Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-06-18
ARMY AND NAVY
The Annual summer shifting of Quarter
mssters-Torpsdo Instruction.

WAsHINGroN. ID. c., June 1.-THE annual
summer changes in the assignment Of Off
GERS OF the Quartermaster-tIenera force
have begun, and TO-DAY orders were issued
for the transfer Of a number of these OFF,
GERS. Captain f.. :. Dudley has been re-
heved from the Department of Arizona
and ordered TO the Department OF Texas
sc Assistant General Quartermastor and in
charge OF construction at Fort sam
Houston. He relieves Captain w. W.
Robinson. Jr., who goes TO the Depart
ment Of Arizona as assistant 10 the General
Quartermaster, relieving Captain l. T..
True, who Is ordered TO Boston, in turn
relieving Major James w. Sculey, trans
ferred to New Orleans, III place OF Captain
O. 81 Smith. CommIssary OF Subsistence.
rs Acting Quartermaster. Captain frede-
rick Won Schroeder is relieved from duty
at the military prison at Fort Leavenwortn
and ordered to the Schuylklll Arsenal, ana
FIrst-IAeutenant l.. ID. Greene. Reglmental
QuartefmaSter, Is ordered 70 Fort LeaVen-
worth, to act AS Quarterlnaster.
Carrying out the suggestion made by
Commodore Sampson. Chief of the Naval
Bureau OF Ordnance, the Acting Secretary
of the Navy has decided 10 cause all naval
officers who are likely 20 occupy executive
positions aboardshIp TO receive course OF
instruction IN the assembling OF the auto
mobile tOrpedOes, which will soon be sup
pned to such of the vessels Of tho new
navy Is are equipped for their use. In
view If the limited accommodations OF the
inspection stations aud the needs OF TIE
service the details will be made up OF only
SIX officers at one time, ana eacn detalI
will spend ten days IN the vicinity
of the torpedo station at Newport. VI
this time two or three days will be spent
at the station proper IN receiving an,
struc;lon IN Assembling the complicated
mechanism of the torpedoes; two or
three days will be spent al Rlyerton III ex;
pcriments with the Howell torpedo. ana
two or three days a. Peconlc IN instruction
in the use of the Whitehead torpedo. AS
soon as the detail of officers have under
gone a ten-days' course they Will be re-
iieyed bv another detail, and this order
will be kept up until the junior ofhcers OF
the navy are thoroughly famlilar with the
manipulation Of this weapon.
The Acting Secretary of the Navy has
accented the new cruiser New York rs
result of her successful trial. The ac-
ceptance is preliminary, and TO become
nermaneut certain contract conditions
| must lie fulfilled, but by to-dav's action
| the builders Of the vessel Will receive
about $70),00O.
Acting Secretary McAdoo has ordered a
court of inquiry to meet In New YORK
| Thursday. tho 22d instant, to investigate
| tho facts connected with the collision be-
| tween the United States steamer Monon-
| rahela and the Swedish ship Spranza last
| July. ,eu
tired Lieutenant Henry Clay Fisher, OF the
| United States Marine Corps, with the ran
Of captain. c..N
| Commander Ritter. United States Navy,
has been ordered to relieve Commander
| Harrington of the charge OF the Fourth
lighthouse District at headquarters III
| Philadelphia.
naval vessel TO proceed to Samoa and IN
| fact. the Navy Department has not yet
! heen requested formally TO send snip.
The reason. undoubtedly. Is that the avail
eble undetached naval force IN the Paclhc
"a known 70 be inadequate. 1t IL sellevcd
10 be bad policy to take either the Boston
| or the Adams away from the la
waiian Islands at this Juncture. Inc
matter il under consideration by mo
Cabinet, and 1t may be that the fhliadel-
nina or some other vessel on the Atlantic
coast now fitting out for the facinc STA
ton will be ordered to proceed 10 Samoa,
II is expected that the Philadelphia VIII
sail Tuesday from the New York yard ana
hc followed in 4 short time by the Charles
TON She is bound for Callao, Peru-0
voyage of 3. 500 miles. She can scarcely
yeach Callao before the first week IN Au'
INST Iflt IA decided that she shall GO &c
Samoa she will probably reach Valparaiso
and proceed directly across the southern
Pacific, making the entire distance iroh'
New York TO Apia IL about nifty days.