Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1898 — EASTERN COAST DEFENSES. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN COAST DEFENSES.

of such fortification guns as may be mounted for emergency. The present order is for the actual needs of the guns now mounted, without reference to any existing emergency, although it has been made all the more imperative by the Spanish crisis. Regular Army Moved East. The whole regular army, infantry, artillery and horse, comprising upwards of 20,000 men, is being moved east to the fortified cities and ports. At Chicago Quartermaster General Lee of the department of tlie lakes, is making arrangements to transport batteries of artillery now at forts in the West to the Atlantic seaboard and Gulf of Mexico. The Western railroads having headquarters in Chicago and St. Louis and other Western cities were invited to telegraph proposals for transporting a battery of artillery from Fort Riley, Kan., to Fort Monroe, Va.; another from Fort Riley, Kan., to New Orleans, and a third from Fort Riley to Savannah, Ga.