The Washington critic., 1885-06-17
THE ARMY AND NAVY.
Notes of Interest to the Service From
All Along the Lines.

All Along the Lines.
The little son of Captain John l.. Client
assistant quartermaster, will be two weeks
old next Monday.
Ordnance Sergeant Peter r. Monaghan
has been granted six months furlough
from Fort Mckinney, Wyoming.
First Lieutenant Richard T.. Thompson.
Sixth Infantry, has been granted twenty
days leave from Fort Douglas, Utah.
The new boilers for the Alliance, which
are being constructed at the Norfolk
Navy-Yard, will be completed about
August 1.
First Sergeant Albert G.. Judson, Com.
pany +, Second Infantry. has been granted
two months furlough from Fort Cpur d
Alene, Idaho.
General Edward Hatch, with nine
troops of the Ninth Cavalry, left Fort
Riley, Kan, on Monday to march to
Wyoming to take station.
First Lieutenant S. Allen Dyer, TWEEN
ty-third Infantry who is on duty at Fort
Leavenworth, is rejoicing over a young
son, who reported last Saturday.
Colonel John S. Poland, major Eigh
teenth Infantry, leaves Fort Leavenworth
this week for Narragansett Pier to join his
family and spend the summer there.
Twenty-six marines are in the hospital
at the Boston Navy-Yard with what ap.
pears to be the chagres fever. All of
them were on the Panama expedition.
The marine battalion at Norfolk will
parade there tomorrow, under command
of Colonel James Forney, on the occasion
of the Confederate Memorial Day eX-
ercises.
The flagship Hartford, of the Pacific
fleet is now at the Mare Island Navy
Yard, where she was surveyed last week
,An.,
be made on her.
Captain Edward p. Doherty, formerly
Fifth Cavalry, is in the city from New
Orleans with his wife and son, visiting ut
No. 1876 Tenth street with Mrs. Doherty's
sister, Miss Gautier.
Hospital Stewards Herman Harbas and
Joseph Martin have been relieved from
duty at the New Orleans Exposition and
ordered to West Point and the Department
of Texas, respectively.
The Coast Survey vessel Arago has been
laid up at the Norfolk Navy Yard and En-
signs William TruXton and Edward Simp-
son, jr., have reioined the Coast Survey
steamer Blake for duty.
Major Abraham X. Arnold, Sixth Cav
airy, will report at the Fort Leavenworth
school about July 10 to relieve General
Samuel B. NJ. Young, Major Third Cav
airy, who goes to Texas July 1.
Lieutenant William Z. Evans, Nine
toenth Infantry, adiutant of the Fort
Leavenwoith Military Prison, July | will
80 to his home at Doddsville, Wis, to re-
main until reporting at West Point for
duty August %.
Lieutenant Edward r. Gilman is visit
ing his father, Colonel jeremiah II, Gill
man. at No. 1911 Rhode Island avenue.
and Lieutenant Daniel b. Devore is at the
st. James Hotel. Both have just gradu-
ated from West Point.
Major-General Schofield has announced
the promotion of Lieutenant Colonel
Nathan A. NJ. Dudley Ninth Cavalry, to
Grover, deceased; and orders Colonel Dud-
ley to join his command at Fort Custer
Montana.
Mr.. Hiram Il. Doyle of this city, who is,
with his brother, Assistant Paymaster J
ID. Doyle, on board the Iroquois at
Panama, was suffering from the chagres
fever when the last mail left there. Pay
master Doyle has entirely recovered from
the same trouble.
Mrs. John j. Coppinger, wife of Colonel
Coppinger Eighteenth Infantry, is in the
city visiting her father, Hon. James G..
Blaine, having arrived last week from St.
Paul. Colonel Coppinger left Fort Lcaven-
worth Saturday last for Fort Hays, Kan,
with Companies A Major Edgar II. Kel-
logg), b Captain Cass Durham), and ID
Colonel George n. Bomford), to take sta
ton.
Paymaster Stephen Rand, jr., who was
recently on duty with the force on the
Isthmus of Panama, is here to settle ac-
the Ebbitt House. His present detail
will end July IL, after which he will
probably succeed Passed Assistant Pay
master John Clyde Sullivan at the Navy
Department. Mrs. Rand is at Newport
still.
The Secretary of War has decided that
the appropriation of $S,645, 0SO.S0 for the
support OF the Signal Corps, the coming
| fiscal year, shall be disbursed under the
| direction of chiefs of bureaus, as follows:
Chief Signal Office, S270,0O0; Paymaster-
| General, S247, 30l 81; Commissary-G General,
| $l55,0C0; Quartermaster-Gene $lSi570.-
| 20; Surgeon-General, 81, 100, and Chief of
| Ordnance, 500.
Companies Colonel Carroll II. Potter
| and | major Birney b. Keeler), Eigh-
teenth Infantry, left Fort Leavenworth
ton at Fort Gibson ]. IT,, under Captain
Keller, who will command the post. Com.
| panies G Captain William A. Miller) ii
| Captain William II. McLaughlin), and X
| Colonel Charles r. Paul. left at the same
time, under Captain Mclaughlin, for Fort
Reno, l. Il.
Captain James w. Reilly has been pro
NOTED to major, and First Lieutenant
Marcus w. Lyon to captain, in the
Ordnance Corps, to date May 8, to fill va.
cancies caused by the death of the late
Colonel Stephen G. Lyford. In the same
corps First Lieutenants Charles w
Whipple and Andrew III. Russell are pro
NOTED May 8 and June II, respectively
each having served fourteen years as lieu
Rogers Birnie iT., completes his fourteen
years service he, with Lieutenants Ira Nc
Mutt, Charles g. Morrison and Frank
Baker, will become captain. These pro
motions do not create vacancies IN the
corps, except i'll the case of Captain Lyon