The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-07-04
FILLING The RANKS
ADJUTANT GENERALS OFFICE
GIVES OUT FIGURES ON RE-
CRUITS FOR ARMY
MORE DELAY HINTED AT
minnesota Volunteers May Not Be
Started Home Until September
List of Transports on the Way
and at Observation-Disclosures Are
Being Rapidly Made and Quota
May BE Filled This Week.

WASHINGTON, July S.-The adiutant
generals office today gave out a state
ment, based on cable advices from Gen
Otls regarding the number of recruits re-
quired to fill the vacancies in the regu-
lar regiments now in the Philippines
the transports available for the return
or volunteers, and for the transportation
OF fresh troops to the Philippines, and
the estimated time it will take to COM
plete the work of enlistment. Gen. Otis
dispatch to the department is as follows:
Manila, July g. 1899-Adjutant General
o Washington: Number of recruits re-
ular regiment:
"Infantry--Third, 1856 men; Fourth, 9o4;
sixth 17S; So Ninth. SO4; Twelfth, 300; Thir-
20; Seventeenth, 294; Eighteenth. SIS:
Twentieth. 33S; Twenty-first, 1875; Twenty
second 400; Twenty-third, $50
.. AArf4 4h ~ 8; Third, 256; Fourth,
Z; Enth. 2; Sixth, SO; Fourth, 1873
Engineers
o"Volunteers to Be Returned-Infantry
SSqss i %ants LIS; COLORADO; liza; Idaho,
minnesota, ,165; South Dakota, 81; Mon
tana, 906; California artillery, 35S; Wash
lngton, LOGS; Tennessee, 946; Kansas, /. O52:
Nevada, 49, Wyoming, SIS; Iowa, 995; sig
California and Colorado preparing to
take transports Sherman and Warren,
leave shortly. "Otie ;,
The department sums up the situation
as outlined by Gen. Otis in the following
statement: W -i-e
70 meet the requirements of the re-
turning volunteers, the quartermaster's
department reports that there are now in
manila the transports Sherman, War
rem and Grant, with a capacity of 1879 of
ncers and 1924 enlisted men. That there
to
Zeaiandia (due July 20), Sheridan due
July ~, Valencia due July 26), and
tie pennsylvania fey va Cdue July 29 with capac
mere are now In San Francisco trans
ports City of Para, which will sail july
II, ana Iartar, to sail July 20, with a
capacity for So officers and 1900 enlisted
men.
There are now en- route to San Fran
cisco the following transports, with a
capacity for 2G9 officers and 1854 enlisted
men: ONO, Newport, Indiana Hancock
pitaD. N-0"
The department confidently believes
that the transportation has been so well
arranged by the quartermasters DEPART
ment that the last of the volunteers will
e Sane Manila not later than the 10th of
Will III, all be away by the LIST.
me recruits required for the regular
regiments in the Philippines are estimat-
ed at $685.
The number of recruits now at sea are
15O7 number of recruits now at San
francisco are 1924, a total OF 4,791, leav-
ing l,547 yet to be provided for
The large number of vacancies exist
ing In the Fourteenth, Eighteenth and
Twenty-third infantry is due to the fact
that these regiments went with Gen Mer-
ritts original expedition to the Philip
pines, and were not filled to the maxi
mum; also that the men in these regi-
ments who enlisted for the war are just
now being discharged; the men enlisting
n of ociT t. AZ.
charged before the regiments left this
country; and the vacancies are due to the
increase of the companies from LOG to 1928
men.
AT the rate of enlistments for the last
few weeks the entire number will be en-
listed by the close of the present week. {"