Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-08-26
FROM WASHINGTON.
CORRESPONDENCE of the Alexandria Gazette J

Interest in the combined manOeuVers
Of the army and navy, when an attempt
will be made by hostile fleet to run
the gauntlet OF the forts at the eastern
end of Long Island sound and establish
cd a military base in expectation of find
ing the land forces unprepared, is in
,reasing as the time approaches for the
beginning of the war game. The pro-
gramme includes dash upon Newport
or some other military station at the
eastern entrance of Long Island sound.
/ rhe attack will be made on some dark
or fcggy night after the army has had an
opportunity to get fatigued by watching.
Admiral Higginson will have about
fifteen ships under his command. The
army believes that it will have no dill
Guilty in repulsing the invaders. The
navy on the other hand, not only pro-
poses to make the necessary landing but
( is planning to captue one OF the war
( balloons of the signal corps. The period
Of preparation will be from midnight,
August 90 to midnight August 81, the
period of hostilities extending from the
latter hou to noon, September 6.
A fire broke out in Tappan's trunk
store on f street, shortly after O'Clock
this morning 1t created much excite
ment along the thoroughfare, but little
damage was done because Of the prompt
arrival of the fire department.
Lieut.. Gen. Miles has secured the
consent of the President to his proposed
trip to the Philippines. His object is to
observe the military situation there and
to Inspect the several army posts in the
! islands. He does not propose to inter
fere with the conduct of the coming
campaign in Mindanao. He can hardly
do more than offer personal advice to
| Gen. Davis, who is in command of the
operations against the MorOs, as he did
to Gen. Shafter before Santiago. Gen
Miles has promised to be present at the
encampment of the g. A. r., which
takes place in this city six weeks hence.
He will, therefore, be hardly able to
start to the Philippines before the end
of October, and he will probably not re-
turn before February or March.
The War Department today promul-
gated the following executive order to
Lieutenant General Miles: lyon will
proceed about September 10 to the
Philippines to inspect the army there,
with reference to instructions, discipline
and supplies" The order is signed by
/ the President. The order is generally
commented upon as being designed to
relieve the administration of General
Miles's presence here during the G. a.
r. encampment. Some embarrassment
had been caused by the declared inten-
ton of the veterans to keep disguished
'honors upon the lieutenant general COM
handing the army.
All hope of staying the cholera cpl
demic in the Philippines has been
abandoned until the typhoon season sets
in. Only light rains have yet fallen,
serving only to stir up the streams and
diffuse the cholera germs. Surgeon
General Forwood lays much of the blame
for the spread of the cholera and its great
mortality to the incapability of the ma
jority of the Filipino doctors. The
trickery of the natives in concealing new
cases has also assisted in the spread of
I the disease.
The War Department today received
dispatch from the governor of Colorado,
to the effect that that State will be
pleased to send to the army manoeuvers
ut Fort Riley, Kansas, a force Of 25O
militiamen. The regular troops are
scheduled to arrive at Fort Riley, Sep
TENDER 20 and the national guard force
on September 20. This will give the
militiamen about ten daysat Fort Riley.
ID. Lawrence Groner, ofNorfolk, is here
on Business. He is a candidate for United
States Attorney for the Eastern District
of Virginia, to succeed Edgar Allan, and
apparently has some expectation of get
! ting the position.
/ Minister Bowen, at Caracas, Ven,
telegraphs the Department of State that
one of the Venezuelan government war
ships has arrived at La Gauyra and re-
ports that for two days she bombarded
Cindad Bolivar, after which she with
drew, her ammunition having been ex-
hausted. Minister Bowen does not say
what damage, if any, was done.
The State Department has been adj
vised by U. S. Consul r. f. Mansfield,
at Valparaiso, Chill, that market for
large supplies of cotton material has
been opened in Chill to United States
manufacturers by the beginning of
operations of the Cileon Mills Co.,
limited, of Chiguyanti, Province of Con-
cepticn. As the new company can inn
port drugs and yarns duty free the sue
cess of the new company is assured.
Heretofore all cotton goods used in Chill
were imported at high rate of duty.
The franchise granted the company by
the Chilean government gives it a mo-
nopoly of the business for term of ten
years. The enterprise is controlled by
English capital.
The Tuscarora, the new revenue cut
ter built at the Trigg Shipyards, Rich
mond, Va, will be given her official
trial off Newport News, tomorrow. The
Tuscarora, is to be stationed in the
Great Lakes with headquarters at Mil
waukee. She is of 700 tons with
length of 17S feet. Her contract cost
was $l59, 900 and the Treasury Depart
ment officials say that the Trigg Ship
building Co., lost nearly $50, 900 on the
work. I
The State Department is in receipt of
the following from Consul H. W. Brush,
at Niagara Falls: "Mr George II. Hees
was recently sent to Dawson by the
Canadian Manufacturers Association to
make a thorough examination into the ,