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I I Irtillerpen Leave 1 iT jM 1 Jo no ci iy SAN RACISCQ CHRCXNIOIiE TirSSPASTy fcBni9 J9i Wi left behind in chars of the post hospl Ul to look after the health of jCavalnr troops I and and Batteries A I and of the Heavy Artillery which remain at the Presidio The Officers to go with the First Regiment are Colonel Miles Lieutenant Colonel BIsbee Lieutenant and Adjutant Benjamin Lieutenant and Quartermaster Rbudlez Captains Parker Pettit Brandt OConnell Starr and Pflster Lieutenants Vogdes Pickering Bent Kllbourne Kllburn Nolan Crof ton Detchmendy Lacey Power and Ferrl SOUTHERN PACIFIC TO QARRY THE TROOPS Seventy two Car Will Be Required Transfer Will Coat the Got eminent Forty Thoa aad Dollars Bids for the transportation of the two light batteries of artillery and the regiment of Infantry ordered from here to Chickamauga and New Orleans were opened yesterday at the office of Colonel James Moore assistant QuartermasterQuartermaster General and the contract was awarded to the Southern Pacific Company There were only three bids for the transportation of the troops and supplies and the contract was awarded to the lowest bidder The bid of the Southern Pacific fixed the rate for the transportation of officers and men to New Orleans at 40 a man and freight to the same destination at 280 a carload The time guaranteed by the company for the trip is nlheity one hours The bids of the Rio Grande Western and the Union Pacific offered rates of 47 60 for enlisted men and 57 50 for officers to New Orleans and a rate of 300 a carload for freight Both lines offered to land troops and freight at New Orleans In 1S8 hours For the two light batteries ordered to Chickamauga the Southern Pacific bid 50 50 for officers and men and fixed a rate of 40 cents a hundred for freight on the haul east of New Orleans Between here and New Orleans the rate 6f 280 a carload mentioned In the first proposition will apply For the same service the Rio Grande Western and the Union Pacific offered rates of 84 95 for officers and 64 95 for enlisted men and fixed a rate of 352 a carload for freight The bid of the Southern Pacific was the most acceptable both In the matter of rates and time and the contract was awarded without hesitation It was announced officially yesterday that the two light batteries with all heir subsistence and equipment will embrace the following Six officers men 108 animals 8 guns 8 caissons 2 battery wagons 2 field forges and a carload or two of miscellaneous freight in PRESIDIO TROOP ARE READY TO MARCH The Southern Pacific Gets the Contract to Haul the Military Specials Three Trains Seventy Two Cars in All Carry the Boys in Blue to Their New Posts Two batteries of light artillerymen Tup in their cots at the Presidio last Ubt with barrack windows open and Jktened to the last echoing rotes of tlpi as the call sounded across the ervaUon The bugle brought to ttMy of the men in Its full significance tor the first time the thought of what they were leaving and what they might tact In the next few weeks War or no ir few of them are likely to hear TPt sound again on a California reservation and there are not many beau trspots In the United States like the rrttldio from the soldiers viewpoint The regulars particularly those of the tst Infantry and Batteries and the Light Artillery had an exciting Jfcnrof tt yesterday In the morning as soon as they turned out and stum over their half packed boxes a osea rumors were circulated naming fl sorts of hours for their departure Ost story that received a certain cre JMe was that all marching orders had countermanded and that the troops Wia not go at all This was firmly jVea by the Infantry companies Bentcla and many of their men tin to arrange for a return to the Tracks across the bay Ai soon as Colonel Miles received General Shatter notification that bid of the Southern Pacific for JPortatlon had been accepted and Batteries and were to move jV things In the neighborhood of te Ught artillery quarters began to Half an hour later the non com loned officers of the First Infantry notified by their captains that Jlr command had also received defl Instructions and that they would ff about 5 oclock Wednesday after There are 48 men in the First they greeted the news with a lusty ericaa cheer The infantrymen have t7 Priclc8jly packed and ready to Pforaome days end most of them had ruj to do but lounge along the ana rather about their friends light batteries to talk orer the lung orders soldiers trunk is a wonderful con JJrBC almost as complete a recepta mrythlng under the sun as the j2t affair owhed by hU brother other arm of the service but muerymen found their ikJH in jT taxed to the utmost yesterday toestkT ttB California memen ow a way photographs books Unas 0iK aoy nuraJxr ot nJowers Manyor those whose 7n responsiblefor the reten tion of the latter articles were out at the Presidio yesterday walking arm in arm through the by paths with soldier sweethearts and trying rather unsuccessfully to look cheerful and smile at the thought of the good bys to be said this morning There is one cherished sentiment among the men that the officers will wink at Judiciously when the Journey to the South Is begun It is the retention of pets Dogs parrots cats and a game cock are among the collection sported by the artillerymen and they are determined despite the long railroad trip and other difficulties in the way to get their mascots off with them and land them safe and sound at Chickamauga Human nature is pretty much the same everywhere and It Is not only among the rank and file that a parting from the Presidio and Its associations comes hard Captain Potts of Battery who will command the troops that march to day and