The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-08-20
MORE RECRUITS
FOR REGIMENTS
OF VOLUNTEERS
Three Hundred and
Fifty Arrive.
WILL BE HURRIED TO MANILA
OREGON VOLUNTEER DIES AT
THE HOSPITAL.
Frank Lewis, a San Francisco Boy,
Arrested, Charged With Being
a Deserter From the Regu-
lar Army.
WILL BE HURRIED TO MANILA
OREGON VOLUNTEER DIES AT
THE HOSPITAL.

The thousands of volunteers, regulars
and rockies in barracks and in camp
at the Preside Reservation have been aug
mented by the arrival of $50 recruits for
the Thirty-sxth and Thirty-seventh vol
unteer regiments now being organized in
Manila. They arrived at the Preside Fri
day night in charge of Captain Wiser
and Lieutenant Wilke of the Seventh Ar
tillery, Second Lleutenants Wing, Davis
and Toncray of the Thirty-siXth Infantry
and Lieutenants O'Brien and Mcintyre of
the Thirty-seventh Infantry, and Acting
Assistant Surgeon Noble Captain Wiser
and Lieutenant Wilke will at once return
to their stations in the East.
The recruits for the volunteer regi-
ments, together with those enlisted in the
regular service now at the Preside, num-
Der nearly 1900 men, but a good portion
of these will soon leave for Manila on the
transports.
The Pennsylvania volunteers will De
mustered out Tuesday and will leave for
home on special train at o'clock the
same evening. But very few of the dis
charged volunteers from the keystone
State will remain in San Francisco.
On Wednesday the Nebraska regiment
will be mustered out and depart 1or the
East, leaving the Coloradoans the only
volunteers in camp until the arrival of the
First California a few days later.
Major General Shafter has accepted the
tiers to be present with his staff at the
night parade following the arrival OF the
First California volunteers.
Charles B. HotchkiSS, private, Company
G., Second Oregon volunteers, died at the
Preside General Hospital at u:50 yester-
day morning of phthisis pulmonalis The
remains will probably be sent to Oregon
for interment.
Colonel Greenleaf, medical inspector of
the army, has gone to Puget Sound.
Two twelve-inch guns on disappearing
,,-v~fGe how "a
Baker Three eight-inch rifles for the bat
terry opposite the Preside cemetery have
also arrived. The work of mounting these
and the twelVe-inch rifle at Fort POINT
goes on somewhat slowly, owing to the
occasional loss of some OF the small
pieces. The guns come in 1000 pieces, and
the loss of even one small poit causes De
lay, as it has to be replaced directly from
the factory.
Frank Lewis, San Francisco boy, was
arrested yesterday for deserving from the
weeks ago. He claims to have forgotten
all about the circumstances OF his enlist
ment and stands good snow or being
sent to Alcatraz for period to brush up
his memory.
headquarters yesterday:
Acting Assistant surgeon j. ID. MllnlCh,
U S. A. is assigned to and Will report
for temporary duty at the United States
General Hospital, Preside or San Fran
cisco, awaiting transportation to the Phil
| ippine Islands.
! CAPTAIN Daniel B. Devore, Twenty-third
! Infantry now at the Preside of San
| Francisco, is assigned to duty as quarter
master and commissary on the transport
| City of Puebla during the voyage of that
vessel to the Philippine Islands. He will
take up his quarters on the ship and re-
port to the depot quartermaster and pur-
chasing commissary in this city for in
structions.
Acting Assistant Surgeon T. H. Lander,
U. S. A, is relieved from temporary duty
at the United States General Hospital,
Preside of San Francisco, and will with
out delay proceed to Seattle. reporting
upon arrival to Captain w. w. Robinson
Jr., assistant quartermaster, for assign
ment to duty on one of the transports
sailing from that point for the Philippine
Islands.
Second Lieutenant William E. Mould,
Sixteenth Infantry, will proceed to tho
Preside of San Francisco and report to
the commanding officer of that post for
temporary duty with recruits awaiting
transportation to the Philippine Islands
First Lieutenant Edgar T. Koehler
Ninth Infantry, is assigned to duty as
quartermaster and commissary of the
transport City of Sydney during the voy-
age of that vessel to the Philippine ISL
. ands.
The following named, now at the general
hospital have been ordered discharged
by reason of services . no longer re-
CURED: Corporal Robert J. Kelleher and
Private Ira S. Fowle. Thirteenth Mime
sofa; Privates George D. Raymond. VIII
liam Hardcastle and John F. King of the
First Montana, and Artif1cer John Ken
nedy Of the Twentieth Kansas.