New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-06-07

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Cornwer lieutenant
n. =. Gearing and Lieutenant b. T. Moore will
,eaVe the snip on July g. with three months
leave each; Lieutenant Commander Perry Garst
recently Of the Naval Academy. will succeed Mr.
Cornwell as executive officer of the cruiser and
the places Of the lieutenants will be filled by
Lieutenant J. II. Glennon recently in charge OF
the publications of the Naval Institute Annapo-
MS and Lieutenant NJ. l.. Wood. also from the
VIII start for home on July l, being relieved by
w. Il. Mallery, now acting gunner al the Torpedo
station In Newport. The Raleigh loses her sur
geon H. g. Boyer, having come from the Acad-
envy to relieve Surgeon r. T. Dorr who has been
ordered to the Columbia
considerable interest has been manifested in
the case or Captain Theodore +. Kane. who was
stated to command the Newark and was after
ward ordered before a retiring board This board
mas reported that he is unfit for duty, and he
VIII be retired This leaves vacancy in the
grade or captain and causes some shifting
around Of officers The relief of Captain William
cambridge Hof. who took the Lancaster away
from this station and brought the Newark home
from south America. made the vacancy which
captain Kane was assigned to fill. His retire
ment VIII increase the vacancies in the line to
twenty-slX. but these vacancies may not all be
available for the graduating class at Annapolis
as the cases Of Captain Allen v Reed and Lieu
tenant Charles P. Perkins are still pending
CAPTAIN REED Still. WAITING.
Captain Reed. as is known, is undergoing re-
examination for promotion IT, consequence Of the
Presidents action in disappearing the findings
Of the Board which examined him in November
last Lieutenant Perkinss examination for pro-
motion has been delayed on account of illness.
The Department is doing all 1t can to expedite
the cases. and 1t is expected that they will be
disposed Of this week. If they are recommended
for promotion. and the President approves the
recommendations. their names will be Immediately
nominated to the Senate provided Congress has
not adjourned. II the nominations con-
frmed before the adjournment then all the
cancies will be available Otherwise only about
nine line cadets can be accommodated and there
Is some question as to whether or not those who
have not been provided for in either the line and
Engineer Corps will not have 10 be discharged
with a years pay. provided by law. There
are twenty-four vacancies in the Engineer Corps.
and three prospective before the close OF the
present fiscal year. One appointment will by
law have to be made in the Marine Corps.
Therefore. thirty-seven Of the cadets will be pro-
vided with vacancies whether the Reed and
Perkins cases disposed Of OF not There are
forty-flve members of the graduating class The
Department Ia having the law construed so as TO
ascertain how the remaining eight are affected.
The vacancies exist for the cadets but are not
available and It may be decided that the law
does not affect them.
The transfer of Captain Farquhar to the com
mand of the Newark left the post Of commandant
OF the League Island yard vacant. and that place
has been filed by the assignment OF Commodore
John A. Howell who was only recently relieved
from the command Of the Washington yard.
this Will make another change in the yard force.
Passed Assistant Engineer Reynold T. Hall hav-
Ing been ordered TO hold himself in res dness
for duty on the ship Mr.. Halls successor has
not vet been named and the assignment; Of
Passed Assistant Engineer Charles +. ROmel.
also Of Chief Engineer Farmers staff, 10 the
Alliance Will leave two vacancies in the depart
ment Of steam engineering. which Il will be hard
n fill as the engineers named among the
most popular Of those who have duty in Brooklyn
in many years