Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-12-27


Col. William Il Hamilton. Coast Ar
tillory Corps T.. s. A.. who has been
ordered To be retired from March ~
1871. upon his own application. after
more than thirty.cight years service
has been granted leave until that
date, and will visit Europe. Colonel
hamilton was born In Wisconsin June
10. 1855. He was appointed to the
Military Academy at West Point by
President Grant In 1872, anod gradu.
1tcd I'm 1876. He was assigned -
'ccond lieutenant to the Fifth Artit
lory. Among his many duties he
geryed at Fort Barrancts during the
llayes-Tildon election troubles of
sac in Alabama and i orida: In Ohio,
kentucky and Pennsylvania during
he railroad strikes Of 1917: IN
Charleston and Summoryillc. 1873.
-: n Fort Mcpherson, ca. 1879:
chasing and hunting up Illicit distl.
l'rs in the mountains OF GEORGIA i'm
1879: on special duty IN Indiana,
'SO.S3; at Fort Wadswurth AMI tort
Hamilton, n. Y, 1884: NJ Omah1
7 nracks. lSSi.5; in the Siouv ChUv.
cane troubles Of 1855; at salt Lake
city, Utah. during a threatened Nor
ri0n instruction in lSS5.SG and at
Governors Island, n. V. 1861 He
: 40 on special duty ms inspector and
Instructor of the National Guard Of
Tow York. 1SS7.9O. and Of Connect.
g It National Guard. 1887. He was
IbseQucntly on duty at the Presldio.
san Francisco: Fort Monroe. Va:
- Nevada and California: at Fort
hamilton, n Y; at Fort Slocum n
v, and was at Fort TOtten. in com.
mand Of Artillery dcfenses, May and
Jlno. 1898. He was at Tampa. Fla.
Nv siege train In July. August and
September, 1898: at Fort Schuyler.
y. Y, in command of post till Decam-
h'r, 1901: In command of Fort Terry.
n. Y. till March, 1901: Fort Moul.
I le till September. 1905; on recruit.
/ : service ut St. Louis. Mo. Colonel
Hamilton comes from a military fam.
~ His father. the late Gen. Charles
S. Hamilton, graduated at West Point
u 1882, and was classmate and in.
innate friend of Gen. u. S. Grant.
{ ne son of the Colonel. Charles S ~.
Is 4 first lieutenant of the Thirteenth
Infantry. His uncle was the late
I'igadier General |. V. d. Reeve. u.
s. A.. whose son. Charles Mac Reeve.
became brigadier general of Vol.
urteers in 1899 A grandunc'e was
killed AT New Orleans In 1914. and
his great.grandfather. pr. Hosea
I 1milton. was a persCrnl friend NJ
Washington. He served for q short
tine on his staff and then became ad.
jutant Of Colonel .Ludington's Seventh
Now York Provinclals during the
Revolutionary War. Since 1884. when
TIE first William Hamilton. son of
G Illatin Hamilton. of Glasgow nmi.
gated to America, every generation
Of the family has had soldiers of dis
faction.
Colonel Blair d. TAYLOR Medical
Corps, u. S. A., upon his own anpli.
c'tion, will be retired from active
service from April 80. 1911. after
more than thirty.fve years service,
Ira will be granted leave from Janu,
ay /, 1911, to the date of his retire.
ment. He was born in Virginia Jan.
ulry Is 1S4S and entered the Army
as an assistant surgeon June 90, 1875.
I'e reached the grade of colonel.
Medical Corps, March 81, 1908, and
Is at present on duty as chief sur.
Goon on the STAFF of Brlgadier Gen.
cal A. l.. Mills, commanding the De.
pertinent of the Gulf, with headquar.
tors at Atlanta. Ga.
The canteen In the Philippines.
"BOotlegging" carried on by the
natives of the Philippines with all the
afepteness of n resident of an Ameri-
en- prohibition state, prompts one of
tie strongest recommendations yet
r'ade in favor of re.establishlng the
c1nteen. Brigadier General Ramsay
i. Potts, us. A., commanding the
Department of Luzon, in his annual
roport, deplores the inability of the
military authorities to suppress the
drinking of native liquors by the
American soldiers, for, although II is
violation of the law Of the islands
10 sell such stun to the soldiers the
natives carry on trade in it at the
posts by conveying the liquor about
on their persons. They hang around
the outside of the reservations, and
Il Is as hard to keep the men from
getting II as It Is to keep thirsty In.
habtant of Maine from obtaining his
rafreshment. All this Is a serious
matter TO the military department
commander, for his examination OF
the court martial records of the year
shows him very clearly that "a ma,
iority of the cases tried by the infer
Tor courts and considerable mum
bar of those tried by general courts
martial are directly traceable to the
use of native liquors. zone who has
never seen the effect Of even n small
quantity of native liquor upon q
young American unaccustnmed to It's
use" adds General Potts. "can form
M Judgment as TO the seriousness OF
the situation now presented, a sltua'
ton beyond the control Of the mill
tary and the civil authorities. The
case calls for prompt action, and
earnestly recommend the re-establish'
ment of the canteen in the post eX'
change as the only means promising
beneficial results"
The following further comment OF
General Potts we submit to the In
telligent and earnest women who