The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-04
TO FILL THE REGIMENTS
Vacancies Will Be Filled During
the Present Week.
TRANSPORTS ARE READY
The Last OF the Volunteers Will Leave
the Philippines by the Ninth of
September-Recruits for
the Regulars.

Washington, July 3.-The adjutant
generals office to-day gave out a
statement based on cable advices from
General Otis regarding the number of
recruits required to fill the vacancies
in the regular regiments now in the
Philippines, the transports available
for the return of volunteers and for
the transportation of fresh troops to
the Philippines and the estimated time
it will take to complete the work of
enlistment. General Otis dispatches to
the department are as follows:
Manila, July 2, 1S99.-Adjutant Cen
eral, Washington: Number recruits re-
quired to fill companies to 12S each
regular regiment:
''Infantry-1st, 1886; 4th, 30i; 9Th, It's;
9Th, 315: 18th, 300; 18TH 253; 14th, 175;
18th, 270; 18th, 294; 18th, S2S; goth, 33s;
21st, 1875; 22d. 400; 23d, $50; 1st, artillery,
s; Sd, 256; 4th. 2; 5th, 2; 9Th, 93 4th
cavalry, 493: engineers, T. Volunteers
yet to be returned, infantry, Califor-
mia, 1,1SS: Colorado. liza: Idaho, sos:
North Dakota. 623; Wyoming, 300: Min
nesota, 1,165; South Dakota, 81: Mon
tana 906; California artillery. 35S;
Washington, LOGS; Tennessee, 446;
Kansas, 1,052; Nevada cavalry, SS: Wy
oming artillery, S5; Iowa, 995; signal
corps, 106: California and Colorado
preparing to take transports; Sherman
and Warren leave shortly. OTIS"
The department sums up the situa-
ton outlined by General Otis in the
following statement:
ITO meet the requirements Of the
returning volunteers, the quartermas-
ter's department report there are now
in Manila transports Sherman, War
rem and Grant. with capacity for 1893
officers and 1892 enlisted men: that
there are now on the sea en- route to
! Manila the Zealandia, due July %;
| Sheridan, due July 81; Valencia, due
July 26, and the Pennsylvania, due
! July 29, with a capacity for 16l Off
GERS and 4200 enlisted men. --
| There are now in San Francisco the
transports City of Para, which will sail
July r. and Tartar to san July 20,
| with capacity of So officers and 2,3a0
| enlisted men. There are now en- route
| to san Francisco the following trans
ports, with capacity for 2O9 officers and
| 4.694 enlisted men: Ohio, NewIort
| Hancock, Senator. Morgan City, In
| diana and Relief (hospitaD.
The department confidently believes
| the transportation has been so well ar
| ranged by the quartermaster's depart
| ment that the last of the volunteers
| will leave Manila not later than the 9th
| of September and it is expected they
will all be away by the 1st The re-
| cruits required for the regular regi-
ments in the Philippines are estimated
at 6,39S men. The number of recruits
| now at sea are 1907; number of re-
cruits now at San Francisco are 3,2S4;
! a total of 4,79l, leaving 1,547 yet to be
| provided for.
| The large number of vacancies eX-
| listing in the 14th, 18th and 23d infantry
| Is due to the fact that these regiments
went with General Merrtr's original eX-
| pedition to the Philippines and We're
| not filled to the maximum: also that
| the men in these regiments who en-
| listed for the war are just now being
| discharged; the men enlisting for the
| war in the other regiments were dis
| charged before the regiments left this
| country and the vacancies are due to
| the increase Of the companies from 106
| to 12S men.
AT the rate of enlstments for the
! last few weeks the entire number will
| be enlisted by the close of the present
| week -