New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-12-15
hundred and fifty male students capable Of receiv'
ing practical military instruction.


ing practical military instruction
ARMY ORDERS-Captan David L. Branard.
commissary Of subsistence is relieved from TEN.
porarv duty with Lieutenant-Co.onel John f. Wes-
ton assistant commissary-seneral OF subsistence.
purchasing commissary at New-York City. ana VIII
proceed by December IS. 1897. to New-Orleans. ana
will resume his duties purchasing commissary ID
that city. ... p,
,sntrv: First Lieutenant John H. DuvaL rom Com.
nanv II 10 Company X: First Lieutenant Percival
q Lowe. from Company TO Company H.
The leave Of absence granted First Lieutenant
Earl c. Carrahan. Sth Infantry, October 70 ID e1-
'e The ordinary leave OF absence granted Captain
Isaac P. Ware. assistant SURGEON. November L. !"
eaSe of fn ABSENCE for fourteen take e,
feet about December 1897 is granted 70 sne n IS
c con- lS Sd 1nfsnry seconS Lieutenant George II
McMaster, oath Infantry; Second Lieutenant AMOS
Leave Of absence from December p 1881 to Janu:
H. Estes jr 90th Infantry. ,u.
The leave Of absence granted First Lieutenant
Alexander T. Dean. 4th Cavalry. November ~, is ex'
tended months. ~ o,,,
resisnatGn Of Cadet Aaron RsaSlpn
accepted by the Secretary OF War.
THE OREGON IN A HURRICANE.-The Navy
Department to-day received a report from Captain
A. S. Barker commanding the battle-ship Oregon
which was particularly gratifying as demonstrate.
Ing the seaworthiness and economy OF that vessei
under most trying conditions. Captain Barker put
the Oregon to sea from San Francisco on Thurs
day December q at 1:25 p. m. He continues
THE weather was delightful the FIRST half OF the
way and the sea smooth. but southeast gale
sprang up the morning OF the 4tl, prlnS'
ing dirty weather. and as S25 tons OF ammunition
had been taken out of the ship before leaving san
Francisco the most of which had been slowed low
dou In he I
bottom compartments to be filled with salt water
as a matter Of precaution. The southeast gale
was succeeded by a southwest wind. which cleared
the atmosphere sufficiently to enable US to see the
light on Destruction Island and that on Tattoosh,
at the entrance TO the Strait OF Juan de Fuca-
After entering the strait very thick, dirty weather
set In making 1t impossible to see anything ahead,
but after daylight. as We proceeded. 1t gradually
cleared up and ended in M day a
J. having averaged Il knots an hour the whole ;h
unable 10 state the wind velocity he encountered,
b hn nH PSTs
SIX and eighty miles an hour those veloG tb t nav
Ts Oregon has To- the Puget Sound
S Sew Of the fact ' that she did not roll over in the
storm such keels appear TO be supernuous.
THE LANCASTER AS GUNNERY PRAC-
rICE SHIP-"we've got the ships and guns Now
we want to develop sharpshooters with the big
weapons We want to have reliance that the men
who have to handle the huge rifles know how to
aim them: that tho officers in the citadel. as well
as lack Tar In the turret. has confidence In his
ability to make the projectiles hit every time. II
we've ever got to fight want to waste
powder or shell" That is the terse way Assistant
secretary Roosevelt commented to-day on the re-
port of the survey OF the Lancaster after her long
cruise in the South Atlantic. She 10 not much
Of an old hulk for hghting purposes but she has
a modern battery. and the EXPERTS have decided
with a brace or a patch here and there. and many
a novice can learn TO hit a target from her deck.
40 she will not be ignominiously condemned Or.
ders have gone forward to place her out OF com:
mission at Boston about December 2. and next
spring she will take aboard a class Of gunners
and try to bring them homo proficient In the art
OF making bulrs-eyes. When. In obedience to these
orders, the pennant OF the Lancas,e, ns rnsa
mander Nathan E. Niles Lieutenant Thomas w.
RYAN Surgeon Averly c. H. Russell, Paymastee
Charles NJ. Ray and Assistant Surgeon George p.
Costgan will go home on leave Lieutenant John
B. Roller will go navigator 70 the New. York.
relieving Lieutenant ID. ID. v. Stuart who goee
to the Terror to relieve Ensign Gregory c. Davasoo-