Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-08-18
Order Authorizing Recruitment
of Volunteers is Issued.
ADDS $1,000 MEN TO THE ARMY
Recruits Will BE Taken Mainly from New
England and the Middle and Western
States. No Special Effort to
Secure Southerners.
CIV rcieg,,aph.)


WASHINGTON. Aug IAN order
has been issued directing that ten
additional regiments of infantry vol
unteers be organized for the Philip
pines. The regiments will be number
CT! from IS to a and will DC organized
at the following places in the order
named:
Fort Smelling. Mimi; Fort Crook,
Neb.. Fort Riley. Kan. Camp Meade,
Pa. Fort Niagara. n. Y; Fort Leaven-
worth. Kan; jefferson Barracks, Mo-;
South birmingham. Mass.
AS TO THE SOUTH.
1t is seen from today's orders that
the two regiments are To be tr ,inly
rccuitcd in New England and the
middle and central western states,
pirently been selected as the best
fields for rectlits. 1t is said that no
special effort is to be made to secure
recuits in the Southern states. This
is due. 1t is said, to the experience OF
the officers who operated in that
quarter for recuits for the ten volun-
t1er regiments just now being or
ganZeu. The only places where diff
Guilty was experienced in securing men
was i'm Georgia and Alabama. the
Caroiinas ana gulf and two northern
Naclflc states.
Today's action will add $1,000 men
Ito the enlisted strength Of the army
ami increases the total strength TO
95.O4a men. The total number or vol
unteers called into service is 30.107 be-
ing only 4,95I short of the total au-
thorized volunteer establishment OF
3o,0OOlt is stated at the departme nit
that the number of volunteers already
called into service is regarded as sim
ply sufficient to meet all possible needs
.! the army and that there is no pos
sibility that the remaining 1888 vol
unteers will be called.
TOTAL RECRUITMENT
Yesterdays recruiting OF the vo.un-
teer army amounted to 2S9 men, max
ing total recruiting to date 14,122 or
1,032 in excess of the number required
to complete the ten regiments organiz-
ed under the orders Of July 1st. All
OF the regiments have received their
full quota except the 31st ut Fort Nc
Pherson and the %'5th at Vancouver
Barracks. These will be filled by the
use OF overflow from the more sue
cessfnl regiments. The remainder cf
the excess Will be used in filling the
volunteer regiments being slowly or
ganiZed in the Philippines, which the
about 1,S0O mem short.
THE COLONDLS.
The colonies of the new regiments
art. announced as follows:
"Sth-G. a. sanderson, MAJOR Sixth
cavalry.
@?th-R. II. Bullock. captain subsis-
tence department.
4'n-I "A. Goodwin. captain Sth
cavalry.
AstT. T. Richmond, captain Second
artillery
end. NJ. Thompson. major oath
infantry.
4;rd-Arthur hurry. captain First
artillery.
44th-I1. j. Mcclelland, capt. second
cavalry.
45th-J. d. Dorst. captain Fourth
cavalry.
4eth-'w. s. Schuyler, captain Fifth
cavalry.
47th-;Walter Howe, captain Fourth
artillery.
The new regiments will f.r organized
under the general instructions issued
at the time the first ten regiments
were called out. With the Is regiments
already called into service. the ten
called out today will make total Of
$4,000 of the $4,000 volunteers authoriz-