The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-09-28

duced the corps to the number then actually
needed in the service The rapid increase in
the size of our Navy since that date has largely
increased the demand for naval engineers Bills
providing for an increase in the corps to the
number actually required by the Navy have
been introduced in both branches of Congress,
but so lar no action has been taken upon them.
Until some such provision is made it will be
impossible to make any more such details.
First Lieut.. F. i. Hobbs, Ord. Dept, has
been ordered for temporary duty to Washing
ton in connection with the specifications being
prepared for gun work.
Capt w. H. Miller, A. Q. NJ, has resigned
his commission as 1st It,, 1st Cav.
Lieut.. E. P. Wood has been ordered to exami-
nation for promotion.
Lieut.. David Peacock has been ordered to as
sumo charge of the branch photographic office
at Portland, Ore.
The New Hampshire, now at Newport, r. l.,
has been declared by medical authorities unfit
for further service as receiving-ship for boys,
and the Richmond will be sent to take her place
Mr.. Raymond, private secretary to Secretary
Tracy, has left the city for Boston, and expects
to bring his family to Washington for the winter.
Chief Eng. n. P. Towne, who is noted for his
marked resemblance to ex-President Cleveland,
has been spending the past week in New York,
enjoying much-needed rest from his designing
duties in the Bureau of Steam Engineering.
Asst Eng. S. H. Leonard has returned to his
post at the Navy Dept after months leave of
absence, spent in Boston and among the Thou
sand Isles.
The orders of the Swatara have been changed,
and instead of going to Panama, as was first in
tended, she will sail for San Francisco, where
repairs will be made at the Mare Island Navy
Yard.
The monument erected to the survivors of
the Jeanette expedition in the Naval Gene
terry at Annapolis will be unveiled during the
coming month.
The orders of Paymr. T. S. Thompson to the
Richmond have been revoked.
Chaplain A. G. Hensley has been ordered to
the receiving ship st. Louis.
Capt. Young will be in command of the Ma
rine Corps at the Naval Academy during the
absence of Capt Bartlett, who leaves shortly for
California. Capt. Bartlett expects to be away
for several months.
The training-ship Saratoga has arrived at
Philadelphia after her summer cruise.
The tug Triton arrived at the Annapolis
proving-grounds on Friday with an S-nch,
6,inch, and 4-inch gun from Washington. The
Triton will take to New York the last of the
Miantonomah's 10nch guns.
The Atlanta is being fitted out at the Norfolk
Navy Yard for 3 years. cruise in foreign VII
ters.
ing ship Jamestown, called at the Dept. yester-
day. 1t. Garst, it will be remembered was the
judge adv. in the McCalla court-martial
Ensign j. j. Knapp has been ordered to ex-
animation for promotion.
Lieut.. S. Z. Woodwork has been detached
from duty at the Pacific Mills, San Francisco
and ordered to the Alert.
A very interesting and complete report has
been issued by the Office of Naval Intelligence
This report is issued annually, and includes
notes on the improvements in naval matters
effected during the year. Its value is greatly
enhanced by the copious use of engravings and
plates of new inventions. The last year has
been quite productive in small arms, rapid
firing guns, smokeless powders, and other
modern inventions. Reports of armor-plate
tests, which have been made in the various
countries, are appended, and offer material for
some interesting comparisons with the late
local test.
The training-ship jamestown arrived at Fort
ress Monroe Thursday night from Funchal.
The trial of the pneumatic S-inch guncar-
rlage about year ago was not at all satisfac-
tory. The contract was that this carriage
should be purchased, as it developed qualities
better than those of the carriages now in use
and the manufacturers have been energetic in
their efforts to increase its efficiency. A method
has been discovered by which composition is
forced into the pores of the metal forming the
air-recoil cylinders, and it is thought they will
in this way be made entirely air-tight Tests
of this carriage will shortly be made at the An
napolis proving grounds
A despatch from Yokohama says that Ensign
IL. E. Rumsey, attached to the Swatara, was
drowned yesterday.
The Baltimore left Stockholm on Monday and
will proceed to Lisbon, Portugal, stopping en-
route at Kiel, where she will have some needed
repairs made. 1t is not yet known what dispos-
tion will be made of her after leaving Lisbon,
but 1t is probable that she will go to China as
flagship of that station.
Secretary Tracy has addressed an order to the
comdts, of the navy yards calling their attention
to the law requiring that there be no additional
workmen employed in the navy yards during
the months Immediately preceding national or
Congressional elections, Additional men will
only be added upon notification to the Dept.
that they are absolutely necessary Inpast years
it has been a not infrequent custom to make
hundreds of appointments in these yards in or
der to gain votes for continuance of the ad-
ministration, and the Secretary evidently means
that no such imputation shall be laid to the
present one.