Troops Told To Be Ready.

New York Times 100 years ago today, February 19, 1913:
Seventh Infantry and Battalion of Nineteenth Receive Hurry Order.
    LEAVENWORTH, Kan., Feb. 18.— Orders to hold the Seventh Infantry and the First Battalion of the Nineteenth Infantry in readiness for active service were received in Fort Leavenworth to-day from the War Department. The post Quartermaster immediately arranged with a railroad company to have four troop trains ready for instant use, and began supplying the troops with field and camp equipment.
    The order affects 1,098 men and 61 officers in addition to Company E. Corps of Engineers; Company D., Signal Corps, and Field Ambulance Company No. 3, ordered held in readiness last night.
    No announcement as to the probable destination of the troops, should they move, was made by the officers, but it was believed Galveston would be the objective point.