Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-29
CoURT-MARTIAL CONCLUDED.
Findings in Gardener Case Sent to
Washington-Other Notes.
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star
ANNAPOLIS Md March % 1oO-

special correspondence of The Evening Star.
ANNAPOLIS, Md, March 20, 1905.
The courtmartial of Lieutenant Gardener,
U. S. M. c.. which has been in progress for
several days, was concluded today and the
findings have been forwarded to Washing
ton. They were not made public here.
Lieutenant Gardener was charged with con-
duct unbecoming an officer.
The U. S. S. Atlanta was taken to Nor
folk, Va, today, in command of Lieutenant
Commander Bispham. There she will be
completely overhauled preparatory to the
summer cruise of the midshipmen The At
lanta will be used as practice ship in con-
nection with the cruise.
A large class of young officers is expected
to arrive here from Washington in the next
few days for entrance at the School of
Application, Marine Barracks, Naval Acad-
envy. The class recently graduated will
leave for Newport
Cards of invitation were issued today by
Mr.. and Mrs William Fennimore Childs to
the marriage, April II, of their daughter
Emma Maude to Mr.. Frank Williams Evans
of North Carolina. The prospective groom
is a graduate of st. Johns College.
The St Johns College base ball team,
under the leadership of Captain Jamison
left today to play their first game this sea-
son with Rock Hill College. On Saturday
they play Johns Hopkins University on the
home grounds
of Company NJ, LIST Regiment, and Second
Lieutenant George T. Tydings of Company
G, list Regiment, Maryland National Guard,
both of Annapolis, have resigned.
Adjutant General Riggs has arranged to
establish a canteen at Sanders Rangs this
summer for the convenience of the members
of the guard and others who will go there
1t will conform strictly to army regulations
and the local option laws of Anne Arundel
county
General and Mrs. Ward and Miss Rather
inc Ward, who have been staying here fer
some time, left this morning for Washing
ton.
Assistant Surgeon William ]. Zelesky, u
S. N, who recently passed the required ex-
animation conducted in the Naval Medical
College, Washington, reported for duty to-
day at the Naval Academy
Rev. DIR. George w. Nuder of the First
NJ. E. Church, the Rev. T. E. Peters Of
Maryland Avenue NJ. E. and laymen Harry
]. Hopkins, Charles G. Feldmeyer, William
f. Childs and Louis S. Clayton left here
today to attend the conference at the Foun-
dry M. E. Church, Washington.
The regular schedule of spring outdoor
drills of midshipmen is now in operation at
the Naval Academy. The brigade is again
under the instruction of Lieutenant Com
mander w. F. Fullam, U. S. N, who is at
the head of the department of ordnance and
gunnery. The midshipmen will have drills
each afternoon in the week from now until
June. when the board of visitors come, and
the first week in June marks the close of
the academic year
The drills afioat are now in full swing
These are conducted by Commander w F.
Halsey, the head of the department of sea-
manship, and are on the monitor Terror
the practice cruiser Chesapeake, the Allan
ia, torpedo-boat destroyed Lawrence the
torpedo boat Talbot, submarine boat HoI-
land and the Spanish gunboats Sandoval
and Alvarado, captured during the Spanish
American war. The target practice is ont
in the bay and the midshiImen squads fire
at targets placed in the wafer
A midshipman of the first class who Gu
tered the academy grounds March IS In a
state of intoxication has been severely pun
ished, having received 100 demerits reduced
In ranks of the brigade and sent to the
Santee until further orders. The refrac-
tory midshipman was petty officer of the
brigade