The San Francisco call., 1899-10-31
HURRY|NG AWAY
To THE WAR IN
THE PHILIPPINES
Three Regiments to
Go at Once.
ASSIGNED TO TRANSPORTS
THE FORTY FIFTH LEAVE ON
THE HANCOCK.
All the Men Have Been Vaccinated
and Now the Inspector Is
Making His Final
Rounds.
ASSIGNED TO TRANSPORTS
THE FORTY FIFTH LEAVE ON
THE HANCOCK.

There will be no delay in getting the
three regiments now at the Preslolo away
for the Philippines. They have all been
assigned to transports, not by orders as
yet, but their vessels have been dec1ded
upon and the last of them will sail on
November 6 If nothing happens to change
the programme.
The Forthwith. under command of
Colonel John H. Dorst, will win the prize.
II will be assigned to the transport Han
cock. admitted to be the finest troopshlp
now in the service. Colonel Dorsts regl-
ment is for the time being one OF ten
companies, for two of his companies nave
been recruited at Vancouver Barracks
and they have been ordered to proceed 10
Manila with the Thirty-ninth Regiment
to leave from Portland within week or
ten davs The Hancock will just take the
ten companies.
The Thirty eighth will go on the City
of Sydney and the Pathan, both sched-
uled to sail November 3. The Forty-slxth'
of ferry-boat fame, will go on the SEN
ator and the Ben More, the Senator TO
sail on the Sd and the Ben More on the ISL.
The measles that developed in the Thir-
ty-eighth Regiment has grown no worse,
and 1t is not thought the regiment will be
DELAYED anv on account of it. The first
cases that developed were left behind at
jefferson Barracks, and those which were
discovered Just after the regiment reached
camp were sent at once to the general
hospital, and all who had been in contact
with the cases were isolated.
| The Forty-siXth was Inspected by the
department inspector general, LleutenanIlII
! Colonel Maus, yesterday. To-day he Will
| inspect the Forty fifth and tomorrow ne
! will reach the Thirty-eighth. The lnspec-
! tion was a general one, including the ap-
! pearance of the men, their equipment
| their quarters and the regimental. bat
! talon and company papers. Ihe men OF
! all three regiments have been Yaccinated.
! In Colonel Dorst of the Forty-hfth Reg
iment the Presidio sees an old friend, 1oT
| as a captain in the Fourth Cavalry ne
was stationed there for long time de
! holds now a commission in the regular
! cavalry. but since the war he has served
! with the volunteers, first as adjutant gen
! eral of General Wheelers cavalry IN
| Cuba afterward in a similar capacity on
! the staffs of other generals, and now as
| a colonel of a first-class regiment or IN
fantry. ,.,
ment will get in from Fort Leavenworth
! Kans 1t is under command OF Colone
/ Z. ]. McClernand.
Captain f. E. BENJAMIN OF the FIRST IN
| fantrv is at the Presidio looking after
! property which the First left at the Pre-.
/ sidio when it left for Cuba in April 1898
/ One battalion of the regiment mas peen
ordered to Fort Leavenworth' Rams.
/ BENJAMIN will be shipped. The other two
! battalions are stationed in the vicinity
| of Havana When the regiment !eft II
! took only it's field equipment, ana now nov
! that it has returned to reasonably per
! manent quarters 1t is going to make IT.
! self comfortable
Second Lieutenant Joseph c. Brady of
the Fourth Infantry mas been oroeEeo &c 70
! cruits at the Preside pending his assign
! ment to Manila.