Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-08-18
Thirteen Thousand More Soldiers
Wanted For the Philippines.
THE COLONIES SELECTED
Owing TO Fast Experience OF Recrult.
ing Officers No spccIni Enors viii
he lIadeto Secure Recruits In the
Southern states The Ten urss-
mcnts Called For July First Conn
pIcted-Totoi Number volunteers.
(B: Telegraph to virginlan-Pllot.)


Washington. Aug. 17.-An order has
been issued directing that ten additions.
n regiments OF infantry volunteers be
orSanized for service in the Philippines.
The regiments Will be numbered from
Th'rty-eiShth and Forty seventh, and
VIII. be organized at the following
places in the order named:
Fort Smelling, MINI; Fort Crook. Me-
oraska; Fort Riley. Kas.; Camp Meade.
Pa. Fort Niagara. New York; Fort
LeaVcnworth, Kansas: Jefferson bar
racks, Mo; South birmingham. Mass:
Camp Meade, Pa.
II is seen from to-day's orders that
me new regiments are TO be mainly
recruited in New England and the Mid
Gle and Central Western states. Kan
SaS ana Pennsylvania have apparently.
neeh ssi1eied as the best fields for re-
cEul'S. 1t is said that no special effort
Is 10 DE made To secure recruits in the
southern States:
This is due it is said. to the ex-s
periencc Of the officers who operated
IN mat quarter for recruits for the ten
volunteer regiments JUST now being or.
SAni&ed The only places where ditii-5
Guilty was experienced in securing men
vas III Georgia and Alabama, the Caro-
mas and the Gulf States, and the two.
NORTHWESTERN Pacific State.
THIRTEEN THOUSAND INCREASE.
To-day's action Will add 1900 men
to the enlisted strength OF the army
ana Increases the total strengths 10,
oo'oio men The total number of volaRe
teers called Into service Is sO107, pelfg
only 1888 men short OF The totnI. au-s
tnorl@ed volunteer estabiishmentS of
$4,000. IL is stated at the Department
that the number OF volunteers already
called into service is regarded as am
ply sufficient to meet all possible needs
1i the army and that there is no possi-i
pliitH that the remaining 1899 yolun-
toers Will be called
TEN REGIMENTS COMPLETED.
Yesterdays recruiting of the voun-.
tcer army amounted to $50 men. max
ing total recruitment To date of l4la2
OF luz III excess of the number re-
CURED to complete the ten regiments
orGam%ed under the orders July lst..
MI OF the regiments have received their
lull quota except the Thirty-ii first at
Fort MCPHERSON, and Thirty-fifth at
Vancouver barracks. These will be
H'ieu 10y me use OF overflow from the
more successful regiments. The remain-
der OF the excess VIII he used In filling
the volunteer regiments being slowly
organized In the Philippines, where
about 1889 men are short.
THE COLONELS
The c1lonels OF the regiment are an
nounced as follows Colonels:
Thirty eighth George Sanderson.
Major SIKH Cavalry.
Thirty nin,h-R. II. Bullock, CAPTAIN
Subsistence Departments
Foriieth-E. y. Goodwyn. Captain
Eighth Cavalry.
ror.y-flrst y. r. G Richmond, Cap
PROFESSIONALS NJ Thompson, Major
Twenty-tourth Infantry
Forty shird-Arthur Murray. Captain
First Artillery.
Forty-fourth-E. J. Mcclenand. Cap
tain Second Cavalry.
Forty-afih-J. d. porst. Captain
Fourth Cavalry.
r'y-sixth-w. $. Schuyler, captain
Fifth Cavalry.
Observation-Disclosures Howe, Cap
tain Fourth Artillery.
lhe new regiments will be organized
under the general instructions issued at
the time The first ten regiments were
called out with the thirteen regi-
ments already called into service the
ten order to-day will make a total of
10000 IN round numbers, of tine $1,000
volunteers authorized