nearly all his fellow officers are looking their last on familiar places and sighing as they think of the labor expended In making beautiful gardens and homes for other men to occupy and enjoy It is the fortune of war with a vengeance Colonel Miles hardly had time to eat his meals yesterday and both he and his adjutant Lieutenant Benjamin were completely worn out at the end of the day They accomplished a deal of work in the limited time at their disposal and by night the details of the transfer of Batteries and had been I erfected Captain Pettit will command the troops that leave to morrow and he will haVe under him in his own battery Lieutenants Halns and Ollern Captain Callff will be at the bead of Company with Lieutenants Campbell and Gardner They will lead In all 149 men with eight guns and caissons full boxes of shell and shrapnel ammunition and 1J5 horses Dra Frlck and Ireland with ten men from the hospital corps go with the batteries At a little after 7 oclock this morning all the ammunition horses guns and heavy baggage ot the batteriea will leave the Presidio for the Southern Pacific depot at Fourth and Townsend streets Ills estimated that four hours of work will be sufficient to load everything on the cars and then the men will return to the Presidio be served with hearty dinner and made ready to start in Ifcht marching order for the fernr It la not yet definitely known what time UieyriU begin their march but is is thought thejr will start from the i Will A dun and a Gunner Bath Going to Ghickamauoa reservation about 3 oclock Colonel Miles decided yesterday on the route to be taken The men will go down Lombard street to Van Ness avenue thence 40 Golden Gate avenue and thence down Market street to the ferry depot which place they will leave at 5 oclock The Colonel originally ordered that the men should form company front but on account of the traffic and the narrowness of some of the streets to be traversed he has decided to send the batteries along In platoon formation only On a war footing each battalion should have six guns two more than the number now held by and but the full complement will be secured Immediately after the arrival of the troops at Chickamauga The guns and ammunition on their run to the Southern Pacific depot this morning Will go over the same route as that chosen for the men later In the day except that they will turn down Fourth street out of Market The cobblestones are being avoided as much as possible on account of the shrapnel among the ammunition The movement of the troops through the city this afternoon will undoubtedly be made the occasion for a display of patriotism though as far as the length of the marching line Is concerned the transfer of the First Regiment of Infantry to morrow will probably be much more impressive The infantry will follow exactly the same route and will leave their barracks for the ferry at 2 oclock headed by Colonel Miles and preceded by the regimental band TwentyTwenty one officers 489 men and ten members of the Hospital Corps will be In line The special train ot the First Regiment will be run In two sections the first containing the commanding officer headquarters staff band hospital corps and Companies A and and the second with LieutenantLieutenant Colonel BIsbee In comntand consisting of Companies and Traveling rations tire to be served to the troops supplemented however by I an abundant supply of fresh vegetables which Lieutenant Roudlex the Quartermaster has been ordered to take with him Th regimental hospital corps will consist of ten men with Dr Gandy in command Dr White is to be ifaiite la Mffii eluding rations ammunition tentscamp equipment and other supplies All this will require six day passenger coaches one standard Pullman sleeper eight stock cars five flat cars two box cars and one baggage car The regiment of Infantry will embrace 21 officers 478 men 157 animals 34 vehicles and 95000 pounds of miscellaneous freight Including subsistence tents ammunition arms and other supplies The transportation of the regiment and Its supplies will require one standard Pullman sleeper twenty da coaches eleven stock cars nine flat cars seven box cars and one baggage A careful computation of the cost ot the transportation of all the troops and their supplies fixes the amount at 841 098 but the expense is likely to be slightly more or less than that amount ac cording to the manner In which the animals are loaded and the amount of miscellaneous freight taken along by the infantry The details of the loading and transportation of the troops and their supplies were finally settled yesterday at a conference between Freight Auditor Wilder of the Southern Pacific com pany and the Quartermasters depart ment The two light batteries will leave to day The precise hour of their de parture will depend on the time con Simed in loading the animals guns and her supplies but It is hoped that the special train will get away not later than 2 oclock this afternoon Ths horses guns caissons and other supplies and equipment will be loaded In the freight yards at Fourth and Towns end streets beginning at 7 oclock this morning As soon as the cars are loaded they will be transferred to the other side of the bay on the freight transfer boat Transit and switched to themole where the passenger cars wilt be 1a waiting to receive the troops The troops will march to the ferry at the foot of Market street after the loading of the freight is finished and will there tai the boat for the pier The officials of the operating department of the Southern Pacific Company havedecldelto run airthi cars of the two light batteries in one section There will he twenty three cars la the train bur as none of them wjjj be heaYllr DEPARTING SOLDIERS