The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-07-04
RECRUITS REQUIRED

10 Fill the Vacancies In the Regular
Regiments now in the Philippines.
WASHINGTON, July S.-The adju-
tunt generals office to-day gave out a
statement based on cable advlces from
General Otis, regarding the number of
recruits required to Ill the vacancies In
the regular regiments now in the Phil
ippines, the transports available for the
return Of volunteers and for the trans
portation of fresh troops to the Philip
pines and the estimated time 1t will
take to complete the work Of enlist
ment.
General Otis dispatch to the depart
ment is as Follows;
MANILA, July 2, 1889.
Adjutant General, Washington.
Number recruits required to fill com-
pnnies to 1873 each regular regiment:
Infantry:
Third, sss; Fourth. so4; Sixth. 49,
Ninth, sos; Twelfth, 800; Thirteenth, 25Si
Fourteenth, 7Ss; sixteenth, G1Oi Seven
tenth, 2s4; Eighteenth, s2s; twentieth
Sss; Twenty-flrst, 1876; Twenty-second,
400; Twenty-thlrd, $50; Firth artillery,
s: Third, 25s; Fourth, 2; Fifth. 2; sixth,
%; Fourth cavalry, lSs; engineers, q
volunteers yet to be returned-1nfan-
try:
california, 1885, Colorado, liza; Ida
no, sos; North Dakota, 62s; Wyoming,
800; Minnesota, 1.1s5; South Dakota, sl7i
Montana, sos; California, artillery siS;
washington, 1858; Tennessee, s46; Kan
gas, 1852; Nevada, Cavalry So; Wyom-
ing, (arallery) IS; Iowa, ss5; signal
corps, lOs.
California and Colorado preparing to
take transports Sherman and Warren,
leave shortly
Islgned OTIS
The department sums up the situation
as outlined by General Otis in the fol-
lowing statement:
"To meet the requirements Of the re-
turning volunteers, the quartermasteFs
department reports that there are now
in Manila transports Sherman, Warren
and Grant, with capacity of l0s officers
and 1874 enlisted men. That there are
now on sea en- route to Manila the zea-
landIa (due July 2O): Sherman (due July
2D; Valencia (due July 26), and Penn
sylvania (due July 2S), with capacity
for 1sf officers and 1900 enlisted men.
There are now in San Francisco trans
ports city of Para, which will sail July
10, and Tartar to sail July 20, with capa-
city for IS officers and $500 enlisted
men.
There are now en- route to San Fran
cisco the following transports with
capacity for 2Os officers and 1854 enlist
ed men; Ohio, Newport. Indiana, Han
cock, Senator, Morgan City and Relief
(hospltaD.
''The department confidently believes
that the transportation has been so we'll
arranged by the quartermnster's de-
partment that the last of the volunteers
will leave Manila not later than the 10th
Of September and It is expected that
they will all be away by the first.
"The recruits required for the regular
regiments no wat sea arc 1907; number
OF recruits now at San Francisco are
S1ss, total of 4.7ol, leaving 1,5i7 yet
to be provided for.
''The Inrge number Of vacancies ex-
isting in the Fourteenth, Eighteenth and
Twenty-thlrd infantry is due to the fact
that these regiments went with Gem
eral Merritrs original expedition to the
philippines and were not filled to the
maximum; also that the men In these
regiments who enlisted for the war are
Just now being discharged; the men en-
listing for the war in the other regi-
ments were discharged before the regi-
ments left this country; md the vaean-
cIes are due to the increase of the COM
panles from 1e6 to 1873 men.
AT the rate Of enllstmentS for the
last few weeks, the entire number Will
be enlisted by the close, of the present
week"