Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-01-22

1t is understood that upon the retire
ment of the present quartermaster gem
eral of the army, Colonel Marshall l.
Ludington, row chief quartermaster
of the department of the east, will be
appointed to the vacancy. Colonel
Ludington is well and favorably known
to old time citizens of Santa Fe and in
this territory, having been stationed
here as chief quartermaster for four
years during the T0s. He entered the
army as captain and assistant quarter
master of volunteers during the war, re-
ceived several brevets. the last as a
b%rigadier general, for faithful and meri-
torious services during the war. He
was made a major, January Is. 1867, a
lieutenant colonel and deputy quarter
master general, March Is, 1888, and
colonel and assistant quartermaster gen.
eral, December 81, 1894. He is the rank
ing officer next to the q~uartermaster
general in the department and will have
five years of service as the head of the
quartermaster's department, retiring
July 4, 1908. Colonel Ludington enjoys
the reputation of being one of the most
capable and best of informed officers in
the army and is highly respected as an
officer and as a gentleman.
The party of National Guard officers,
from Las Vegas, consisting Of Colonel w.
R. Upton, surgeon general; Colonel E. q.
Goodwin-Austin, aid-de-camp; Major
Robert G. Rankin, commanding First
battalion of infantry; Captain H. M.
Smith, surgeon, and LIST Lieutenant b.
F. Forsythe, adjutant, both with First
battalion; Captain W. II. Kelly and LIST
Lieutenant Emerson Atkins, both of
Company l, First infantry, will reach
this city this evening, and will be me at
the depot by the. officers in Santa Fe
and escorted to the governors residence
where they will dine. Tomorrow they
will take dinner at the Palace hotel as
the guests of Colonel Herscy and Cap
tain James. The day will be spent in
visiting with the local officers and view
ing the city.
Professor W.. N. Mailman, superin-
tendent of Indian schools with head
quarters at Washington, has been in the
city several days on official business and
left this afternoon for the east. Profess
sor Mailman is very pleasant gentle
IA and imprcsses one as a very earn
est man and official. To IL representa-
tive of the New MEXICAN the professor
stated that it was contemplated to en-
large the facilities of the government
Indian schools both in this city and
at Albuquerque very much during the
coming IL months and place as many
Pueblo Indian children in these schools
as possible.
After leaving the clerks Office, Mr.. G.
Fl. Gildersleeve expects to remain here
several months cleaning up business and
will then look for a new location. His
family is still at Cambridge, Mass.
where the children are being educated.
His oldest daughter, Miss Flossie, who
is we'll remembered as a pretty miss, is
attending the Boston Conservatory of
Music, giving promise of becoming a
.fne musician. She is there in company
with Miss Springer, daughter of Hon.
Frank Springer, of Las Vegas, who is
also studying music and is said to be
possessed of considerable talent.
Fathers Defouri and O'Keefe, who
have charge of the Catholic bazaar
which will be opened at Las Vegas on
Monday night next, have sent urgent
invitations, by letter and wire, to Gov
ernor Otero to be present on that occa-
sion and open the bazaar with a speech.
The governor, however, finds, on ac-
count of the press of official business in
the executive Office, that 1T is impossible
for him to accept, and wired his re-
grets and declination to Father O'Kecfe
this afternoon.
Judge and Mrs. Fl. l.. Waldo, who
have been visiting here and in Las We
gas. have gone cast to Kansas City. Mrs.
Waldo enjoyed her visit here very much.