New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-13
START TRANSPORTS
BEFORE REPAIRED
Mechanics to Work Night
and Day on Way to
Galveston.
100000 VOTED BY
STATE FOR GUARD
S5OO,OOO Barracks To BE Built
on Staten Island-Militia Is
Fully Equipped.

So eager is the War Department TO be
ready for emergencies that IL has ordered
tho TRANSPORTS IL cha rtered TO sail before
the repairs are finished.
Last night l25 mechanics went aboard
the City of Macon. chartered from the "a
vannah Line. prepared to sail on her early
to-day for Galveston and work night and
day on the way down.
Ammunition put on board transports FOR
shipment 10 Mexico consists OF HUNDREDS
Of cases Of cartridges and boxes Of am
nounition for s-inch guns. Though It was
said the shells were going 10 Texas the
calibre. 2.9. fitting the mule battery guns
that will be so needed in case OF invasion
of Mexico, was taken TO indicate otner-
wise.
Resides the ammunition. saddles. revol-
var holsters. blankets and horse covers
meats foot oil in ten-gallon cans ana many
cases of olive drab netting were shipped
The netting is for screening against mos
o,,itoes ana other disease carriers In the
tropics.
ON the CITY of Macon last night rations
for 2 900 men for thirty days were taken
aboard. as were 1000 life preservers. FRO
visions in bulk 10 the amount OF nearly
100 tons have been purchased In New
York and will be Clipped at once
The CITY OF Memphis. also chartered
from, the Savannah Line. is due to SAIL
with repairs unfinished, late to-morro"
afternoon.
ON Friday the NInnesotan. chartered
from the Hawaiian Line and ready TO
carry horses. will sail with freight Tor
the army in Galveston. The Panaman. OF
the same line, will follow on Saturday.
The purchase OF provisions in this mar
ket is considered money saving stroke
on the part of the depot quartermaster,
as the steamships carrying them are
going 10 Galveston anyhow, and can save
the railroad freight charges from here
TO the border.
Under an emergency message from Gov
ernor Glynn the Assembly to-day passed
a bill authorizing the Governor TO direct
the State Controller 10 borrow SlW'"o
with which 10 place the national guard on
a war footing in case OF necessity.
With the definite selection OF Staten
Island yesterday as the site for mobiliza-
ton OF the national guard and concontra-
ton of regular-volunteers part OF the
haze surrounding the arrangements in
case of declared war was removed. ii is
proposed to erect permanent barracks
there to cost half million. One site has
been set apart for the New York volun-
teers and the other for the regular army
for concentrating militiamen from New
England. Pennsylvania, Delaware and
New Jersey, when they have been mobil-
lied in their home states and recruited 10
war strength
Officers in the militia yesterday replied
TO an attack in an evening newspaper
that said the national guard was so I'M
prepared that II would take six weeks TO
get under way.
every one knows or should know, said
Lieutenant Colonel Walton, that there
are two strengths on which to CONSIDER
the national guard-peace strength and
war strength. Just now we are recruited
to the limit of peace strength Every DIT
of equipment is ready. and our peace
strength could get under way in few
days.
But with war strength comes delay.
The necessary recruiting and drilling
would take a month at least. AS far as
equipment for the national guard at war
strength goes, that matter is In the hands
Of the regular army
las for the ridiculous charge OF lack OF
shoes for the guardsmen. it is enough to
say that I know where 1 can buy $4,000
pairs of shoes in ten hours
No orders to do anything out OF the
ordinary in consideration OF the Mexican
trouble have been received by the militia
The persistent rumors from washington
that a call will be issued and the selection
by regular army officers Of definite camp
sites are regarded as significant