The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-07-07
VOLUNTEER COLONIES.
levsn Were Named to Command
Prospective Philippines Troops.
RECRUITING BEGINS NEXT WEEK.

The Enlistments VIII Be Made with
out Restriction as to citizenship or
Educational Qnaliflcations-Gen
Otis win Enlist Three Regiments.
Washington, July THE order for
the enlistment Of volunteers for SER
vice in the Philippines was published
yesterday and seven more colonies to
command the regiments were appoint
ed. There are yet two colonies to be
designated. Eight majors also were
named. The recruiting will not begin
until some time next week, the exact
date not having been fixed yet. Re-
cruiting stations will be opened in
every state and territory, and as fast
as the men are enlisted they will be
sent to the regiments to be assigned
to companies. State lines are oblit-
Grated, and the men first enltsting will
be first to be mustered in. The as
signment to companies will be by the
officer commanding, and he will be at
liberty to organize a company COM
posed of mar from one state II he finds
il convenient and practicable,
cording to the provisions Of the act
of March 2, 1899, and will consist Of 80
officers and 1909 enlisted men each.
The term of service will be for the
period ending June 80, 1901, and these
enlistments may be made without re-
striction as to citizenship or educa-
tional qualifications"
Districts for recruiting designated
regiments are announced. The Twen-
ty-seventh and Twenty-eighth regi-
ments will be recruited at Camp Meade,
Pa, and will include volunteers from
Connecticut, the portion of New York
state south of the AID degree of lati-
tude, Maryland. Virginia, West Vir-
ginia, North Carolina, District of CO.
lumbia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and
Delaware.
The organization of the ten regi-
ments In this country will not make
any difference to the organization Of
regiments in the Philippines by Gen
eral Otis. His regiments will be in
addition to those hereafter to be known
as the Twenty-siXth to Thirty fifth, in
elusive, and will be numbered Thirty
sixth upward. 1t is expected that three
regiments will be organized in the
Philippines. The regiments organized
in the United States and the Philip
pines will increase the army by $50
officers and 1867 men, If there should
be three full regiments formed by Cen
eral Otis.
The colonies appointed yesterday are
under orders to proceed at once with
the organization of the regiments.
Some of the officers are now in the
city and have been consulting the diff.
ferent bureau officers with regard to
equipment and SUPPLIES for the men al
they join the regiments.
Following are the men selected as
colonies of the volunteer regiments:
Major James M. Bell, First cavalry;
Captain James S. Petit, First infantry,
better known as colonel of the Fourth
immunes; Captain Edward E. Hardin,
who was colonel of the Second New
York volunteers in the war with Spain;
Captain L. A. Craig, Sixth cavalry;
Captain Luther R. Hare, Seventh cav
airy; Major William A. Kobbe and
Captain Cornelius Gardner, Nineteenth
infantry.
The assignment of the volunteer
colonies to regiments will be as fol-
lows: 26th, Rice; 9th, Bell 2Sth, Pet
tit; Goth, Hardin; Goth, Gardner; 32d,
Craig; 33d, Hare; 35th, Kobbe. The
man designated for lieutenant colonel
Of the 35th regiment will organize it
and take it to the Philippines, when
Colonel Kobbe will assume command