The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-14
ARMY AND NAVY GOSSIP.

! General Secretary Arthur Stratton OF
! the Pawtucket (R,a,I) Young Mems
! Christian association. has accepted
! temporarily, the appointment of gene
/ raj secretary of the Young Mems Chris
! tan association work at Camp Alger
Falls Church, Va.
Colonel ]. w. Lake of Cincinnati
who is in Washington making arrange
ments for the acceptance of his colored
volunteers, is a veteran of the civil
war, has fought in Europe and Africa,
served with the Egyptian forces and
then joined a British regiment.
Garner Sims of Providence, R. l., a
we'll known engineer, and three times
a millionaire, lately appeared before
the United States naval examining
! board. Mr.. Sims wished to serve in the
engine room without pay. He will be
commissioned as a chief engineer.
Unlike the majority of army and
navy girls, Miss Olive Harrington
Sampson, the eldest daughter of the
admiral, is going to marry civilian,
Henry Harrison Scott of San Fran
CISCO Mr.. Scott is in the coal bust
ness, and in charge of the largest coal
company in California.
Mrs. Clara Benck Colby, wife of Brig
adler General Colby, who has received
the governments credentials as a war
correspondent is the proprietor and ed
itor of the Woman's Tribune, published
in Washington, D. c. She was at one
time professor of Latin and history in
the University of Wisconsin. It is pre-
sumed she is going to Cuba.
1t is remarked in Washington that
Captain McCalla of the Marblehead has
of late been afforded several opportuni-
ties to distinguish himself, and the
&c CIR no
perhaps Admiral Sampson is giving
him a chance to recover the points he
lost as the result of the courtmartial
some years ago on account of his cru
city to sailors.
General Adelbert Ames of Massachu-
sets. named by the president to be a
brigadier general of volunteers, was a
United States senator from Mississippi
in reconstruction days, and was a con-
spicuous figure of the south in that
historic period. By birth General
educated at West Point, and married
the only daughter of Benjamin F.
Butler.
Lieutenant Victor Blue is a graduate
of the United States naval academy, a
son of the late Colonel John Gilchrist
Blue, of South Carolina, who was a
gallant confederate officer; the grand
son of Colonel John Blue, who served
with eminent distinction in the war of
1912, and the great grandson of Captain
John Blue, of the revolutionary war
and of Captain John Gilchrist of the
British navy.
The offer of David King, jr., of his
beautiful residence on Jekyl Island. as
a hospital for sick and wounded SOL
diers and sailors, has been rendered
ineffective by the objections of some
of the other wealthy men constituting
the club which owns the island. Among
the clubs members are such men as
Cornelius N. Bliss, N K. Fairflnk.
Joseph Pulitzer. William Rockefeller,
Norris K. Jessup, George J. Gould,
Calvin S. Brice, Pierre Lorillard,
James J. Hill and J. Pierpont Morgan.
Dr. S. c. Stanton. who has charge of
the examination of recruits for the
United States regular army in Chi
cage, has caused a sensation among
medical men by declaring that an
habitual fast rider of bicycles, or a
'scorcher," is unfit, physically, to
serve as a soldier in the army. He
has made this matter the subject of
his seversst tests in his examinations
of applicants for enlistment, and many
men have been rejected because of the
bicycle heart" as the practitioner
terms it, caused by excessive exercise
in riding a wheel.