Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1906-04-27
General Greedy TO be Reinforced
by $500 Men MiIiliamen 10
he Superseded.
GOVERNOR is ANGRY.
Governor Pardec, of California, Visit
ed san Francisco in Defense of the
State TroOps-City Hall and Other
Buildings to BE Restored at Once
ness Section Has Already Started.

san NFRANCISCO, April27. The war
department decided 10 send General
Greely, at San Francisco. 900 more
troops after receiving from him the
following telegram:
"Desire especially TO call attention Of
secretary of war and chief of staff to
necessity for additional troops. Not
only is the present force Inadequate to
fully guard the interests of the city,
but they have been necessarily over
worked in the past and are overtaxed,
Distances are simply enormous and
conditions demanding military action
can best be observed by sending as
large a force of mounted men as is
practica BILE
"The spirit and conduct of the troops.
officers and men, have maintained the
high standing of American army. and
continuance OF physical stress and
mental responsibility is not advisab bic
in the present high tension of affairs"
In another telegram to the war de
partment, urging the sending Of addi-
tional troops, General Greely said:
Estimates from various sources
place the destitute between 200 900 and
250,000, which leaves me but one sol
dier to every hundred destitute people.
and the additional force would give
only two to the hundred. While in
clined myself TO place the number some
what below 100000, yet the Judgment
of others cannot be safely ignored"
General Greely Immediately upon his
arrival in San Francisco when he su-
perseded General Funston, wired for
$500 more men. The department re
queSted him to reconsider the situation
and see if he could not get along with
out them. Friends of General Greedy
here interpreted this action as a snub.
prominent newspaper man, also a
telegraph operator who was being de-
pended upon to send news through
the country, was seized by militia
men and made TO 20 10 work as a
laborer. He was missed by his asso-
ciates, and a search was made for him
in the city of ruins, but not until two
DAYS later was he found.
He was in a state of utter collapse
from loss of sleep, lack of food and
cxerton which few men could have
stood.
This is one of the reasons why Ma
jor General Greedy decided that mill
tiamen and the citizens patrol are not
capable of doing even ordinary patrol
duty and must be superseded by regu-
lar troops.
Three of the handsomest buildings in
San Francisco are to he restored as
soon as men and material can he Sc
cured. The first of these buildings is
the city hall, which will be Immediate
ly rebuilt
President Il. z. Ripley Of the Santa
Fe railroad has given instructions to
Immediately spend the S300,000 recent
ly set aside for the completion of the
companys China basin terminal. This
will give hundreds of men work for
many months.
Coroner Walsh had a gang of men AT
work removing the debris from i'm
front of the Valencia hotel and search
ing the ruins for bodies that might
still remain in that building.
Governor Pardee. visiting San Fran
cisco, brought up the request of Mayor
Schnitz. and his committee for the