Morning journal and courier., 1888-04-16
Changed Ills RzLnd on the Wedding
CHANGES OF STATIONS.


 the Regular Army.
 NEW YORK, April 15.-The most elaborate
 house moving undertaken in the army for
 many years has just been announced. It will
 include all regiments which have not had
 change of station for seven years, and some
 of the transfers will involve journeys across
 the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific
 or else from the northern territories to the
 gulf.
 The transcontinental change is in the First artillery, between Battery G, Captain F. K.
 Uphan, now at Fortress Monroe, and Bat-
 tery F, Captain F. K. Ward, now at Presidio of San Francisco, the headquarters of the regiment. The changes between the region of the blizzards and the heats of Texas will
 be shared chiefly by the Eighth cavalry, Col onel Elmer Otis; the Fifth infantry, Colonel
 George Gibson, and the Sixteenth, Colonel
 Matthew NJ. Blunt. The Eighth cavalry is
 now all in Texas, the headquarters and troops A, CD, F and H being at Fert Davis; troops I, B and M at Fert Coneho; troop K at Camp
 Del Rio; troop G at Camp Pena, Colorado; troop L at Fort Hancock; troop E at Eagle
 Pass. The regiment will march to Fort
 Meade in Dakota, and as the Seventh cavalry,
 Colonel James w. Forsyth commanding, now
 has troops B, F, I, K and L at Fort Meade,
 and troops B and Fl at Fort Yates. These will
 be moved to Fort Riley, in Kansas, where
 Colonel Forsyth who commands the new
 cavalry school, already has four troops of his
 regiment.
 Tths next long move is that of the Fifth
 infantry, Colonel Gibson. The regiment
 has it's headquarters and Companies A, B, D, E, G, and H at Fort Keogh in Montana,
 and Companies F and K at Fort Totten, and Company at Fort A. Lincoln in Dakota. kxx,s1I hv took ay,l Ro Texas, there to be distributed at the various posts, and as the change will be effected dur jug the coming season, the wonderful rec ords in the thirties and forties below zero which the post thermometers were showing few weeks ago may soon give way to rec ords higher than hundred degrees above. These variations will give good idea of how much 'climate" we have in this coun- try, if one will only look for it.
 The Sixteenth infantry, Colonel Blunt now occupying Forts Bliss, Conoho, Mcintosh, Davis and Ringgeld in Texas, with four com other points in the department of the Platte, the headquarters being at Fort Douglas, from which post the half dozen companies of the Sixth infantry, now there, will move to Fort Lewis in Colorado. This latter change will take the six companies of the Twsnty-second, Colonel Peter T. Swaine commanding, now at Fort Lewis, to Fort Keogh in Montana, where also will be concentrated the three companies of the regiment now at Fort Lyon in Colorado.
 Finally the Twenty-ifth infantry, Colo nel George L. Andrews, now at Fort She'll | ing, in Minnesota, and at Forts Meade and Sisseton, in Dakota, will exchange with the Third, Colonel Edward c. Mason, who suc- ceeds General Brooke, just promoted, now at Forts Shaw, Missouls and Custer, in Mon 1 tana, while the Twenty fourth, Colonel Be- l mas R. Bliss, now at Forts Supply, Sill and
 Reno, in Indian territory, except two compa- | nies at Fort Elliott, in Texas, will exchange | with the Thirteenth, Colonel B. s. La Motte, ! now at Forts Wingate, Bayard and Stanton, | in New Mexico. except one company at Fort Leavenworth.
 One result of this abundant "shaking up'' | will be regimental concentrations at impor- I tant stations like Fort Riley, Fort Keough and Fort Meade, while the wider one will be | a redistribution of desirable and undesirable posts. There drawbacks of course to ! this custom of exchanges of station, the proverb f'three removes are bad as frei | applying in some respects to military as well I as to civil life, but the general result in va riety of experience and efficiency and in the \ better equalization of hard and easy service | is obvious