The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-12-08
THE MANEUyERs OF MARS.
"IN TIME OF PRAOE PREPARE
FOR WAR"
The Annual Report Of the Secretary
Of War.
BELKNAP,s BUSINESS

NEEDS OF THAT BRANCH OF THE PUBLIC
sERyIoB-A REVIEW OF THE REPORTS OF
DEPARTMENT COMMANDERS, ETC. ETC.
The following Is a synopsis OF the report of
the secretary Of war: The recruits are now well
drilled before they are sent to Join their compa-
mics In the field. The secretary recommends the
enlistment OF music boys about the age of IL
years to furnish Head music and he asks congress
to make the proper provisions. IA brilliant
con ception IF a masterl military mtnd.l He
recomm nds the establishment of workshops
way the I secretary hopes they may be able to
earn enough to take the expense of their main
the nS tbsr
are now rs in the establishment Those pris-
oners have been employed in various ways on
the prison aiding and about the post, thus
saving the expense of employing labor. Inc
secretary asks an appropriation for the intro
duetion OF the workshop feature OF the military
prison scheme. The secretary says that he has
the lF0nes posts and feInd them az IL
Notwithstanding their Isolation from the COM
forts of civilization. He asks for the
i Issss aeoiishlng resimeutsi eands and
iment. He thinks they should be divided in .
four grades OF excellence and compensation.
the service except the one at the West Point
Military Academy.
THE wAsHEE WOMEN.
The law of March 10th, 1901 auth orizes women
Tin number not exceeding four % , company
to accompany troops in the capacity of
laundresses, and army regulations prescribe one
laundress to every nine cen, or fraction of nine
teen, enlisted men. Under the existing army
organic alton upward o; 800 laundresses are EN-
plUyed, and for all the work performed are
amply compensated by the eulisted men. The
aggregste, cost TO the 1Ss.a go UenI
over $4,000 per annum. in add.
ton to which quarters and fuel are furnished
comes necessary 1t Involves a large amount OF
transportation for the laundre SEES, averaging
annually about $4,000. When troops serving
In the field changing stations, owing 10 the
fact that these women and their children can
not be transported with them, they naturally
suffer by being left al posts without their nat
would not generally be entitled 70 rations, luel
and quarters. III mas been found Impossible 10
supply laundressts with even habitable quar-
tiers at many stations, owing to limited appro-
priations made by con Sress Tor barracks during
The past three years. Considerable suffering has
consequently been imposed upon these people.
Il Is 6sisEed that in OF the above
at least one-half OF the pres MT number OF laun-
dresses, would not only be q measure
e1P9aaeney d 6S e6oaog
The secretary recommends the keepii g OF a rec
ord OF Important events by post COMMANDMENTS,
| the same to be The properly of the post in the
event OF a transfer OF the commapd-
abapd onment. He asks that transportation
corp be provided ior as an auxiliary arm Of the
grounds against the enlistment Of married men,
and would have extreme measures
a sSs2 deseron ne join their FAMILIES aer
| the novelty has worn OF he recommends ex-
esps and improye.ent Of nstionsl eemeie4ies
has been Satisfactorily performed during the
year. Inciosing walls have been completed in
nine cemeteries. Eleven still require walls.
Four lodges have been completed during the
/ eve cd nj
during the year was 1921 1857 %. Cesson ofjuris-
dietion over a Large number. of ceneteries has
| application will be made from year to year on :
| tn such cession Is granted. The granite monu-
Total number Of interments in national oeme.
Iteries on June 80, 1875, was 306,o53. The total
49, III. This work is being vigorously prosecuted.
| THE SIGNAL SERVICE.
During the past year one hundred and two
signal stations have been maints ned, to MI the
system % stations of observation from which
reports are necessary to enable warning to be
given OF the approach and force Of storms and
i of other meteoric changes, the benefit of ag-
ricultural and commercial interests. series
OF daily telegraphis reports from stations In the
West Indies. extending yJ from 0n5a' by Jamaies,
been arranged for. The issue OF ofncial deduc-
/ tions from the office of the signal officsr
during the year. A minute examination of
these deductions and q comparison with the
the district to which each has had
reference have given the average percentage OF
6Sasyerifed.. A comparison OF this percentage
, hibits an improvement In accuracy with each
succeedisg year. The display Of eautionary day
and night signals upon the lakes and at the
great ports of the Uslted states upon, the At
aIicaly on occasions Of supposed special dam
ger OF the total number of cautionary Egnals
thus di.played. 70 per osnt has been afterward
I-~rr I'D fnaf 6oh fo NH lima
PREACHING from Barnegat to Cape May, and from
! Norfolk to Cape Hatteras, ON the most. ire
, parts OF the coast, have been continued in ope-
ration as q part OF the signal service. In view
tns s sen 0 tSs a%
| Wilmington, to Smfthville, at the mouth
the Cape Fear Se The stations
! ted by enlisted men. The lines In Arizona from
the Texas frontier and In the Indian Territory,
com pletfon. Permanent benefit will result from
The connection OF military posts 6y Telegraph,
tier villages upon the lines and country through
y htch they pass. rs n
II of approaching meteoric changes may be con-
sidered as determined by now five years sue
, cessfui service With each year of labor the
what was conjecture becomes certainty The
athOme aud abroad. The success OF the PAST is
sure index 70 the results of the future; . He He
I: consideDed one Of the BUREAUS of the department
CHRISTOPHER SUFFERERS AND ANNUITIEs.
r Under the autho rity conferred by the act OF
congress approved February 10, 1876, for the re-
! lie of persons from the ravages OF grasshoppers
the appropriation was placed under the oh arge
OF officers OF the subsistence department, with
|, instructions for the purchase and issue OF food
} to the Sufferers within the respective military
| de pa rtnents. During the period when destttu-
!. ton from the cause referred 10. was greatest
957, los rations were issued &c 50 5eS adults and
!, eS942 children under twelve ears of q
I siding In the states OF Minnesota. Nebraska