The Sentinel=record., 1911-03-10
HURRYING ID
 BORDER LINE
FLOATING HOSPITAL HAS BEEN ADDED TO TEXAS WAS EQUIP
 MENT.
Army of 10000 and Score of Warships Begin to Arrive at Concentration Points on the
 Border.

| Washington, March 9.-The scene
 of activity in connection with the
 movement of troops to the Mexican
 border has shifted now to tie long
 line which they will occupy, and off
 cial Washington has become merely .
 place for the receipts of reports show
 ing the progress of the units toward
 their places of rendezvous.
 The extensiveness of the medical
 accompanGments to the army and
 navy in the movement scuthward adds
 to the significance of the operations
 The hospital ship Solace, equipped as
 floating infirmary will participate l in the manuevers
 l She will leave Guantanamo in day
 or two for New York or Norfolk with leighty sick from the battleship fleet
 now in Cuban waters and then will
 be fitted out as medical supply ship in addition to her use as a hfspital
 vessel and sent to join the vessels of Admiral Staunton's division of the Atlantic feet, ordered to Guantanamo
 The medical staff of the Prairie and Dixie. the vessels which have been selected to carry the large force of
 marines to Guantanamo, has been in creased to meet adequately the needs of the increased personnel of the ships.
 On the Pacific side of the country the Buffalo is receiving the marines,
 which are being collected from the
 barracks along that shore for trans tportation to San Diego, and Surgeon
 General Stokes has taken similar pre- cautions for medical assistance to the marines on that vessel
 Admiral Stokes is accepting tais op-
 portunity, it is said to prove the eff
 ciency of his machinery to carry out
 any short notice or emergency or ders that may be issued by the sec retary of the navy. Extensive pre- paraticns are being made likewise by Surgeon General Torney of the navy,
 to take care of the medical needs of the 10000 soldiers for any length of time.
 "A reserve medical supply" which contains medical supplies for 10000 troops for three months, will be shipped from St. Louis for San An tonic tomorrow Two base hospitals, which are the largest used by an ar.
 my in the field are being assembled at St. Louis, from where they can
 be dispatched southward on tele- graphic notice.
 In addition to four field hospitals and four ambulance companies the surgeon general is rushing to the front" at San Antonio IA regimental hospitals. and two evacuation hos |pitals Adequate medical and hospital facilities also are being made for the troops which will be stationed at San Diego, Cal, and Galveston, Tex. Upcn the issuance of the orders to the troops to move to the frontier, Commissary General Sharpe, of the army, quickly issued the necessary adviees to the chief eommissaries and purchasing commissaries in the field to provide for the feeding of the vast array-of troops and, according to the adyiees received ct t.ae war depart ment, comfortable arrangements have been made for the soldiers in this re- spect. A divisional field bakery, in cluding large number of bakers and 15 ovens, has been ordered to San Antonio, which is more than ample to bake bread for 10000 troops.
 The scout cruiser. Chester. which sailed from Pensacola, Fla, last night with her sister ship, the Salem, was sighted tonight off the Galveston, Tex. bar. Definite information in re- gard to the purpose of this movement could not be obtained at the navy de pertinent, which contented itself with the simple announcement that the ships were merely on cruises.