The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-10-10
ABATCH OF NEW GENERALS.
PROMOTIONS TO FOLLOW BROADER
GEN. sHIFTER'S RETIREMENT.

Five ColonelS to BE Promoted and Retired
Then Lawton or Macarthur to Get an
Advance in Rauk-MacArthur In Limo for
MAjor.General Comm handing the Army.
WASHINGTON. Oct. 0.-Six officers OF the reg
ular army are to be promoted to the grade OF
Brlgadier- General on the retirement OF Brig
Gen. William II. Shaftsr on Oct. 10. Those
officers are Col. Royal T. Frank. commanding
the First Artillery: Col. Alexander G. NJ. Pen
nington. commanding the Second Artillery:
Col. Samuel Oyenshins OF the Twenty-third
Infantry Col. Daniel W. Burke: Col s. Louis H.
Carpenter, commanding the Fifth Cavalry. and
either Colonel and Inspector General Henry W.
Lawton or Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-
General Arthur Macarthur.
Whether Gen. Lawton or Gen. Macarthur
shall be commissioned as a Brigadier- General
OF the regular army on Gen. Skaters retire.
ment has not been determined. but 1t has been
decided by tho President that the one not pro-
NOTED at that time shall be appointed . brig
adler general on the retirement from active
service Of Gen. Thomas w. Anderson on Jan.
q. 1900. While only one vacancy in the list
OF briRadler-generals will be created by the
retirement OF Gen. Skater. the President has
arranged that there shall be ak vacancies duo
to that event through the promotion and re-
tirement in sequence Of Ave other officers.
This method will be pursued in order that
officers approaching the retiring age. who
served with distinction In the war with Spain
and N the war in the Philippines. shall bs re-
warded for their services. Az soon as Col:
Frank. for example. 10 promoted to general
rank he vii be placed on tho retired list on
his own application under tho law which per-
mits an officer to retire after thirty years
service One OF the other colonels men
toned will then be promoted and will re-
1 so Ga q ls,e H' M Sn dsT HaeA
thurs superintendent be permanent.
The most interesting feature OF this schedule
OF promotion and retirement 10 the mar ner in
which IL affects the military career OF Gen.
Macarthur. Whether he rsceives his advance
ment In October or January he wil become the
hold that Office for more than two years He
will not reach the retiring age until June .
1909: He 10 now only 81 years old. He en-
tered the Volunteer army in the Civil War
whom only ysSrs Of age was transtsrred to
the regular service became a Major and As
sistant Adjutant- General when a. and is now
the junior Colonel In the Adjutant Generals
Department. All the present general officers
1907. the date of Bri Gen Wade g relinluish-
mont of active service. Gen. Wade will In tbs
course OF natural events become the Major Gen;
eral commanding The other preset general
Merriam and Anderson in 1901, Brooke and
Otis in 1902. Miles and Henry in 1903 Wade
will have four years az or-Gsneral COM
manding.
The promotions OF Gems. Iauton and Mac
vices in tho war with Spain and the presentin
surrection. Lawton's particularly for hts con-
duct in the Santiago campaign and hacAr-
thurs for the generals ship displayed by him in
for age In March. 1907. more than two years
before Macarthur.