The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-20

science and tactics at Wentworth Mill
tary Academy, Lexington, Mo.
By direction of the President, Capt.
Jesse c.. Nichols, ordnance department,
is relieved from detail in that depart.
ment, to take effect January l, 1909.
The leave of absence heretofore
granted Second Lieut.. Earl G. Buck,
18th Infantry, is extended twenty days.
More Buildings for Army Hospital
A board of officers, to consist of
Lieut.. Col. William H. Arthur, medical
corps; Maj. Walter D. McCaw, medical
corps; and Capt. Harry L. Pettus, quar-
termaster, is appointed to meet in Wash
ington for the purpose of considering
the question of the location of certain
buildings adjacent to the Walter Reed
United States Army General Hospital
Employment for Retired Soldiers.
Lieut.. Col. Weaver, chief of the mill
tia division, thinks a field is opened up
in this country for employing retired
regulars in the Field Artillery by en-
gaging them to care for Field Artillery
material issued to the states. Col.
Weaver in his annual report mentions
one militia battery where there are
fourteen retired regular soldiers en-
ployed in the armory and enlisted in
the battery, some acting as non-coms.
He recommends that if states apply for
non-commissioned officers or privates on
the active list of the army for such
duty the request be honored, and that
the number of enlisted men in the army
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Heavy Furniture for Army.
Specifications have been prepared in
the quartermaster' s department for the
heavy furniture that is to be supplied
to the army the coming year. There
| was an allotment of 100000 last year
and a contract was let for 100000 for
| the manufacture of dining tables, side
| boards, dining chairs and library desks
The tables and sideboards have beer
made and delivered to the various posts
| The contracts this year will be for book
cases, chests of drawers, hat racks
parlor tables and Morris chairs. The
allotment this year is again 100000
| The work is under the charge of Capt
| Hugh D. Berkeley, who has as assist
ants four skilled woodworkers at
| salary of $3.50 month All the furni
| ture is made of mahogany, and is tn,
best that can be made in point of mate
rial and workmanship.
New Marine Station at Port Royal.
|, The abandoned naval station at Por
| Royal, ). c., has been formally turnet
over to the Marine Corps, which will oc
cupy the place, at least for time, as
school for junior officers of that branch
Later it is purposed to move the schoo
to permanent establishment at New
London. Conn. This school has bee1
situated Mt Annapolis. but friction i
understood to have prevailed on accoun
of the presence of the marine officer
on the naval reservation with the mid
shipmen. 1t is believed by the Marin
Corps authorities that the situation wi
be improved by having the marin
school of application independent of tn
Naval Academy. There have been re
Gently appointed to the corps forty-fiv
candidates, who have qualified physical
ly and professionally. These will be a
once sent to Port Royal for instrut
ton. Seventeen other candidates hav
passed the mental examination. bu
failed physically, and will be reexamil
ed by the surgeons. The instruction a
the school at Port Royal will be COZ
! Quoted by ten officers, and there wi
be on duty at the establishment SON
: three hundred marines
Fixed Penalties for Soldiers.
:. Gen. Bell, chief of staff, has issue
:, general orders to the army, promulga
J ing an executive order establishir