Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-04-21
'I0RE TROOPS FOR OTIS
His Call For Men Is to BE Promptly
Answered.
REGULARS WILL BE SEMI.
BY the Time the Rainy Season Ii
Over He VIII Have n Fight
ing Force of Twenty-Five
Thousand Men.

Washington. April 21.-Secretary AL
ger has received a reply from General
Otis to an inquiry as to whether the
re-enforcements proposed to be sent to
him to relieve the volunteers would be
sufficient for the purposes OF the cam
paign. General Otis replied in the al
firmative.
The programme for the movement or
the regulars out to Manila and of the
volunteers homeward, therefore, Will be
carried out according to General Otis
statement contained in his dispatch of
Wednesday. -
General Otis adds to his message the
hopeful remark that he expects very
shortly to be able to report decided
improvement in the situation in the
Philippines.
General Otis call for more troops is
to be promptly answered. Just as soon
as marine transportation can be Sc
cured $4,000 regulars will be hurried to
Manila.
This means the virtual cleaning out
of the garrisons of the batteries along
the Atlantic seaboard, now in the hands
of the Seventh artillery. They will be
ltll Ill tllc OL NSesASAAii~'ANS "N~>
new recruits will doubtless be mustered
in and instructed so that the seaboard
will not be left unprotected.
Two light batteries of the Seventh
regiment, the only available artillery in
a Philippine campaign, are now at Por-
to Rico, but they have been ordered
home at once. They will start for San
Francisco as soon as they reach New
York or whatever other port they may
arrive at
The IS batteries of the regiment now
in this country are disposed as follows:
Headquarters and four batteries at Fort
Slocum, N Y; two at Fort Adams K.
l., and one each at Portland Head, Me-;
Fort Preble, Me-; Growers Cliff, Mass.
Fort Schuyler, N. Y, and Washington
Barracks.
Probably Go M Infantry.
These men will probably be equipped
as infantry, though it is possible that
one battery will be used as light artil-
lery BY happy chance the bulk OF
these troops cannot reach Manila before
the end of the rainy season.
With the regulars now on the way
and these men Of the Seventh, General
Otis will have a fighting force of nearly
% 900 men when the rainy season closes.
BY the time that General Otis will be
ready to resume aggressive operations
next fall he will have $4,000 men at his
disposal.
The war department has no further
information as to the fate of Lieutenant
]. c. Gilmore and his party, captured at
Luzon. Uneasiness as to their fate has
been considerably allayed, however, by
Admiral Dewey's cable dispatch to the
effect that the men may have been res
cued by the Spanish garrison at Baler.
According to the rule Of procedure es-
tablished, the volunteers will return in
this order:
First California infantry, Second Ore
gon infantry, battery of California ar
tillery which resached Manila June go
1898; Batteries A and B, Utah artillery;
Tenth Pennsylvania infantry, First Col
orado infantry, First Nebra ska infantry
First North Dakota infantry, Thir-
teenth Minnesota infantry. First Idaho
infantry, First Wyoming infantry First
Montana infantry First South Dakota
infantry, First Washington infantry,
part of the battalion of the California
artillery. Twentieth Kansas infantry.
First Tennessee infantry, Fifty-first
Iowa infantry, First Troop Nevada cav
airy and Wyoming battery.