New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-23
ARMY AND NAVY NEWS.
rFnon THE TRIBUNE BUREAU


Washington, May p.
NAVAL WIRELESS woRK.-The Bureau of
Equipment continues receive interesting reports
from the operations of wireless teIegraphy con-
Quoted by the navy afoat and ashore, The Wash
ington Navy Yard reports that the wireless station
there caught message passing between the Bos-
ton Navy Yard and the station Thatcher's
Island. The bureau also has been informed that a
wireless bulletin which was being sent from
Cape Cod ward was heard on the cruiser Mary
land, lying at dock at Newport News
BIDS FOR GUNS.-Bids for eight S-inoh. twelve
finch and thirty-two 6-inch guns for the battle
ship New Hampshire and the armcred cruisers
Montana and North Carolina. opened at the Navy
Department to-day, follows: Eight-inch.
Bethlehem Steel Company, S21,s9o EACH Midvale
Steel Company, S17,142 each! finch, Bethlehem
Steel Company. s19.999 each; Midvale Steel Com.
pany. St4S15 each; and s-inch, Bethlehem Steel
Company s12.s5o eachi Midvale Steel Company,
s12,2ss each These bids for guns withou:
mounts
ORDERS ISSUED-The following army and navy
orders have been issued:
ARMY.
Captains EDWARD D. ANDERSON and HUGH D.
BEEKELEY 12 ~ GaysTy to Fort osl'h0Tpe
Lieutenant CSloneis HENRY l. MARRIs and nd ARTHUR
MqRK4AT and Na aE ALBnKT G b BL UT and
til ITEiA NJ = FA'fAN 4 as'''"'u 10 coast Ar
Captain .GwYNN r. HANCOCK. to 51st Company
Captain DAN T MOORE. to unassigned list
First SutsHaP ro1 wEsEX w X HAMILTON to 1sdth
Coast Artillery.
First aI Lfptsnant H SCOTT to 'ssh Company
First ,o Lisgtsnans BENJAMIN H. KERTooT. to Esd
company Coast Artillery.
First Lieutenant WILLIAM S. BROWNING. to S1st
Company Coast Artillery.
First ey Fi.9 tr ERANcs W. CLARE to 18th Bat
First Lieutenant F. BARNES to 10th Battery. field
Captain CONWAY H ARNOLD Jr. from DIS. to 10th
Company. coast artillery.
Captain ROBERT H. c. KELToN. from unassigned list
20 Tooth Company coast artillery.
First Lieutenant JOHN H NBRIDE, Jr. from saith TO
lV'th Company coast artillery.
First Lieutenant GEORGE 2. CONNOLLY, from ssd TO
95th Company. coast artillery.
First Lieutenant CLARENCE DEEMS Jr. 1880
Company, coast artillery, I'D Battery. nsld srtil-
First Lieutenant LOUIS f. BUCK from 10th Battery
field artillery. to Sd Company; coast artillery
Battery. field artillery.
First cABnt 14th Ia1aa
Barracks vice First Lieutenant Frederick S. L Price
Captain G. b. HARDER, to Naval War College
Lieutenant Commander W. H. G. BILLIARD. detached
the Galveston 10 the Maine
Lieutenant Commander MINETT. detached the Wabash;
Naval War College.
Lieutenant F. l. SHEFFIELD. detached Naval Acad-
envy: TO the Denver.
Lieutenant A CRENsHAw. detached the Prairie; home
Lieutenant a. 1. RICHARDSON. detached tn. Prairie,
Assistant Surgeon W J. zAhEsKr. detached Naval
Chaplain H. w JONES. detached the Prairis TO the
Franklin.
MOVEMENTS OF NAVAL VEssELs-The fol-
lowing movements of vessels have been reported to
the Navy Department:
ARRIVED.
May 1e-Ths MarceIus Annapolis.
May 2O-rho Olympia and the Hannibal at Guantanamo.
Rocket, q Washington; the Potomac, at Pen
sacoa; tho TrIxtun. at Sanchez; the Boston At San
Francisco; the Hercules and the Uncas at Ports
mouth, =. II.
May 21-The Truxtun and the Castine. at San Juan
SAILED.
May 2o--Tha Truxtun. from Sanchez for San Juan
May 21Thl Hercules from Portsmouth, N H., for New
IJncas the Reina Mercedes, from Ports
mouth n, H, for Newport; the Minneapolis from
for Newport the West Virginia, from
Cuebra for Prov1ncetoWn: the 1roquos from Mid
way for Honolulu