The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-06-14
NAVY AND N1ARINE CORPS.

Surgeon T. II. Streets has been ordered to
the Brooklyn.
Lieut. F. NJ. Wise has been ordered to ex-
animation for promotion.
Ensign Friend w. Jenkins has been ordered
to the Bennington
The training-ship Portsmouth sailed for
Newport on last Thursday.
Lieut. Commander Henry +. Nichols has
been ordered to examination for promotion.
Naval Cadets W. w. Phelps and T. P. Ma
grudcr have been ordered to the Monongahela.
Lieut.. Theodore Porter has been detached
from special duty and ordered to the training
ship jamestown.
Lieut. j. r. Selfridge has been detached
from the Navy Yard, Washington, and ordered
to the Lancaster.
Lieut.. Commander Franklin Hanford, hav-
ing reported his return home, has been granted
three months leave.
Ensign G. p. Eaton has been detached from
the Navy Yard, New York. and ordered to
duty on the Coast Survey.
Lieut.. r. II. Miner has been detached from
the Naval Academy on the 10th instant and
ordered to fhe Bennington.
Lieut. William P. Potter has been detached
from the Naval Academy on the Goth instant
and ordered to the Philadelphia.
Lieut. Thomas B. Howard has been de-
tached from the Nayal Academy on the 10th
instant and ordered to the Bennington.
Ensign James G. Doyle, has been detached
from duty in the Branch photographic Office
and ordered to duty on the Coast Survey.
Commander John Schonler has been de-
tached from the command of the training-ship
Portsmouth June 25, and granted two months
leave.
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tached from duty at the Naval Academy June
%, and ordered to command the trainng-ship
Portsmouth.
Ensign Johh NJ. Ellicott has been detached
from the Office Of Naval Intelligence on the
1st of July next, and ordered to the Bennng
ton.
Leave has been granted to Capt. James
O'Kane for year from the 1st of August
next, with permission to leave the United
States.
Assistant Engineer w. P. Winchell has been
detached from special duty connected with the
Bennington, and ordered to duty on board
that vessel.
Chief Engineer Ralph Ashton has been de-
tached from special duty connected with the
Bennington, and ordered to duty on board
that vessel.
has been detached from duty at the University
of South Carolina on the 1st of July next,
and ordered to the Bennington.
Lieut.. Harry Mel. P. Huse has been de-
tached from the Philadelphia July and
granted three months leave, on the expiration
of which he will be placed on furlough until
June 80, 1892.
The Concord has been ordered from Norfolk
to New York, where the steam-pipe, which
burst recently with fatal results, will be re-
placed at the expense of the contractors who
built the vessel.
Rear Admiral d. B. Harmony has been au-
thorized to hoist his flag on the Lancaster
June 23, and ordered to proceed to the Asiatic
Station and relieve Rear Admiral George 4.
Belknap of the command of that station.
The court-martial in the case of Com
mander Lyon, who was charged with negli
gence in stranding the Triana while on her
way to rescue the crew of the Galena, wrecked
at Gay Head, has found that the officer was
not guilty of the charge.
Rear Admiral A. E. X. Benham, who for
two years. past has had command of Mare
Island Navy Yard, relinquished that position
Monday to Rear Admiral John Irwin, whom
the Navy Department had named as his sue
cessor. Admiral Benham has been placed on
waiting orders
The first part Of the summer programme
for the Squadron of Evolution, now at Nor
folk, has been determined on. The file ct will
go early in July to Boston, where it will
spend ten days in fleet exercises. and about
the middle of July will go to New York,
where similar programme of fleet exercises
will be carried out. These exercises will be
preliminary to the more extensive maneuvers
in August and September. At both places
it is expected that the naval militia will CO.
operate, and opportunities will be given to it
to take part in the operations of the fleet.
Bids for the construction of the Navy De-
partment exhibits at the Worlds Fair were
opened Wednesday by the following com
mittee, appointed by Chairman Willis, of
the board of management Lieut.. Z. D. Taus-
sig, United States Navy; Philip w. Holmes,
: Treasury Department, and F. Il. Bickford,
secretary of the board of management
There were present besides the committee
Chairman Willis, Admiral Ammen, and Mr..
Dapray, the law officer of the supervising
architects Office. The structure is to be in
semblance of battle-ship. The awards will
not be made until the entire matter is con
sidered by the committee.
A Popular Spoon.