The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-13
WHO WILL GO
TO GUAM ?

Among the members of the Pacific Coast
Naval Colony there is much speculation
regarding the appointment OF captain
Henry Glass to the GoVerhorshlP Oh
Guam. The word has been passed along
that 1t is taking a snap JudgneHs On
Glass, who is tossing on the raclli0 ca
route from Manila to San Francisco anu
is totally ignorant of the soIt tnlHs nc
NAVY Department is piling up Tor Min
Long ago the gallant captain slated MIN
self for the new Training Station at GodS
Island. and he is enthusiastic upon the
suhiect of teaching Uncle sam youhS
sailors ideas how to shoot ike DeWey.
Ano the department knows he is JUST
about the right man for the ne" pA"e
jacket schoolhouse at Yerba Buena' =,
Now CAPTAIN Glass will be about as Wen
pleased over his lob at Guam as he would
be if the Government would make nm
superin,endent of a home for superannu-
ated seals on one of the Pribylotf lslanus'
and when he lands at San Francisco
which viii be in a few days, the wires
will grow warm between this port anu
Washington. He will want 10 my 10 Nj wi
the thunder around the Bureau OF NdNiis
cation has a grudge against MN anu -
ne finds out the barometer III I'll ni4d t1l 20 q
sons latitude and Longitude WIN ldh0
Guam is a. DIRTY dab of land on the map
of Oceanica blistering in the ory .h neAii io9t
the year and sodden wet during -, rnT mai
six months. Added to ltS utIeI - tba
tractiveness and unhealthIulness 70 NJ ~
fact that it is the leper pestnouss % 10 Of
Mia. A few Spaniards' trIoe e7 10 class
suualid natives and an intermeuldte tSb;t
of mixed breeds in the ViIldSS| - Ne
this place of exile which the NaHS en-
partment has picked out Tor lne me-
ergetic the brightest and tne haItOs
so saws society-captatn in the ny l..
II don't know what Crowrnn HIt ed -
driving at" said lieutenant E1e9 tnnner
~ II 10 a
and shoot him into Guam. Inc Ch1 800 No
the Bureau of Navigation ought ~ ~ On
that Henry win kick like the recon u v tifS
old 11-incher and some other 1el0~ VIZ
be ordered away to Guam Glass roy 10Y ~
or of Guan-quite an ALTERATION ISM ~, ~.
GLASS, Of Guam T in glorious
.@Then there is Kempff They wanted to
send him to Guam, but he won't go. you
see, he has been tr1ced up on DOLE Is1e nd
rotten old Independence at Mare 9., isla ma
off and on for years In fact, like olo
Paddy Whites ghost that haunts the
gun deck Of the Guard4 at LlIQi1 h5,iit
He is one of the few officers on the station
that have been kept here right along;
When the fighting began ,s most c9a OF w elre
shipped East for service me naVy-yaIu
was pretty well cleaned out, and the re-
naming officers there howled over tns
little extra duty falling to their lot and
also because they were missing chance
to jump up in the line Of promotion.
Hughes was snatched out of the Hydro-
graphic office, and Macmillan, his clerk,
who is an Annapolis graduate, was given
a commission and sent to Manila Stoney
at the enlisting rendezvous was chased or
to Cuba, and eventually fetched up as
teacher Of navigation in the academy. By
the way, why don't Crowninshield send
Stoney to Guam? There is an officer that
would take to the place and be an honor
to the job. Stoney's heart and soul is
buried In the Pacific or along its shores,
and, being tired of hammering sights
ba dc Of would
pack his traps for Guam at an hours no.
tiCe.