The San Francisco call., 1899-09-21

WILL DOFF THE
BLUE TODAY
Both Commands to Be
Mustered Out.
C0L0RS WILL BE RETAINED
THE TWENTY SEVENTH HAS
SAILED AWAY.
Probable Change of Programme for
the Grant and the Thirtieth
Regiment - No More
Smallpox Reported.

BY tonight the California Volunteers
will be out OF service. The artillery will
go first, and then the regiment will be
paid off and discharged. There will be no
ceremony about the discharge, and its
most prominent feature will be the clink
Of gold. Not that the California men will
get very much in the way of money. but
II Will be the first paid over to the men in
& long time. The artillery battalion has
mad payday since 1t returned here but
u Is some months since the men of the
FIRST Regiment have received anything.
Ihey VIII get no travel pay, for the men
all enlisted here, and although there is
something due on the clothing allowances
OF most of the men. it will not be much.
Before the regiment has gone out of the
service Colonel Duboce will issue a last
order TO his men. In IL he will recall TO
their minds their old service in the guard,
and he will ask that the men stay to-
Eether, re-enter the service of the State,
ana perpetuate the name and fame and
the organization of the old First Regi-
ment.
The regfmental colors will be retained
is the sacred trust of the reorganized
regiment. There was a plan on root to
have them placed on exhibition in the
rotunda of the City Hall, and Kept there
as one of the treasures Of the city, but
Colonel Duboce declined to let them go.
He did not feel justified in giving them
up ne said, as the old guard regiment was
70 be reformed, ana he, and his officers,
believed the COIors should be retained by
those who had added to their luster.
They viii be carried in all parades. in ad-
C-tion to the new colOrs the regiment Will
get. and a special guard of honor,
selected from among the men who fought
under them, viii escort them. Their
place Will be in the regtmental armory.
Battery u Of the Volunteer Artillery
VIII leave for Los Angeles tomorrow by
special train. The men are all from the
nf Los
and royal reception is awaiting them
down there.
Preside, and the remainder were
brought around on the tug Sea King.
The transport Tacoma, which was to
have sailed q o'clock last evening, was
detained until this morning on acCOCnt
Of d defective refrigerator The George
w. Elder left her dock and anchored off
the barge ottlce, at ?: m: yesterday. ste, she
sailed early this morning. me twenty
seventh Regiment was distributed be-
tween the two transports.
Several small boys tried to stow away on
the Elder, but they were discovered and
sent TO the Harbor police station by the
officers OF the transport service. Boys 10
acquired the craze for going to the Phil
ipplnes, and every time a transport is
about 10 sail there are half a dozen moth
ers down at the Government wharf look
ing for missing sons.
The Twenty-seventh has left Just in
time 70 make room for the Thirty second, |
Fort LeaYeuWOrth, Kansas. The Thirty |
second is in command of Colonel Louis A |
.Taig.
The transport Grant will probably take |
away the Thirtieth Regiment. She will
come in TO the Government wharf to-day
and the supplies for the Thirty-hrst that
are aboard will be unloaded. The Thir-
tieth Regiment was to have sailed on the
Sherman, but as that vessel has been de-
layed by the boier-makers' strike and the
Grant Is ready for sea the men will go on
The hospital ship Relief has been de-
layed again. She was TO have sailed yes
terday. but fresh orders came from Wash
lugtOn and 1t may be tomorrow before
she gets away. The ninety-eight men
who came out from the East and the
twenty nurses who were TO sail on the
vessel have been ordered TO other trans
ports. so the Relief will carry only her own
crew and two or three doctors. She will
t8ke on an extra supply Of coal here and
may go via Guam and not call at Homo
lulu al ALL
There has been no spread of the small
pGX at the detention camp. There are
seventeen men being held, three of whom
nave the disease ana two more are sus.
pected. These are kept in one section Of
the camp and the other fourteen are kept
away from them. No more cases have
been reported from the regiment at Angel
Island.
Major Junius L. Powell, surgeon
nited states army has been appointed
nj the Preside, and also as medical in
spector Of all camps AT the post.
A detachment. TO consist of Second
Lieutenant Richard A. Rickard. United
States Volunteer Signal Corps, two signal
serEeants, a corporal and eleven signal
men. have been ordered 70 proceed to Ma
Mia on the Sheridan when she sails. The
men are now at Angel Island.
Lieutenant Colonel Marion p. Maus, in
spector general. United States volunteers.
has been ordered to the Department OF
Columbia TO make inspections of the posts
in that department.
detachment of 400 assigned recruits
now at the Preside will sail on the Sheri-
dan for Manila.
The men will be organized into one bat
talon Of three companies, under Captain
Edward T. Winston, Nineteenth Infan
try: Second Lieutenant William B. Gra-
ham Thirty-sixth Infantry, United
States volunteers; Second Lieutenant Ed
ward MCGOWAN. Thirty-sixth Infantry,
United States volunteers, and Second
Lieutenant Lewis w. Cass. Thirty
seventh Infantry, United States volun-
teers.
Acting Assistant Surgeon Fred w. Pal
rner has been assigned to duty at the
general hospital at the Preside.