New-York tribune., 1910-09-20
ARMY AND NAVY NOTES
General Wood to Lead Army OFF,
GERS on Test Rides in October.
Tfrom The Tribune Bureau.
Wasi,iugton Sente

washington September H.
! WOOD TO LEAD TEST RIDES.-Major
General Leonard Wood will lead the army
officers on their test rides, which begin on
October 10. The rides will be continued on
the 18th. 10Th and Eth. and will aggregate
the usual ninety miles. About nttJ heio
officers will take the ride behind General
Wood and they are already conditioning
themselves for it, Tho walking test VIII he
held on October o.
CASE OF COLONEL. COOKE.-The case
of Colonel George +. Cooke. L. :. A., re-
tired. is now undergoing review by Judge
Advocate General Davis at the War De-
partment. preliminary to its submission TO
the President for final action. He was re-
Gently tried by court martial at Seattle on
charges of neglect of duty in connection
with the disappearance of $4,000 from the
army paymaster's safe at Fort Gibbon.
Alaska Private Lane, who charged
with the theft is still at large. although
the government offered a reward of $1,000
for his apprehension. Colonel Cooke was
charged with having failed N his duty in
not preventing the escape of the alleged
embeZzler after having been notified that
he was spending large sums of money in
gambling and carousing. Since his retire
ment Colonel Cooke has resided at San
Francisco.
MONUMENT TO CONFEDERAT ATES.-In
conformity with the recommendation made
Just before his death by General oats,
federal commissioner Tor marking the
graves of Confederate soldiers and sailors
who died in Northern prisons during the
Civil War the War Department has
awarded contract for the construction OF
a monument, to cost 10000. in the Confed
crate cemetery at Port Lookout, Md, where
lie buried the bodies of 1886 Confederates.
Lack of identification prevented the erec-
tion of individual headstones-
THE BATTLESHIP CRUISE.-Only
few weeks intervene before the sixteen big
battleships and the torpedo boat squadron
will head for European ports on their first
long cruise since the all-around-the-world
trip made by the Atlantic feet during
the Roosevelt administration. Meantime
the Navy Department, which already has
announced the itinerary. is working out the
details of caring for the vessels and their
personnel.
There is complexity of auxiliary duties
in connection with the long trip. in which
some Of the smaller craft Will cooperate.
These include the transfer of the men and
stores. The terms of some of the officers and
| the bluejackets expire. some of them are to
be shifted. new officers and men have to be
sent TO replace them snd replenishment OF
the supplies has to be attended to. One of
| the first orders along this line was issued
to-day. 1t directs the converted gunboat
Scorpion, the station ship at Constantine
the Louisiana and the South Carolina on
their arrival there, on November 2l, and
transfer the men and stores.
The battleships will leave their home
ports on November 1 to mobilize in mid
ocean, ana the cruise has been divided so
as to give much division command ex-
perience as possible. The vessels Will
spend Christmas at Gibraltar and will get
| back TO Guantanamo for winter mannu-
vres about January IS.
TARGET PRACTICE IN PACIFIC
Rear Admiral Wainwright issued orders
to-day directing the second division of the
Pacific feet TO leave the navy yard at
Mare Island, California, about November
l to prepare for target practice. This di-
vision includes the West Virginia the
Maryland and the South Dakota. The first
division, composed of the California. the
Pennsylvania and the Colorado. now 81
Valparaiso in connection with the Chiian
centennial fetes, will hold its practice later.
Target practice will take place off Santa
Barbara, Cal.
SECRETARY MEYERS INSPECTION.
"A comprehensive tour of investigation
stretching from New York to the Pacific
Coast and 10 Cuba will be made by Sec
retsry Meyer of the Navy Department i'm
med iately after the Cabinet conference
here next week. Secretary Meyer will go
from New York 10 Chicago. where he Will
inspect the Great Lakes naval station;
REAL ESTATE AT AUCTION.