The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-18

he who would totally obliterate them
is an official suicide.
.'I have been surprised that young
officers have so little and poor an idea
of sentry duty. I have seen an officer
of the deck deliberately order a sentry
to come down from his post, and that,
too, in terms of ignominy and contempt.
Instead of addressing him as sentry, the
title was disrespectfully withheld, and
he was addressed as soldier. There is
no official crime so great as the viola
ton of a sentry on post. There is no
excuse for its commission except the
grossest ignorance or the most wilful
outrage.
81 confess I have great esteem
for the Marine Corps of the Navy, and
I should feel as though we had lost
one of our great essentials in a man.
of-war if that corps were abolished, as
l am sure it never will be. No Army
soldiers can ever take their place. They
have a special fitness for their peculiar
position. which education and expert
ence alone can give. No ship is perfect
without them. The experiment has
been faithfully tried, and found a fail,
ure. The guard of marines should be
not pet to be spoiled or humored, but
to be cared for, as he would his right
arm He should see that an undue inter
ference by the officer of the deck or
young officers of the ship, should never
be tolerated for a moment. Above all,
he should preserve the inviolability and
sacred character of the sentry and cor
porals with a jealousy that should be
direct and personal. Remember that
| they are the fever faithful; they have
earned the title, and they have right
! to be permitted to retain it without re-
| proach or blemish. They will be faith.
| full to you, even though they be neg
| lected and abused, and if you are guilty
of want of fidelity to them, they win
reproach you only by fidelity to You
| in return.
Mainland Movements.
Captain Arthur M. Ship, at his own
request, has been transferred from the
Eighth to the Twentieth Regiment of
Infantry. When with the former regi
ment he was lieutenant, but with
! his promotion was transferred. His
preference for his old surroundings has
been considered. simultaneously Cap
| tain Edward M. Lewis has been trans
/ ferred from the Twentieth to the
| Eighth Regiment. He is instructor OF
military science and tactics at the Uni
versity of California.
| Railroad men were making Faction:
comments yesterday on the probable
sea bathing General Manager Calvin
of the Southern Pacific and Genera
| Manager Bancroft of the Union Pa
cific would do with the kanakas upor
their arrival at Honolulu. These tive
railway chiefs are to depart on The
| steamship Siberia this afternoon for /;
pleasure stay of three weeks on thu
Islands Chronicle.
First Lieutenant Maurice E. Shear
err, u. S. M. c., and Miss Madeline M
| Brown. daughter of Prof. Stimson j
Brown, u. S. n, head of the depart
ment of mathematics in the Nava
Academy, were married at Annapolis
Nd, December %, 1908. The bride ,
only attendant was her sister, Mrs. Z
C. Kalbfus. and the best man wa
Lieutenant II. NJ. Smith, U. S. M. {
Lieutenant Shearer is under orders t
proceed to Honolulu for duty, and vii
in a few days leave for that place vi
San IdHCiotU. 1lio pAItO Will AoAic'
him in about month.-Army an
!, Navy Journal.
The Wyoming will leave the var
Tuesday next for trial trip down tn
coast, preparatory to sailing for Homo
| lulu around the first of the year
Army and Navy Journal (Mare Islam
, Note), December IS.
: Marines Leaving Cuba.
HAVANA, Cuba, January 4.-Th
cruiser Prairie, having on board ii
marines who have been at Santiag
! left today for Philadelphia. This
| the first withdrawal of America
troops since the establishment of tt
provisional government in 1906.
E General Barry, commander of IL
| troops in Cuba, will remain here unit
April /. tt is expected that detac
L ments of the American troops will
sent home at intervals until that tim
: Personal Notes.
n Colonel Edward A. Goodwin. U. S.
y retired, is placed upon the retired Ii
r of the army by the President, wi
e the rank of brigadier general, to da
y from November 10, 1908.
o Lieutenant Colonel John Biddle,
n S. A., chief engineer officer of the D
A nartment of California returned I'll