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and was tfty- years OF agV.
Lieutenant John Q. Irvine, u g. N, left Norfolk
on Monday for the North on leave for month.
The Navy Mutual Aid Association now numbers
564 members representing s2776 to beneficiares
Chief Engineer Alexander Henderson, U. S. ~,
and family are living at No. S23 Vermont avenue
| Lieutenant Clermont H. Best jr., First Artillery,
| arrived at San Francisco December @, from the
East
The resignation of Cadet Engineer Charles y.
White has been accepted, to take effect June 80,
Major David II. Brotherton, Seventh Infantry, is
visiting in Baltimore, and was in Washington last
Major william y. Hughes, quartemaser win
leave IN day or two for his station, at San An
tonic Texas.
Lieutenant. Commander F. G. Prindle, civil en-
gincer United States Navy, was In Philadeldha
last Monday.
The Yantic Commander Edwin I. Woodward
,ett Port Royal B. c., yesterday for cruise In the
| Midshipman Edward Lloyd returned to the re-
celving-shp franklin, at the Norfolk Navy-Yard,
| Monday from leave.
The Gaena, Commander James o'Kane, left
| Villefranche on Monday for three months cruise
| on the African coast.
| Assistant Engineer wythe NJ Parks, q. s. N, ar
rived az Norfolk Monday, on two weeks leave from
| the Alliance, ut Boston.
Tho Navy Department Is informed of the arrival
| of the United States ship Vandalia at Bermuda
Island on the ID instant
Lieutenant John Alexander Lockwood, Seven.
teentn lnuntty, arrived nt 81, raul last ShtuTuhy
| from Fort Pcmbina, Oak, on duty.
Lieutenant General Sheridan and family arrived
at Fort Leayenworth Sunday morning, wherethey
| were guests of General and Mrs. John Pope
The extension of leave OF absence granted Sec
| ond Lieutenant Edward Chynoweth, Seventeenth
| Infantry. has been further extended one month";
| Captain Edmund LUZ, lieutenant Eighth Cav
airy, left San Antonio Thursday of last week TO
meet his family, which was on its way to Texas
Lieuenants William c. Brown, First Cavalry,
and William g. Muhlcnberg, Second Infantry,
sailed from Portland, Oregon, December Q, for San
| Francisco
Lieutenant james d. Mann, Seventh Cavalry,
was In 81. Paul last Sunday from Glcndive, Mon.
and len Tuesday for Fort Meade, OAK, to rejoin
| his company.
/ Passed Assistant Paymaster James A. Ring, who
has been on the Alaskan coast nearly three years
| In the sloops. .of-war Jamestown and wachusett
has arrived In Washington.
Surgeon Henry Stewart has reported his return
| home, having been detached from the Swatara,
Asiatio Station, on the 7th OF November last, and
has been placed on waiting orders
| Lieutenant Garland N. Whistler, Fifth Artillery
| with twenty men OF his regiment, passed through
Louisville last Saturday route 10 take station ut
Fort Hamilton, New York Harbor.
The Marion Commander Silas w. Terry arrived
at Cape Town, Africa, Tuesday from Montevidco,
Uruguay, en- route to Hearns Island In search of
| the shpwrecked crew ofthe American ship Trinity
| Chief Engineer d. +. Garvfn has been detached
| from duty on the experimental board at the navy
/ yard, New York. and ordered to take charge OF tho
machinery OF the Puritan at the Delaware Iron
| Works
| Captains Camille G. G. Carr and Moses Harris
| First Cavalry, who have been on duty in Arizona
| since the Apache outbreak, arrived Mt San Fran
cisco OH Tuesday Of last week, over the Southern
| Pacific.
The French guests of the nation, who arrived at
| Kansas City last Saturday were accompanied from
Santa Fe by General Ranald S. Mackenzie, colonel
| Fourth Cavalry who Recommending the district Of
| New Mexico.
Lieutenant Thomas s. Phelps, jr., from the Mare
| Island Navy Yard and lieutenant Lewis o. He'll
| o.
Arthur, were at the Occidental Hotel, San Fran
cisco, December3
General Henry J. Hunt colonel Finh Artillery,
| commanding the Department of the South ar
| rived here Saturday from Newport, KY, under or
ders from the War Department, and Is quartered
| at No. 1872 street.
Commander Il. NJ Shepard has been ordered TO
| hold himself in readiness for the command of the
Enterprise, Chief Engineer Robert Dandy, to duty
| navy-yard, New York.
Chief Engineer Edward Farmer has reported ut
| the Naval Academy for duty as chief of the De-
Partment OF steam Engineering, as successor to
| tho late Chief Engineer James T.. Sprague, who
died suddenly at Rochester, N. Y, last summer
Lieutenant Herbert J. slocum, Seventh Cavalry,
and Lieutenant Stephen EIIommedieu Socum,
| Eighteenth Infantry are in this city, visiting ut
! No. 1913 Rhode Island avenue Both are under
orders to the Cavalry and Infantry School at Fort
| Lcavenworth.
Infantry, who Is still In Detroit with his family,
Will leave soon for Europe for an extended VISIT,
having recently been granted years extension Of
his sick leave 1t is stated that his general heal tn
| has greatly improved.
The Alliance, Commander George IL. wadleigh,
has been ordered to proceed from Boston TO the
Norfolk Navy. Yard TO be docked and cleaned, and
TO receive her battery and ordnance stores, which
| were landed there when the vessel fitted out last
| summer for her cruise TO Spitzbergen
The leave of absence granted Captain Henry G.
Pratt, Thirteenth Infantry, has been extended four
months, and that granted First Lieutenant Will
| lam IA. Mann, Seventeenth Infantry, three months.
| and that granted Second Lieutenant Frank de l..
Carrington First Infantry, five months.
A San Francisco paper Of recent dato says that
Mrs. Thomas S. Phelps, wife OF Commodore
Phelps, intended giving birthday party Decem-
| Der 13 at the navy yard, In honor OF the little
| daughter Of Lieutenant and Mrs. James d. Adams.
The party was TO be fancy dress one from two
| to five p. m.