The San Francisco call., 1899-07-26
A BIC WELCOME
AWAITING THE
CALIFORNIANS
Meeting to Be Held on
Friday.
1T WILL BE A GREAT EVENT
ARRANGEMENTS TO ACCoMMo-
DATE RETURNING SICK.
Captain Ducat, Twenty-Fourth United
States Infantry, viii Probably Sue
ceed Colonel Plummer as Gen
eral Skaters Aid.


How to welcome the California regiment
when IT. arrives is becoming more and
more pressing subject with the commit
tee on reception OF home coming troops
There was a meeting of the executive
committee of the general committe yester-
day in the Office of the Mayor, in which II
was decided to call meeting of the COM
mittee of Native Sons and Daughters, rel
atives of the California troops, Adjutant
General Seamans. General Dickinson, Cen
eral WaTfield and General Muller to de-
eide upon some programme upon the de-
tails of which the various committees
could get TO work. The Joint meeting Will
be held in the Mayors Office next Fri
day afternoon at o'clock.
General Shafter sent word to the meet
ing yesterday that the hospital ship Keller
might be in at any time. He informed LIE
committee that the sick soldiers would
not be brought to the wharf, but would
be taken off the vessel in the stream and
taken at once to the Preside, probably
on the Government steamer Mcdowell
The committee decided TO send an offer
ing of fruit to the sick soldiers. Mrs. w
& Harrington and Mrs. Sanborn. of the
Red Cross Society notified the committee
tnat the society would do What II could
tor the men as soon as they reached the
Preside.
The following movements of transports
was furnished TO the committee by the
Rehef Hospital ship expected daily.
Hancock left Manila July l; due here, say,
July 50. Senator left Manila July l; due
mere, say, july 80 Centennial left Manila
July y; due here, say, August Il; Warren
LETT Manila July II; due here, say, August
10 sherman expected TO leave Mania
daily. Grant viii leave Manila soon.
The dates are figured upon an average
run OF thirty days The Hancock VIII
h.. l-l-. md n ha
Senator the Pennsylvania men; the w ar
rem the Colorado regiment and the Sher-
man or Grant the California boys
Major Gerard, surgeon in charge OF the
general hospital at the Preside, made an
Investigation OF the men who arrived OH
Ihe InQlana Monday in order to find what
men could be removed from the hospitals
10 the various camps. The question Of
room may become an important one be-
fore long, although there is no apprenen-
sion that any SICK men Will go uncdreo
for. The results of the surgeons eXamlna-
tion was that he found eight or nine men
out of the eighty at the general hospital
nj for duty and willing to perform it, and
as many more out OF the three hundred
at the ConValeSCent hospital. He counted
only those who admitted that they felt
well enough to enter service again and
whom he found to be so after examining
them.
have so far been ample, and the desire
is to keep them so within the present linn
its if possible. For that reason it is the
intention of the cOmmandant to send the
men out into the camps as soon as they
are in condition 10 be removed from the
hospital buildings; If the patients should
multiply too rapidly, however, another one
Of the brick barracks will be pressed into
service, or perhaps two more. In any
event the hospital accommodations Will
be kept sufficient to meet any possible
Ijetitenant. Colonel Plunmer returned to
Vancouver Barracks yesterday. He was
down here on business connected with his
regiment, the new. Thirty-fifth Infantry,
the examination of officers and the mus
tering in of recruits, and this having been
completed he was ordered away. He had
been, until his promotion to lieutenant
colonel OF volunteers, an aid on the per-
sOnal staff OF General Shafter. His as
signment to other duties leaves a vacancy
that Will be filed, it is reported, by Cap
tain Ducat, QuartermaSter of the Twenty
fourth Infantry, who started for Manila
on the City of Para about the 18th inst.
Captain Ducat has in all probability been
intercepted at Honolulu by one of the
liners, and has been ordered home to his
new duties.
When the Newport sails she will carry
400 recruits and the Ohio 800, besides a
battalion ofthe Nineteenth Infantry. This
will probably be distributed between the
two transports, The following officers will
accompany the men; Major owen j: Sweet,
TWenty-third Infantry; Captain John A.
Dapnay, Twenty third Infantry; Captain
{. L. Collins, Twenty-third Infantry;
Lieutenant l.. J. Van Schaick, Fourth In
fantry> Lieutenant S. w. Moves, Twenty
third Infantry; Lieutenant L. R. Lang,
Ninth Infantry, and Lieutenant w. 5.
Bradford. Seventeenth Infantry.
The officers and many of the men who
returned on the transport Morgan City
are much annoyed at being included in
the denunciatiOn Of the authorities which
the Examiner is so assiduously fostering.
According to the statements made the Of.
'fcers and men who returned on the Nor
gan City are unanimous in their critf-
cisms, but this seems 10 be far from the
fact. There are few who reVile and
denounce, but the great majority have
had no complaint to make and they dis
like to be placed in the position of being
'kiGkers.' Captain Andrew Jensen, First
Montana Infantry, United States Volun-
teerS, gave the sentiment of the officers
when said they had nothing to complain
Of and so far as their superior officers
were concerned they had no criticism to
MAJ ke. The ofncers VIII not pass upon the
say the men were not ill-treated.
Colonel Marshall. department quarter
master. has received orders from Wash
tngton to purchase 300 horses, more or
for the use of the Fourth Cavalry now in
Manila. Lieutenant Colonel Randolph is
now on his way to Oregon to gather In all
the likely looking horses he can find to
OIL the order. The animals must be sound
IN every respect, between five and seven
years old and between 300 and 1000 pounds
in weight. They will be part of the lot Of
1000 which the Government is purchasing
and which will be sent to Manila as fast
rs they can be got ready. The first in
stallment Of 200 will probably sail on the
Tacoma tomorrow
FIRST Lieutenant Henry l. hlnnlson,
Twenty-fffth Infantry. has been detailed
as quartermaster of the transport In
diana
Lieutenant Colonel Marion P. Maus, In
spector general United States Volunteers.
has been ordered to the Department Of
Columbia. to make some special inspec-
tionS of the posts there.
Acting Assistant Surgeon G. L. Hicks
has been assigned TO duty with the troops
70 be sent on board the transport Ohio.
Troop A, the cavalry troop of the
Second Brigade, N. G. c., will hold its
annual banquet tomorrow night at the
California Hotel grill room. 1t will be the
fiftieth anniversary of the organization
The uniform will be worn and jolly good
time is anticipated.
Woodmen Soldiers.