The San Francisco call., 1899-10-14
GEN, SHAFTER IS
To LEAVE THE
REGULAR RANKS
He Will Be Held as a
Volunteer.
THOSE WHO WILL BE AIDS
RAIN MAKES THE CAMPS UN-
COMFORTABLE.
The Luckless Thirty-First Will Be
Released From Quarantine, but
Not From It's Island
Isolation.
THOSE WHO WILL BE AIDS
RAIN MAKES THE CAMPS UN
COMFORTABLE.

Although General Shafter has not re-
ceived official information of the fact,
still there is every reason to believe he
will remain in the service as a volunteer
officer. or an officer of volunteers after
his retirement as a brigadier general in
the regular army. Monday next he must
retire. but before that time he will hear
from Washington regarding any service
TO follow.
Dispatches from the East carry the in
formation that the President intends to
retire him finally as a major general of
regulars, or even a lieutenant general;
but such a thing is impossible. He must
retire from the regular army on Mon
day. and he cannot be appointed to any
higher rank than that of brigadier, as
there Is no vacancy above him. and there
will be no vacancy by the time of his
retirement. After he has been retired he
cannot be appointed TO any position
higher or lower-in the regular army. IT
70 be lieutenant general of volunteers;
but such a course has no precedent and
is not likely to be adopted.
If General Shafter remains in the ser
vice after Monday ii viii bring good for
tune to Captain J. d. Leitch, recently
promoted into the TWentY-hfth Infantry.
He is spoken of as one of the aids to
General ShafteT. and IN that case Cap
tain LeitCh viii be retained on this coast
and in this department. Captain Kit
tredge. General Skaters son-ln-laW. VIII
Wilson Of the Third Artillery is to re-
main in his present position.
Captain kittredge was a captain and
assistant adjutant general on General
Skaters staff during the Cuban cam
paign. but soon after the return of the
general he was mustered out. Since the
recruiting of the new regiments he has
been mentioned for commission as
line officer, and a few days ago he was
recOmmiSSiOned, this time as captain
in the FOrty-sixth Infantry. He was i'm
tel General y E
ter. Should General Shafter remain Cap
tain kittredge will have a much sought
for position, but if the general be retired
as well from the volunteers as from the
regulars Captain Kittredge will have TO
join his regiment.
The plan of recruiting a battalion of the
FOrtieth and one of the Forty-JEird at
the Preside has been abandoned and the
present intention is to recruit but two
companies of each A few days ago eight
of the officers destined for the battalion
of the Fortieth being formed here were
ordered East TO Fort Riley, where the
Tegimental headquarters have been eStab-
hshed, and there We're left only sufficient
officers EOr two companies with Major
Case, who viii command the battalion in
charge.
The rain made the volunteer camps at
the Preside particularly uncomfortable
but the returning volunteers have had
all kinds OF tropical rain poured down
upon them and they do not mind the
showers that fall here. They had to
shelter Of tents, too so they suffered but
little at home. The volunteers on their
way 10 the islands had not so much ex-
perience. however, and except those who
saw service in Cuba they had bad time
of It. The surgeons reports from all the
exposed commands show no evil effects
however, SC the rain on the whole has
done the men no harm. 1t has left mud
and to spars all around the post, but that
is about alr it has done.
The two cases of sickness. supposed TO
be diphtheria. sent to the general hos
pital from the Twenty-eighth Regiment
have turned out to be only severe cases
Of tonsilitis. No others have been re-
ported.
To-day the Thrty-first Regiment -UflI
emerge from quarantine but that will
bring small consolation TO the men of the
command The regiment will not he
taken from Angel Island but ii will wait
there for transportation to Manila
There will be a transport assigned TO the
command as soon as possible, but it NAV
be some days before the BOYS will get
away, and in the meantime they will re
main in Isolation unless Colonel Petit
is generous in the way Of passes.
John A. Logan. private in Troop I. of
the Fourth Cavalry, who died at the gen
eral hospital last Wednesday, was buried
in the National Cemetery yesterday with
military hOnors.
The Montana and Kansas men will
spend today in Oakland as the guests of
the city. They will form at the camps
at the Preside at half-past o'clock and
will march TO the ferry in a body.
Leave Of absence for ten days has been
granted 10 Second Lieutenant John B.
Caldwell of the Washington Regiment