Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-04
WOOD WILL Be SENIOR
May Be Appointed the Next
Chief of Staff.
WADE SOON TO RETIRE
Grant Will Retain His Post for a
Year at Least.
MACARTHUR WRITING UP NOTES
Present Commander of the Philippines
Division Will Not Return Be-
fore Next Spring.
WADE SOON TO RETIRE
MACARTHUR WRITING UP NOTES

The year 1907 will be memorable for the
many important changes in the army. Many
of these changes will occur in the regular
course of events and may be discounted. but
others are still unsettled and consequently
open to speculation. Prominent among the
thilgs that are settled is that Lieut.. Gen.
Arthur Macarthur, the senior officer of the
army now In command of the Pacific Dl-
vision at San Francisco. will go into prac-
teal retirement on the Goth instant and that
he will hll out the remaining two years of
his career on the active list at his old home
in Milwaukee writing his observations of
military affairs in the orient, principally in
India
Another event of Importance will be the
statutory retirement for age of Major Cen
James +. Wade. commanding the Atlantic
Division at New York, which occurs on the
18th instant. Gen. Wade is the senior major
general and the second ranking officer In
the army. According to an official an
nouuCement made by Secretary Taft. the
vacancy in the list of major generals caused
by Gen. Wade's retirement. will be filled by
the promotion of Brig. Gen. William 5.
McCaskey. commanding the Department of
Texas. who himself retires for age October
next. Gen. McCaskey is a civil war vet
eran. having entered the volunteer army in
April 1851 private in the 1st fenn-
SylVania Infantry. and being mustered out
In July. 1860, as captain in the 18th Penn
sylyania Infantry In February. 1866. he
was appointed second lieutenant 18th Regu-
lar Infantry, and served entirely in the in
fantry arm until January. 1904, when he
appointed to his present grade of
brigadier general.
Grant to Retain Command.
Major Gen. Frederick D. Grant. now
commanding the Department of the East
at New York, which is one of the depart
ments in the Atlantic Division, will sue
coed Gen. Wade in command of the Allan
tic Division on the latters retirement on
the 18th instant. He will have that COM
mand in addition to his present command
OF the Department of the East. The At
Iantic Division will be abolished June 80
next. on which date there will be a rear
ransement of all the military department
commands. Although not settled, it is
more than probable that Gen. Grant will
remain at his present station after the re-
organization. At any rate he Will retain
that command until Major Gen. Leonard
Wood. commanding the Philippines Divi-
sion, reaches home next spring. 1t is said
at the War Department that the fact that
Gen. Grant will be In personal command
of all the military at the jamestown ex-
position this spring and summer will not
affect his regular duties at New York.
With the practical retirement of Gen:
Macarthur and the actual retirement of
Gen. Wade. Gen. Wood will be the senior
officer of the army in active service, and
such would naturally be assigned to the
principal military once ana command AT
any rate, in accordance with custom, he
would be given his choice of stations.
Several weeks before his departure for
Panama Secretary Taft, in response to an
inquiry as to who would get the military
command at New York, said that it would
go to Gen. Wood on his return to the
United States, unless Gen. Macarthur,
who is his senior in rank. should desire it.
When approached on the subject, Gen.
Macarthur said he did not care to go TO
New York. and asked instead that he be
allowed to take station at his old home in
Milwaukee and finish the reports ON which
he is engaged. Orders We're issued in &C
Cordance with Gen MacArthur's request,
and ii therefore appears that Gen. Wood
can have the New York command if he