New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-22
Scout Cruiser Salem Under
Orders to TampicO-
Mississippi Sails.
MARINES READY AT
PHILADELPHIA YARD
Four Aviators, with Hydro.Aero-
planes, Are Aboard Battleship
Now en- Route.

Philadelphia, April --Orders were re-
ceived at the Philadelphia Navy Yard to-
day for the scout cfuise- Salem TO sail
for Tsmpico as soon as she can be pre-
pared for sea Commandant Benson OF
the navy yard said the cruiser would get
away on Sunday. The Salem will be in
charge Of Commander II. II. Christy and
will carry s54 men. II is one Of the fast
est boats In the navy.
Workmen and seamen al the yard
began loading provisions to-day or the
battleship Ohio and the cruiser Tennes-
see. II was said the Ohio would be the
next vessel ordered 70 Mexican waters.
The marines ordered to assemble at
the Philadelphia Navy Yard for MeXi-
Regiment, and will be made up Of men
from the Norfolk. Portsmouth. Boston
and Brooklyn navy yards. They Will
begin arriving tomorrow. The officers of
the yard are ready 20 receive them, as
they have anticipated such a movement.
In times Of peace 500 constitute a regt-
ment OF marines. The war footing is 200.
The marines are expected 10 sail on
Thursday on the transport Moro Castle.
They will be equipped for several
nor the service.
The Philadelphia navy yard is depleted
OF marines, nearly all available men hav-
ing been sent 70 the Gulf OF Mexico before
the Tampico affair occurred. There are
about one hundred men at the yard who
are used for policing the station and for
other routine duties.
Portsmouth, y. H. April l-The 18th
Company OF Marines was ordered to-day
TO report in Philadelphia by / ? m. on
Thursday. The company is under COM
mand OF Captain Buttrick. II Will sail
from Philadelphia on the transport Moro
Castle for Tampico.
Boston April 2.-Lieutenant Harrison,
Of the Marine Corps. az the Charlestown
navy yard, received orders to-day 70 take
two sergeants, four corporals. drummer
and thirty-hve prlvates and Join the 10Th
Regiment at Philadelphia at once. An
other smaller detail OF marines was or
dered transferred 10 a special service.
Only a small squad of officers and men
is left at the yard.
Orders were received az the navy yard
to-day to place the gunboat Castine N
commission at once. Commander John
+. Carter Of the New York yard Will be
in command, and Lieutenant F. W. Os-
borne OF the local yard has also been
assigned 70 duty on the ship. The Cas-
tine has been at the yard undergoing re-
pairs. which were 20 have been completed
by May / The Castine is OF light draft
and will be valuable in shallow water.
Washington, April 1.-THE fotilla Of
fourteen torpedo boat destroyers, under
escort Of the scout cruiser Birmingham
and the tender Dixie. sailed from Pen
sacola yesterday for Vera Cruz. The de-
stroyers IN the squadron were the Hen
ley. the Drayton, the Mccall. the War
rington. the Paulding, the Ammen, the
Burrows, the Patterson, the Trippe, the
flaming. the Beale, the Jarvis, the Jen-
kins and the Jouett.
y
from Admiral Blue. chief OF the Bureau
OF Navigation, Captain George Clark.
commanding the United States naval
training station on Lake Michigan, pre-
pared 10 send seventy-fve naval reserves
to New York and I5 10 Philadelphia TO-
morrow.
The men received the orders that they
are TO be sent East with cheers, and 800
men in the course OF training appeared
oyerjoyed at the prospect that they might
follow n a snort time.
Pensac cola, Fla. April 1.-THE battle
sailed this morning for Vera Cruz. The
warshlp also carried four aviators With
their hydro-aeroplanes. The tender Dixie
departed last night for the Mexican port
San Francisco, April 1.-THE cruiser
South Dakota, from the Puget Sound
navy yard, with go marines aboard, en-
tered San Francisco Bay at 4 a. m. to
day. She proceeded TO California City TO
take on coal. preparatory TO departing
for Mexican waters. About 800 marines
from the Mare Island navy yard also will
be taken aboard the South Dakota.
Commanded By Captain William Henry
Pritchett, recently arrived from the
Seattle recruiting station. 900 marines left
Mare Island navy yard to-day for Thu
ron to board the collier Jupiter. which
will take them as far as the advance
base al San Diego.
WILSON CHEERED