WILL MflRG1 WROUG1 THE 5SX3SX5SXS A rumor was current in the city yesterday to the effect that the War5 Depart ment would frown down any idea of having the departure of th troops from this dty to day and to morrow made the occasion of a public demonstration The Chronicle correspondent in Washington interviewed the Secretary of War last night concerning this matter Secretary Al ger saidr Not only have I iwued no orders that the troops shall not march through the streets and receive encouragement fromtthe people but I earnestly hope that the First Infantry and the artillery may be seen by the people of San Francisco while on their way to the South I hope that every opportunity will be given the people to see the troops and for the troops to receive the plaudits of the people Of course I do not know what arrangements General Shafter haS niade for the transportation of the troops in San Francisco but I hope that a parade through the streets will be possible and that it will be made as impressive as possible Light Batteries and will leave the Presidio in light marching order at about 3 to day and will march in platoons down Lombard street to Van Ness avenue down Van Ness to Golden Gate avenue down Golden Gate to Market and thence to thcL ferries starting for the mole oh the Oakland boat at 5 The same route will be traversed by the infantrymen Wednesday afternoon Yesterday afternoon President Barrington of the Board of Education issued an order to all school principals in the city instructing them to assemble their pnplls along the route to be followed by the troops and to see that all their charges are provided with the Stars and Stripes in order thtfthe lesson in patriotism and love of country shown by the passage of thp troops may npt be overlooked ill SSXSXSWXXXDG8WXi loaded It Is not thought that the train will be too heavy for fast time According to the arrangements agreed upon yesterday by the Quartermasters department and the railroad company the special train of the two light batteries will make only One long stop between here and New Orleans and that will be at El Paso The horses will bs loaded in the stock cars so that they can be fed and watered by hand and this arrangement will necessitate brief stops only at long Intervals along the road At El Paso the cars will be unloaded and men and horses will be given several hours of exercise It is understood that the same arrangement will apply to the Infantry regiment The infantry will depart to morrow The troops will start to load horses and supplies at Fourth and Townsend streets at 7 A and will leave th Oakland pier some time during the afternoon The hour of departure as In the case of the light batteries will depend entirely on the time consumed In loading the cars The Infantry will require forty nine cars and their train will be run according to present arrangements in two sections SHAFTERS PLAN FOR THE NEW ARMY POST Troops Will Make Their Quarter la Camp at ew Orleans General to Leave Last After the opening of the bids for transportation yesterday and the Immediate awarding of the contract to the Southern Pacific the Army officers received their first definite Information as to the probable hour of starting from San Francisco for New Orleans and Chickamauga Assistant Quartermaster General Colonel Moore accompanied only by Chief Clerk Joseph Bliss will leave by regular train this forenoon over the Sunset route for New Orleans arriving several days in advance of the troops in order to select a place for their camp Thursday forenoon Brigadier General Shafter who la to be In command of the new department at New Orleans will leave by regular passenger train He will be accompanied by First Lieutenant Noble of the First Infantry and First Lieutenant Mlley of the Fifth Artillery who are his aids and by Adjutant General Lieutenant ColonelColonel Babcock Judge Advocate Major Groesbeck Chief Commissar Eagan Signal Officer First Lieutenant Frank Greene all officers attached to the staff at headquarters and very probably by August Vibrant William Armstrong and Robert McClelland clerks and George Boll and William Tremalne messengers of the Adjutant Generals Department and John Waters clerkof the Subsistence Department Everything Is now practically arranged for the orderly transfer of this division General Shafter said last night The troops will leajre in two sections the light batteries tnis alter noon and the infantry Wednesday afternoon The men will march from the Presidio to the ferry at the foot of Market street Men specially detached for the purpose will pack the equipment on the cars at Fourth and Townsend streets Afterward they will Join their companions at the Presidio and proceed with them to Oakland mole where passenger coaches will be in waiUng The sections of the train will be made up on the Oakland side The line of march of the troops through the city to the ferry wll be determined by Colonel Miles the post commander I will not start until Thursday forenoon but I will arrive In New Orleans early enough to select a site for our camp As yet I have no idea Just where we will locate There is no old post or tort In the immediate vicinity that we could occupy Only a few medical supplies for possible use during the railroad Journey wiU be taken froia here NATIONAL GUARD READY FOR SERVICE ORDERS correspondence flowing that for the past two years he has made unavailing efforts to properly equip the Guanl It seems thta large percentage of the rifles In the hands of the militiamen are model 73 Springfield which while efficient to a certain degree are about eleven years out ot date and not nearly bo lervleeable as the enemy might be equipped with In case of war Xot long ago Congress paired a law allowing militiamen to