Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-15
Army and Navy

Officers and men of the battIeship fleet
while on the cruise to the Pacific will
have their letters from home and be per-
mitted to write to their friends and fami-
lies as often as facilities will allow. Ad-
miral Evans has arranged very fully in a
circular distributed to the fleet officers
for all postal conveniences to be enjoyed
by the fleet while on the way. The mail
address of the fleet and of the Yankton
Culgoa, Glacier and the Panther up to
February will be Caro- Postmaster.
New York. N. Y" After that date it
will be Care Postmaster, San Francisco,
Cal" Mail sent to these points must be
prepaid and bear the name Of the ship to
which it should go. The last New York
mail that Admiral Evans thinks the fleet
can receive will be that which will leave
New York January on the steamer By
ron, which reaches Rio Janeiro January
%. The feet will remain at Rio from
January IL to January %. All mail for
warded after January 4 will cross Pana-
ma and be sent on down to Callao, which
will be reached February IS. where mail
can reach the fleet. On arriving at Mag
dalena bay in March mail will reach
the fleet every ten days by way of San
Francisco. An arrangement has been
made by which the commanding officer OF
the ship or division that first reaches
Callao, or in the event that the fleet
should In any manner separate, may
cable New York instructions how to for
ward mail later than February is.
Lieutenant Colonel George w. Goethals.
c. E., U. s. A., chairman and chief en-
gineer of the Panama canal commission,
in his report covering the fiscal year end
ing June 30, 1907. states that the amount
of material removed from the Culebra
cut from January / to June 80 was 4,047.-
OIL cubic yards, out of total for the
wear of K $40 432 cubic wards.
| The burial corps is engaged in visiting
all the posts in the Philippines for the
| purpose of disnterring the remains OF
all soldiers who have died in the islands
\ within the past two years and sending
| them back to the United States. This
work is mainly in the southern islands
of the archipelago. The Philippine COM
| mission has granted permission to take
| UP every body that is buried at any army
! post or sub post cemetery. Heretofore
| it has been possible to disinter remains
| only after the expiration of two years
| from date of death. The present detail
will probably gather a greater number
| of dead soldiers than any that has before
| this been sent out. 1t will include those
who lost their lives in several massacres
| that have taken place and include numer-
! Gus points where there have been sharp
| fights attended by many casualties. The
| DuTldl COIpS d opCOidi bC66Ch lOL tb1
work, the Indianapolis, which was fitted
up expressly for it's gruesome work. The
| corps will visit thirty-one cemeteries In
| all.
| Hon. Richmond Pearson Hobson. late
| u. S. N, who is member-elect OF the
| incoming house of representatives, Is
| quoted in press reports as having de-
cided to introduce bill at the forthcom-
| ing session to pension surviving veterans
of the Confederate army. According to
| these dispatches Mr.. Hobson says his
purpose is to have the government ap-
propriate such an amount that the Con-
federate veterans now on the rolls of the
states of the south may receive with their
| pensions a sum equal to that received
by Union veterans. The SOUTH Mr.. Hob
son is further quoted as saying, has long
been contributing to pay the pensions OF
northern soldiers, and as the United
| States has adopted the policy of return
| ing war indemnity to foreign nations he
thinks the government ought to return a.
small part of the pension money already
paid by the southern states.
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| The admiraPs white flag has been abol-
! ished in the United States navy. Here
| aftor there will be but two flags for flag
officers, a blue flag for the senior rear
admiral in command and a red flag for all
| Junior rear admirals in a fleet. That ar
rangement will prevail during the coming
cruise of the Atlantic fleet to the Pacific
coast
So
| Fleet special order No. 81.
l. The following itinerary is announced
! for the fleet and torpedo fiotilla for the
coming trip to the west coast. Dates Civ
en- are of course subject to change due to
bad weather or other unexpected circum-
| stances.
O. The movements of the fleet after ar
rival at Magdalena bay depend upon the
| completion of target practice and other
exercises at that place. and have not yet
| been decided upon.
| g. Mail schedule will be published later
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