Show SOLDIERS WILL j SEND TENTS I Troops at Fort Douglas Are Ordered to Turn in Equipment I Colonel Benjamin C Lockwood com corn commander commander mander of Fort Douglas Dougla stands ready to send to the sufferers of the Golden Gate city cit any relief that he and his troops can afford No official orders have been received from the war department at Washington but It is expected that to today today today day orders will be received to send all the tents cooking utensils and other commissary equipment nt that will aid in giving comfort to the homeless people of San Francisco When Colonel Lockwood read in the dispatches last night that President Roosevelt might call upon the troops in inthe Inthe inthe the Immediate departments surrounding San Francisco for tents and other necessary necessary sary sarv equipment the troops wore were set to work gathering up all the available stuff The Nineteenth and Twelfth batteries had their tents with them on a forced march up Mill Creek canyon canon Troops were immediately sent out with orders to the officers of the batteries to be at Fort Douglas at 9 3 this morning The tents and other supplies be packed ed so that It can be conveyed to the railroad yards on a moments notice and shipped to San Francisco Francsco The number of available tents tenis at the post will shelter several hundred persons and will aid ma materially ma materially In relieving some of the suffer suffering suffering suffering ing experienced in San Francisco These Thes orders may ma t Interfere with the practice marches of the batteries which leave for Fort D A Russell Wyo next week but it has been decided to stand ready and await orders from the War ar department |