The times., 1897-08-01
ARMY AND NAVY ORDERS.

pendence; Assistant Engineer j. +. Mar
shall, detached from the New York navy
yard and ordered TO the Olympia, by steam-
er, August Ia; Ensign c. Bulner. de-
tached from the Bennington and ordered
to the Independence
The War Department has issued orders
us follows:
Leave OF absence for one month and ten
days, from September / !, 1897, is granted
Second Lieutenant William NJ Crofton
First Infantry
Capt. avid A Lyle, ordnance depart
ment, viii make two visits to the Sandy
Hook proving ground. Sandy Hook, \. j.,
at such times as may be necessary To wit
ness the firing tests OF the first l2-incn
mortar carriage, model 1896, and OF the
first 1o-ineil disappearing ctrrriage. l.. F.,
model Of 1896 made by the Southwark
Foundry and Machine Company
The leave of absence granted Lieut.. Col
Asa 8 Carey, deputy paymaster general,
Department or Dakota, is extended one
month.
Leave of absence for one month, TO take
effect upon the expiration of his grad
uating leave from the United States Nil
itary Academy, September 80, 1897, is
granted Additional Second Lieut.. Frederick
E. Johnston, First Infantry.
Major Henty Jacson, Third Cavalry, is
relived from recruiting duty at Roston,
Mass, take effect October /, 1897, or upon
the a rrival Of his successor.
The following named officers are re-
lieved frora recruiting duty at the stations
Indicated, to take effect October / 1887,
OF upon the arrival of their successors:
7 ior,t tn I Efruf
Cavalry, Albany, n. Y; First Lieut.. Guy
Carleton, SecoIc Cavalry, st. Paul, Mimi;
Capt Montgomery D.. Parker. Seventh
Cavalry, Cincinnati, Ohio: Capt. Henry +.
Kendall, Eighth Cavalry, st. Louis. Mo-;
Capt. George H. Evans. Tenth Cavalry,
Pi,tssnrg, Pa. Capt Egbert y Savage,
Eighth Infantry, New York city; Capt.
Ralph w Hoyt, Eleventh Infantry, In
tiIanaPolis. Ind; Capt. Leon A. Matile,
Fourteenth Infantry, Cleveland, Ohio: Capt.
George Fl Palmer, Sixteenth Infantry, Chi
eago. III Cap william T Wood Eighteenth
Infantry, Louisville. Ky; Capt Edw ard
b. Pratt, Twenty-tnird Infantry, Mil
waukee. Wis. Capt. Alfred C. Markley,
Twenty-fourth Infantry. Philadelphia, Pa.
Capt. JamesC Org, Twenty y-fifth Infantry,
Nashville, Tenn
Tie officers tanned viii Join Their proper
stations.
Py direction of the President, First Lieut..
Stephen N. Foote, Fourth Artillery, is re-
lisyed fIom further duty at the Vermont
Academy, Saxton's River, Vermont, and is
detailed hs professor or military science
and tactics at the New York Military
Academy, Cornwall-on- Hudson, \ Y. He
will report In person at the latter iustitu-
ton for duty accordingly.
Second Lieut.. Cornelius c. Smith, Second
Cavalry, at his own request, is relieved
from further duty with the National
GuarG of Arizona Territory, and viii join
iIis troop on OF before August 1 5, 18s7.
BY direction of the President, the
Army retiring board convened at Fort
Wayne. Mich, by War Department order
dated November 16. 1894, published in
| Special Orders, No Ell. November IT,
1891, from Headquarters OF the Army,
is dissolved
| BY direction OF the President, and In
| accordance with section 1925, Revised
| Statutes, an Army retiring board is ap-
| pointed TO meet, At the call OF thepresident
thereof, at Fort Wayne, Mich, for the
| examination of sucl, officers as may be
| ordered before it.
| Detail for the hoard-Col- Simon Snyder.
! Nineteenth Infantry; Major Robert II.
| o'Reillyi surgeon; Capt. John G. Leefe.
| Nineteeith Infantry; Capt Benjamin Mum
| day, assistant surgeon; Capt William P
Evans, Nineteenth Infantry; First Lieut..
! Edwin A Root, Nineteenth Infantry, re-
! corder
! BY direction OF the President. First Lieut.
James O. Green, Twenty-fifth Infantry.
| VIII report in person TO Col. Simon Snyder,
! Sneteeuth Infantry, president of the 4 rmy
! retiring hoard appointed TO meet at Fort
! Wayne, Mich, at snch time as he may
/ designate, for examination by the board.
i BY direction Uf the President, Second
/ Lieut.. John K Miller, Eighth Infantry,
is detailed rs professor of military science
/ and tactics in Allegheny College. Mead
| Vile, Pa, to take effect September II,
1897.
ls direction of the President First Lieu
| tenant Charles S. Farnsworth, Seventh In
faEtry, is relieved from duty at the Uni
! versity of North Dakota, Grand Forks,
n. D., to take effect September 80, 1897.
and will then proceed to Join his company
/ Under provision in the act of Congress
making eppfopria ations for sundry civil ex-
ending June 80, 1898, and for other pgr-
| poses, approved June A, 1897, Major
Charles w. raymond, Corps of Engineers,
U. s. Army; Alfred Noble and George 7.
| Wisner are designated and appointed by the
President as d hoard OF engineers to make
surveys and examinations including es-
| innate OF cost, of deep waterways and the
routes thereof between the Great Lakes
and the Atlantic tidewaters, as recon-
| rnended by the report of the deep water
| ways commi ssion,' as required by the
| said act.
The leave of absence granted Second
| Lieut.. Matthew G. Smith, Second Cavalry
Department of the Colorado, is extended
eighteen days
Leave Of absence for two months, tt
take effect on or about August 5, 1887
is granted Second Lieut. Adrian s. Flem
ing, Fourth Artillery.
/ The following transfers in the Thirt
Artillery are made:
Capt Edward Davis, from Battery /
to Battery A.
| Capt John d. G. Hoskins, from Battery
a to Battery B.
Capt Robert K, Evans, Twelfth Infan
fantry, is detailed to attend the encamp
ment Of the Mississippi National Guard
at Vieksburg, Miss, from the L 9th to thu
2Sth of August, 1897. He will proceed
at the proper time, TO the place Of en-
eampment and report TO the governor
of Mississippi for this service.
First Lieut., Daniel B. Devore, Twenty
third Infantry, will repair to this cit,
and report in person to the Secretary o