The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-09
CAVALRY IN THE PHILIPPINES
THEIR COLLECTION -AT S1N FRA N
 CISCO AND THEIR SHIPMENT.
Hardihood of the Western MustanS-A Recent Purchase by the Government and Whom 1t Benefitted.

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 the Filipino insurgents when the new campaign shall open in Luzon are pe- ing rapidly assembled at the Presldlo preparatory to shipment to Manila lff special transports. A total of l,64l mas already arrived They came from dll- ferent parts of the country. Chlcaso' H.. and Louisville, Ky, together tur- nished 6S7; Omaha, Neb., sent l50; lex as, 29S; Denver, Col, 102, and California and Nevada together, 4O4.
 These are all lightweight animals or medium size, specially selected for the service required in the Philippines It has been found that such horses are better adapted to the climatic condi- tions and to the dashng work of pur- suit The standard cavalry horse IS much larger and heavier, but his weight and strength are not needed for the IaSt galloping that will be done by armed men engaged in running down the elusive Tagalos across soggy rice helds Two thousand of these equine sprin- ters will be shipped from San Francis co and about one thousand from seat tie. to be ready for the army as soon as the dry season comes.
 fleet of steam horse-ships is ready to transport these mounts to Manila. The converted collier LeelanaW depart ed a. week ago with 295 of this new stock The Siam will come back and take 372. the Aztec about 600, the Sikh $50, the Centennial 250, and possibly the Adamson $50, making total of 2,2lI American cavalry horses despatched to the Philippines from here within a pe- riod of perhaps ten weeks.
 The entire Fourth Regular Cavalry has all it's gig horses down in Luzon al ready, the very animals that used to De the familiar sights at the Presldlo ana in summer time at the Yosemite. The Third Cavalry has also good many horses in the service about Manila Bay In addition to these troop horses, most of the field and staff officers ot the ln- fantry commands have their owr American horses, two to each man With three thousand new cavalry horses going to Manila and enough there now to supply mounts for twelve troops of the Fourth Cavalry, there lS every prospect that there will be more than enough animals for a force o1 3.4OO cavalrymen. That is about the number of mounted fighters now in the field counting the whole Fourth Regu lar Cavalry with it's twelve troops the Third Regular Cavalry with it's elgn troops, and the new Eleventh Volunteer Cavalry with it's twelve troops. Sucf force, forming a mounted brigade will be veritable tornado when turned loose against the native fighters, Wht will not stand and meet an infantr. rush. None of Aguinaldo's men i' mounted. All of them have proved Heet-footed in avoiding the American infantry. but with fast American horses in pursuit the race will be rabbit drive for the troopers
 Practically every returning Amer can officer declares that caValry I needed to put a speedy end to the lnsuf rection The Filipino was terrified bl the wild yels the Americans gave whei charging the native trenches, ana h fled in panic from his stronghold Then the colored soldiers were brough over to strike added terror to his heart And all along he has had terrible dread of the fast-moving hofsemen With these frightful elements combine in the coming campaign, there is smal likelihood that the insurgents life VII be a happy one.
 When the sailing vessel Tacoma land ed in Manila last January, before tn hebellion with eighty-one American horses and 119 government mules, tn natives were nightly awed by tn strange long-eared creatures that Wer led out of the ship. They soon learne that these hornless beasts of burde could travel three times as fast an null twice as much as their slow-gon water buffalo that faint and fall dow unJess they can wallow in water seve ral times day
 Many hundred head of mules are dc ing service in the Philippines, haulln light batteries and supply-wagons an ambulances They are far more effe' tive than the hardy little native pon! which is so small that it takes four them to equal one mule at a day work. because the little soft creatui can labor only half day at a time an survive the heat and exhaust1ng eXel else
 The Siam left San Francisco ahol the middle of August with two hundre more mules for Manila, to be used the Wagon- train, with four anlmals each wagon, and one hundred paci mules for a pack-train. Since Apr about five hundred mules have bee sent to Manila from here and some 5 were shipped before that. About z mules left St. Asaph, Va, on Septemp' 9 for this city en route to the Phill mines They were used in the southei military camps and in Cuba during u Spanish war. With these added to u foreign equipment, Uncle sam :" have approximately lO5O iong-ear' l,ic1<ers in Luzon when the campal9 opens, and some 4700 American hors will he there to keep them company.
 If was only few weeks ago \that desnatch came from Washington sta ine that fifteen hundred horses Wou ha shipped to the Presido, and that st b1es must be built to shelter the vending their departure for the Phll hines. It was a rush ordef. The go ernroent could have bought all u horses necessary right on thls coaS h,,+ sections had to be favored. Dl1fe ept parts of the country must proft
 the campaign. So Chicago ana Lou Vile and Omaha and Denver ana U e+ate of Texas were given chance sell horses to the army. It meant som +bine to the owners of Saddle-hors' for the government paid cash for eve
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