The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-06-29
GEN. AINSWORTH
WOODS SUCCESSOR
Chief of Adjutant's Depart
ment Slated for Philip
pine Command.
In Line for Ranking Off
GERS Position and Army
Circles Are Agitated.

Mai Gen. Fred c. Ainsworth, ad-
ju.snt general of the army. in line with
his well-known ambitions to assume ac-
tive command of troops I'm the field, is
slated TO succeed Maj Gen. Leonard
Wood as commanding general of the
Philippine division. The change, accord
ing to present indications. will be made
next fan, when General Wood will end
his tour of duty in the Philippines and
return TO the States to assume command
Of the Department OF the East
The logical officer for succession to the
Office of the adjutant general is Brig.
Gen. William p. Hall, medal OF honor
officer, who was the ranking assistant
adjutant general when the adjutant gen.
erals department was merged with the
military secretary's Office. General Hall,
who is now stationed in this city, would
enter the Office with the advantage Of
having varied field experience.
General Weston to Return.
While no definite announcement had
been made. it had been understood that
Maj. Gen Jack Weston. now a de-
partment commander in the Philippines
would be promoted to succeed General
Wood. II now appears that General
Weston will be returned to the States
TO be given an important departmental
command. Maj. Gen. Frederick d.
Grant, present commander of the De-
partment OF the East, VIII be trans
ferred TO Chicago, in command of the
Department of the Lakes, upon General
Woods return.
The assignment of General Ainsworth
10 the Far Eastern archipelago will be
the second time that an adjutant gen
eral OF the army has been given held
service Maj. Gen. Henry c. Corhin OBJ
tanned his promotion TO the rank OF
Lieutenant general partly as a result of
the experience he gained while COM
handing the Philippine division. II
General Ainsworth is TO receive the
highest office in the military service.
10 which he aspires through a combina-
ton Of the General Staff. the Inspector
Generals Department. and the Adjutant
Generals Department, II is imperative
that he should have active service in
the field.
> In Washington Twenty-Five Years.
Almost for twenty-five years General
Ainsworth has been stationed in Wash
ington. Prior to that time he was in
the Medical Corps OF the army. Conse-
quently, his knowledge of troops is al
most wholly confined 10 the medical
practice he enjoyed for about eleven
years, and since then to the paper work
he has been called upon to transact
during the past few years. In the in
term, he was chief Of the Record and
Pension Offices OF the War Department,
IN which position he collected informa-
ton about records of veterans of the
civil war for the use of the Commits
sioLer Of Pensions.
The possibility OF General Ainsworth
gaining supreme command of the army
is agitating army circles even more than
did the case Of General Wood, according
10 this dispatch. The latter also was a
medical officer, but ne saw active ser
vice in the Indian campaigns, receiving
a medal of honor for distinguished
service against the Apache Indians, and
commanded the Rough Riders and later
a brigade in the Santiago expedition.