Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-30
ARMY AND NAVY NEWS.
Army Orders.

Army Orders.
BY direction of the President, Capt
Samuel D. McAlister. Coast Artliiery
Corps. will report to Brig. Gen william
P. Hall, adjutant general. president OF an
army retiring board in Washington. Dis
trict of Columbia for examination by the
board.
The following transfers are ordered
First Lieut.. Beverly c. Daily. from the
21st Infantry to the 18th Infantry.
First Lieut. George c. Rockwell. from
the 18th Infantry to the 2lst infantry:
First Lieut.. George Newlove. Meolcai
Reserve Corps. is relieved from further
duty in the Philippines division and Is or
dered to Fort Brady. Mich. for duty:
Capt. Clifton c. Carter. Coast Artillery
Corps, is detailed as instructor in the de-
partment of electricity and mine oe1ense'
Coast Artillery School. Fort Monroe va.
Maj John D. Barrette and Capt: iona
w. Gulick. Coast Artillery Corps. Will re-
pair to this city for duty at the Army
War College in connection with the work
of the department of artillery and gun
defense. Coast Artillery School. Fort Mon
roe. Va
ed. is assigned to the 18th Cavalry
First Lieut.. Ralph Waldo Newton. Med
ical Reserve Corps. is assigned to active
duty at Fort Jay, n. Y.
F1FSC Lieut.. Joseph j. SITdCc, SoaSt al
tillery Corps. will assume charge tenn
porarily of construction work at Fort
Screven, Ga.
By direction of the President. and upon
the application of First Sergt Andrew
Strefeer, Company A, eth Infantry. that
list.
Maj. John T. knight. general staff. is
detailed as observer at the camp of in
struction to be held at Atascadero ranch,
Cal
BY direction of the President and upon
the application of Cook William B. Grif-
fifth. Troop K, 9th Cavalry. that soldier
will be placed upon the retired list.
Movement of Troops.
Battery C. Sd Field Artillery. now at
Fort Smelling. Mimi. has been ordered to
proceed at once to Fort Sam Houston
Tex. for station.
Battery D. 5th Field Artillery. at Fort
Leavenworth. Kan, will take station at
Fort Smelling.
Battery F. 5th Field Artillery, upon it's
arrival in the United States from the
Sheridan, Ill.
Reassignment of Quartermasters.
The following changes in the stations
and duties of officers of the quartermas-
ters department are ordered:
Capt. Joseph L. Knowlton will assume
charge temporarily Of construction work
at Fort Du Pont, Del. and at Fort Mott,
N. j.. relieving Capt. William S. Scott,
who will proceed to San Francisco for
duty, relieving Capt. Robert H. Rolfe.
Capt. Rolfe will proceed to Boston and
assume charge of the duties of construct
ing quartermaster at Fort Warren. Fort
Strong. Fort Revere and Fort Andrews,
Mass. and Fort Stark, n. H.. relieving
to Portland. Ore, relieving Capt. Henry
B. Clark. Capt. Clark will proceed to
Fort Ward, Wash.
Capt. Moor n. Falls will be relieved of
construction work at Fort Hancock. \.
j., and is assigned to duty as quartermas
ter at Honolulu. Hawaii Territory. reliev-
ing Capt Evan II. Humphrey. who will
repair to this city and report to the quar-
termaster general of the army for duty in
his office.
from duty in the office of the quartermas-
ter general and will proceed to Fort
Crockett, Tex. for duty.
Naval Orders.
Lieut.. E. w Mcintyre. when discharg-
ed treatment United States Naval Hos
pital Mare Island, Cal, to command the
Navajo.
Lieut.. F. w. Osburn. from the Milwau-
kee to the wyoming.
Ensign L. P. Treadwell. from the Pa
ducah to the Castine.
Ensign W. Drake. from navy yard.
New York. N. Y. to the navy yard, Bos-
ton. Mass. for duty in connection post
graduate course of instruction in naval
architecture at the Massachusetts, Insti-
tute Of Technology.
Midshipman ]. D. Smith. from the AL
bany to the Navajo.
Midshipman G. F.. Brandt, to the Eagle.
Assistant Paymaster M. II. Philbrick.
to the Castine
Warrant Machinist H E. Burks, from
the ST. Louis to the Wyoming.
Naval Movements.
The battleship Texas has arrived at
Charleston. s. c.: the cruiser Prairie at
Colon. the tug Osceola at Pensacola and
the tug Tecumseh at Washington.
The cruiser Milwaukee has sailed from
San Francisco for Bremerton.
Death of Naval Constructor Hoover.
The Navy Department has been ad-
vised of the death of Naval Constructor
John B. Hoover. United States Navy. re-
tired. which occurred at Elizabeth, n. j.,
yesterday.
Constructor Hoover was born in Phil
adelphia, Pa. June %. 1876. and was APP
pointed an assistant naval constructor
in the navy July %. 1870 He was pro-
NOTED to naval constructor October 10
1885, serving at the navy yard. New
York, from June 30, 1888. to September
IA. 1889: at navy yard, Portsmouth n.
H., from September 49, 1889. to Novem-
Der 80 1885: duty at Elizabethport. n. j..
from December Q. 1895. to January 20.
1898; duty at Morris Heights. n. Y, Janu-
airy. 1893 to March. 1899. He was trans
ferred to the retired list June 2::. 1888
upon reaching the statutory retirement
age of sixty-two years.
The Prairie All Right.
The Navy Department today was in
formed of the arrival at Colon of the
cruiser Prairie. She has on board a large
number of bluajackets for service on
the Pacific coast They will be trans
ferred to the cruiser Buffalo, which ar
rived at Panama yesterday.
Rear Admiral Caps, chief constructor
of the navy, returned to Washington to-
day from Newport r. l.. where he has
vessel and the construction of the Golfer
dam inside of the forward compartment
for stopping the leaks. He believes that
with good weather the vessel may be re-
leased from her position in eight or ten
days. in which event she can be lowed
to Boston for docking and repairs without
much difficulty. He reports that the
total length of the ship is on the rocks
but that the damage up to this time is
confined mostly to the forward compart-
ment She Is being flooded and then
pumped out alternately SO as to meet
the tidal conditions and to prevent her
from humping on the rocks. The guns
and most of the coal of the vessel have
been removed.