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| through New York unnoticed and
showed up on the Texas border three
days later.
! 1t is not generally known that there
are 1000 regulars in New York State.
/ Part of the possibilities that arose be-
cause Of yesterdays warlike action in
volved these regulars. On the three
transports which will be ready by
! Wednesday $500 men can be accom-
modated and all the animals necessary
/ for field work.
Orders from the War Department put
/ the steamships City of Macon, City Of
Memphis, of the Savannah Line, and
/ the Minnesota. of the Hawaiian Line.
into commission. The City of Memphis
was recalled from Boston. and will ar
rive at Brooklyn at 10 o'clock to-day
for overhauling and remodelling into
transport.
The City Of Macon lies at Shewan's
shipyard, Brooklyn, where 300 men are
putting her in shape. The Minnesota,
which was to sail for San Francisco
Yesterday, Is at Robins shipyard, in
BROOKLYN, where 800 men are getting
her ready to carry horses, mules and
provisions. The Washingtonian and
the Montanan, of the Hawaiian Line,
were also chartered.
Other transports chartered by the
War Department yesterday were the
Colorado, the Ossabaw and the Denver,
at Galveston the Dorchester. at Nor
folk. and the Kansan, which was re-
called in the Caribbean Sea.
Secretary Garrison would not admit
there was anything significant in (as
he put it "the chartering Of few
TRANSPORTS" He said. however that
the steamships chartered were TO be
available for an emergency" that
might arise
The emergency" that the transports
chartered yesterday could take care OF
is about 1900 men and supplies. IL
Funston should be attacked or should
he begin a move inland from vera
Cruz. 1900 men is the number esti-
mated by army officers that he would
need at once. That number is near the
border. where most Of the transports
will be sent.
The twenty additional transports
which it is said the War Department
will have under charter makes the sup
mort of Funston complete. Work yes
terday on the chartered steamships in
Brooklyn was under the direction OF
naval constructor who came on from
Washington, Captain Stetson, I. ,. A.
and officers from the quartermasters
department.
II was said yesterday that 5000 OF the
rsg,,Iars around New York were ready 10
move al once. The first TO go, IL was IN
timated, would be the Sd Regiment; OF
which eight companies are stationed az
Madison barracks, Lake Ontario. and four
Hnr,na nies AT Fort Ontario. Next in order
comes the 5th Regiment, at Platts-
The last to leave for the front OF the
infantry will be the Zs,h c Hegirnen' rs o.
and. one battalion at Fort Niagara ana
one battalion at Fort Porter, Buffalo a
total OF 5000 infantry
OF coast artillery. drilled as infantry
.
worth. five companies at Fort Hamilton,
seven companies at Forts Totten, Slocum
and Schuyler. six companies at Fort
Terry, six companies at Fort Wright ana
five companies at Fort Hancock.
These companies each have one hundred
men. out OF them II is proposed 10 take
half making a regiment OF l.sOO men.
According TO the plan disclosed yesterday.
the mine companies will stay for harbor
protection and as the gun companies are
Withdrawn they will be replaced by
militia.
n company OF signal corps at Fort Wood.
a detachment OF engineers, cavalry and
signal corps at West Point and regi-
ment OF cavalry at Fort Ethan Allen.
No word to get ready was sent 10 the
national guard yesterday. IL is not be-
lieved the militia will be ordered into
action until the regulars are withdrawn
from the Texas border. The plans OF the
War Department IL is said call for mob
ilization of the New York forces here
and transportation to Texas. where they
can become acclimated before being sent
into Mexico.