The sun., 1909-02-15
EIGHT HUNDRED FOR MANILA
SOLDIERS BOARD THF Kill
PiTRTCK, GOING EAST.

The six ship's Cats Of the United State
Army transport Fitzpatrick, moored at tn
quartermasttr's dock at the foot OF Wa
street. had a chance 70 take the air on tn
main deck yesterday; so also did Quarter
master Captain j. d. Tilford. Secon
Field Artillery. II was the first time 1
a crowded forty-eight hours that the cat
aud Capt. Tilford had enjoyed any respit
from the work Of whipping store
into the holds and licking the transpor
into shape for the reception OF the 30
officers and men from Wyoming and tn
forts about New York harbor who sail Of
Wednesday for two years service in tn
Philippines.
Tha first Of the soldiers who. are To q,
out to do duty in the forts on Corregido
Island and Snbig Bay got into town earl,
yesterday morning and began 70 stov
themselves awav on the ship as handil,
as they would make camp at tho end OF I
long days hike along the Snake River
These were the men from Batteries f anc
+ OF tbe Second Field Artillery, stationed
at Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoming. Col
Sidney Taylor. commanding. managed r.
get the entire ali officers and men acros,
the foot Of Wall street on schedule time
1t is no fault Of Col Taylor that the
Fitzpatrick does not sail tomorrow as per
original sohednle.
The men from about New York were the
ones who had yet to be slowed away in
the, ststerooms and tween decks cots
yeHerday. These, under command of
Major Hearn. are 10 go down to the Kill
patrick on Monday and Tuesday. stow
their mountains Of luggage and quarter
masters boxes and be ready 10 face east
ward early "Wednesday morning. They
nre all Of the Coast Artillery Corps the
Ffftieth Company from wadsv orth. Fifty
first from Hamilton. Fifty fourth from
Totten and Fort Hancock's crack Fifty
fifth.
The overcoete officers who strolled the
Rilpatrick's saloon deck yesterday said
that this movement Of the troops from the
forts about New York was something Of o
departure from custom, and that hen the
news that one company was TO he picked
from the big gun shooters Of Hancock
Totten ard the others came out in genera!
orders from Washington on Decem-
ber Fl there must have bden the
keenest kind Of speculation. boosted
by hope, as to which company at each
fort vas to be chosen for the long hike
across the water, Not since battery NJ
of. the old artillery formation was sent
ont from Hancock directly to the Philip
pines at the time AgIinaldo vas kicking
up his heels has a detachment been with
drawn directly from any Of the forts about
the hay for service duty in the Philippines
That il the reason why the officers and
-jerries down az Sandy Hook and up in the
Narrows have welcomed the cruise in the
Fitzpatrick as very much Of an antldote
for ennui.
Almost every soldier in the Wyoming
contingent that took up quarters on the
transport yesterday had been TO the
Philippines before; a good many Of them
knew what was the meaning OF the lovely
infighting with the Moros in some volcano
crater. But like the boys from the New
York f?-ts. they have always gone around
the other way. out OF San Francisco on the
old Grant or Sheridan. This time it is
To he the SueZ
Quarternaster Tilford thinks that this |
is to be such an innovation in army cir !
cies about the East here that he has turned |
out handsome little aluminium souvenirs, |
comfortable for mailing 10 best girls |
and such, On the face Of the glazed sheet /
Of metal are the magic words of the East
ern spell that call to those bitten by the |
wanderlust-Aden,C Colombo. Singapore |
and the rest. Gibraltar is TO be the first
stop, and Manila will he reached on April |
10 or thereabout. The Fitzpatrick likes
to loaf along at twelve or fifteen knots;
she carried cows before gaining the
dignity Of the starred shield at her prov.
The fitzpatrick ambled up here from
Newport News at the end Of last week
and she must have struck something
Interesting in the line Of squalls en- route
for the rigging on both foremsst and
mainmast looked bit frayed yesterday.
But Quarternaster Tilford has spent
a whole lot of the Governments money
on paint. bras$and fixtures. aud from the
in her officers staterooms to
the last yard OF thing in her sick bay the
was "a clean and inviting a
place TO live for sixty days as any second
class liner to Glasgow or Copenhagen.
Though they had Just dropped in.from
Wyoming. the soldiers who took up quar-
ters on the transport yesterday had no
in making themselves comforta-
ble. The company cook from Fort ID. A.
Russell, who had known the simplicity :
~ the mess cook stove out in the West.
took of his coat and went into the galley
off the main deck to study the ,
profundities Of the stationary vegetable ,
kettles, the roasting oven and other !
mechanical aids TO the culinary art that
are not known to camp cooks in Wyo- 7
ming. He had a curry stew going promptly
at 3 o'clock. and the regular ships cook :
took his ease with his pipe.
Over in the scullery attached TO the I
mess for the privates the doughboys who t
lad worn their thumbs into hickory knots '
Deeling spuds out at the fort found blessed 3
relief. There was patent potato parer
which shucks of the jackets by friction. (
an invention Of an army officer, Capt.
Tilford explained, and a boon to cooks I
helpers
In the spaces fore and aft along the
main deck and about the matches of the 8
hold the boys from Wyoming found '
heir cots rigged double decker STYLE d
Ind al! lashed together snugly The v
way squads and companies will be slowed I
away along those tiers Of wire and iron 8
pipe will be an eye opener to some of the
-aw ones n
Back in the sick bay. white and smelling f
If disinfectants, is the place where the I,
gun shooters will not want TO go, but p
IL is I'D TO them IN do an thoy yv;iI ha