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Show Warships and Troops Are Moving in the East and West New York, March 8. New York City found Itself today In the midst of preparations for the approaching maneuvers on the Mexican frontier. "Every branch of the military and the naval services were represented In the war game work being rushed In this vicinity. The troop3 preparing to entrain here Include artillery, cav airy, infuntry, signal corps and marines, mar-ines, while hi the harbor three 11,500-ton 11,500-ton cruisers were this morning at work coaling with feverish activity and making ready (p sail by midnight. Never before, since these big armored ar-mored ships, the Tennessee, the North Carolina and Montana, were launched has there been such haste to get them ready for a dash seaward. Officers of the ships believe that these armored cruisers were picked for this assignment assign-ment because the' were fast, with a big gun power and can make a fine showing over the long run. The battleship bat-tleship fleet Is at Guantanamo, but for demonstration purposes a long run by the cruiser fleet would show the mobility of the fleet and be a good object lesson. Each of the cruisers is approximately approximate-ly of 22 knots speed and carries 20 gains in its main battery, of which four are eight-inch rifles , mounted in pairs In armored turrets fore and aft. They are the largest and most modem mod-em vessels of their class In the navy Tho military arm of the service in the East, with headquarters at Governor Gover-nor island, has orders for tli mobili zation of 0,000 troops today to be sent by special trains to Newport News, Va.f whore they will be taken on board three United States army transports and proceed at once to Galveston, Tex. The troops Include 12 companies of coast artillery and numerous companies compan-ies of cavalry, infantry and signal corps. In addition 170 seamen have been engaged for transport service. These mon will reach Newport News today. At Governor's Island today preparations prepara-tions wcro being made as If for actual warfare Rations and supplies were being assembled for six thousand troops and instruction were given to tho regimental commanders at tho various forts through tho department of tho cast to assemble all available additional troops and no prepared to move them on a minute's notice. As an interesting sidelight, the Western Union and Postal Telegraph companies were also making tielr preparations this jnornbig Tor the war game. Like tho army and navy, thev were duplicating exactly tho work which they would do In time of aotual warfare, making arrangements to handle, the heavy governmental and newspaper business that will come from San Antonio and Galveston as a lesult of the orders from President Tart Twenty-five of the Western Union's most experienced men will leave New York for Texas today to reinforce the force in San Antonio and Galveston and others will he detailed there from other cities. The Boston Telegraph company's "war" operators will also start for the South today. Around the main telegraph offico tho scene reminded old-timers of the Spanish war, when operators by tho score were rushed to the camps In the South and tr Florida to nccompauy the army to Cuba. General Frederick Dent Grant busy with a mass of detail in his office on Governor's Island, declared to his Interviewers In-terviewers that he had received no word from tho War Department to Indicate In-dicate tho purpose of tne niobllizntlon. Mo said that when he first received the orders U was his Impression that the troops were to bo used on the , Mexican border to enforce the neutrality neutral-ity laws. Later, however, he became (Continued on Pago Sovcn.) WARLIKE ACTIONS (Continued from Pago One.) of the opinion that the measure was only part of a plan for elaborate maneuvers man-euvers for the- training ot the officers and men. This, however, the general was quick to point out, was only his own personal opinion. It waB declared hero today, on the authority of Ambassador De La Barra, that the Mexican government was consulted as to the proposed movement move-ment of troops and that his government govern-ment felt that tho proposed mobilization mobiliza-tion would havo the effect oi aiding the Mexican government In Its efforts to suppress the Insurrection. He added add-ed that the proposed mobilization was entirely satisfactory to his government. govern-ment. Troops Gotting Ready. Chicago, March 8. Fifteen hundred men at Foit Sheridan arc waiting for tho word from "Washington that will send them to tho Mexican border. Since the insurrection broke out, in fact tho soldiers at the post have been held In readiness for immediate departure No orders relative to the matter had been received early today and preparations prepar-ations were made and maintained solely sole-ly on the basis of newspaper roports, but It wns stated that tho whole force would be on Its way south within threo or four hours from tho lime trains were available One reason for tho proparedness of the Fort Sheridan troops is that the Twonty-Beventh Infantry Is tho first regiment In line for foreign bervlco. |