The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-04
EASY TO GET RECRUITS.
War Department Will Soon Have All
the Men It Wants.

Washington, July 3.-The adjutant
generals office today gave out a state
ment based on cable advices from Cen
eral Otis regarding the number of re-
cruits required to fill the vacancies in
| the regular regiments now in the Phil
| ippines, 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 en-
listment. General Otis dispatches to
the department are as follows:
Manila, July 2, 1899.
| "Adjutant General, Washington:
Number recruits required to fill
companies to 12S each regular regi-
ment:
..Infantry.-Third, 1886; Fourth, SO4;
Sixth. 175; Ninth, 315; Twelfth, 300;
Thirteenth. 25S; Fourteenth. 175: Six
teenth, go; Seventeenth, 294; Eight
eenth. S2S: Twentieth, 1888; Twenty-first,
1856; Twenty-second, 400; TweDty-third,
$50
.Artillery-First, s; Third, 256;
Fourth. >; Fifth. >; Sixth, SO.
"Cavalry.-Fourth,4 400.
Engineers, :.
volunteers yet to be returned:
nfantry.-California, LIS; Colo
RADIO. LA: Idaho. 59S; North Dakota,
623; Wyoming, 800; Minnesota, 1,l65;
South Dakota. 917; Montana, 9O6
Artillery.-California, 35S; Washing
ton, LOGS; Tennessee, 446; Kansas, 1852;
wyoming, So: Iowa, 995.
"Cavalry.-Nevada, IS.
Signal corps, 106.
california and Colorado preparing
to take transports. Sherman and War
rem leave shortly. OIIS-
The department sums up the situa-
ton as outlined by General Miles, in the
following statement:
To meet the requirements of the re-
turning volunteers, the quartermaster's
department reports there are now at
Manila the transports Sherman, War
ran and Grant. with a capacity of 1873
officers and 1924 enlisted men. That
there are now on the sea en- route to
Manila the Zealandia (due July 2O),
Sheridan due July 2D, Valencia (due
July 26) and Pennsylvania (due July
29). with capacity for ISL officers and
1920 enlisted men.
There are now in San Francisco the
transports City of Para, which Will
sail July u, and Tartar, to sail July
20. with a capacity for firty-five officers
and 1900 enlisted men. There are now
en- route to San Francisco the following
transports, with capacity of 209 officers
and 1884 enlisted men: Ohio. Newport,
Hancock, Senator, Morgan City, 1ndi-
ana and Relief (hospitaD.
The department confidently believes
the transportation has been so we'll ar.
ranged by the quartermaster's depart
ment that the last of the volunteers
will leave Manila not later than the
9th of September. The recruits re-
quired for the regular regiments in the
Philippines are estimated at 6.33S men.
The number of recruits now at sea
are 1907; number of recruits now at
San Francisco are 1924. a total of 4,791.
leaving 1,547 yet TO be provided for. The
large number of vacancies existing in
the Fourteenth, Eighteenth and Twen
ty-third infantries is due to the fact
that these regiments went with General
Merritt's original expedition to the
Philippines and were not filled to the
maximum, 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 regi-
ments were discharged before the regi-
ments left this country, and the vacan-
cies are due to the increase of the COM
panies from 106 TO 12S men.
At the rate of enfistments for the last
few weeks. the entire number will be
enlisted by the close of the present
week.