Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-14
ARMY AND NAVY NEWS.
Army Orders.

Mai. Edgar Russel, Signal Corps, Will
proceed to Fort Riley. Kansas, for tempo-
rary duty pertaining to the selection of
q sito .or the wireless telegraph station
which 1t Is proposed to erect at that post.
Leave Of absence for two months is
granted Lieut.. Col. David L. Brainard.
deputy commissary general.
Maj Joseph e. Kuhn, Corps of En-
gineers, will assume charge of the con-
struction of new building at Fort Mon
roe, Va; for the use of the engineer de-
Leave OF absence for four months is
granted First Lieut.. Robert H. Sillman.
18th Infantry.
Leave Of absence for four months is
granted First Lieut.. Frank B. Kobes, 2lst
Infantry
The followng-namedo officers of the Med
ical Corps have been ordered to examina-
ton to determine their fitness for pro-
motion: Capts. Walter Cox, Ebert E.
Persons. William N. Bispham, Edward r.
Geddings and William w. Quinton.
Naval Orders.
Naval Constructor L. s. Adams. from
duty on fleet staff commander In chief
United States Atlantic fleet, on board
Connecticut, to duty department OF con-
struction and repair. naval stations.
Cavite and Olongapq, p. l.
Warrant Machinist A. d. Devine, to duty
United States. naval training station,
By direction of the President. Maj.
Meriwether L. Walker. Corps of EN-
gineers. is detailed as engineer of the
sixteenth lighthouse district. to relieve
Capt Gustave r. Lukesh, Corps OF En-
gineers.
Maj. John w. Joyes. ordnance depart
ment, in addition to his present duties
20 nRoI
Department of the Gulf, for duty as
chief ordnance officer of that department.
Naval Movements.
The torpedo boat Barney has arrived
at Norfolk.
The tug Standish and the sailing ship
Severn have sailed from Annapolis for
Norfolk.
Marked Decrease Of Typhoid.
An inquiry has been directed by the
surgeon general Of the army into the
practice prevailing in some foreign armies
of employing anti-typhoid vaccination as
a means of rendering soldiers immune
to the disease. 1t has been reported that
considerable success has attended the ex-
periments abroad. Reports show a mark
ed fall In the admission rates to hospitals
of typhoid cases in the United States
Army. which is particularly gratifying. as
that is the disease which in time of war
most seriously threatens the efficiency of
the army.
In Honor Of Prof. Henry.
The cableship under construction at
Newport News has been named the
Joseph Henry, after the first secretary
Of the Smithsonian Institution. who was
a scientist of note. This vessel Is to be
completed early in 1909.
Naval Ammunition Ships.
Efforts will be again made this year by
the ordnance bureau of the navy to have
constructed two ammunition ships for
service one on the Atlantic and one on
the Pacific, in connection with the fleets
in those waters. 1t is contemplated the
ships shall be fitted with appliances for
assembling broken down ammunition, in
order that they may serve as floating ma
val magazines. The difficulties in making
shipments Of explosives are greatly in
creased in using colliers and storeships
whose movements are necessarily regu-
lated by many considerations widely diff
ferent from those connected with the
transport of ammunition. The possession
of ammunition ships would solve. it is
said. one of the most difdcult military
problems connected with a long cruise