The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-11

ARMY AND NAVY NOTES,
Active Work on the New Bar.
racks and Steel Wharf of
the Preside.
RECRUITS FOR THE BOSTON
Mare Island Pleased Over the Appoint
ment of Captain C. E.
Clark.
RECRUITS FOR THE BOSTON

Inc work OF building the new double
orlck barracks at the Preside is going
anead with vlgOr. The contractor has
taken advantage of the delightful weather
10 put on the slate roofing, so that interior
work may proceed, rain or shine. Colonel
Amos ,. hlmball chief ouartermaster of
the department, who has just returned
from Los Angeles, predicts that the new
barracks Will be ready for troops to move
IN before the holidays end. Grading for
the enlarged parade ground is finished,
and work on the new steel wharf is pro-
crossing.
Captain Lockett's Troop I of the Fourth
cavalry left Sequoia Park yesterday and
wall come at once to the Presidio General
Forsyth, commanding the department, is
well pleased with the manner in which the
reservation was guarded. Sheepherders
were kept off the premises, and the reser-
walton was carefully protected from fires.
Troop h, Fourth Cavalry, Captain Rod
| gers, is en- route to the Preside. The
| troopers have been on duty in Yosemite
| Park. Their work of guarding against i'm
| proper lncursions has been performed to
the satisfaction of the commanding gem
| eral.
Lieutenant Franklin P. Bell of General
J
| a few days ago. He had a hunting trip on
the Sierra and saw many deer and frequent
| sign of bear. When he left the hills the
snow was three feet deep in Farewell Gap.
Captain Roberts of the Fifth Artillery
and Colonel Babbltt of Benicia Arsenal
| have gone on a duck-hunting expedition
to the marshes of the upper bay
Major eros beck is expected here this
week to relieve Colonel Hunter, Judge ad-
vocate OF the department. Colonel Hunter
goes to st. Paul
General Miles is happy in Washington.
lie has bought beautiful home on the
| corner of G and Twentieth streets, one
block south of Pennsylvania avenue and
three blocks west of the War Department.
Special orders from headquarters, De-
partment OF California, announce that a
board of officers has been appointed to
consist OF Captain Harlan d: McVay, sur
geon; Captain G. G.. Starr, First Infantry,
and First Lieutenant G. G. Treat, Fifth
Artillery.
As soon as practicable the board will
convene at Angel Island to solve the in
trlcate problem whether or not the alleged
deafness OF Frederick P. Suffer, Company
e, First Infa ntry, was contracted prior or
subsequent to his enlistment The order
surely contemplates thorough investiga-
ton of the question, for it is declared that
! such Journeys as the officers comprising
the board may make to and from their
proper station, on such days as the board
may be in session, are necessary for the
public service.
II the fact was not already admitted that
Private Suffer is deaf his hearing might be
tested by firing the Pinch rifle at Fort
Point in his immediate presence. The
deafness is, however. acknowledged, so the
board must ascertain if his sense of hear
| ing was mpaired when the recruiting Off
| Ger, in the presence of the recruit, de-
| scribed the allurements and advantages of
a soldiers life.
| If it be established that the recruits
hearing apparatus was in good order when
| he enlisted the board Will then be con-
fronted with the difficult problem of ascer-
tanning at what particular time and under
| what distressing circum stances subsequent
to enlistment the sense of hearing left the
recruit. The result of the inquest will be
awaited with some degree of anxiety.
a board OF officers, consisting OF Lieu
tenant-Colonel Samuel B. Young, Fourth
Cavalry; Captain John Mcclellan, Fifth
Artillery, and First Lieutenant John d
Mlley, Fifth Artillery, has been appointed
to convene at the Preside. This board
will pass upon the qualifications of several
sergeants for appointment as ordnance
| sergeants.
The tailor of Company A, First Infantry,
recently violated the sixty-second article
OF war. He neglected his work as tailor
and neglected his duty as kitchen police.
He was sentenced to be dishonorablv dis
charged and to forfeit all pay and allow
ance due him. There was record of five
previous convictions against him.