The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1899-07-07
THE RECRUITS NEEDED.
Gen Otis Informs the War Department. OF
the Exact Conditions Of the
Regiments

Washington, July 5.-The adjutant
generals Office yesterday gave out a
statement based on cable advices from
Gen Otis regarding the number Of re-
cruits 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
1t viii take to complete the work Of
enlistment Gen. Otis dispatch to the
department is as follows:
Manila, July 2--Adjutant General Washing
ton Number Of recruits required TO Ill COM
panies 70 Is each regular regiment Infantry
Third $50 Fourth, so; Sixth, -175- Ninth 3;
Twelfth, 800 Thirteenth 80; Fourteenth
10; Sixteenth 20; Seventeenth 20;
Eighteenth, So; Twentieth, S5S; Twenty
first, 195; TEenty-secOnd, go; Twenty-third.
go First artillery, s; Third, 80; Fourth, p
Fifth 2 Sixth 935 Fourth cavalry, 493; en-
glneerss z Volunteers yet 70 be returned, in
fantry= California. I. 1ss; Colorado liza; Ida
no. SIS; North Dakota, 633; Wyoming. so;
Minnesota, l,l65; South Dakota, 9I7; Montana,
goo California artillery. SIS, Washington J. O65-
Tennessee e45; Kansas, Lose; Nevada cavalry,
s.; Wyoming artillery, s.; Iowa, 995; signal
corps. los California and Colorado preparing
70 take transports Sherman and Warren, leave
shOrtly--OtiS-
ton as outlined by Gen. Otis, in the
following statement:
To meet the requirements Of the returning
volunteers, the quartermaster's department re-
ports that there are now in Manila transports
Sherman Warren and Grant, with capacity Of
ls9 Of1Cers and 1924 enlisted men That there
are now on sea en- route TO Manila the Zealandia
(due July 20 : Sheridan (due July 2D; Valencia
(due July %, and Pennsylvania (due July %
with capacity for l5I Omcers and 4,200 enlisted
men There are now in san Francisco trans
ports City OF Para, which viii sail July u, and
Tartar, TO sail July %, with capacity for 81 on
GERS and $3.50 enlisted men
There are now en- route TO san Francisco the
following transports with capacity Of 219 officers
and 4694 enlisted mem Ohio, Newport Indiana.
Hancock Senator, Morgan City and Relief
hOspitaD-
The department confidently believes that the
transportation has been so well arranged by the
quartermasuer's department that the last Of the
volunteers viii leave Manila not later than the
10th OF September, and IL is expected that
they VIII all be away BY the lst-
The recruits required for the regular regi-
ments in the Philippines, are estimated at 6,SS8
men
The number OF recruits now at sea are 15JT;
number Of recruits now at San Francisco are
S2si, total Of 479I, leaving I547 yet 70 be pro
Vided for.
The large number OF vacancies existing in the
Fourteenth. Eighteenth and Twenty-third in
fantry Is due TO the fact that these regiments
went with Gen Nerritt's expedition TO the
Philippines and were not filed 60 the maxi
mum also that the men in these REGIMENTS
who enlisted for the war are just now being
discharged The men enlisting for the war in
the other regiments were discharged before the
regiments left this country, and the vacancies
are due to the increase Of the companies from
1O6 90 rs men
At the rate Of enlistments for the last few
weeks the entire number viii be enlisted by the
close Of the present week