New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-25
ARMY AND NAVY NEWS.
IRON THE TRIBUNE BUREAU

OFFICERS TAKEN TO TAsK.-CseneraI :, {,
Ainsworth. the military secretary proposes that
army officers shall attention to official CORE
spondence In a letter he has General H.
C Corbin at Governors Island, General Ainswortb
says:
II The attention of the acting CHIEF of staff has
answer promptly official communications addressed
70 them This has led in some cases to considerable
public business. In other cases this neglect has
resulted IN depTiylns enlisted men for several
plain duty is reprehensibe in any case is parcu
man from receiving the pay and allowances which
he has earned, The acting chief of staff directs
that you take such steps as will correct the defects
mentioned and 1t that yoHg inform the officers OF
will be entered upon their efficiency record
RAILROAD ACCOUNTS.-The railroad account
ants who recently met in convention at Saratoga
Springs in conjunction with representatives of the
government have decided that it would be profta-
BILE TO continue the special committee appointed
for the purpose of classifying and simplifying the
method CT keeping track OF government freights.
1t is believed that the committee would do much
committee will be enlarged by member in order
the bond aided lines The War and Navy depart
Gfannce aFf f the 9 depaE
en VINO st has Of army ~ ah Re
bureau of supplies and accounts
THE NEW ARMY TENT.-The army quarter
masters have been experimenting with a tent IN
order to improve the facilities for storing material
in the field. The result is the adoption of new
storage tent which is 20 feet square and which has
issued to the troops which will in the army
and militia Joint maneuvres in Virginia in Sep
TENDER.
THE EXPERIMENTS IN VIRGINIA.-Army
medical officers making special preparations for
work during the army and militia joint manoeuvres
Al Manassas, Va. 1t is proposed to have full
medical organization on the ground and to main
tain field service having the most approved medi-
cal and surgical methods in time OF war. This will
require large medical officers and hospital
corps men. There will be resmental and field
hospitals and there Will be service the firing line,
During the manCeuvres new hospital tent invented
by a junior medical officer. Lieutenant H. l. Gil-s
christ on duty at Washington Barracks, will be
practically tested. Another trial is that OF the
method of transporting medical supplies for use or
the firing line. fo- which purpose the army mule
will be used. There a number OF experiments
view. with the idea of developing the best facili-
ties for treating the sick and injured OF military
body in the field. Officers have been at Manassas
this week laying the camps. of which there will
be three-one for each of the divisions and the
third for corps General Corhins) headquarters.
The army engineers are working on the water
supply system and camp sanitation to the end
that the men and horses will not lack for certain
be taken for the preservation OF health While it
is desired TO make these manpuvres realistic
possible and to exclude from them an the elements
NAVAL. PLACES OPEN.-An examination will
he held on November l wherever there may be
didates in the navy for appointment to that service
az bcatswains. Eunners and carpenters. There Is
a great demand for all three and there happen 10
te no applications file in the Bureau of Naviga-
ton This is considered remarkable. but IL does
not necessarily mean that the places going
begging. 1t is probable there Will be enough candi-
dates from: whom to make solicitors The depart
rnent IS not limited the number of appointments
The demand for Cunners. boatswains and Carpen-
ters Is caused 10y the fact that many new ships are
being placed in commission and the active register
IS constantly increasing.
PLANS FOR NEW SHIPS.-The Naval Board Of
Construction IS considering the design Of the bat
tleship New hampshire and the armored cruisers
North Carolina and Montana. authorized at the
last session of Congress. There Will novelties
I'm the plans OF those ships They Will follow closely
tho design OF the latest vessels OF their respective
classcr The New-HampshIre will closely resemble
the Mississippi and the cruisers will be repre-
auctions OF the Tennessee or course. there will be
improvements In mirror particulars. but there will
be no departure from the general type. There Is
some talk OF making charsss in the batteries $"
as TO increase the humber ~ large caubre guns
II this IS done. Of course there must be sacrifice
OF weight in other directions. and any proposition
Of that kind always leads To much discussion among
the bureau chiefs There be little change in TIE
character and disposition of the armament. how
ever for the reason that radical change IN that
internal construction OF the ships. and there is no
tfma To carry this out. as the Navy Department.
desires TO award the contracts for the vessels as
IS possible.