The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-01
WILL RUSH TROOPS INTO CUPB
VAN or THE ARMY SAILS FROE
NEW YORK WEDNESDAY.

W~AsHTH0ToN. Sept. 3O.-rhe first expe-
dition of the army for the ~sccupation Of
Cuba will get under way next Wednesday.
when the transport sumner will leave New
York for Havana with two battalions Of the
Fifth Infantry from Plattsburg barracks,
n. Y. and a battalion OF engineers from
Washington barracks. District OF Column
bia. The Sumner Is expected TO reach
Havana and land the troops next Saturday.
Within n day or two thereafter other
vessels going from Newport News will put
more Of the expedition OF Cuban soil. and In
less than two weeks the whole organization
Of more than 5,8OO men will he doing active
duty under the direction OF Secretary Taft.
Conditions in Cuba now seem SO peaceful
that tho Hr-t expedition Is likely to be-
come the entire army Of occupation
Thu belief here is that n second expedition
will be unnecessary. and that the troops
already ordered away from the United
States will be enough 10 handle the situa-
ton. If il does become necessary to send
more soldiers there will doubtless 10 two
cor three other expeditions. for II the sitIa-
ton becomes so serious that more than
1000 men from the army arr needed then
it will he difficult to get along with less
than $1,000 or 10000.
Tonight. or at all events tomorrow
morning, special trains will he under way
bearing troops toward Newport News.
Two officers. Major Mann Of the General
Stan Corps and Major Slavins Of the
Qlartermaster's Department. are now at
Newport News making preparations for a
reception Of the expedition which will
mobilize there. Brig. Zen. Theodore j.
Wint. commanding the Department az
Missouri. who has been designated 60 take
charge Of the camp at Newport News. will
reach Washington on Tuesday. After "a
conference here with the officials Of the
War Department he will start for New
port News. arriving there ON Wednesday
morning.
In his message last night to the War
Department ordering ont the troops Presi-
dent Roosevelt, in speaking Of the expedi-
ton used the words 5000 troops" At
the War Department tonight it was said
that the President used the term for the
convenience of round numbers, and that
there will he no additional troops which
would bring up to 5000 the number ordered
TO accompany the first expedition.
The Var Department was exceedingly
| busy to-day. Nearly all OF the bureaus
had their full force OF clerks at work. The
Quartermaster Generals Office accom-
! plished much. Next Thursday night
thirteen merchant vessels to be utilized
FOR the transportation of troops will sail
from New York for Newport News. Quarter
master-Geneval Humphrey tonight tele-
graphed President Corey Of the United
States Steel Corporation saying that the
War Department is nXious 10 obtain the
steamship Missouri. which the corporation
controls by charter. The QuaTtermaster-
General could find good lie for the Missouri.
She is a big ship and could carry many
soldiers. She is due to arrive at Newport
News tonight. The thirteen transports
which will get away from New York on
Thursday have n capacity Of about $50
men, so there will be no difficulty about
getting the troops o,:t of the United States.
The Quartcrma Il er- General has con-
clud"d the purchase OF more fhan $50
horses and muieS, which viii he sent 20
Cuba. The number Includes $50 cavalry
hurse~. jD0 riding horses for Use by infantry
OrGcrticT. engineer and OF hers not regularly
equipped with hprNc~; tN lrarghf mules
for wagons ?20 mack mules and lOO riding
mules. Some Of he animals will lie ShIpped
from Newport News. bur probably most
of them will gG over 10 CIhd from Tampa.
Arrangements have already been nude for
the Transportation from Tamp1 10 Havana
ri two pick trains ard the Four'Aenth
RIttpry Of acid Artillery from Fort Shcri-
Ian. III.
Bids will he OPENED in the War Depart
mon, On October - for - artillery horscs,
10 draUght miIIe,' and i5a pack mule Tho
horses and miles already p%urchased arc
now being shipped to points designated by
the Ouartcrmanter-(icneral
4 despatch to The m litarv secretary of
the army tonight from Lieut.-tien. Mac
Arthur, commanding the Pacific Division,
said that the hospital CORPS comTany or
dersd from the Preside Of san Francisco
will start cast tomorrow morning. Another
message Said that the Seventeenth and
Eighteenth batteries Of mountain artillery
from Vancouver barracks would start for
Newport News from their station soma
time to-day. It will probably take tho two
batteries eight or ten days to get from
Vancouver TO the Atlantic.
When the official list Of the regiments to
go with the first expedition was made public
at the War Department it contained the
name Of Col. W. VI. Wallace as commander
OF the two hsttalions of the Fifteenth In
rantry from Fort Ethan Allen. This after
noon il wa" announced that Col. Wallace
retires from the Regular service to-day by
law. and that Lieut. G George +. Chase
Of the Twelfth Cavalry will M advanced
TO the rank Of Colonel and will succeed
Col. Wallace in command Of that regiment.
The War Depart ment worked all last night
sending out orders 10 the various o~rganiza-
lions of the first expedition. No time was
lost, and within ten minutes after the word
came from President Roosevelt the orders
we're on the telegraph wires. They had all
been prepared and signed and were on the
desk II Major-Gen. Ainsworth, the military
secretary, who was merely waiting to hear
from the President.
A a precautionary move the Navy De-
part ment has ordered the cruiser Des
Moines from Cicnfue COS to Santiago de
Cuba. The Dcs Moines was the second Of
the ships TO I've ordered to Havana when II
became appar rent that a force Of marines
might he necessary for the DrOtRction Of