New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-03-12
FOR THE NEW REGIMENTS.
ARTILLERY OFFICERS TO BE EXAMINED.
PROMOTIONS BELOW THE RANK or MAJOR BASEL
UPON COMPETITIVE WORK-SKIILED
ARTILLERYMEN NEEDED.

UPON COMPETITIVE woRK-sKIL-LED
ARTILLERYMEN NEEDED.
Tie examination OF twenty-five regular Army
officers for the promotions which the organization
OF two additional artillery regiments In the regular
Army provide. will begin in the official headquarters
on Governors Island. Monday morning. and
Will probably occupy the entire week The eXami-
nations will be held in the office Of Colonel Jonn l.
Rodgers. 9Th Artillery, artillery Inspector and ord
nance officer First Lieutenant T. Bentley Mott
one OF tho ades-de-camp on the personal stan OF
General Merritt Will be the recorder Of the Exam
lining Board All below the rank OF major have to
undergo examinations. An Army officer said yester-
day n reporter for The Tribune: Tho addition
OF TWO regiments OF artcrymen will give US just
what need TO for the new machine-guns
Ever since the seaboard fortihcaons began 10 be
equipped with the modern rifles instead OF the old
smoothbore guns The need OF an additional force OF
70 care for them has been apparent.
'It requires a certain amount OF mechanical skill
10 handle properly one Of the modern Tachine guns
and an unframed man. or one who has not the aoii-
ity to learn quickly might seriously damage 'oo,-
zoo gun in five minutes We need. therefore, a force
large enough to man all the guns with skilful
mechanics The increase will enable us 70 do thls;
but II there shou1 6f We 70 We noG ona drc them
General err WAS vas, cSmFlef bn ms dtas Of his
a ITr IN ms ,h hands Of First
lewis H. strother st Infantry who WI he eRnn
in the visit OF General Merritt to Key West. where
batteries and II Of the LIST Artillery under MAJOR
John II Calef are stationed General Merritt VIII
go to Tampa. by way Of jacksonville. and then
take the 81 amer Mascotte TO Key West II Is not
considered likely that he Will go 20 FORT Jeners0h
TortuRas 10 consider the adVisabillty
of putting modern fortncations and mortars there
At St. Augustine General Merritt vii! Inspect ST
Francis Barra cks where Battery NJ or the ISL AT
terv under Colonel Royal T Frank, Is stationed
There was entire cessation OF activity yester-
day in the shipping Of projectles from ne wharf OF
the New-York Arsenal. on Governors Island. Moth
ing was in sight but tho rows or old-time cannon
balls and some Of tho now useless smoothhore guns
Of the DAYS of the Civil War new visitor at
Army headquarters was much impressed by the ap-
parently formidable Of out of-dae projecues
and was greatly surprised when tod that they
would avail nothing in OF war When the
fact was presented TO his mind that rfed cannon
could not he fired with spherical projecthe. but
that c0nical needed. he realized that the
empty show Of solid shot and she'll slowly rustl1S
in the ordnance yard would mean no protection
against armed foe.
At the QuartermasteTs Department In the Army
Building II was said that great deal OF shipping
OF supplies TO various points In the Department or
the East was going on. and that the work was by
means completed