New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-27

| promotions which might be described abnormal
in their character. being led this observation by
the receipt in the adjutant general office of near
| ly fifty applications from captains and majors OF
the line who desire appointment rs brigadier gen
erals of the army vacancy in which grade Will
| exist in few weeks, when General Young retires
| Some of the officers who record as candi-
| dates have said that they do not wish their APP
pications considered seriously unless the president
Mr. Root has informed one of these ambitious ON
GERS that he will not gain anything with the pres
| ent administration by such a candidacy. 4
| PROMOTION BY sELECTION-A kindred sub
| ject which has caused much apprehension in the
| army the prospect that some effort will he made
| to establish the system of promotion by selection
The President referred TO this in his annual Mes
sage a substitute for advancement by seniority,
and Secretary Root will urge the matter on Con-
gress If he gets the opportunity before he leaves
Washington. Gene al Crozier the chief of ord
! nance, tho author of the scheme Of rotation in
staff duty, is earnest advocate of the seective
idea, and believes that it would be beneficial to
to be promoted every occasion. with retirement
for those who failed of advancement after reechln
| a certain age in each grade. He says that II
nothing better offered il would be wise to
m m idei @ eS1tV Pcer sets tbaf II is p inn
possbe ue t 0ne p1t @ tb ssIeG 1 tr,y lead
| to pulling and hauling and the employment OF
nearer the condition than is now the case in the
| Civil Service; that the board OF Recommendation
the army or by the sycophant within the service.
and that in the end, X the army Is on any such
basis that to-day. il presents condition which
| could not De injured by any sort Of innovation.
| NAVAL PAY.-The professors Of mathematics in
the navy are up in arms over the discrimination
which exists under the law. against their status.
| They after the army pay which is received
by other officers of ths service. and have banded
| together for the purpose of obtaining what they
consider their just dues from Congress. The
bill which will operate to their advantage in this
respect will eontain an interesting amendment mend Of
of the 10 per cent reduction in pay while they
| on shore duty This is provision of the Naval
with the board of which Mr.; Roosevelt was the
% We eT We're to not Hf e
and 1t is hoped by them that the effort TO change
present session of Congress
GENERAL WOOD GETS BAcK"-Gensral
Wood the most criticised of army officers at home.
has been doing some criticism of others on his
| own account in Mndanao, where he is in
mand of the military department He has sent to
| the War Department the record i'm the case of
| Lieutenant ". B. Aiken. 2Sth Infantry who was
tried before general court martial at Zamboanga
| on the charge of drunkenness on duty. He pro-
| tested his innocence and the court acquitted him,
whereupon General Wood said, in reviewing the
case:
The record shows positive and mistaken testi-
mony of the fact that Lieutenant Aiken was drunk
as o1lceT OF the day The evidence presented by the
manner disproves or discredis the testimony pre-
scented by the prosecution. The department com
| for the verdict of the court.
PEARY's PLANs--Civf Engineer R. E Peary
is, going ahead with the preliminary plans for his
Arctic expedition. When the fund TO cover the
cost of the dash to the pole has been assured he
Will negotiate for stout vessel That will be the
| first action in the enterprise The last thing to
be done, he says. will be the selection of personnel
| He does not intend to take the Arctic regions
| more than two white outside of the ships
officers and crew, and these will be a surgeon and
an all around man rather than a SCIENTIFIC special
ist He believes the of his project depends
on fe o hon Of the purely senhS and the
| will depend almost entirely in the end his
| friends. the natives each of whoa he has made
material possession He intends to take some deep
he viii not hamper himself With other Scientific
work, leaving that for future parties which may
other observations of Importance near the pole.
| COLORED OFFICERS PRAISED-One of the
color ed commissioned officers of the army has
| highly praised by California board OF trade. That
body of leading citizens of Visalia. Cal. has gone
record IN the form OF engrossed resolutions
| in hearty Endorsement of Captain Charles Young
of the 9th Cavalry. who has been acting superin-
tendent of the SeGuoa and General Grant National
Park tribute Is paid TO- 1.-The energy
| the expenditure Of the money set aside for the
| amount of splendid and permanent work accom-
| plished in the neighborhood. The War Department
| NAVAL HOSPITAL CAMP.-There is every
prospect that the naval camp for tuberculous pa
| tents at the Pensacola OTla) Navy Yard will he
much advantage TO the patients assigned to that
| place for treatment 1t not long ago when an
| officer stricken with consumption promptly
retired, and enlisted man was discharged with
| a pension, the theory that such cases were
| hopeless and beyond medical aid. Since the army
has been operating a hospital in New Mexico 1t
has been found that patients prosper under the
special and the favorable climatic condi-
tons and navy has lately been sending officers
and sailors TO the army hospital with such profit
able results to individuals that it has been de-
termined to establish under the Navy Department
certain OF treating consumptives. There
| are five six patients in the experimental
camp Pensacola, and the reports received of the
| first months results are most gratifying to the
| medical authorities. The patients will live out of
doors day and night, being sheltered in tents. and
| part of the treatment will be numerous meals
| each day. with the requiHment that the patient
| shall consume a maximum amount Of nourisEiug
naval resort for this class Of patients it maX not
be located at Pensacola. as Surgeon General Rixey
| Pacific Coast and another in the East further
north When the experts decide on the best place
| for the establishment and maintenance of an open
air hospital 1t is believed that the money viii be
| and that the station will contribute much of i'm
| portance 10 the fund of hygienic information.
| TRANSPORTS READY FOR sERvICE-war
| Department officials admit that the transports
Sumner ana Mcclellan. at New-York as well as
| the Sherman. the Buford and the Crook at San
| Francisco. being fitted out for active service
| The two vessels New-York have been ready for
for them 1t is expected that one Of them viii he
utilized in bringing to the United States the arti-
Primarily all Of these transports are Intended FOR
! the Manila service.