The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-03-13
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Department of Texas to the Department
of the Gulf.
Major General John II. Brooke is as
signed to the command OF the Depart
ment of the Gulf. The officers of the
several staff departments now on duty
in the Department of the Missouri and
of Texas are assigned to like duties in
the Departments of the Lakes and of
the Gulf, respectively.
he travel required under these orders
is necessary for the public service.
(SignedD X. A. ALGER,
Secretary of War.
BY command of Major General Miles:
II. G. CORBIN,
Adjutant General.
General Graham telegraphed the War
Department to-day that he would go to
Atlanta on Monday next to establish his
headquarters there.
Senator Bacon of Georgia, was at the
War Department to-day and expressed
his qualification that Georgia had been
made the center of the new department,
with headquarters at Atlanta. This
step Mr.. Bacon said, was due entirely
10 military considerations, and no per-
sonal or political motives had figured
in the transaction. Heretofore there
had been only one military center along
the Atlantic, namely. that at New York,
but the present condition of affairs made
1t apparent from military standpoint
that it was desirable to have another
center on the South Atlantic. AS re-
suit the interior military center, here
tofore known as the Department of Tex
rs had been moved eastward, and CEN
tered at Atlanta.
PREPARED FOR EMERGENCY.
The Bureau Of Construction of the Ma
Wy Department finds itself exceptionally
well prepared for any emergency that it
may be called upon to perform in con-
necflon with the auxiliary cruisers.
1t Is said that less than an hours
work would be required in the bureau
Office here to complete all the plans for
the transformation of two of the hest
ships on the Atlantic into auxiliary
cruisers. The detailed work of recon
structlon could be accomplished with
like dispatch at the League Island Navy
Yard.
Inc Secretary of the Navy has direct
ea mat a recruiting station he opened i'm
Washington Immediately. the snecial
purpose being to secure ordinary seamen
and machinists.
Inc Naval Inspection Board has gone
10 Norfolk to examine the Macbias. inst
returned from the Asiastic station nv
way of SueZ.
me Fern, laden with supplies for the
suffering Cuhans. arrived at Natanzas
Cuba. from Key West today. CAPTAIN
CoWles merely reported his arrival TO
rhe Navy Department without making
any mention of the condition of affairs
at Matanzas. After disCharcing the
stores there Captain Cowles viii proceed
with his vessel to Sagua and leave the
remainder.
IMPROVEMENTS AT KEY WEST
Civil Engineer A. J. Menocal has been
detached from the League Island Navy
Yard and ordered to Key West. This
rs regarded as significant and as indi-
eating a purpose on the part of the
Navy department to make immediate
ana considerable improvements at the
Naval station in Key West.
Brigadier General John NJ Wilson.
Ghief of Engineers of the War Depart
ment, returned today after trip of over
three Thousand miles. which he acorn
plished inside Of one week. Naturally
ms Nlsib ~ isOhtHtIII COAST points. WnofG
extensive fortifcation work is in pro-
gress. has excited much comment. Gen
oral Wilson declined, however. to dis
cuss in any way this phase of his trip
1t is understood that he visited Cumber-
land river. st. Johns river. and the
works at Tampa and Key West, Fla.
WAR MATERIAL ARRIVES.
Jacksonville. Fla, March PA spe-
cial to the Times-Union and Citizen
from Tampa, says that large quantity
of munitions of war arrived there last
night, and will be transported to Dry
Tortugas by the Marblehead.
TORPEDOES FOR KEY WEST.
Key West, Fla, March 12.-The
steamer City of Key West, from Miami
to-day brought two car loads Of torpe-
does and torpedo buoys. These will be
laid in this harbor.