Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1911-03-16
TROOPS IN BOTH CAMPS
SECURE RATloNs FOR FOUR
MONTHS STAY.
GIVES WAR-LlKE SPECTACLE
Scout Cruiser Salem and over a Thou.
sand Officers and Men Now
at Galveston.

real reasons for the mobilization of
troops in Texas and along the Mex
lean border seem to have been made
known through the medium of dis
patches from Washington the army
connections at Fort Sam Houston,
where the largest concentration camps
will be located, are watching with in
terest the result of the war depart
ment's effort to effectively concentrate
the troops at given point in short
space of time. So far the results are
gratifying to the army officers located
at San Antonio, and 1t is believed that
the movement will be complimentary
to the army as whole.
The troops which have arrived were
the Seventeenth Infantry, Colonel Van
Orsdale commanding, from Fort Nc.
Pherson, Georgia; the Eleventh Caval-
ry, Colonel James Parke recommending,
from Fort Oglethrope, Georgia, and
Company ID of the signal corps from
Fort Leavenworth, Lieutenant Sebring
sc. McGill, commanding.
Within seventy-two hours after the
orders to mobilize at Fort San Houston
were given the Seventeenth Infantry,
stationed at Fort Mcpherson, Ca, was
in camp at Fort Sam Houston, Tex.
To accomplish this movement an en-.
tire regiment of infantry, with COM
missary wagons and mules, and ten
days rations, band and all field equip
ment belonging to that body of troops
was moved 1,400 miles across half
dozen states and over several different
lines of railways.
The actual movement consumed only
forty-three hours. The orders to mobil-
ize at Fort Sam Houston were received
at Fort Mcpherson on Monday after.
noon.
1t was not until Tuesday afternoon
that the railroad company had supplied
sufficient baggage cars, The regiment
arrived at San Antonio OIL Thursday
evening, consuming forty-three hours
including all stops. Colonel Van Ors-
dals, commanding the regiment, states
that he could have arrived eleven
hour-sssooner with his men by running
ahead of his transportation and camp
equipment, but he desired to arrive
at his destination in proper condition
to go into camp.
One of the significant developments
is the orders by Colonel Glen, chief
quartermaster, to secure supplies for
10000 men for four months. This is
regarded as conclusive evidence that
the troops will be in Texas or that
San Antonio will remain as the base
of supplies for that number of men at
least four months.
Contracts were awarded for a large
amount of commissary supplies.
Galveston, Tex,-Developments in
the great war game which is being car.
ried on partly through Forts Crockett,
San Jacinto and Travis, located at Gal.
weston Island, were the arrival and an
choring of the scout cruiser Salem,
the arrival of a number of additional
companies of coast artillery, the arriv.
al of Brigadier General n. L. Mills,
and the establishment of the regiment
al staff.
The companies that arrived Satur-
day were the Fifth, the Ninety-ninth
and the One Hundred and Seventeen
OF Fort Morgan. The officers are Cap
tain FL. X. Taylor of the Seventy fifth,
Captain Charles l.. Lanham of the
Ninety-ninth and Captain M. M. Mills
of the One Hundred and Seventeen.
The three lieutenants are Nathan Ho-
witt, Lieutenant Warren Bell and
Lieutenant H. S. Hemingway. Three
other lieutenants who We're absent
from the company and will join their
commands later are First Lieutenant
A. j. Cooper, First Lieutenant Gardner
and Second Lieutenant R. II. Smith.
Two mere companies from Fort Baran-
acas, Pensacola, the Fifteenth and the
Twenty-fifth arrived in camp, making
a, total of six OF the twelve companies
necessary to complete the first regi-
ment. A special train of two sections,
consisting of seventeen cars, one sleep
err, six day coaches, four box cars, two
stock and two fiat cars, brought the
troops and their equipment to the city.
Later three more companies arrived at
Fort Crockett being companies Seven
ty-second, Seventy-fourth and One
Fort Shumen, Captains G. C. Burt, G.
B. Smith and w. c. Murray in COM
mand,