The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-10-21
ARMY AND NAVY
Items OF INTEREST
The Lighthouse Tender Kului After
Conveying Lightship viii Come
to Honolulu.
RATIoNs IN TABLOID FORM.
Boat Flags for Army Ohicers-No In
crease for Midship-
men.

| just sailed from New York for the
Pacific. Three big tenders, the Man
zanita (flagship), the Sequola and the
Kukui, accompany the three number
ed lightships, which will do duty on
the coast of Washington and Oregon.
i The Kukui will be detached at San
Diego and sail for Honolulu, where
she will be used to supply the light
| houses of the Hawaiian Islands with
! provisions and oil and take care of
the buoys. The first stop of the flo
tilla will be San Juan, P. r. The Sc
quola will eventually attend to the
lighthouse business on the California
coast and the Manzanita on the
coasts of Oregon and Washington.
Capt. Mertz expects to make the trip
in about lis days. He and his six
shippers will be their own pilots
through the Straits of Magellan.
RATIONS IN TABLOID FORM.
Mess rations will shortly be served
to soldiers in pill or tablet form while
on the march or in field service, if
experiments that are being conducted
| by Commissary Gen. Sharpe of the
army prove successful. The scheme
is to have coffee, sugar, salt and pep
per all put up in tabloid form, each in
a separate tablet. Experiments are be-
ing conducted in the army laboratories
to determine the proper method Of
concentration and the making of tab
| lets or pills. Timed bacon is new
item in the enlisted mems rations.
The department is endeavoring to OBJ
tain the latter staple, put up in cans
stamped from whole tin, and which
contain no solder, form of can used
by the Swedish troops with success
FROM THE NAVY TO LITERATURE
Paymaster David Potter, U. S. N,
appointed to the service from New
Jersey will resign from the naval pay
corps in December and engage in lite
rary pursuits. He has already writ
ten one novel, and has two more in the
hands of the publishers. Mr.. Potter
writes over the name of Edward
Barron"
BOAT FLAGS FOR ARMY OFFICERS
Boat flags and pennants have been
provided for the use of officers of the
army when making official visits by
water. For general officers a rectan-
gular flag of scarlet bunting is pro-
vided. The rank of the officer is in
Dictated by white stars on the flag
one star for brigadier general, two
cto fOr
stars for a lieutenant general. Artil-
lery district commanders display a
smaller flag of similar color and shape
showing also the crossed cannon in
sigma in yellow. Post commanders
show a triangular bunting having a
blue field bearing thirteen white stars,
while the remainder of the pennant is
scarlet. The truck of the staff for
general officers, artillery district COM
manders and post commanders above
the rank of captain will be gilt ball,
and for post commanders of lower
grade to be fiat.
IMPROVEMENT IN ARMY ORD
NANCE
Ordnance experts are interested in a
report that the ordnance department
of the army under Gen. Crozier has
developed a combination of high-pow-
err powder and projectile which will
carry nearly rs per cent farther than
the large projectiles Of any army at
the present time. The siX-inch shell
has been elongated and given certain
other changes which, with the same
sized charge as previously used, will
send the shell so to 60 per cent far
Their than a projectile of the same
weight could be carried in the old
: shape The new powder is declared to
be Is to 25 per cent stronger than the
old powder, which would give the pro-
jectile a radius of travel rs per cent
greater than previously. AS at pre-
sent in use, the extreme range OF a
shell is a mile to each inch in dla-
meter; a six-inch projectile can be
thrown six miles and a twelve-inch
projectile twelve miles. The effective
fighting range of these projectiles is
about two-thirds that Of the extreme
range. The new shell, with the new
powder, accordingly, can be given
= fighting range greater than the ex-
IRENE range of the same-sized pro-
jectile as at present used, in the op-
inion of the ordnance experts.
LAUNCH OF THE NORTH DAKOTA
The Navy Department is informed
that the first-class battleship North
. Dakota, under construction by the
Fore River Shipbuilding Company at
Quincy, Mass, will probably be ready
u for launching the latter part of Octo-
u Der. This vessel is designed for a
l. displacement of 10000 tons, $4,000 in
y Dictated horsepower and a main bat
terry of twenty-four guns, and is con-
u sidered equal if not superior to the
English Dreadnought.
4 NO SCRAMBLE FOR COMMISSIONS
i Only three warrant officers of the