The Sentinel=record., 1914-04-28
NOTE OF PEACE FINDS NO ECHO IN THE PREPARATIONS FOR
 EMBARKATION
CAVALRY AND ARTILLERY
Win Be Fastened to Vera Cruz to Augment General Funston's Troops Who Arrived at the Mexican Sea coast Town Yesterday.

Galveston, Texas, April 27.-The note of peace sounded in the media tion negotiations proposed by the three South American republics to solve the Mexican trouble found no echo here today in the hurried prep arations to embark an additional fighting force to Vera Cruz. All day long the quartermastcr's department rushed the work of refitting the freighter San Marcos into an army transport and tonight the steamship was loaded with supplies and is ready to sail early tomorrow with a troop of the Sixth cavalry and bat teries of the Fourth field artillery.
 The army is moving all it's avail able field artillery into Vera Cruz to be prepared in event of long cam paign of fighting in the mountain passes to Mexico City should war be declared. Three hundred and fifty artillery and cavalry men were ready at Texas City tonight to board the San Marcos. With the sixteen noun tain guns that were sent away on the Satilla yesterday and the batteries sailing tomorrow. there will be nearly a regiment of artillery ready to take the field at Vera Cruz within the week. -.
 While Brigadier General c. c. Davis. in command of the army here, would give no hint of plans for nov ing troops it was reported that ar tillery was being given preference over cavalry in the despatch of men to Vera Cruz.
 There are now 30O,0O0 rations at Vera Cruz with additional supplies going on the San Marcos. General Kranthauf of the quartermaster's de partment said tonight that the army l had an additional three months sup plies in Galveston ready for ship | ment, including tents, blankets and | other camp equipment.
 The freight compartments of the 1 San Marcos have been removed and l below decks there were installed to- | day "standees" or iron berths, each | standee accommodating three men. Two thousand standees were recently | brought from San Francisco.
 The San Marcos was also fitted | with stalls for the army mules that | pack the mountain guns on their | backs. Five hundred life preservers | were put aboard the San Marcos. | Those who are to sail tomorrow had | five days rations in their haversacks. |
 Officers of the medical department | say that the 4,000 soldiers who have | gone to Vera Cruz are in fine physi- | cal condition to live in the tropics as all of them have spent a year under Gulf of Mexico coast conditions at Galveston.
 A detachment of the army signal corps is expected tomorrow from Fort Leavenworth, while several army aviators were en route from San Diego.
 Five thousand dollars in cash and railroad transportation sufficient for every one of 364 refugees from Tam pico aboard the steamer Trinidadian was waiting at the pier here when the steamer docked tonight at the end of six days quarantine period. The cash was distributed by the United States government to those who were destitute. One oil company which had forty of its employees on the Trinidadian refused to permit them to accept government assist ance but itself furnished the money, hotel accommodations and tickets. The Trinidadian passengers all came from the Panuco district, an oil field about 60 miles inland from Tampico.