El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-03-10

compartments to the army and navy
movement southwark adds TO the sig
nificance of operations. The hospital
ship Solace, equipped as a floating
infirmary, will participate in the ma
neuvers- She will leave Guantanamo
in day or two for New York or Nor
folk with so sick from the battleship
fleet now in Cuban waters, and then
will be fitted out as a medical supply
ship and sent to join the vessels of ad-
miral Staunton's division of the At
lantic fleet, ordered to Guantanamo.
The medical staff of the Prairie and
Dixie the vessels selected to carry the
large force of marines to Guantanamo,
has been increased.
On the Pacific side of the country,
the Buffalo is receiving marines
which are being collected from the
barracks along that shore for trans
,portation 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 this op-
portunity, it is said, to prove the eff
ficiency of his machinery to carry out
emergency orders. Extensive prepare
lions are being made by surgeon gem
eral Torney, Of the army, to care for
the 10000 soldiers being rushed to
the frontier
"a reserve medical supply" which
contains medical supplies for 10000
troops for three months, will be
shipped from st. Louis for San Antonio
today. Two field hospitals, which are
field, are being assembled at st. Louis
from which point they can be de-
spatched southwark.
In addition to four field hospitals
and four ambulance companies, the
surgeon general is rushing to San An
tonic IA regirnental hospitals and
three evacuation hospitals Adequate
medical and hospital facilities also are
being made for the troops which will
be stationed at San Diego, Cal, and
Galveston Texas.
Prepare to Feed Troops.
Comnnissary general Sharpe has is
sued advices to the chief commissa-
ries and purchasing commissaries in
the field to provide for the feeding of
the troops, and, according to advices
received at the war department, COM
Portable arrangements have been made
for the soldiers in this respect
A divisional field bakery, including
large number of bakers and Is ov-
ems, has been ordered to San Antonio.
which is more than ample to bake
Dread Tor $4,000 men.
Orders were sent to all posts yester-
day for report on the amount of
shrapnel and shell ammunition on hand
at the posts
Cruiser to Mexico.
The scout cruiser Chester has sailed
from Pensacola, Fla, for Tampico,
Mexico, and her sister ship. the Salem,
Is en- route from Pensacola to Calves
ton. Texas. Information in regard to
the purpose Of these movements could
not be obtained at the navy depart
ment, which contented itself with the
announcement that they were merely
cruises.
Ships Under Way.
The three big armored cruisers which
for the last few days have been load
ing coal stores and ammunition at
New York for a hurried movement to
the Gulf of Mexico, weighed anchor at
the naval station of Tompkinsville,
Staten Island, shortly after 4 o'clock
yesterday afternoon and steamed out
the narrows
The Tennessee, flagship of rear ad-
miral Staunton. commander of the
fifth division of the Atlantic fleet, led
the way, followed by the Montana and
North Carolina.
The ships which comprise the Pacific
cruiser squadron are either at San
Diego or en- route. The torpedo flo