The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-07-24
TROOPS ENRoUTE FROM CUBA

| department, are very busy in looking af-
| ter the troops ordered from Cuba to their
old stations. the belief is general that
the commands will not long be permitted
| to enjoy the comforts Of their home sta
| tons, but after a brief rest will be re-
c'uitcd and sent to the east via San
Francisco. Company E, of the battal-
| ion of engineers, two officers and $50
| men, stationed at West Point, is under
orders to proceed to the Pacific coast
This detachment will get away tomor-
| row. More troops are expected here this
week from Cuba. The transport Rawlins
| is now on the way with part of the Fifth
infantry, which viii go to Fort Sheri-
dan, near Chicago. Two battalions of
the Second infantry, % officers and $50
men, are ON the transport Sedgwick,
which is expected here tomorrow. These
troops will be sent west at once to re-
cuperate and recruit. Orders have been
issued by the Washington authorities to
withdraw the First infantry now sta
toned at Guanajay and Pinar del RIO
in Cuba, and early next month part of
the Eleventh infantry will leave Cuba
A squadron OF the Fifth cavalry has also
been ordered from Cuba to Fort Meyer
Washington. These are the seasoned
troops and 1t is expected that they VIII
be able to give a good account of them
selves if 1t becomes necessary for them
to go to China Army officers stationed
around New York are inclined to the be-
lief that most of the troops now under
orders to so to San Francisco will be
NO TROUBLE TO GET RECRUITS
Army officers say that the Chinese
trouble and the prospects of the United
States troops seeing service in that coun
try have given a genuine impetus to re-
cruiting in this city. Nearly all the
regiments in the service are below their
quotas and the officers in charge Of the
recruiting stations have received orders
to redouble their efforts to secure men
for the regiments now in the feld.i Most
of the applicants, many Of them veterans
Of the Spanish war, want to be assigned
to regiments under orders or likely to
receive orders to go to Asia. No difficult
ty is anticipated by those IN army cir
c!es in securing all the men necessary.
New York, July 22-Tomorrow morning
the troops on the Crook will be landed
and 20 to the Grand Central station,
from where they will go by rail- 10 Fort
Smelling, MINI, where they will recruit
and redt, ready for further orders. Three
battalions of the Fifteenth regiment sta
toned on Governors Island will be TAX
en- from the island tomorrow morning to
the Lehigh Valley depot in Jersey City,
whence they VIII go TO San Francisco
They will take with them two carloaas Of
provisions. medical stores, canvas ware
houses. hardware and entrenching tools.
The First battery OF artillery from Fort
Wadsworth and the First battalion from
Fort Hamilton will take the places Of
these three battalions on the island. Six
teen packers have also been sent 20 Sc
attic, Wash, there 20 join the packing
trains now preparing for service in China.
STORE SHIPS SPECIAL TRIP
Washington. July e3.-The var eeIsrt-
ment IS considering the advisabinty q
sending the Hancock. which sails from
san Francisco July . with four batteries
Of artillery and 60 marines. direct TO
Taku instead Of Nagasaki. These troops
were to have gone % the Meade. which
sails August !. but it has been decided.
owing 70 the urgent necessity Of getting
endorsements 70 China, 70 have the
Hancock make a special trip. she viii
carry stores and provisions only for The
troops in China The Meade. On the Isl
proxlu1o. viii take out one battalion of
the Fifteenth infantry. one squadron az
the Third. cavalry and one company az
engineers from West Point. IN al III
men ard - officers The C-sro-us- csr-