The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-12
FIRST INFANTRY REGIMENT ARRIVES
 ATF0RT CROCKETT
Next Week the Fun Will Commence on the
 Battlefield
SIX MACHINE GUNS
 FOR EACH REGIMENT
Largest Meat Shipment Since Span- ish-American War Leaves Chi cago for Texas-Militia
 Officers Respond

| Galveston, Texas. March 11.-TweIve hundred soldiers are encamped at Fort Crockett, west of Galveston, ready for the next movement. They comprise the l2 companies of coast artillery ordered here from Savannah, Charleston, New Orleans, Mobile and Pensacola to make up the first of the three provisional infantry regiments. Brigadier General A. L. Mills, who will be in charge of the brigade here, has received no orders relative to the movements of troops when they are all assembled. The scout cruiser Salem is still at anchor off Galveston bar awaiting orders.
 The officers who will constitute the staff of Brigadier General A. L. Mills, commanding the first separate brigade now mobilizing at Galveston, are: Lieut.-Col. G. L. Bartlett of the gen. eral staff, Maj. Clarence J. Manley. medical corps; Capt. B. T. Clayton quartermaster's department; Capt. c. O Sherrill, corps of engineers, and Capt. Morton J. Henry, subsistence depart ment.
 | General Mills has been instructed to detail from the officers on duty with brigade an acting brigade adjutant and an acting judge advocate. | The army division, which is assem- bling at San Antonio. Is officially desig- mated by the war department as the 'maneuver division" It was thus de- scribed today in orders issued by the ,l tI.. who have been selected for service at the front"
 Mills Staff Arrives | General Mills announced additional staff appointments today. Maj. Will liam E. Vose from Jackson bar racks has been designated chief sur geon, and Maj. George H. R. Grossman from Fort Barrancas, Fla. has been appointed chief medical inspector. Capt. Bertram T. Clayton of Washington will act as brigadier quartermaster
 Next week the fun will commerce.. Colonel Bailey. who Is in command of the provisional regiment already O. tho ground, Is preparing to Eye the men liberal dose of field work. As artillerymen they had little drilling to do except in the immediate vicinity of their batteries. But they are infantry men now and 10-mile hike before breakfast over barbed wire fences and through lilygrown duck ponds is one of the forms of exercise the colonel has | in store for them
 | Every precaution is being taken to prevent sickness In Camp Crockett" The water has been tested and pro- nounced pure and the medicos are pre- pairing to inject several billions of dead bacilll into the arms of the soldiers who have. not been vaccinated as preven- tative of typhoid. General Mills is preparing to move out of the temporary quarters in the hos pital to big tent erected right on the water front at almost within spashing distance of the surf. He has entered into the spirit of the war game with enthusiasm and is determined to havc his brigade in good shape for any serv- ice that may be required of it. Each regiment will be equipped with a platoon of six machine guns. The guns and the mules to carry them on the march are on the way. Equipped With Machine Guns Atlanta, March 11.--Sixty officers If the Georgia National Guard have an- nounced themselves willing to go to Tex as and receive instructions with the reg ular army on the borler They have been recommended to the war department ny State Adjt Gen. A. J. Scott. Norfolk Va. March 1.-The transport Kilpatrick, with 1850 troops aboard. sailed today for Galveston and the auxiliary cruiser Dixie, with 70 officers and 700 men of the Marine corps. sailed for Guantanamo Upon arrival of the Allan tic fleet from Guantanamo 2000 men from the ships will be sent as a reserve force to the gulf for use in the Mexican bor- der maneuvers.
 St. Louis. March il he qurrtermas ter general of the tr efHs-~ a24-S Washington today 2fFc ss se termaster Coulling taf sir-,l ms stock at this static, et r The local department caifis II f'Ns from g 500. 900 to s4.0o0,000 :, si1 sur lies.
 Large Meat $hi ut
 Chicago, March 1l.-4rts est single meat shipment on a .ui tes order since the Spanish-Amer i left the Union stock yards today rexas. There were six carloads of bacon. corned beef and other meats, and several more car loads are ready for transit The shipment IS about what was formerly sent on sepa- rate orders to the same United States troops scattered at the numerous posts.
 This is scarcely enough for 20 days said Col. Thomas Cruse. chief quarter master, "and we shall have heavier re- quirements for some time to come. We may have to provide hay and grain from here"
 Washington, March 11.-Officers of the organized militia are giving an enthusi> astic and prompt response to the war de partments invitation to participate in the military operations now in process of forming along the southern frontier. AL ready 1909 officers of the National Guard have accepted the invitation. This rep resents responses from only 21 states
 Illinois stands first in the number of officers accepting the Invitation, 195 be- ing offered; New York ranks second with l6S and the announcement that more ac- ceptances are to follow; California is third with 1858 and from the far-off terri- tory of Hawaii comes acceptances from five militia officers
 The number of officers who have ac- cepted the invitation in the various states follow
 California 15s Hawaii 5, Illinois 195. Tn- diana 56, Kansas B, Maine 3. Massachu- setts 90. Mississippi 46, Missouri 106 Mon- tana II, New Hampshire 6, New York 168 and more to follow. Ohio .o2, Oregon Sl. South Dakota g, Tennessee IS, Texas 100. Vermont 1. Washington x. West VirGsnia q. WiseeasinA q %