exchange all but Springfield rides for Springfield rifles of the model of lM The fact that the present rtfles are Springfield though old style does not bring them under the law HUGHES TO SERVE ON THE SPEEDY SCORPION Lieutenant Hughes until recently In charge of the Branch Hydro graphic Office In this city has been appointed executive officer on the United States ship Scorpion which will be commanded by Lieutenant CommanderCommander Marix Judge advocate In the Maine court of Inquiry The Scorpion was formerly Bordens yacht the Sovereign She Is of about 1000 tons burden and with a speed of close to eighteen knots will be as fast as anything In the mosquito fleet She Is protected by seven elghth lnch plates and will carry four five Inch rapid firing guns six rapid firing six pounders and four Colt automatic machine guns Lieutenant Stoney who was formerly In charge of the recruiting office here has been attached to one of the recently purchased Morgan Line steamers as navigating officer POLICEMEN GRANTED LEAVE TO GO TO WAR Patriotism directed the efforts of the Police Commissioners last night and when Patrolman A Atchisons letter requesting leave of absence to go to the war was presented they Immediately adopted the following resolution Resolved That in the event of war between the United States and Spain the places of each and every police officer of the city and county of San Francisco may tender his services to the Government in the Army or Navy of the United States or In any other official capacity and shall actually serve during the war shall be only temporarily filled and that each and every substitute filling said positions during the leave of absence hereby granted to the police officers aforesaid shall expressly stipulate to vacate and surrender their positions upon the return of the police officers whose places they occupy It being the true object of this resolution that the substitutes appointed as aforesaid shall receive the pay of said police officers during their absence and no longer Patrolman Atchison Is the first member of the Police Department to signify his Intention to go This he did in a letter directed to Chief Lees yesterday In which he said There now seems to be a reasonable respect of a call being Issued bythe resident of the United States for volunteers to aid In enforcing the resolutions passed by Congress and at the name time giving the Spaniards ales son they so richly deserve In all the wars In which this country has been engaged there was always at least one of our family holding a commission In soma branch of tha armies of Uncle Sam There is now an assurance of a commission tendered me in one of the volunteer regiments should it be called out and I do not want to be an exception to the rule of our family Would not trouble you In the matter at all Chief only for the fact that thera are a wife and four children dependent on me and believing the trouble with Spain would all be over la from tlx lo ten months wish to ascertain If on my return to the city a position on the force would be open to me 1 II PULPIT CALLS FOR WAR SEVERELY CONDEMNED In his paper on War read yesterday morning before the Christian Ministerial Union in the lecture room of the Toung Mens Christian Association building Professor A Elston expressed frankly his disapproval of the inflammatory appeals for war that have emanated from many pulpits He believed that in the excitement of the hour the ethics ot the question have been entirely overlooked He sad The press the pulpit and the masses are1 clamoring for war Not onlyara the newspapers Inflamlig fubUc paat slon but even the floodgate of pulpit oratory are open with Inflammatory appeals for war Is war to ha exalted by the press the polptrandthe Nation as a righteous thing instead of a relic of barbarism Do we worship the Prince of Peace or the God of Battles Such things to my mind are a travesty on the ethics of Christianity The climax of the paradoxes Jswbea the chaplains of two opposing Christian armies pray to the same God of Battles for victory Christian nations so called now hare mUllonsot men ready to destroy and kilt Inventors are invited by these same Christian nations to make destructive weapons of war Bren our own State Is to hate a little of the glory of such Invention The minister of thvOospel of Peace at Gonzales Is busy perfecting a range finder by means of which he hopes to make the missile eapons more deadly The worst form of government Is that which appeals to passion and compulsion Tfet men will continue to be so governed until intellect has developed to that degree tnit right makes might when reason becomes superior to passion and religion to politics andlore to set nshnes when our ethical standpoint Is raided so that the principles of Christ become real tastead or Ideal la thetr application to nmivlduala and nations then and not until then will we become truly civilized and Christianised At the Presbyterian Union on motion of Rev Miller ten minutes before adjournment were devoted to prayer for the President Congress andV ths councils of the Nation at this tltnevwhea such serious considerations are before them THANKFUL TO MES PINKHAM Brigadier General Warfleld of the First Regiment National Guard was In consultationyesterday morning with General Shafter concerning the frobabllity of a call being issued by he President fdrmemhers of thtfNa tlonal Guard of this State to take the places of the departing troops at the Presidio General Warfleld assured the commander of thi regulars thai the National Guard wasln excellent condition tor any Call that might be made noon lr A dispatch recelted from Sacramento last mgnt says In view of certain strictures 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