The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-05-25
THE NAVY AND MARINE CORPS

The Alliance was at Port Said, Egypt, last
week, on her way to China.
Lieut.. Mason A. Shufeldt has been ordered to
examination for promotion.
Comdr Allan D. Brown and Ensign B. c.
Dent have been ordered to appear before the re-
tiring board. Ensign John II. Fillmore has
been ordered to examination for promotion.
Pay Dir. Edward May has been ordered to
duty as purchasing paymr. at Washington in
addition to his present duties. This is the duty
vacated by Pay Dir. Thornton when he was or
dered to take charge of the New York Pay
Office. 1t is said that there will be music in the
air when certain steamer arrives from Europe.
on which Pay Insp. Ambrose j. Clarke is pas
senger. When he heard of Stewards appoint
ment as paymr. gen. he Immediately cabled his
application for the New York office, and took
the next steamer home. He does not know yet
of the detailing of Thornton.
The President has signed the JOINT resolution
authorizing the heirs of the late Rear Adm. c.
II. Baldwin to receive a snuff box presented to
him by the Car.
Lieut.. Thomas VI. Brumby has been ordered
to duty as asst. to the lighthouse insp. of the
Sd dist.
Ensign William j. Maxwell is ordered to ord.
instruction at the Navy Yard, Washington.
Lieut. George T. Emmons has been ordered
to the Pinta, July 2l next, relieving 1t. A. G..
Hodgson, who is ordered home and granted
leave of absence.
The gunboat Concord will start out on her
trial trip from the works at Chester, Pa, to-
morrow, under the supervision of the following
board of officers: Capt. E. E. Potter, Capt.
Robert Bradford, Comdr. Batcheller, Chief Eng.
Ayres, and Naval Constructor Hanscom. The
Philadelphia will also soon be tried. On her
preliminary run, it is claimed, she made a re-
markable speed, and the contractors are glow
ing with expectation of high premiums, but the
knowing ones say that the figures We're inflated
and that she will not make much over 90 knots
on her official run. This will give her a pre-
MUM of 100000, however.
Pay Dir. Gilbert E. Thornton has been de-
tached from duty in charge of the Washington
! Navy Pay Office, and ordered to assume charge
! of the New York Pay Office.
The retirement of Comdr. Allan D. Browne
from the active list will give McCalla the first
taste Of the pangs of punishment. AS he is
standing still on the naval list this retirement
will cause the promotion over his head of
Comdr. French +. Chadwick, who is now in
command Of the Yorktown.
P. A. Eng. f. A. Berryhill has been detached
from the Brooklyn Naval Hospital, and ordered
to duty at the Mare Island Hospital Asst
Surg. r. p, Crandall, who has been detached
from the Galena, will relieve him at the Brook
lyn Hospital.
Ensign Maurice l.. Read has been ordered for
examination for retirement.
Sec Tracy has decided that there is no ground
for the trial of 1t. Ingersoll on the same sort OF
charges that gave McCalla his suspension, and
that officer has been ordered back to duty, which
consists Of waiting orders Chief Eng En-
twistle and Ensign Kleine have also been re-
leased from suspension, and the Enterprise
trouble is a thing of the past, except fol
McCalla, who is sojourning at Newport
P. A. Surg, Frank Anderson has been ordered
to special temporary duty in the Bureau o.
Medicine and Surgery.
The Michigan has been ordered to proceed t
Cleveland Ohio, to participate in the celebration
on the occasion of the unyeiling Of the Garfield
Monument on the Both.
The training-ship Minnesota will 90 into thc
new dry-dock at Brooklyn Navy Yard for re
pairs as soon as the Puritan is taken out.
paragraph has been inserted by the Senat,
Com, on Appropriations into the Naval bin
providing that all the supplies purchased unde
the provisions of the bill shall be considered al
purchased for the Navy Dept and not for an,
particular bureau. 1t is also provided that al
supplies now on hand shall be classified anC
arranged and issued hereafter under such reg
ulatiOus as the Sec. of Navy may prescribe
For this work an appropriation Of $4,000 il
made.
Commo. Stewart, the new paymr. gen. ha
assumed his new duties. The resignation O.
Pay Dir. LOCKER took effect upon the qualiica