The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-07-13
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Army and
Navy News

COMPANY II u A4S odbIdAlOA
left Camp Very early yesterday morn
ing for Fort Shafter, where it went into
camp on the rife range. The men
carried full field kit and are prepared
for a month of camp life This is the
regular target practise season and the
sea-soldiers viii devote their time, ex-
clusively, during the next thirty days,
to shooting.
In command of Company A went
Captain H. G. Smythe, q. s. Marine
Corps. The other officers with the
company are Lieutenants 1Silgore. I'm
derwood and Seherer.
At the compilations of Company A .
tour of target duty, Company B will be
sent out to Fort Shafter for a month.
Then Company C viii go, and finally
Company D. Each company will spend
one month ON the range in compliance
with the. regulations of the United
States Marine Corps
Inspection at Camp Very.
Major Charles G. Long, e. s. Marine
Corps, commanding Camp Very, held an
inspection and review of the Marine
battalion yesterday morning. The Ia.
,waiian band furnished the music for
the ceremony and many town folk
were present to watch the soldiermun
go through their evolutions. Captain
Low commanded the battalion, Major
Long acting as inspecting and review
ing officer
Vengeance on Blaster.
The officers of the Marine camp are
threatening dire vengeance ON the
head of the man who is responsible for
the early morning blasting that is dis.
turbing their slumbers. 1--WE should
not care if he would only wait until
after reveille, y said one Of them yes
terday morning, but it s mighty dis
agreeable to be routed out of your
slumbers by terrific booming, APP
parently right under your pillow
Dance for 18th Infantry.
Providing that the transport Thomas
arrives early enough today, there will
be an invitation dance at the Alexander
Young Hotel in honor of the officers
of the Twelfth Infantry and their fam
lilies. According tc the present out.
look, the Thomas will arrive about )
o clock. Music for the dance vii be
furnished by the Twelfth Infantry
band
Capt. Falls Regiment.
The Twelfth United States Infantry,
which is going to the Philippines on
the army transport Thomas, is the old |
regiment of Captain Moor N. Falls,
depot quartermaster here, and that Off
Ger is loking forward with keer ex-
pectation to renewing acquaintance
with those who formerly were his broth
er officers. The entire regiment, head
quarters and band, is scheduled for
a tour of duty in the island posses
sions. $500
Guests of Governor Frear.
Major and Mrs. Beecher B. Ray were
the guests at dinner last night of Gov
ernor and Mrs. Walter F. Frear. In,I
the evening they attended the Darrach
recital as the guests of Governor and
Mrs. Frear.
Drummer Boy of the Clouds
TOLEDO, Ohio, June 14-Gen. John
T. Kountz, former national commander
of the G. A. R., who died today, was
widely known among e. A.. R. men as
The Drummer Boy of Missionary
Ridge" being the hero of verses under
that title written by Kate Brownlee
Sherwood, which were a popular sub |
ject of defamation in campfres and
patriotic meetings generally. General
Kountz earned the title when, drum
mer boy of fifteen, he seized musket
and joined in the charge at Missionary
Ridge, losing his leg.
While national commander in 1884, |
acting with General Rosecrans, General
Kountz secured from the pope a deci-
sion freeing the c. A. R. from question
as a secret society.
Middies Want to Enter Army.
Midshipmen l. H Campbell Jr.. of
Hyattsville, Nd, and H. W. Stephen
son of Nebraska. both of whom duali- |
fed on final examination and received
their diplomas, have resigned from the
navy and are endeavoring to secure ap-
pointments as second heutenants in the
Coast Artillery Corps. Stephenson is
the midshipman who had narrow es-
cape from losing his vision ! at the
Naval Academy last winter.
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