rection of the Chief of Ordnance and
QuartermaSter General, and the regi-
mental commander will report by tele-
graph to the adjutant general of the
department on his arrival at the regi-
mental rendezvous.
1t will be observed that the recruiting
officer here is restricted to certain regi-
ments in making enlistments This is
because they are the nearest ones 10
us, rendezvousing on the Atlantic coast.
The same rules as to age height, physi-
cal condition, etc, apply to recruits for
these regiments as applied TO those for
former regiments of similar character
During the civil war. as well as in our
late war with Spain, diarrhoea was one
of the most troublesome diseases the
army had to contend with. In many in
stances it became chronic and the old
soldiers still suffer from it. Mr.. David
Taylor OF Wind Ridge, Greene County,
Pa, is one of these. He uses Chamber
lain's Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy and says he never found any.
thing that would give him such quick
relief. 1t is for sale everywhere. Bob
bitt-Wynne Drug Co. and Fl. L. Hicks
Druggists, Raleigh.