The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-19
To-Day's Arrivals Will Raise the
Number to Participate I'm the
Mnneuvers to Fully 10000.
SPANISH CoLoNELs TROUSERS
MOST BRILLIANT THINGS EVER SEEN
ON THE PLAINS OF KANSAS.
War Game-Scope of the First
Days Operations.

FORT RILEY. Kan, Oct. 1S-The largest
military camp ever formed in this country
In time OF peace is now located here on the
government reservation About 1900 men
are here and by tomorrow morning ii is
expected the total will be increased to
1900. The general scope of the maneuvers,
which will be begun in full strength to-
morrow and continue for fortnight, is the
most comprehensive that has yet been ar
ranged. and practically every situation a
soldier can be called on to face in time of
war, save the two so eminently disagree
able. danger Of death and lack of rations,
is comprised in the programme. 1t is safe
to say that from a Sanitary point Of view
no better camp was ever designed. Every
possible arrangement has been made by
Major C. B. Baker, chief quartermaster.
who has laid miles of water pipe, built bath
houses and provided seemingly for every
thing.
The regiments now in camp and TO be
here by tomorrow morning are: Missouri
Provisional Regiment, Colonel G. A. Sim
clair; Texas Provisional Regiment. Colonel
Henry Hotchins; Second Nebraska, Colonel
j. W. O'Donnell: First Kansas. Colonel w.
s. Metcalf; Second Kansas, Colonel p. w.
Hoisington; Fifty-fifth Iowa, Colonel j. r..
Lincoln; Battery A, Kansas Artillery. Cap
tain Downing; Battery 3, Kansas Artillery,
Captain Pattison. All of these regiments
with the exception of the F'ifty-fifth Iowa
aud a few companies of the Second Ne
braska arrived before nightfall. The regu-
lar troops comprise the Sixth, Second,
Twelfth and Twenty-first Infantry regi-
ments, eight squadrons each of the Fourth,
tU ofth nxgo lrty oil C a q
TALON OF engineers under Major Leach, and
the following batteries of light artillery:
Sixth, Seventh. Nineteenth. Twentieth.
ninth. The force is divided into four bri-
gades of infantry, commanded respectively
by Brigadier Generals Grant, Bell and
Barry, of the regular army. and Hughes, of
the Kansas National Guard.
1t is expected that there will be greater
number of foreign military attaches in at
tendance at the present series of maneu-
sion. Colonel Raspopoff. OF the Russian
army, and Colonel Foster and Colonel
Birbeck. of the British army, have been at
Fort Riley for two days Lieutenant
Colonel None Verde. of the Spanish army,
arrived to-day, in uniform that put to
shame anything that ever was shown on
the plains of Kansas, with the possible ex-
ception OF the midsummer sun. His cap
and blouse were dark blue, covered with
gold lace, and his riding trousers of ex-
pansive pattern were OF a vivid scarlet.
and a soldier of excellent record. was re-
ceived with every attention by General
Bates and his officers. Tomorrow Gov
ernor Bailey, of Kansas. is expected to
visit the camp, and later in the week Gen.
Ian Hamilton, of the British army, is to
arrive.
The work for tomorrow will be an at
tack on a rear guard. This is to be COM
manded by Colonel Duncan, of the Sixth
Infantry. which is to march out early in
the morning and at 12:30 Is to start back to
the camp. AS he starts General Barry,
with the remainder OF the troops, will be
after him. and Colonel Duncan must get
into camp the best way he can, and mas
much as he commands as good an infantry
regiment as ever marched, and has the
reputation of being a capable and ener-
for something doing" The roads have
dried out again, and the weather cannot
be surpassed. although the nights are
somewhat cool.