The San Francisco call., 1896-06-15
LIVELY At The PRESIDE
A Stable, Two Brick Barracks.
Grading, Well.Boring and
Tunneling.
Target Smashed by an Eight-Inch
Sxfle at Alcatraz-General
Forsyth'S Trip.

General James W. Forsyth, command
ing the Department of California, left the
City last Saturday for Yosemite Valley.
He was accompanied by Lieutenant ]. F.
r. Lands. During the trip to the noun
tains General Forsyth will visit the four
troops of the Fourth Cavalry performing
duty in that region of the Sierra. The
work of opening new trails and putting old
roads in passable condition will be per
formed by the troops this summer. 1t is
possible that General Forsyth may return
from the valley in time to participate in
the Sloat celebration at Monterey early in
July.
DR.. G. L. Edie, o. S. A., has reported for
duty as assistant surgeon at the Presidio.
DIR. Stevenson, who was assigned to duty
at this station some weeks since, has been
ordered to the Department OF the Colum-
bia.
]. w. Murphy of Modesto, who secured
the big contract for grading and filling in
the marsh at the Presidio, will establish
his camp to-day and begin active work this
week.
Lively times at the Presidio are prom
ised during the next few months. While
Murphy's men are grading down and fill
| ing IN Contractor Silas Carries men will be
working on the new quartermaster's stable
| Meanwhile Kelso's workmen will be put
ting in drains, while another force will be
| engaged in putting in caisson for new
artesian we'll at the stables. Bios have
been invited for the construction OF two
more double brick barracks, and before the
graders have finished their work the build
ers will be on the ground.
Colonel Kim ball, chief quartermaster of
| the department, has received estimates
from contractors indicating that the cost
! of tunneling the Preside hill, so that a
water supply by gravity may be obtained,
| will not exceed SlOOO0.
CAPTAIN Crabbs Battery II, Fifth Artil-
! lery, has gone to Fort Candy in pursuance
of recent orders for change OF station.
| The Candy batteries will soon arrive at
! the Presidio. They are due June 49,
The army journals make extended no.
! tice of the wedding of Miss Maude An
! thony and Lieutenant Lewis NJ. Koehler,
Ninth United States Cavalry, at the An
! thony home in Leavenworth, May 26. The
bride. beautiful and highly gifted young
lady. is the only daughter of Colonel Dan
/ iel K. and Mrs. Anthony, and niece of
Susan B. Anthony. The brides father is
a CON conspicuous figure in Kansas history.
and the mother is lady of rare intelli-
gence and beauty.
Major c. A. Woodruff, who is well
known in Loyal Legion, Grand Army, and
| social club circles OF San francisco, is now
I the chief commissary OF the Department of
the East, with headquarters at Governor S
Island, New York.
The annual June practice in heavy artil-
lery firing is progressing at the posts in
this harbor. Some excellent shooting
WITH the S-inch converted rifle was re-
| corded at Alcatraz last week. All the bat
teries went to the Rock to engage in
the exercises. Direct firing is the order
with the rifled guns. The guns at Alca-
traz smashed the target three times in fif-
teen Shots, at distance of 1900 yards At
270O yards good results were obtained, but
at that range the target to the gunners is
a mere speck in the water. 1t may be
heresy to proclaim it, but some of the ar
tillersts, throwing aside all calculations
except the ordinary allowance for wind
pressure, sighted gun with good record
at the target, and at the first fire hit the
mark squarely, smashing the target COM
pletely. AS Captain Vogdes remarked,
"We knew the gun"