The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-01
The 2lST READY
FOR A LONG TRIP
FOR PHILIPPINES DE-
LAYED TILL OCT. 81,
Officers Have Their Household Effects
All Packed and the Regiment Will
Move Quickly When the Word Comes
= The 28th, Which Is Coming. Is
New Regiment.

One more month } has s been granted the
stay at beautiful Fort Smelling. @ GIG
The order to vacate the twin city post
first designated Sept. 30 as the time for
leaving, but an additional order ex-
tending the date to Oct. 81 has been re-
ceived from Washington. The extern
son of time is to permit the Twenty
Twenty-first here, to complete the target
season at San Francisco.
The interior OF the pretty brick resi-
dences known as "Offcers' Row. fully
demonstrates how unsettled everything
is with the regiment. Bric-a-brac is
all packed away, draperies are down,
walls, are bare. The order extending
the time of departure was not received
till the men had all the things they de-
/ sired to take with them packed ready
for shipment. on the first given, date.
When the regiment does go, it will be in
two special trains-the line Of road
yet to be, decided-with San Francisco
the first destination.
1.-The tWenty.-first regiment regrets
very much having to leave the twin
cities,'' said Lieutenant Colonel Gard
ner, "because of the unusual hospi-
tality shown army people by the. resi-
dents of both Minneapolis and St.
Paul. I have made many warm friends
during my stay at Smelling, and my ex:
all men and officers of the regiment.
Jan. Is the twenty-frst will leave
the rresidio, San Francisco, for Manil
la. None Of the men of the regiment
have the least idea as to what insulal
post they will be assigned. - H.. -.
A rule governing the sending of
troops to the Philippines is that nc
men shall go who have not at least
two years more to serve from the datt
are many changes in the personnel Of
the regiment. Some thirty men il
each company, barred from going BY
this rule, have re-enlisted for anothe
three years, after being honorably dis
charged to permit them, to do SO
altho their first periods Of enlistment
had not expired. Some 10 to Is pc
pany has expressed a desire to remain
in the states. These will be allowed
to remain at Smelling with the twenty
eighth till their terms of 'enlistmen
end. :; Their places are being file.
/, with raw recruits, whom the petty of
icers are now licking into shape.
All the commissioned officers Of tn
| Philippines, as there is no time limi
) on their commissions. Thirteen ar
: married. The majority of the wives O
f these officers will go with their hus
/ bands to the islands. AS a rule, the
: will take as few household goods wit
t them as possible. The climate ther
n is very severe on Americanm made flu
niture, and then, too, moving is cos
ly. The government provides. fire
. transportation for the wives of so
8 diers, and for 1900 to 1000 pounds {
: household goods for commissioned o
:. ficers according to rank: When.
q comes to moving the contents of eigl
, or nine-roomH houses such as the o
fcers at Smelling occupy, there is
, lot of excess weight for which tt
= respective officers must pay ......o
+ The twenty eighth, which succeed
- the twenty-frst regiment at Snellin
is comparatively new regiment, W,
" only created in 1901, and with hard
:. an exception it's officers are young mt
= and unmarried.