The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-22
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: Navy News

Nine naval officers of the rank of
rear admiral are benefeiaries Of Sen
ate amendment to the naval
bill. as adopted by the Senate
and accepted by the House, being
those officers who have served IN the
Civil War Six who are on the retired
list and will shortly gain their ad-
vance in grade are Rear Admirals Al
bert Ross, on duty as Commandant of
the Naval Training Station at North
Chicago; Richardson Clover, l.. &.
Logan, W. S. Cowles, Chief of the Bu-
reau of Equipment; J. E. Pillsbury,
Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, and
w. J. Barnette, Superintendent of the
Naval Observatory. The others are
still on the active list and will be ad-
vanced upon retirement, being Captain
D. D. V. Stuart, Captain of the Yard
at Norfolk, Captain A. C. Dillingham;,
commanding u. S. S. Franklin, and
Captain C. P. Rees, Commandant OF
the Naval Station at Honolulu. Army
and Navy Register of February q,
1909.
This means that Captain Rees will
be rear admiral of the first nine'
upon retirement, in 1910, becoming a
rear admiral in about six months from
now.
Last Alien Soldier Enlisted.
Joseph Joseph, former Roumanian
soldier, sworn in at recruiting Office
in New York last week as member
of the United States Army, is the last
alien who will be allowed to enlist, ae-
cording to the authorities. A recent
law provides that when all existing va
cancies in the Army have been filed
only citizens shall be eligible. Joseph
fills the last of those vacancies.
Joseph does not intend to remain an
alien long. A few minutes after the
enlistment formalities had been com
pleted he appeared at the Federal nat
uralization bureau and took out his
first papers.
Honolulu Service Town.
Honolulu is a real Army and Navy
town nowadays, and one needs only to
glance at the hotel registers or the pas
senger lists or the marine routine to
know it. Of course, for the past
eleven years the hotel registers have
been replete with military titles, but
the address given was generally
TRANSPORT So-and-So.' Now it is
Leilehua. Fort Shafter, Camp Very,
etc., while the passenger lists show
that Colonel So-and-So and Major So
and-So have just returned from Hilo
from an inspection of the breakwater,
or Commander So-and-So of the Navy
has returned from an inspection tour
of lighthouses. In addition, a Navy
or lighthouse vessel is reported in from
the other islands.
Naturally, with 1900 men attached
to the Army, Navy and Marine SER
| vices, and with SO many officers at
tached to the commands, the coordi-
nate services of the Federal govern
ment have assumed very large i'm
portance in the affairs of the commu-
nifty.
The service headquarters and subor-
dinate branches are being spread all
over the island, as. for instance, the
| Naval Station headquarters on the wa
terfront, the marine station at Camp
Very. the infantry post at Moanaiua
the cavalry post at Leilehua, the EN-
| gineer barracks Temporary at Wal
| kiki; the lighthouse service, Army pay
| offices, etc., in the Young Hotel; the
depot quartermaster of the Army al
the old Hawaiian government. barracks
back of the Capitol; the corrals at
Iwilei.
The officers now attached to the
| Navy and Marine Corps form large
community of themselves, and most of
them are residents of the city outside
the Naval Station grounds, and many
Army officers on detached duty are
also town residents. It is somewhat
surprising to those who go to the
trouble to take a census of the number
of service people now forming a part
of the community.
To Have Duplicate Pictures.
Tt is ordered that whenever perinis-
sion is given by the Navy Department,
| or by eommandants of stations or off.
GERS commanding fleets or vessels, UNI
/ der the instructions of the Navy De-
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| partment, to persons not belonging to
| the Navy to make photographs of
United States vessels or parts thereof
or of Navy yards. and naval stations
such permission shall be granted only
en- the condition that the Navy De-
partment shall be furnished without
cost with duplicates of all pictures
taken, to be used by the department
for such purposes. other than CONNER
cial, as it may deem advisable; this
| agreement to include moving picture
films.
Local Orders.
Il Post Comsy. sergt. Henry c. Hensley
l upon arrival at San Francisco, from
| Honolulu, win be sent to Fort Mason
CAL, to relieve Post Comsy. Sergt. Viii,
liam J. Cobb, who will be sent to the
Preside of San Francisco, at such time
as will enable him to report on or about