Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-10-30
What Army and Navy :
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The report deals with the problem
of absenteeism of officers from their
commands, there being complaint
from all direction. it is said, that the
service is crippled by this practice.
Gen. Darlington says 1t should be de-
( termined whether the valuable SER
vices rendered the government by
officers in certain lines of detached
duty compensate for loss of efficiency
in their own organizations because
of their absence and for the discon-
3 tent of officers who have to perform
the additional duty without more
pay, while those absent frequently
receive extra emolument.
Roosevelt Tests Are Criticised.
In a chapter devoted to the an
nual physical tests introduced at the.
direction Of President Roosevelt Gen.
Darlington makes the statement
that a rule requiring each officer to
take exercise commensurate with his
duties and age during the entire
year would accomplish the purpose
sought by Mr.. Roosevelt's orders bet
ter than the plan now followed.
The midshipmen rifle team. which,
under the ruling of Lieut.. Col. Rob-
ert X. Evans, 9TH Inf, commanding
at the Camp Perry National Rife
Meet, was excluded as disqualified
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lations with regard 10 rapid firing
at 200 yards and in skirmish firing,
will make an appeal to the National
Rifle Board, which meets next Jan
uary. There is no foundation what.
ever for the virulent and malicious
attacks made by some newspapers
upon the members of the midship-
men team for their course of action
at Camp Perry. What occurred was
purely a technical error, and 1t has
been commented upon in several off,
cial reports by Army and Navy Off
GERS. who take that view of the mat
ter. The midshipmen would have
had about sixth place, whereas dis
qualification placed them at the foot
OF the list. II the board should act
favorably on their appeal they would
go back to about ten tenth place.
A novel and ingenious plan for
barracks and quarters in tropical
and outlying Army posts is under
consideration. The idea is to con-
struct these buildings in large
quadrangle, the buildings to be
made of concrete, three stories high,
with the cOlonel's and lieutenant
colonel's quarters at the corners. the
field officers at the center of the
principal facades, and the smaller
apartments between, with the bach.
elor quarters adjoining the barracks.
The general depth of the structure
Is proposed to be thirty feet and the
dimensions of the principal quar-
tiers is thirty by forty feet, those OF
the colonel and lieutenant colonel,
however. being sc by Go feet on the
outer face, in order to give size
enough TO secure adequate light and
air on the inner side of the quad
rangle. The court within the off,
GERS quarters is to be 293 feet by
523 feet. The rear side of the
quadrangle is allotted to quarters
for the men, and an extension of the
building enclosing another quadran-
gle to the rear affords sufficient bar
racks and storerooms. The plan is
wholly tentative at present, and, II
approved. will be first tried probably
in Hawaii.
Orders have been issued during
the past week fer the transportation
to the various states Of the fifty-nine
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