The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-28
STEINER WILL FORM
 CAVALRY REGIMENT FOR VOLUNTEER CALL
Rapid Progress Being Made by Spanish War Veterans. Troops in Birmingham
 and Mobile Planned

Montgomery, June N-(SpeciaL) )-Antici- pating the call for volunteers, Maj. R. E. Steiner of Montgomery, one of the most prominent lawyers in Alabama, and a veteran of the Spanish-American war, has begun the organization of a regiment of cavalry. Such progress has already been made towards the organization of this regiment that it will be ready for enlistment almost immediately upon the call for additional troops.
 During the past two days Major Steiner has been in communication with promi- nent men in Birmingham, Mobile, Tusca- loosa, Anniston, Gadsden and other cities in the state, and from them he has re- ceived the positive assurance that they are organizing companies and that they will be ready to enlist as soon as the call for volunteers has been issued
 Major Steiner announced today that two new companies will be organized in Birmingham; two in Montgomery, one in Anniston, one in Gadsden, one in Selma, one in Tuscaloosa. From six or eight other cities the report has come that new companies can be organized within few days, and from every town and village in the state the news has come that new men are willing to enter the service.
 Major Steiner took steps looking to the organization of a new regiment as soon as the mobilization order was issued. He immediately communicated with high of- ficials at Washington, and made other preliminary arrangements As yet. how ever, he has received no assurance from Washington that a call will be made for volunteers, though the information he has received points strongly in that direction. In the meantime he is busy completing arrangements for the organization of a regiment, and he proposes to offer the services of this regiment as soon as the call for volunteers has been issued.
 It is the belief in Montgomery that an- other brigade might easily be raised in Alabama The adjutant generals office has been flooded for the past few days with requests for permission to organize new companies. Scores and scores of old officers of the National Guard have vol unteered their services in the Svent new troops are called out and it is generally believed that at least three additional regiments might be raised with no diffi- culty whatever.
 There has been considerable talk of or ganizng negro regiment, and action has already been taken looking to that end. Several officers in Montgomery have had the plan under contemplation for the past week or more. and in the event volunteers are called for there is no doubt that Alabama will have a negro regiment to offer the national government
 In the opinion of the military authorities here, there will be call for between 75ooo and 100000 additional troops as soon as the various state organizations are ordered to the front. Alabamas pro- portion, should 100000 volunteers be called for, would be between 2500 and 5000. This number could be raised within a few days. according to reports received in Montgomery. In fact, judging from the number who have offered to organize companies, two or three times that many soldiers would be prepared to enter the services within a short time after the call for volunteers