The San Francisco call., 1899-09-20
MORE SMALLPOX
IN LUCKLESS
TH|RTY-F|RST
Two More Cases Sent
Away.

sent from among the men who have been
held IN detention since the first case broke
out, and the other was taken sick while
on his way over 10 Angel Island.
The regiment itself has been sent over
TO the big detention camp on Angel ISL
ana. and there il Will stay for week or
more. or until all possible cases have had
an opportunity TO develop. 1t was while
the Mcdowell was taking over the first
section of the regiment that one of the
men showed symptoms Of smallpox. How
he had been overlooked by the surgeons
OF the regiment is a mystery, but while
on his way over he was found to be in
fected and he was sent back at once. The
McDowell was sent into quarantine her
self as result, and her crew Will have to
remain over at the island for a week
any y ay, while the vessel herself will have
TO be fumigated.
There Will be established a camp of de-
teLuon out near where the smallpox hos
pltal is located. and hereafter every sus-
pected case must go out there TO await
the development of his symptoms. There
are now eleven suspects ana three pa
tients. One Of the new patients is Will
liam Tombaugh-the one who went from
the Mcdowell is not known. Both are
from Company NJ.
As soon as the Thirty-firsu was out of
Its camp a squad OF men under the direc-
Jlon OF Colonel Greenleaf. inspecting sur
geon. went at the work of dIsinfeCting
the place ana preparing ii for the accom-
mediation Of the Thirty-third Regiment,
which was already in from Texas and
awaiting a cndnCe TO establish itself in
the fTcSldIo. len or twelve tents were
burned with the HOors, and all the prop
efty mat was in them was destroyed. The
gTouEQ all around the tents where White
was quartered was sprlnkleG with lime
and al the ground near the tents burned
was summary treated. Then the Thirty
thlrd regiment was allowed to come IN.
IAeIe j. no danger OF infection TO the
TmrtY-thiru, according TO the surgeons,
IoI they say ample means to disinfect the
camp have been taken
The quarantining of the Thirty-first
regiment may mean a change Of orders
tCT the Iwenty-seventh or the Thrtieth.
Inc Twenty seventh Is under orders to
!eaNe on the Tacoma and the Elder, TIE
trst scheduled to sau yesterday 1t may
be that the regiment Will be sent on the
Grant instead, or the Thirtieth, under
orders 10 sail on the Sherman on the 2lSt
inst, may leave on the Grant. leaving the
Sherman to be taken later by the Thirty
nrSt The Ihlrty-seC Ond will arrive from
: CTt LeaNenWorth, kanS.. Tomorrow un-
less delayed, and something must be done
TO make room. If the transports leave on
time there Will not be much trouble but
II they are delayed by the strike there will
he a blockade OF troops here until more
room can be made for them.
The camps Of the volunteers being mus
tered out might be used, but there will
not be much room there until after this
week. As IT is now, the camps are full. !
but the California men will be mustered |
out tomorrow, leaving room for a three
battalion regiment. Before that time, !
however. the Zealandia and the Valencia
VIII probably be in with the three bat
IdliOnS of the Montana Regiment and the
camp VIII again be full until Saturday
when the TWO battalions of the Idaho
Regiment and the Wyoming battalion will
be mustered out That Will leave room
Tor full regiment, until the end of the
month anyway.
There have been promotions in the new
ly arrived TWenty-siXth Regiment owing
10 the vacancy caused by the appointment
OF Lieutenant COlOuel DuVall TO be colonel
of one OF the still newer regiments. Ma
Jor Joseph 7. Dickman has been made
lieutenant colonel. Captain Guy v Henry
OF Company II has been made major
Battalion Adjutant and First Lieutenant
William NJ. COnneu has been made cap
Avery Of Company L has been made bat
talon ad5utant Second Lieutenant Harry
J.. ComslOCk Of Company r has been
made FIRST lieutenant of Company L and
SC:-canJ MAJOR q. r. B. MacIresor has |
been made Il second Lieutenant in Com
il rv J.. AdCGIegOr was formerly an Of |
teer in one Of the Rhode Island COM
Mands, but there was no room or him as
ii commissioned officer with The Twenty
sixth, so he went along as sergeant major. |
lie has been given the lrSt chance for a !
commission that has appeared in the regi- |
ment
The promotions in the Twenty-sixth
were made strictly according 10 the mill |
tary rule. The senior major was made |
lieutenant colonel the senior captain was |
made major. the senior first lieutenant |
was given the next opening and the senior |
second lieutenant was also put ahead. Ii |
has been different with the troops that |
have come home from Manila. In their |
case the promotions have been by com |
panies, in the old National Guard fashion |
W hen q captain Of a company has been |
put up, his two lieutenants have followed |
him. and a sergeant from his own com |
f1u FlT. Il IN VOC
among the commissions. In the case of |
the California Regiment, the senior first |
sergeant. Henry 7. Hicks. was made ser |
geant major in place of Percy l.. Badt |
who was given a commission and there |
he has remained. In the meantime there |
have been vacancies in several companies |
but the resulting promotions have always |
been 10 the officers in the same company |
and the new officers have been drawn |
from among the nOn-Commissioned off |
GERS of the same company. The officers |
and nOn-commiSsionedo officers on the staff |
have remained as they were. Hicks has |
seen seven years service in the National |
Guard during most of which time he has |
worn cheVrons. and he has been passed by |
men who went out as corporals or pri- |
Yates.
Tomorrow will see the last of the First |
California Volunteer Infantry, for then |
the mustering-out ofhcer Will complete his |
work The command will leave the service |
lust as 1t entered it, with this exception-it |
will have fewer men. 1t was at one time !
ordered that the regiment be made to |
conform to the terms of the new law, but |
the mastering officers have decided that
n cannot have all the new law allows.
Principal Musician Aitken has been again
made a principal musician, after having |
been reduced to the ranks and then made
a sergeant of the band, to comply with |
the new law First Lieutenant Otto
quartermaster, has been
denied the extra bar the new law allows
him, and Commissary Sergeant Arthur B.
Clifford has been denied the commission
also allowed by the new law. 1t has been
decided by the mastering off1cers that
regiment can have only those officers that
il started with yet the law ordering the
out of volunteers declares that
fhev shall be mustered out under the act
IF Congress approved April %, 1898, which
saws nothing about allowing only the
original number of officers and which pre-
scrfhes the new officer.
The Thirty-third Regiment. which ar
lived Yesterday. is commanded by Colonel
ruther b. Hare The lieutenant colonel
& John j. Brereton and the majors are
Marcus D. Cronin, Peyton c. March and
Tohn A. Logan. Major March will be re-
nembered as the commanding officer Of
he Astor Battery. who made such rec
,rd for military eMclusiveness while on
lis way to Manila with his command
ear ago. Major Logan is the son of Gen
raj John A Logan. March is already in
Manila where he has been on the staff OF
General Macarthur.
A detachment of $50 assigned recruits
low awaiting transportation at the Pre-