Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-01

was out last week. The others in the or
ders of their occurrence are as follows:
New Jersey % Battalion. July T-15; New
York 1st Battalion, July 22-29; Massachu-
sets, July 14-21; Rhode Island. August 70.
September 2; New York I'd Battalion. Au-
gust lilo; Connecticut. August %, Septem-
Der 2; Georgia, August 1928, and Maine
September 1-1S.
Deaths of Soldiers.
Gen Wood commanding the Philippine
division, reports to the War Department
the death of George w. Smith, Troop e,
Sd Cavalry, from Asiatic cholera, June 16,
and OF Charles Sloan, Company G, 24th In
fantry, from pulmonary embolism, June u
Signal Men at the Camps.
Mai. Cen Wade, commanding the At
Iantic division, has directed that one-haf
of Company G. Signal Corps at Fort WOOD,
New York. be sent to the maneuver camp
to be established at Mount Gretna, Pa,
and that the other half of the company be
sent to the camp to be established at Chick
amauga Park, Ga
Examinations for the Pay Corps.
The examination Of candidates for ap-
pointment as assistant paymasters IN the
navy has been completed at the Washing
ton navy yard OF the fifty-nine candidates
who reported to the board ten failed In their
physical examination, twenty failed IN
mathematics and three in English, leaving
twenty-six candidates who took the full
examination. There are thirteen vacancies
in the junior grade of the navy pay corps
and 1T is estimated that fully that number
of candidates passed the examination. 1t
is barely possible that II tho board touna
qualified more than enough candidates TO
All the thirteen vacancies there Will De es-
tablished waiting list. from which future
appointments Will be made to the corps.
ARRANGEMENTS have been MADE TOT re-
oneninR the school of application for junior
naval pay officers July 10 with the same eA-
ecut,ve officers and members OF the facuity
who served 30 eficiently at the recent ses-
sion OF the school
Marines for Picking.
First Lieutenant Thomas H. Brown Oh
the Marine Corps has been ordered 70 ds-
sumo command of detachment OF Marines
consisting of Second Lieut. Clayton D.
VogeI and 112 enlisted men, and proceed
Herewith to Mare Island, Cal, where he
will hold himself and detachment in readi-
ness for transportation to Picking, CHINA,
via transport sailing from San Francisco
July Is.
Soldiers Must Learn to Swim.
General Wood, commanding the Philippine
division, has issued the following general
order on the subject OF swimming: when
ever facilities exist officers below the grade
of field officer and men VIII, under precau-
lions against loss of life be taught TO
swim: first without kit then with an en-
cumbrance equivalent In weight and bulk
to full field kit, emitting arms Officers
and men of the cavalry who are already
qualified in swimming will be instructed
In swimming their horses and handling
them in water.
Army Orders.
Lieutenant Colonial Edwin 3. Bolton at
Fort Gibbon Alaska; Major Henry b.
Moon at Fort Egbert, Capt. James BayIies
at Fort Davis and Capt. N. B. Stokes at
Fort ST. Michael. all of the 10th Infantry.
have been designated as special disbursing
officers Of the pay department at the posts
Indicated.
Leaves of absence have been granted as
lery Corps. three months on account OF III
ness; Capt. VIM. 8. Nicely Philippine
Scouts. extended to July "a; Major H b.
Wallace, paymaster extended to July 81;
Capt. Ernest L. Runner assistant surgeon
two months extension.
First Lieutenant James d. Reams has
been transferred from the 10th to the 18th
infantry, and First Lieutenant B. p. john
son from the 25fh to the 10Th infantry.
= Major Charles B. Hardin, 10th Infantry
has been ordered before an army retiring
board at San Francisco for examination.
Assistant Surgeons Promoted
The advancement from the grade of first
lieutenant to that OF captain OF the follow
ing-uamed assistant surgeons. with rank
% captain, has been announced: Eugene Il. J
Whatmers. Charles r. Brownlea. John =
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