New-York tribune., 1907-09-30

less confusion and II is difficult 10 draw the line
between necessary extra expenses and individual
extravagances. There has always been more or
less dissatisfaction among the midshipmen over
what they sometimes consider favoritsm or un-
fair discrimination. The midshipmen entertain an
erroneous IDEA % the fund which IS kept 10 thelr
credit They regard 81 pay for their services
instead of really parental allowance. which IT is
At the end of their academic career they must
hnva sufficient funds their credit 10 pay for an
outfit and this outfit now amounts TO 500. The
sum reserved each year has been less than S0o
in the case of each midshipman. Hereafter the
amount held back will be Sl2o year. so the mid
shiprnan may have a complete outfit purchased for
him without going into debt az the beginning Of
his career. in addition 70 which circumstance the
superintendent Of the Academy believes there VIII
he an opportunity to cultivate prudence IN the
early Of the naval officer The tendency Is
now altogether the other way
GREATEST or ARMY HoSPITALs.-The army
medical authorities working on the preliminary
plans for a model military medical unit OF organl-
zation and equipment in Washington This VIII DE
located at the ne1 general hospital upon which
work is being pushed with all possible speed. The
institution when completed will be the best OF Its
kind in the world and will be extensive
basis which VIII require several years to complete
There will he Il large hospital. with the officers
ouarters and the barracks of the men of the nos
rtal CORPS together with school for the instruc-
ton Of the latter. Then there will be the post
graduate school to which sent all the new
aupointees to the medical corps. junior ofhcers OF
that department and such militia surgeons as wish
r., take advantage OF the instruction. To this place
will also be removed the Army Medical Museum
and library There will be necessarily the officers
quarters The land is sufficient for hospital corps
camps and the drilling of men who are later sent
out 10 the various departments In this country the
Philippines and Cuba. The site which is in the
northern border of the District of Columbia, IS or
elevated ground and within block or two of
the upper end OF Rock Creek Park. which IL is
proposed TO for a hospital camp In time OF war
This would make it unnecessary to have an eTIler-
gency camp such as was established at MontauK
Point in 1895.
NAVAL OFFICERS OPPOSE SELECTION
Naval officers much exercised over the pros
meet that there will a revival of the proposition
10 establish promotion by selection in the naval
service similar that in the army. There have
been suggestions 10 this effect from time 10 TIME
in the past but they have always met with dis
couragement among naval officers who would be
most directly by the change of method OF
advancement. There is no plan 10 bring younger
officers into command ranks which would be so
unfavorabv received as the idea of selective pro-
motion unless is the companion proposition that
rear sdmirals shall be appointed without regard to
seniority as are appointed the hrigadier generals
in the army 1t is putting the case too strongly
~ say that naval officers view with positive alarm
the signs of a reopening Of this subject of seec-
ton If 1t takes tangible form as recon-
mendaton 10 Congress. there are enough naval OFF,
GERS who are against the plan to block the at
tempted legislation.
HEAT AND LIGHT ALLON NANCE-The secre-
tarv of the Navy has been De t''i"'S of making
rain changes in the method e' determination and
accounting for the legal allowance for heat and
light which was provided in the latest army ap
propriation BILL and which applies TO most naval
officers under the terms of the statute The ques
,ion has been before the Controller. who has de-
cidAd that the Secretary OF the Navy has no au-
thoritv TO make the changes desired The law
specihcally provides that the Secretary OF war
shall prescrfbe the allowance and the method OF its
determination in each This has been done
bv general instructions formulated in general
order from the War Department and adopted by
rho Navy Department, therefore. will have to be
shelVed.
ss,a abIishment of a naval sanatorium at Fort Lyon
Colorado for tubercular patients in the naval ser
vice has resulted in the transfer to that institution
Of some thirty patients who have been under treat
roent at the army hospital at Fort Bayard. New
Mexico This is of advantage in more ways than one
There has always been more or less friction re-
sulting from placing naval patients at an army
hospital although, of course, the aTr'y medical
officers at Fort Bayard have had full caarge of
all the patients, whether they come from the