The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-08-13
ACTIVITY AMONG TROOPS.
9u,trterniaster's Department Busy in
Transferring Various Commands.

9u.srtermaster's Department Busy in
Transferring NarIous Commands.
NEW YORK, Aug. 13.-The Quartermas-
teT's Department of the Army worked hard
all day yesterday transferring troops be-
tween different points in the harbor- At
1856 I. m. the transport Sedgwick left
Quarantine. where she had been anchored
since Saturday afternoon, with the First
Battalion of the Eleventh Infantry, in
Guiding Companies A. B, c, and O-S59 men
in all-and also squadron of the battalion
OF infantry and Col. w. A. Rafferty, was in
charge of the cavalry. The Sedgwick went
to the Government pier, in Brooklyn. By
O'Clock all The troops had been transfer
red to feTryboatS and tugs.
Company ID was sent to Fort Ethan AL
len, Vermont The tug Katherine Fran
cesca of Governors Island, took Companies
\, B, and c of the same battalion to Fort
Columbus. They will do garrison duty
IN place of the two companies Oh the Fifth
Artillery which have been sent back to
their home stations, Fort Wadsworth and
Fort Hamilton.
The squadron of the Fifth Cavalry start
ed fer Fort Myer, Va. over the PennsyI-
yanai Railroad from Jersey City.
The steamboat Nashua of the Fall River
Line, arrived early yesterday morning with
Light Battery C. of the Seventh Artillery,
Johnson was in command The Nashua
went to the Fail River Line pier, North
River, and the troops stayed on board.
Some time during the forenoon today they
Will leave for San Francisco over the Del
aware, Lackawanna, and Western Rail-
road
In the battery are sixty-five men, tWen-
ty-fiFe of whom are short term men, who
will be exchanged in San Francisco for
long term recruits. They carry with them
six guns and ninety-fve horses. Each man
had one pound of tobacco and a brier pipe,
given him by Miss Hamilton Fish Web
ster on Friday, before the battery left
Newport for this city.
The other two batteries of the Seventh
Artillery are also hurrying toward the Pa
cifc Coast. One of them is equipped as a
heavy siege battery, said to be the only
one IN the United States Army. It's guns
are all heavy Some OF them are Of Finch
caIibFe. and they have to be mounted on
platforms and can be moved only with
great difficulty. This battery. under COM
mand of Capt John r Williams. arrived
at San Francisco on Saturday afternoon
from Fort Riley, Kansas. 1t had with it
a part Of the heavy equipment. The re-
mainder viii be sent to China fr0r. Md
Mia. The siege guns will not be useu M
less Pekin holds out and has t. be be
sieged.
Inc transport CTOOh arrived yesterday
afternoon from Havana with $50 men Of
the First and 11S men of the Second In
fantry. They will be sent to their home
posts in the West, later. il is thought
probable, to be ordered 10 China. No more
troops for the present at least will be
withdrawn from Cuba, Army officers say,
for the situation there will not allow of
further Withdrawals. Neither will more
men than those now under orders for SER
vice in China be taken from stations east
of the Mississippi If any more regulars
are to be despatched to the Orient they
must come from posts in the West.
Col John I. Rodgers. the commandment
at Fort Hamilton. is getting the battery
of the Fifth Artillery ready for a e2H ts
China This morning the men started on
a march to Montauk Point, and every day
until ordered West they viii do seine ac-
tive work to prepare fer a possible CAM
pGign.