Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-10-22
THE SIGNAL SERVICE.
Annual Report Of GEN. Hazen.

annual report OF Gen. H0zems
KNiIsT1SG COLLEGE CHARACTERISTICS SERVICE GRIP
Piled By SMALL ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ARCTIC XXX
petitions, KrC.
CHIEF Signal OfYicer Hazen In hts annual report 20
10 the secretary OF War says that the course OF
instruction pursued at Fl Myer has been enlarged
and otherwise improved During the year five OIL
GERS completed the course OF instruction In meteor
ology at Fl Myer, and sixty-nine enlisted men
were instructed In signaling, telegraphy, ele-
mentary, meteorol0gy and duties soldiers. In adj
diuon two officers have completed the course OF
instruction al the signal ONCE In the preparation OF
weather predictions The number OF Officers avail
aDe iof this branch OF the service Is considered In
sumcienc The attempt made during the last three
Years 10 secure the enlistment OF young college
graduates has met with success or the PSI en-
ilstnehts made during that time IS were college
graduates
CRIPPLED CONDITION OF THE SERVICE.
zen. Hazen calls attention TO the crippled con-
diton In which the service has been left by the
last TWO appropriation acts, and says that as q
consequences II stations Of the meteorological SER
vice have been closed In order to send men to tho
telegraph lines The increasing demands for
special predictions in the interests OF agriculture,
special trades and commerce, Indicate Ia a mea-
sure, the report says the value and importance OF
tne nuicat1ons division OF the signal service.
MIN improvement In the wording OF the indca-
the accuracy OF predictions, Gen. Hazen reports
an Improvement In the work or this same divi-
SION, ana a0dS tnat 1urther improvements could
Ue made by an increase OF stations, especially in
the west and northwest No general storm has
passed over this country during the year without
warning, the report says
IN RELATION TO THE ARCTIC EXPEDITIONS,
Gen. Hazen says, referring to the departure OF the
Yantic, after the loss OF the Proteus from Little
ton Island to St Johns without leaving provis-
Ions, "that this abandonment of Lieut.. Greedy and
his party to probable starvation, by officers whose
any mission IN those waters was to succor Them
OlSDAFeQ a t1lnpnfa n nj
slolllties." He holds that IL Lieut. Darlington had
insisted upon leaving ratl0nS from the Yantlc or II
another relief vessel had been sent from St Johns
as he himself urged loss OF life and disaster would
nave been averted. Gen. Hazen says Lieut. Greedy
carried out his instructions literally and the signal
bureau carried out the prearranged plan. He con-
tnues after referring to Lieut. Greeiys retreat 70
Cape Sabine and TO the successful relief expedi-
ton under Commander Schley, as follows: up to
there would be no occasion for raising the question
or blame at this Or any future time But new light
has been cast upon the subject, and with it my
history and Justice to all calls for
such impartial inquiry and authoritative
the whole question, shall institute and pronounce,
and the Congress OF the United states is manifesty
s SUCH tribunal l therefore trust that this
whole matter Of the LADY Franklin Bay expedition
and the expeditions organized for It's relief win be
deemed worthy of thorough investigation by
Congress" Gen. Hazen considers the Greedy expe-
dltlon aInong the foremost OF its kind and insists
mat 'Doth Lieut. Greedy I'm the Arctic and the
signal bureau In Washington carried out their
parts OF the prearranged plan OF rescue literally
and successfully In every Particular
LETTER FROM LIEUT.. GRRELY
He refers to the failure Of Lieut. Darlington to
replace the spoiled provisions at Cape Sabine. and
quotes from letter written by Lieut. Greedy to
him, April 30, supposing himself at the point OF
death, as follows: "Had Lieut. Darlington carried
out your orders and replaced the a4o raions OF
and 12O alcohol In English cache here, and the 2iO
pounds mouldy English bread spoiled English
chocolate and potatoes, melted sugar, and the 2lO
pounds of rotten dog biscuit, we would without
doubt be saved" Gen. Hazen says Darlington
should have left two-rhrds OF the stores received
from the ProteuS at Cape Sabine.
INCREASE OF THE SIGNAL CORPS RECOMMENDED.
In concluding his report the chief signal officer
recommends that the following officers be added to
the signal corps with the rank and pay OF cavalry
Officers: colonel, lieutenant colonel major and
discussing officer, captains and the appointment
OF second lieutenantS to first neutenantS after 8
years, and TO captains after Ia years service. He
recommends that the $50 sergeantS Of the corps be
composed OF three classes-a5 with pay Of $50 per
month, 50 with pay OF $40, and IS with pay OF $3l,
ana that all the sergeants corporals and privateS
OF the 1rst class OF the corps be known as sob
servers" OF the signal service.