Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-11-05
ARMY and navy

for the use of ilie station. 3
Captain Il. w. Mearns and Captain
George II. Estes Jr.. Twentieth Infan.
try; first Lieutenant William ".
Smith; medical corps; First Lieuten
ant Ernest X Johnston. medical re-
serve corrs. and Second Lieutenant
A. W. Chiffon. Twentieth Infantry,
have been designated as an examining
board to meet at Fort Shafter. for the
purpose of testing the qualifications of
Quartermaster-Sergeant w. N. Ru.
dolph. Troop G, Fifth Cavalry. and
Sergeant Frank Read, Troop r. Fifth
Cavalry, for commissions In the Phi.
lippines Scouts.
The plans which are about complet.
ed for the turrets to be erected at the
mouth of Manila Bay call fer. the heav.
test armor plate that has ever been
used In the construction of turrets. Al.
though particulars have not been Civ
en- out, 1t Is known that no turret on
any battleship anoat is constructed Of
as heavy steel as that which will be
put into these turrets by the Ordnance
Department. The armor plate will he
manufactured by the Bethlehem Steel
Company according TO the plans pre-
pared by the Ordnance Department.
The structural work and assembling
OF the turrets will be done by the
Newport News Shlpbuilding Company,
while the gun carriages and mcchani.
cal hammers will be built at the Wat.
ertown Arsenal. AS there are Il mum.
Der Of new features to the turrets, II
Is probable that one of them will he
set up at the Sandy Hook Proving
Grounds so as to afford q firing test
for the guns and carriages.l
In the annual ninety-mile Service
ride, three women, relatives of sur
geons stationed at the Mare Island
Navy Yard, undertook TO go the same
distance In the time required by the
Navy Department order, and they are
reported to have distanced the officers
by eleven miles. The young women
are Mrs. Walter C. Bloedorn, until re.
Gently Miss May Howard. OF Washing.
ton, wife Of Assistant Surgeon Bloc.
dorm; Miss Emily Simons, daughter
of Med. Dir. NJ. II. Simons, and Mrs.
Frederick Bond. wife Of DIR. Frederick
Bond, of Mare Island. The young wo.
men rode 10l miles in nineteen hours
over route along country roads. Mrs.
Bloedorn used her thoroughbred Ken.
lucky saddle horse Artist. which was
purchased by her father for 81 900 and
presented to her before her marriage.
The animal showed little effects of
the long trip. Last year Mrs. Bloedorn
took the test ride, making ninety
eight miles in fifteen and half hours.
Lieut.-Col. William d. Beach, gem
era staff corps, has been relieved
from duty in the Office OF the chief
OF stan in Washington and ordered
TO this division. He sailed from San
Francisco ON October s. Colonel
Beach is the author of Beach's Man
ual of Field Engineering, which is
read extensively in the army, and
he has been instructor in that sub
Jet at the Leavenworth schools. He
has had charge OF the information
division in Washington for a long
time and is now on his second tour
with the general staff He first
went to the Philippines with, the
3rd Cavalry in 1899 and was ap.
pointed an Inspector general of vol
unteers upon his arrival there. HeI
was later transferred to the 9th Cav
airy and had command Of Troop Il.
While In this division he received his
promotion to major and was assign
ed to the 10th Cavalry. July Z. 1902.
He Is now assigned to the 18th Cav
airy. II Is understood Colonel Beach
Will he asslgned TO duty In charge
OF the o.llce OF the military infor.
nation division until the promotion
and consequent transfer to the line
of Lieut.. Col. Lea Fehiger, when no
will succeed as chief OF stan Of the
Philippines division.
ihp'N WSo louuctibH VI ubDut
$2.0O0,000 In the fuel bill for the
navy last year. compared with the
previous year, All OF the figures
have not yet been compiled, but the
officers IN the Bureau of Steam En-
cheering have gone far enough TO
ascertain that there Ia thai much
difference between the amounts OF
money expended In the two ;slrs.
About half OF this reduction is due
to the decrease In cruising. The
year before last there was an ex-
traordlnarlly large expenditure FOR
fuel on account OF the cruise of tie
Atlantic fleet around the world. The
other half OF the reduction Is due |
to improved engineering methods
aboard. shin, and Inc engineering |
competition scheme. In no feature
of this work have there been so
many improvements that have re-
suited In decreases In the cost OF |
operating tho ships. The fuel bills
have been reduced by the use OF i'm
proved feed pumps. improved forced
draft and new style OF boilers. II
Is difficult to estimate whether the |
engineering competition or now ma