The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-05-31
NAVY AND MARINE CORPS.

NAVY AND MARINE CORPS.
The Jamestown arrived at Stapleton, Staten
Island, Thursday, from Newport
Naval Cadet Noah T. Coleman has been de-
tached from the Enterprise and granted three
months sick leave.
Commodore James A. Greer has been Or
dered to duty as member of the lighthouse
board, in addition to his present duties.
ssFaust Beer'' takes the,lead
Rear Admiral A. E. K Benham has been
detached from command of the Navy Yard,
Mare Island, CAL, and placed on waiting
orders
James Sloughton, of Brooklyn; Lewis De
sasser Young, of st. Joseph, La. and Michael
Royston Piggott, of New York, have been ap-
pointed assistant surgeons in the Navy
Capt. Stephen r. Stafford, Fifteenth Infan-
try, will report to Col. Elwel s. Otis, Twen-
tieth Infantry. president of the retiring board
at New York, for examination.
Rear Admiral John Irwin has been de-
tached from duty as president OF the board of
inspection, San Francisco, and ordered to
command the Navy Yard at Mare Island, CAL
Lieut. Commander George A. Norris has
been detached from duty on the Asiatic sta
ton, and ordered to temporary duty as a
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cisco.
Medical Director D. Kindleberger has been
detached from duty as a member of the medi-
cal and retiring boards, Washington, and Or
dered to special duty in attendance of officers
of the Navy at Philadelphia.
The Secretary of the Navy has made the ap-
pointment of foreman for the New York Navy
Yard as recommended by the board appointed
to examine candidates for Dosit;ops in that
yard
''Faust Beer'' is pure.
Passed Assistant Surgeon w. Il. Du Bose
has been detached from the training ship
jamestown, and granted three months leave
Passed Assistant Surgeon Samuel III. Griffith
has been ordered to the training-ship James
town.
Commander Evans's board will reassemble
at Fort Monroe Tuesday, June 2, to deter
mine the nature of the further trials that shall
be made of the guns of the dynamite cruiser
Vesuvus.
Commander r. b. Bradford has been de-
tached from special duty in the Bureau of
Navigation June and ordered to command
the Bennington June 4; Lieut.. Andrew Dun
lap, ordered to the Bennington June 4.
Passed Assistant Engineer F. C. Beig, who
has been for year past on duty in the Bureau
of Steam Engineering in the Navy Depart
ment has been ordered to duty in connection
with fitting the monitor Miantonomah for sea
at the New York Navy Yard.
The Secretary of the Navy has appointed
the following board to conduct the examina-
tions of foremen and master mechanics at the
Norfolk Navy Yard: Capt. Silas Bunce, Chief
Engineer Smith, Commander Chadwick,
Naval Constructor Fernold, and Commander
O'Neill.
Lieut.. Arthur p NaZro has been detached
from duty as member of board of inspection
and in charge of the branch Hydrographic
Office, New York, on the 18th of June, and
granted leave of absence for six months from
the 18th of June, with permission to leave the
United States.
The following transfers in the Second Cav
airy are made: First Lieut.. Curtis B. Hoppin,
from Troop II to Troop L; First Lieut.. Henry
T. Allen, from Troop L to Troop H; Second
Lieut.. Edwin M. Suplee, from Troop d to
Troop @; Second Lieut. Robert B. Wallace,
from Troop TO Troop l..
"Faust Beer' is pure.
Bids we're opened at the Office of the chief
of ordnance of the Navy Monday for new
wharf at the Bellevue Magazine on the Poto-
mac River. There were but two bids, as
follows: George L. Cumberland, of Washing
ton, ID. c., ST, ,l49, and Jos. L. Breen, Alex
andria, Va, 81 ,450 No award was made.
Commodore Ramsay, chief of the Bureau
of Navigation, has returned to Washington
from Newport, r. l., where he went to inspect
the training school. He reports that the
school is in good order, although there are
now but eigbty-hve apprentices in attendance.
The majority of the boys, about two hundred
and fifty, were aboard the training-ship James
town making ready for the cruise.
Hub T. Smith will be on Elks' excursion,
June TO- 1891.
Secretary Tracy has ordered court-martial
to meet at the Newport torpedo station on
Tuesday, the I'd of June, for the trial of Lieut..
Commander Henry w. Lyon on a charge of
negligence in allowing the tug Triana to be