Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-07-22
ARMY AND NAVY NEWS.
Army Orders.

Leaves of absence have been granted
as follows: Lieut.. Col. Granger Adams,
9Th Field Artillery, four months, and
First Lieuts Paul u. Bunker, John
ONeil. Brainerd Taylor and Edmund T.
Weisel and Capt. Howard Landers, all OF
the Coast Artillery Corps, one month
each.
Capt Frank A. Grant. quartermaster.
will proceed to Newport News. Va. and
assume duty.as general suPer,l.e'i ., l.
army transport service. relieving capt.
Ernest r. Tilton. quartermaster
By direction of the President and upon
the application of Post Comm1ssary
Serst. James O'Connor that soldier Will
be placed upon the retired list.
Leave of absence for one month ana
fifteen days is granted Capt. Joseph +.
Tracy, general staff.
Leave of absence for two months and
fifteen days is granted Capt. Edward
BY direction of the President Maj.
Elisha S. Benton and Capt. Edwin g.
Davis. Coast Artillery Corps. will report
to the retiring board at San Francisco,
Cal. for examination.
Leave of absence for three months is
granted First Lieut.. Edward H. Pearce.
18th Infantry
Mai William G. Haan. Coast Artillery
Corps. will proceed to Fort Hancock.
New Jersey. for the purpose of deliver
cadets of the first class of the United
States Military Academy August 80. 1909.
Naval Orders
Lieut.. {. r. Kear, to Naval Academy.
Annapolis. Md
Lieut.. c. S. kerrick, from command OF
the Truxtun to command the third flo
tilla and command the Lawrence.
Lieut.. a. G. Howe. from command of
the third fiotilla and Lawrence to bureau
of navigation, Navy Department.
Ensign r. F. Gross, from the Tennessee
to the Truxtun.
Ensign l.. Minor, to naval station, Mar
ragansett Bay. r. /.
Midshipmen J. b. Oldendorf, j. A. Muir
ply. p. Fl. Marion, a. McGlasson and K.
S. Fay, from Naval Academy. Annapolis.
Nd. to home and wait orders.
Assistant Naval Constructor f. c. Ham
ner, jr.. from navy yard. Mare Island,
Cal. to naval station. Cavite, p. I.
Assistant Naval Constructor D. f. Bat
ties. from navy yard. Norfolk, Va. to
works of Fore River Shipbuilding Com
pany. Quincy, Mass.
First Lieut.. E. A. Ostermann has been
commissioned.
Boatswain II. Williams, from the Wa
bash to the Patapsco
Chief Machinist G. T. Brownridge has
been commissioned.
To Examine Army Candidates.
A board of medical officers, to consist
of Maj. Francis A. Winter. Maj. Carl
r. Darnal and First Lieut.. John r.
Barber, has been appointed to meet at
the army dispensary, Washington, D. c.,
for examination of candidates to deter
mine their physical fitness for appoint
ment as second lieutenants in the army.
To Determine His Qualifications.
Gen. Wood, comma nding the Depart
ment of the East, has appointed board
of officers to meet at Washington bar
racks, D. c., for the purpose of examin-
ing Charles P. Mays as to his qualifica-
tons for the position of superintendent
of national cemetery. The board is
composed of Capt. Curtis W. Orwell and
First Lieut.. Max G. Tyler. Corps Of En-
gineers. and Capt Samuel j. Morris,
Medical Corps.
Naval Movements.
The sunboat Wilmington has arrived
at Hankow, the collier Nanshan at Hong
kong, the gunboat Tacoma at Bluef1eld.
the battleship Maine at Boston, the gun
boat Wolverine at Michigan City, the
scout Salem at Rockport. the collier
Lebanon at New York and the tug
Rocket at Washington.
The gunboat Dubuque has sailed from
Puerto Cortez for Guantanamo, the COL
lier Alexander from Shanghai for Cavite
and the cruisers Charleston, Denver
hal for TSng-tan.
The collier Ajax has been placed out
of commission at the navy yard at
Portsmouth, n. H.