The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-03-23
PROVISIONS ARE
ORDERED FOR men
WASHINGTON ORDER INDICATES
ONLY HALF OF 10000 WILL RE.
MAIN AT SAN ANTONIO.

SAN ANTONIO, TEX, Special
Colonel John l.. Glenn, Quartermaster
general Of the Department of Texas
has received orders from Washington
TO procure provisions for four months
TOT 10000 men. Twenty thousand
troops are expected to mobilize on the
border, but II Is thought that half that
number Will be detailed elsewhere
than at San Antonio. The order for
these provisions Is generally taken as
proof that the mobilization does not
have drill and field practice for it's
ultimate object. When the Seven
teenth Regiment left Fort Mcpherson
the men jumped to this conclusion
racks with their cheers. The trip
here was made in forty-eight hours
without mishap. They found the
ground northeast of Fort Sam Hous-
ton surveyed and watered. Yesterday
city of tents sprang up. Large tents
are used. 1t took General Joseph w.
Duncan, commander of the Depart
ment OF Texas. just twenty-four hours
to lay q half mile of water pipe into
the camp. despite the fact that there
was not at first enough tubing in town
for the construction. General Duncan,
a SQuRre-tawed warrior with aggress-
i've gray hair and merry eyes, is that
Duncan who whipped the Moros on
the Island Of Jolo so thoroughly sew
eral years ago that they have not
His present position requires him TO
do some twenty or more things at
once. These he does with every ap-
pearance of enjoyment. This spirit
is in evidence everywhere. The camp
is on q gentle slope of the prairie, Of
fering perfect drainage. The temper
allure today ranged around so degrees
but the air was clear and dry. Rain
is rarity. There are two hangers,
one for Lieutenant Foulois and the
xnrr.f nH L.
dove into the Rio Grande, and one for
another, owned by a private individ-
ual. Also in camp are several billion
defunct typhoid bacilli. They are
contained I'm the systems Of three hun
dred members of the Seventeenth and
constitute an anti-toXin against ty-
phoid fever. Use of the serum is not
compulsory. but many of the men are
taking the treatment voluntarily. The
division mobilizing here will be known
as the "Maneuver Division"
The entire provisional regiments Of
coast artillery, composed Of 1925 men
and forty-seven officers, encamped at
San Francisco in readiness to go to
the Mexican frontier, will be inocu-
lated with anti-typhoid serum. in ac-
cordance with orders received from
Washington.
with one-third of the brigade OF
troops TO be concentrated at Calves
ton on the ground and the remain
ing two-thirds en- route on army
transports from Newport News, the
armys invasion of Galveston in the
war game may be said TO be well un-
der way. Brigadier General A. L
Mills, who will command the brigade,
has arrived from Atlanta, and took
up temporary headquarters In the new
hospital building at Fort Crockett. He
announced that he intended to go into
camp with the soldiers as soon as his
tents arrived. Eleven companies Of
Coast Artillery arrived during the dav
completing the first provisional regi-
ment, which Is to be commanded by
Colonel G. J. Bailey, assistant to the
chief OF artillery at Washington.