The Holly chieftain., 1899-07-07
THE RECRUITS NEEDED.
Gen. Otis Informs the War Depart
ment of the Exact Condition
of the Regiments.
THE SITUATION As SUMMED UP,
Has Been So Well Arranged That the
Last of the Volunteers VIII Leave Ma
nila Not Later Than Scpte 10, and
Probably by the 1st.

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
it will 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 fill COM
panics TO rs each regular regiment: Infantry
Third, s35; Fourth, 3o4; Sixth, I75: Ninth. IS:
Twelfth. 800; Thirteenth, 253; Fourteenth.
Iss; Sixteenth, e7J; Seventeenth, csi;
Eighteenth, SIS; Twentieth, 1888; Twenty
hrst, 1885, Twenty-second. 46); Twenty third
-; First artillery, 8; Third. e5s; Fourth, ?:
Fifth. :; Sixth, 80; Fourth cavalry, 4g3 en-
yineers, T. Volunteers yet TO be returned, in
tantry; California l.Iss; Colorado, l,iii; Ida
no, 5ss; North DIkotl. 6s3; Wyoming 800;
Minnesota. LES; South Dakota ei7, Montana,
10; california artillery, 35s; Washington. l06s;
tennessee. ei6; Kansas, Lose; Nevada cavalry
y; wyoming artillery. SIS; Iowa, V95; signal
sorps. iO6 California and Colorado prepa ring
W
,hortly.-Otis
The department sums up the situa-
lion as outlined by Gen. Otis, in the
,ollowing statement:
To meet the requirements OF the returning
iolunteers, the quartermaster's department re-
,orts that there are now in Manila transports
sherman, Warren and Grant, with capacity of
IVY ofncers and 1924 enlisted men That there
are now on sea en- route to Manila the Zealandia
1tltT
tdue July 26), and PENNSYLVANIA (due july 29) :;
with capacity for i6l officers and 420J enlisted
men. There are now in San Fran cisco trans
ports City of Para, which will sail July T. and
Tartar, to sail July 20, with capacity for 5. ofi
GERS and :, 800 enlisted men.
There are now en- route to San Francisco the
following transports with capacity of sOs officers
and 1884 enlisted men: Ohio. Newport, Indiana
Hancock. Senator Morgan City and Relief
(hospitap.
The department confidently believes that the
transportation has been so well arranged by the
quartermnster department tnat the last OF the
volunteers will leave Manila not later than the
9th OF September and it is expected that
they will all be away by the list.
The recruits required for the regular regi-
ments in the Philippines, are estimated at g. 1888
men.
The number OF recruits now ut sea are i.507:
number OF recruits now at San Francisco are
3.si. total OF +7si leaving i,547 yet TO be pro-
vided for.
The large number Of vacancies existing in the
Fourteenth. Eighteenth and Twenty-thi in
fantry is due to the fact that these regiments
went with Gen. Merritt's expedition to the
Philippines and were not filled to 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
l06 to l2s men.
AT the rate of enlistments for the last few
weeks the entire number will be enlisted by the
close of the present week.