Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-01-05
THE LOGAN BREAKS RECORD
When the Grant Reaches Manila Otis Will
Have an Effective Force of $4,000.
The Regular and Volunteer Armies in
the Philippines Now Amount
to Over $4,000.

Quartermaster Genera! Ludngton re-
ceived a cable message this morning an
rouncing that the troop ship Logan, which,
left New York November 20 with the 41st
Volunteer Infatry, Col. Richmond COM
manding. arrived at Manila yesterday. She
made the trip in forty-five days, which
breaks the record of forty-nine days held
by the transport Meade The cruisers
Brooklyn and New Orleans. which hold the
record for warships over the same route,
occupied fifty-nine days in making the trip.
Col Charles Bird of the. quartermaster
generals office was a passenger on the Lo-
gan. He is making an official inspection
of the transport service between the United
States and the Philippines, including the
coaling facilities en- route. Having gone to
Manila over the SueZ route. he will return
to the United States by the Pacific route
to San Francisco and in that way will be
able to determine the advantages and dis
advantages of each method of military
transportation.
Gen. Otis Force.
With the arrva! at Manila of the trans
port Grant which left San Francisco on the
21st ultimo with the 18th Volunteer 1nfan-
try (coloredD. General Otis will have COM
mand of an effective force of about 5000
men, The army now in the Philippines
aggregates over 5000. With the arrival of
the Grant the entire volunteer strength of
"a G0 men will be in the Philippines. This
includes the 18th Volunteer Infantry, al
ready stated, and the 41st Volunteer Infan-
try. which left New York on the transport
Logan. November ~. The authorized
strength of the volunteer army is $4,000
men divided into twenty-five regiments.
but most of these regiments are short of
their complement of 1.3H1 men, and the
actual strength of the volunteer army is
about 34,Gn. The organization of these
regiments began about the end of July,
and their movement to the Philippines
closed with the departure of the Grant
from San Francisco on the 21st ultimo
That regiment was delayed several weeks
at San Francisco by the appearance of
smallpox in its ranks The only volunteer
cavalry regiment in the service-the 11th
Cavalry-is in the Philippines
The regular organizations in the Philip
pines are Companies A and B, United
States Engineer Battalion; headquarters,
A. c, d. f. F, K. L and NJ, Sd Cavalry; the
4th Cavalry: f. 1st Artillery; G, H, X and
l., 23d Artillery; F, ith Artillery; F, 9TH
Artillery; headquarters, A, B, c. D, E, F,
C, Fl. l.. VI, y and o, 9th Artillery: Sd In
fantry, 4th Infantry. 9Th Infantry, 9th In
fantry. 18th Infantry. 18th Infantry, 1ith
Infantry, 10th Infantry, 18th Infantry, 18TH
Infantry. 18th Infantry. 2tth Infantry. 21st
Infantry, 22d Infantry, 23d Infantry: head
quarters. A, c, E, F, g, Fl, 1 and K, 24th
Infantry: headquarters, B, E, f, H, /, *,
L and NJ. 25th Infantry.
1t is expected that General Otis will util-
ize his forces SO far as possible in garrison
ing the principal cities of the archipelago,
in the preservation of peace and good or
der and in the maintenance of free and full
commercial intercourse with the islands,
pending the establishment of permanent
form Of government in the Philippines.