New-York tribune., 1906-07-15
ARMY and NAVY NEWS.
IFrom The Tribune Bureau,I

lFrom The Tribune BureauI
Washington July IA.
BRIGADE POST PLANS.-Secretary Taft has
arranged plan of allotment for the brigade
posts and he will lay this before the President at
Oyster Bay on Monday 1t can be said that it is
not the intention order the abolition aban-
donment of any more of the smaller company
regimental posts present at least, and probably
not during this calendar year. On the other hand,
ii will be practicable because of lack Of funds
and for purely military reasons, at
the plans for brigade posts All that can be done
now is TO make a beginning, carrying the work
along as fast as Congress provides the means 1t
Is learned that, SO far from abandonng he lost at
Fort Snelllng Minnesota an allotment OF $5oOOO
SHORT OF SURGEONS Special arrangements
have been mLde for the examination Of candidates
for admission to the army medical department.
where there about eighteen vacancies 1t
has been found somewhat difficult to obtain cand-
dates from among graduates of me2ical colleges
who can pass the exa.nnation his information
has gone far is probably responsible for the
fact that the applications to take the examination
are not as numerous as is desired by army sur
geons, who are interested in having the personnel
of the corps maintained at its maximum. The sit
for the reason that the department is still able to
draw upon the contract surgeons. from whom the
permanent personnel IS in a measure recruited
This year there will be a new system OF examina-
tions Py boards ordered at some point their
professionally qualified will to Washington
for tour Of duty in the army medical school and
their inal fitness for appointment as first iieuten9
ants and assistant surgeons There are now about
forty-five applications file, and 1t is expected
there will be twenty more before August l, when
the preliminary examination takes place.
WILL VISIT NEW YORK-The naval pay corps
school Of application, which open in this city
on July 16 may not begin its work on that date
owing to hitch in the examination of a candidate
who was only partly qualified for appointment as
assistant paymaster. There were twelve candi-
dates who were recommended for appointment
without question, and appears to have been
found physically disqualified or least some ques-
ton was introduced to his fitness in that respect
1t happened that the examining board dissolved
be necessary to bring them together before final
action can be taken. This may require period
which will serve to postpone the opening Of the
pay, corps school for a week or more. 1t has been
or six assistant paymasters, who have hitherto
had the advantages of such instruction 1t is
they shall be taken TO New York, and for tour of
tory at Brooklyn.
TOO MUCH THEORY.-Army officers are much
interested in the announcement which will be made
respecting the next details duty on the general
staff, to fill vacancies occurring by virtue of ex-
pirations of individual tours Of duty on August Is
The impression has gone abroad that the policy of
the War Department so far as it be repre-
sented in any expression of the board of selection
is in favor of having for the general staff those
| officers who have attended the army postgraduate
| scuOOS, sucn as Lne college at LeaVenWorth, the
cavalry school at Fort Riley and the artillery
| school at Fort Monroe. This impression prevails
| because of the suggestion which has been made to
attend these schools for the benefit it would be to
them in increasing their eligibility for the general
stafL There is great difference of opinion in the
army respecting nltary education. and some OFF,
| OF thing and that officer would learn much more
of a practical sort if he stuck to his troop com
results NAV be Obtained in & Iaf @ the pest pest
in ha
deIas to fbe aener Il a ets s9a @ appea that the new
! who have attended the postgraduate schools the
nor tbat sS WI oe ccePtea as conhrmlng the re-
essential qualification Tor detail to the general
| EDWARDS TO REMAIN A AGENERAL-Interest
attaches to the status OF Brigader General CIar-
! ence r. Edwards, who reached that rank by virtue
OF recent legislation attaching that title TO the
officer who held the place Of chief of the Bureau
| OF lnsular Affairs, General Edwards will be per
nanent in that grade and will not go back to the
infantry arm in which ne a senior captain, at
the end Of his four-year detail lie will have TO be
| reappointed and continued a brigadier general
just as Judge Advocate General Davis was or as
was Brigadier General Crozier. chief Of ordnance
or the army. The places of those officers were
filled in their respective corps and thew nave had
TO be retained at the head of their branches 1t is
me same with General Edwards. His place in the
% WI i oe he9 % & and his detail as brgader general
creating vacancy in the infantry to which some
Edwards from going back to the line. General
Edwards, who has been on sick leave for some time
IS reported To be in greatly improved health He
hopes to return TO Washington in the autumn.
TOO SOON FOR TURBINES.-The examination
Of the bidders plans for the battleships Nichi-
gan and South Carolina in the Navy Department
sustains the conservative view entertained by
officers that the installation of turbines naval
vessels should be taken up cautiously. As mat
ter OF fact, experts find that there altogether
too many questions involved in tuI Dine mechanism
a full consideration of results The principal
son lor doubt IN this matter is in regard TO the per-
IoFnance or turbines at low speeds 1t is believed
uIaL the turbine cannot be operated economically
When the naval vessel is cruising a condition
which exists about four-hfths OF the time to say
lotn4ilS OF the period used in man0uVres, also
/ low speeds, when the vessel is not going above
Twelve or thirteen knots. Under such circumstances
there must be fairly economical engine for thar
usual speed otherwise The vsSeaI o' eas
enough coal 70 90 any long distance steaning Re
ports received from abroad indicate that the tur-
situation has been impressed upon The American
experts 10 such an extent that they feel generalv
speaking. satisfied thar the time not vel come
for abandoning the recipTocatinS engine
ORDERS ISSUED.-The following orders have
been issued:
ca7t3I7 jrRANil x Fi3RGgssoN and First Lieutenant
command the torpedo planter Colonel George ATmI-
stead. 70 taAe station IN New York City.
Major CHASE w. KENNEDY. Infantry detailed in
the lltsTy secretaTy's department in place Major
AiIII4ARD = MAI1tZ, who is assigned to loth In
Major JOHN EIsSTON BAXTER. quartermaster 10 take
charge % Office Of the disbursins quariemaster,
Portland. relieving Major ALFRED a. PALMER. re-
Major JoHN s MALLORY from the General Stan corps
10 bis proper station
asotoy JOIN 4 PHILLIPS. surgeon: Captain THEODORE