The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-08-08
Garonne and PAX Ling Depart
Amid Scenes of Enthusiasm.
WILL FIRST STOP At KOBE.
While Taku Il Supposed TO He Ultt-
mate Destination. ON Arriving Mt
Japanese Port Secret Cable Or
ders From Washington VIII
Await Lieut.. Col. Lebo-0n These
VIII Depend Disposition Of Troops

The United States transport Garonne,
with the officers and enlisted men OF the
First cavalry aboard. sailed for China at
o'clock yesterday afternoon.
Two long blasts OF the steamers deep
throated whistle at 4:sO O'Clock called all
enlisted men aboard Two more. at AS.
and all the officers and men OF the regi-
ment were massed on the transports
decks. in the rigging. on the rails. and
every or any place that commanded a
view Of the dock and the crowd OF friends
assembled TO bid them farewell
To add to the gayety OF the occasion. the
regimental band thrilled the throng OF
relatives. well wishers and friends as the
boat moved from the dock. and the music
came back over the water from the slowly
departing ship.
The PAX Ling. with its $50 horses and
eleven ambulance mules. pulled out for
the Orient fifteen minutes later.
The Garonne will reach port some days
In advance of her. The troop ship will
pass through the inland sea from yoko-
hama to Nagasaki on her way to Taku.
stopping perhaps at Kobe, at which point
the PAX Ling also stops for sealed orders.
III the Garonne makes this stop, as IL ex-
pected. she will take two days to coal.
taking on a full allowance. and then re-
sumo the voyage to Taku, which Is three
days journey from Kobe. The Garonne.
1t is expected. will reach Nagasaki In
about eighteen days. which will be ON or
about August %.
The loading OF the PAX Ling was COM
pleted at noon yesterday. and she was in
readiness to depart long before the Ga
ronne's troops had their personal effects
slowed away in quarters.
Well Arranged for Comfort.
On the troop ship everything for the
comfort OF officers and men Is to be found.
the officers will be quartered In the COM
modious state rooms opening into the af-
ter saloon: no one will be crowded. for
there are enough rooms so that each OFF,
GER including second lieutenants. will be
In command of hts own quarters. On the
main deck, orlap deck and tween decks
the troopers will find comfort In the wire
spring cots provided for them These beds.
together with the superior facilities for
cooking are seldom found on the army
transports.
The officers OF the First who sailed on
the Garonne are:
Troop X. Fort Niobara, Neb First
Lieut.. J. ID. Hartman; Second Lieut..
Fitch
Troop G. Fort Robinson, Neb.-Frrst
Lieut.. NJ F. Davis; Second Lieut.. c. $
Troop A. Fort Robinson. Neb.-capt
capt j. q. Galbraith. ~ ~"
Troop l.. Fort Logan-Capt. F. A. Ed
wards.
Troop I-capt John Pitcher; Second
! Lieut.. Fitzhugh Lee, jr.
Troop d. Fort Yates First Lieut.. John
Troop M. Yellowstone park--capt. Oscar
J. Brown: First Lieut.. William Yates.
INSTRUMENTATION. Col Lebo; Lieut.
Arnold. adjutant; First Lieut. Traub. act
ing ouartermaster and commissary: Capt.
Poihemus. assistant surgeon; acting as
sistant surgeons. Hack and wetherilI
SQUADRON commanders Maj Allan
Smith: Maj r. X. Ward.
The ships officers are. Captain. C. G..
Conrad; chief officer. MIR. Golightly; Sec
ond officer. Mr.. law: third Officer. Mr.
Hughes; fourth officer. Mr.. Perry; chief
sprague: DR.. Philpot
Fate In secret Orders.
While probably none OF the officers
ABOARD either Of the vessels officially
Know their exact destination. all are
China. provideding the great questions in
the far East are not settled before their
arrival That this will not be their for
tune all left here convinced.
Their hours of doubling are past how
ever. for only a few days ago general or
ders from Washington to the comman ding
oncer, when posted at headquarters were
noticed to bear a significant change. The
wording department OF the Philippines"
had been dropped, and Instead they read
for service In China" Therefore the Ca
rome and PAX Ling. with their human
freight auartermaster stores. animals and
troop accouterments. are the first vessels
70 leave the port OF Seattle to do service
In the land ~ tho barbarous Boxers
The secret orders awaiting the vessels al
Japanese ports mus, be opened before lhe
commanding officer Lieut.. Col. t.ebo. will
know what disposition Is to be inside Of his
force. These orders VIII go forward from
Washington BY wire and their dispatch
win be DELAYED as late as possible. 80 rs
20 permit Of their receipt by Col. I.ebo
Immediately upon hls arrival What they
Will he Win depend on the developments
that arise between the date OF sailing and
arrival at Kobe. In case the trouble was
at an end they would. n Is said direct the
command 10 go 10 the Philippines. In
case the uprising should threaten 10 dis
turb or endanger Shanghai or other ports
on the China coast, II Il said the First
cavalry migh, he diverted from Taku and
sent 20 relieve one or other OF the dis
turh~d centers
Therefore. II Is said. the necessity for
secret orders, the receipt 81 which means
the duty assigned TO the troops 10 whom
Seattle Yesterday said Eood-hy