The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1885-1888, 1885-05-25
THE ARMY AND NAVY.
Notes of Interest to the Service From
All Along the Lines.

Captain Jacob Kline Eighteenth In.
iantry is ON leave ut his old home i'm
GAINESVILLE, Ohio.
Commodore David B. Harmony, chief
of the Bureau of Yards and Docks has re-
TUNED from his official visit to the Nor
folk Navy Yard.
Major Asa u. Carey has been designated
10y President Cleveland as Acting Paymas-
ter-Gencral during the absence South of
General Rochester.
Captain Philip II. Remington. Nine
teenth Infantry, has been grated one
month's leave from Fort Clark, Texas. His
home Is i'm Baltimore.
Colonel Caleb Il. Layton, Twentieth In
fantry, was unable to rcjoin his regiment
to go with 1t TO Montana and is still on
sick leave in Baltimore.
Lieutenant Leon A. Matte, Eleventh
Infantry, has been granted two months
leave from Fort Buford Dakota, and will
be at his home here very soon.
Captain Edmond Butler, Firth Infantry,
at Fort keogh, Montana, has been granted
two months leave and has permission to
apply for two months extension.
Captain John Il. Place, Tenth Infantry,
will inspect recruiting property at Balti-
more for which Captain stevens y. Nor
veil, Tenth Cavalry, is responsible.
Lieutenant Benjamin Munday, assist
ant surgeon. L. .. 4 =, has been transferred
from Fort Klamath, Oregon, to Fort Walla
Walla, Washington Territory, for duty.
General Robert Allen, retired, L. $. A.,
who was chief quartcrmastcr of the terri
tory west Of the Allcghanics during the
rebellion, is now living in London, Eng
land.
Naval Constructor George w. Much,
who arrived here last week from the Mare
Island Navy-Yard is still at the National
Hotel but is looking for quarters else
where.
The Finch ritled 5l-ton gun recently
built at the South Boston Iron Works, Is
now in New York waiting lighter trans
portation to the army proving ground at
Sandy Hook.
Colonel Berry will visit Washington to
consult Secretary Endicott in reference to
increasing the accommodations at New
port Barracks, so that Il regiment can be
quartered there.
Lieutenant Edward Ohio Crcsap Ord.
ir, Twenty-second Infantry, son of the
late General Ord, is on sick leave at San
Antonio, Texas, from the Cavalry School
at Fort Lcavenworth.
The wife of Lieutenant c. S. Sperry, u.
$. N. who formerly resided in Annapolis,
will sail for Europe in few DAYS. She
will first visit Paris. Lieutenant Sperry's
present duty is on the European station
A general court-martial is in session at
Fort Ger dAlene Idaho, of which
Colonel Frank Wheaton, Second Infantry,
is president, and Lieutenant William j.
Turner, Second Infantry, judge-advocate.
Lieutenant Henry De Haven Waite,
Fifth Cavalry, is here on leave from Fort
Monroe and visiting his grandparents,
Chicf-Justice and Mrs Waite, at No, l4l5
| street. He will remain until tomorrow.
10; II (,
A., who has been employed by the Gas
Company here for number of years, con-
templates resigning his position with the
company and removing to New York city.
General Nelson A. Miles has sent Lieu
tenant Oscar i. Long, Fifth Infantry,
aide-de-camp, to Port Angeles, Clallam
County, Washington Territory, to investi-
gate the threatened Indian troubles near
there.
Major Joseph p. Sanger, First Artillery,
aide to Major-General Schoheld, has been
ordered to accompany the Fifth Cavalry
in its march across the country from Fort
Laramie, Wyoming, to Fort Reilly, Kan,
and return to Chicago.
In the Fifteenth Infantry, First Lcuten-
ant Cyrus W. DeLany has been transferred
from Company III to Company b, and First
Lieutenant G.. Frederick Cooke, from b to
ii. Lieutenant Cooke is a son of the late
Major Caleb II. Carlton, Third Cavalry, is
president, and Lieutenant Edgar II. Stee-
yer, adjutant Third Cavalry, iudge-advo-
cate Of a cOurt-martial which has con-
vened at Fort Davis, Texas. All the
members of the court are of the same
regiment.
Lieutenant. Colonel John Mendenhall,
Fourth Artillery, now commanding at
Fort Warren, Boston harbor, will change
station To Fort I'm hill Naw Innlnn
Conn, July |, on the arrival of Major La
Rhett l.. Livingstone Fourth Artillery,
from Fort Monroe.
Major William A. Elderliin commits
saTy of subsistence, has been granted two
months leave, and will be here shortly
with his family. Mrs. Elderliin is
daughter Of the late DR.. Gurley, pastor of
the New Iork-avenue Presbyterian
Church during the war.
Lieutenant James n. Allison, Second
Cavalry, inspector of rifle practice, and
William II. Abercrombie, Second Infantry,
aide-de-camp, both on the staff of General
Miles, have been temporarily assigned to
Company A, Fourteenth Infantry at
Vancouver Barracks, Washington Terri
tory, for target practice
General Edmund Il. Alexander, u. S. A.,
arrived at his home in st. Paul last week,
accompanied by his daughter, Mrs, Guido
~ hlSI!cI, VI tllls Guy hIs lhcDcT, WIZ Is
the wife of Colonel Lieber, Assistant
Judge-AdvocateGe left here several
weeks ago with her father for a visit to
West Point and will remain in Minnesota
during the summer, where she will be
joined by her husband for time.
Commissary Sergeant John j. Bowman
has relinguished his uneXplred furlough,
and is ordered to duty at Fort Hays, Kan
sas; Commissary Sergeant Francis McCaf-
frey is transferred from Fort Hays to AL
catraz Island, Cal; Commissary Sergeant
Emil Miller, from Alcatraz to Benicia Bar
racks, Cal, and Commissary Sergeant
Horace Butts, from Camp Poplar River
Montana, to Jackson Barracks, New Or
leans.
Secretary Whitney has issued an order
doing away with one of Secretary Chand-
ler's latest, and, as he thought, most inn
poltant reforms. The detail and assign
Commodore Walker, chief of the Bureau
of Navigation until October first last,
when Secretary Chandler took this i'm
portant work out of his charge and as
signed it to q board of detail composed of
Commodores Walker Sicard, Schley and
Harmony, chiefs of the naval bureaus of
Navigation, Equipment and Recruiting,
Ordnance, and Yards and Docks. Secre-
tary Whitney has issued the following or
der restoring all but the most important
assignments to Commodore Walkers care.
The Catholic University.
The Oakland (Maryland) Democrat OF
last week contains some views expressed
by Archbishop Gibbons during his episco.
nol VisitotinI in CARROT InIIntu rnppn ".