The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-25
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With the month near by for the physi.
cal tests required BY the government
OF its Army and Navy officers, many of
the latter are preparing for the ordeal.
1t involves only officers in the Army
above the rank of captain, and is really
an elimination test, to weed out the
deerepit. The same applies to naval
ofhcers, although the tests take in of
ficers below the corresponding grade of
major IN the Army It also includes ma
rine officers. There is a general impres-
sion among service men stationed in
Honolulu that the physical elimination
test will die a natural death in wear.
just as did the order taking the ma
rlnes off the warships. A prominent
service man said the other dav that
Army and Navy men in past wars had
| been able to meet all military exigen-
cles whether afoot Or ahorse. although
many, and the majority even, had been
summoned from desks and stores and
farms to take up the calling of arms.
| They had passed through all the tests
| necessary to win. To require a naval
officer, who spends most Of his time on
the decks of warships, and whose du-
ties do not require bicycle riding or
horseback riding, seems ridiculous.
Even ashore his duties are office duties,
| mainly.
kamehameha Cadets.
kamehameha School cadets who came
to town yesterday, being their "day
off, from school duties, made a verv
favorable impression. They are now
wearing the new uniform cap of gray
with black band, and the school mon
ogram TX. 81 at the peak. Their |
uniforms are also being made to fit |
properly and are no longer the loose |
bags of former years. Under the in |
struction of regular army officer from
Fort Shafter the battalion is becoming |
very soldierly looking body of young
men.
The Entire Battalion.
The item which appeared in Sunday |
mornings paper in regard to the dance
to be given at the Young Hotel June |
4, 1909, is in error. It should have read, |
to be given by the Marine battalion. |
which includes all enlisted men. Major |
Long and all the Marine officers are |
taking an active interest in it. Invi- |
tatlons were issued yesterday, as fol |
lows: You are cordially invited to at |
tend the first annual ball to be given |
by the United States Marine battalion. |
Alexander Young Hotel, Friday even |
ing, June 4, 1909, at $50 o'clock.
Thomas Carries Ninth Cavalry.
MANILA, April 20.-The chief quar- |
termaster has notified the executive |
secretary that there will be no avail
able accommodations on the transport |
Thomas TO the United States for insu-
lar employees, The Thomas will sail from
TINS city on May Il with the Ninth |
Cavalry.
Murder, the Theory.
MANILA, April 24.-That Lieutenant
Albert n. Brunzell, u. S. Marine Corps. |
was murdered in his quarters at Dion
gapo IS the theory now advanced at the
naval station in Subig Bay. Tt has
come to light that the body of Lieu
tenant Brunzell was found in the rear
OF his quarters and not on the porch.
as was first reported and that trail of
blood led from the quarters to the place
where the body lay. The BODY has
been brought in to the morgue and will
De sent to the United States on the
Thomas.
odd Salt Purdy Leaves.
Gilbert Purdy, United States NAVY.
tretlred) left on the Siberia Yesterday
for the Coast to reside at San Diego
among some old comrades. Purdy is a
retired bluejaeket and one of the real
veterans of the old navy He served
aboard the flagship Olympia at Manila
pay, and was at the wheel during the
battle. Purdy came first to Honolulu
as a lad aboard a whaler in 1916. He
was a spinner of yarns of the old
school,
Cone for Chief.
WASHINGTON, May IA pro-
traeted line and staff controversy over
the Bureau of Steam Engineering of
the Navy Department was settled to-
day by the detail of Lieutenant Com
mander Hutch I. Cone, line officer.
Lieutenant Commander Cones nomina-
ton to be chief of the Bureau of Steam
with the rank of Rear-Ad-
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