The Evening critic., 1883-06-21
APPOINTMENTS IN THE NAVY.
Sixty Graduates of the Naval Acad.
emy to be HOuOrabIy DISCHARGED.

emy to be Hou0rabIy Discharged.
Secretary Chandler has addressed letter tc
Captain Ramsay, superintendent OF the Naval
Academy, touching the status of the naval ca
dets who successfully completed their six
years In 1888, in which no says:
orhere will be three appointments as as
Histant naval constructors. These appoint.
ments would naturally be made only after the
cadets 20 whom they are assigned have pur-
sued their special studies for two or three
years after final graduation. Under the spe.
cfal circumstances now existing, they will,
however, be made Immediately, but they are
NOT to be treated as precedents for like ap.
pointments hereafter.
s'The law OF August 3, 1882, prohibiting ap-
pointments from the graduates except to fill
the vacancies of each year, provided that moth.
ing should reduce the number of appoint.
ments from such graduates below ten each
year, These ten appointments Will be seven
ant engineers. There having been no more
vacancies than ten during the year, no addi.
uonal ensigns or assistant engineers can be
appointed.
''There will also be ten now appointments
as second lieutenants In the Marine Corps
from hnal graduates OF tho year. Tho aca-
demio board Will determine the order OF merit
for these appointments, and make their re.
concentrations to the Department, and there.
upon the assignments Will be made to the
various corps. SO far as practicable with the
exception OF the appointments Of assistant
naval constructors) the cadets may be allowed
to choose the corps to which they Will be
assigned; a,,sg ee The appointments will be dated
From this 1t will be seen that of the 80 ca.
dets who completed the six years course this
year % Will remain In the Navy and go will be
honorably discharged on July i, with one
years pay.
For the three positions as assistant naval
CONSTRUCTORS, Secretary Chandler has selected
John L. Shock, Joseph II. Linnard and Joseph
!. woodward, the first three OF the class in the
order OF merit. Those who would be eligible
Tor the remaining twenty positions are in
their order OF merit as follows: John A.
Hoogewern, Michigan; Robert b. Dashfell
virginia; Fred O. Rider, Rhode Island; Fran
CTS e. Sutton, New York; Harry X. Waite,
Dakota; Lincoln Karmany, Pennsylvania;
New Jersey; Eugene Carroll Ohio: Robert p
Norshew, New York; Charles A. Doyen, New
Hampshire; Ohas. II. Lauchheimer, Mary
land; VIM. II. Stayton, Delaware: Horace b,
Andrews, Michigan; Henry d. Wilson, New
Jersey; George P. Blow, Virginia; Henry q,
Haines, District OF Columbia; James E. Ma
money. Massachusetts; Gilbert Wilkes, Utah:
j. NJ. Witham, Illinois.
Two OF them, however, Carroll and vorshew,
who graduated numbers IL and 10, respect
lively, have declined their places, which Will
make george Barnett, of Wisconsin, and
Franklin ]. Moses, OF South Carolina, eligible
also for retention in the service.
There ia still some question in the case of
Hoogew erfr, who graduated No. 4, and sutton,
NO. z, on account of defective eyesight; also
In the case of Andrews, No. 10, on the cround
OF physical disability. II the objections in
these cases should be removed, the appoint.
ments Will fall to those above indicated, II
these three should be disqualified, then the
next three In order after Moses would become
eligible, viz, @. M. Perkins, Of Georgia. George
Clarke, Of Illinois, and james Il. Coiweli, Of
Pennsylvania.