The San Francisco call., 1899-10-22
TWO VOLUNTEER
REGIMENTS To
co THIS WEEK
Orders for Departure
Are Issued.

new batch of orders was issued
yesterday in regard to the departure of
the two new volunteer regiments. the
Thirty-f1rst and the Twenty-eighth. and
the order of sailing Of the transports now
In port There has also been a reassign-
ment OF the $50 recruits who have been
ordered to report to General Otis at Man
liza. According to the present arangement
the Manuense will sail tomorrow with
three companies of the, Thirty-first Vol
unteer Infantry, commanded by one field
officer, and 175 recruits, commanded by
Captain w. n. Hughes, Thirteenth Infan-
try The Pennsylvania will also sail to-
morrow with Ito recruits, under the com
mand Of Captain Edward T. Winston,
Nineteenth Infantry, and such other
troops as may be assigned to 1t. Although
1t has not been so announced, the under
standing is that the Pennsylvania will go
from here TO Portland and there embark
a portion Of the Thirty-ninth Volunteer
Infantry. The remainder of that regt-
ment and portion OF the Forty-ffth
Volunteer Infantry will sail from Port
land on the transport Olympia
The transport Newport Will sail about
Tuesday or Wednesday, probably with
portion of the Twenty eighth Volunteer
Infantry, the remainder of the companies
composing that regiment sailing on the
Tartar day or two later
Nine companies of the Thirty-flrst Vol
unteer Infantry have received orders to
sail on the transport City of Picking,
which Will get away about the middle Of
the week.
Dct,!2a14 cagta1n D D Niskern MIS- will go out on the
Newport as qpartermaster, and First
Lieutenant H. L. Laubach will be on the
Pennsylvania in similar capacity.
Captain James I. Hughes, Fourth Cav
cargo of mules and horses. He will sail
from this port on the Centennial about
the middle of the week, and from there
will transship on another transport. not
yet designated for Manila.
The animal transports Conemaugh and
Leenanaw will sail for the Philippines
some time next week with 600 mules.
A detachment, to consist of First Glass
Fred c. Flagg and Second Class Privates
cfawford Ta sF9"hf Il J. w. D6rnbuaeh G9eheeT j. pat
terson, W. r Peyton and j. c. White of
the, signal corps. now at Angel Island,
will sail on the Newport.
The departure of the Twenty-eighth
and Thirty-first regiments this week will
be closely followed by the mastering out
of the Washington and Kansas volun-
charges on October 2S and the former on
November l. By that time also additional
regiments of volunteers will begin to ar
rive from the recruiting camps in the
East, some of them being already on the
road. so that the tented cities on the
military reservation will at no time be
nesSee regiments are also due to arrive
in the course of week or ten days.
The trouble in the camp of the Wash
ington volunteers over the question OF
transportation home has by no means
been settled, although, according to the
men, there is but one way in which it can
be settled, They declare that they have
had enough of transports and that they
propose to return to their homes by train,
whether they go in a body as the guests
of the citizens of Seattle or as individ-
mails The aiTizanG' POmrnitfpa il iG n
derstood are anxious for the boys to re-
turn by transport in order that they may
be welcomed with a grand naval demon
otration on the Sound, as the Californians
were welcomed when they arrived in the
harbor of San Francisco. In view of the
stand taken by the soldiers, however, this
plan is hardly likely to be carried out
The opposition of the volunteers was
briefly set forth by one of their number
yesterday as follows:
"Out of the entire regiment there are
at least 700 who are going back TO Wash
fngton. and we are willing to go in a
body to Seattle and parade because we
city have done for us; but we do not
want to go on a transport, and we don't
intend to, even # we have to pay our
cannot be given good accommodations,
much less first class passage, on trans
port. We have had a little experience in
cleaned up and Strengthened out after our
voyage from Manila we do not want any
more of it.
Colonel Evatt and Adiutant Long Of the
Leicestershire Regiment, which cable re-
ports name as having won distinction in
the victory over the Beers at Glencoe,
South Africa, Friday, are well known to
the officers and men of the California
Regiment to whom they showed many
attentions when the latter were passing
through Hongkong en- route to the Phil
ippines over a year ago. The two Brit
ish officers were afterward sent to Man
fla as military attaches and while there
were entertained in turn by the Califor-
Mans Both Colonel Evatt and Captain
Long became very popular with the
Americans, to whom their good fortune
in battle will be welcome news.
Worship; fine day isn't It?