The San Francisco call., 1899-11-07
DEP PART|NG AND
COMING TROOPS
CROSS PATHWAYS
Nevada Cavalrymen
in Camp.
FIRST OF THE FORTY-SECOND
1T HAS A PECULIAR AND SIG
NIFICANT DISTINCTION.
One Of the Few Volunteer Infantry
Regiments Commanded by
Regular Officer of
Infantry.
FIRST OF THE FORTY-SECON[
1T HAS A PECULIAR AND SIG
NIFICANT DISTINCTION.

Two volunteer organizations went into
camp at the Preside yesterday, one
bound warward, the other for home. One
was the troop of Nevada cavalry. just ar
rived after honorable and arduous service
in the Philippines; the other was the For
ty-second Infantry, which came m early
yesterday morning from Fort Niagara,
New York, where it has been recruited.
The men Of the Nevada cavalry reached
the Preside after eating breakfast at the
Palace as the guests of Hon. Frank u.
Newlands. Governor Sadler, Fred Sha-
ron, Judge J. c. Kirkpatrick and Captain
Dennis Geary were also guests. The tables
were laid in the conservatory OF the motel
and after the hungry cavalrymen had nm
ished their raid upon the menu there were
speeches by the Governor, by Mr. New
lands, by Captain Linstott, commander OF
the troop, and by others OF the guests;
The record of the command was referred
TO in the highest terms, and the men were
congratulated on the manner III Whlch
they had added to the fame of their State.
Horses for the troopers had been pro
vided by the Preside, and after the
breakfast the men mounted and were eS-
corted to the camp at the post, which Will
be their home until they shall be mustered
out before the end of this month. captain
Linstott hopes the date will not be later
than November l5, but il may take longer
than that to get the troop away. The pa
pers of the command are in excellent
shape, ana there Will De no Ueldy CduSSu
by the officers and troop clerks.
The Forty-second Regiment enjoys the
distinction, common to but SIX OF the
twenty-four volunteer infantry regiments,
of being commanded by an infantry otti-
Ger. Its colonel is }. Milton Thompson,
major in the Twenty-fourth United States
Infantry.
four new regiments are commanded by
infantry officers is emphasized by the
fact that eleven of them are commanded
by cavalry officers and six by artillery
officers. The odd one remaining is the
Thirty-ninth commanded by Colonel Bull
lard, who was a commissary OF subslst-
ence.
There has been a great deal of dissat-
isfaction among officers of infantry over
the fact that their arm OF the service
received so little attention from the Gov
ernment when 1t came to the increase OF
the infantry force by the mastering in of
volunteers. The Twenty-siXth, Twenty
ninth, Thirtieth, Thirty-tirst, Thirty
fourth and Forty-second regiments are
commanded by infantrymen, but that
is all.
In the natural course of events it would
seem that the proper officer for
the command of an infantry regi-
ment would be one trained in that
arm of the service. The drill of the
infantryman has very little in common
with that of the mounted soldier, and II
the artillery officer pays proper attention
to the technicaities OF his specially he
has but little time left for a study of the
finer points of the foot soldiers tactics
The infantry officers consider that they
should have had the preference in the
appointments to the new regiments, and
they feel bitterly the way in which they
have been ignored. As the regiments
now stand the war in the Philippines will
be a war of infantry led by caValrymen.
But six companies of the Forty-second
are in. They comprise the first battalion
under Major w. G. Brown, who is also
in command of the detachment and two
companies of the second battalion. The
remaining six companies are coming on
under Lieutenant Colonel Beacon. but
the trains bearing them were mixed up
in a wreck and SO have been indefinitely
delayed. There were no casualties of any
consequence. The companies in are A, B,
c. D. F and G.. They have all had fair
amount of practice on the ranges at short
distances, and they are all well drilled
They will be inspected within a day or
two.
Captain William c. Bennett of the Six
teenth Infantry has been assigned to tenn
porary duty with the recruits at the Pre-
sidio pending his assignment to Manila.
First Lieutenant Rogers +. Gardner of
the Third Artillery has been relieved as
judge advocate of the general court
martial now sitting at the Presidio, and
First Lieutenant Leroy Eltinge of the
Sixth Cavalry has been assigned to the
duty.
First Lieutenant George w Moses Of
the Fourth Cavalry has been assigned to
duty as adjutant of the recruits now at
the PreSidiO