The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-29

'ltfN I A1lNOANl ~ l'lI,
I Lieutenant Colonel J. u. Erwin, cav
airy Il is thought viii be aboard the
Thomas. lie will be attached to the
Fourteenth Cavalry. now serving at
Camp Stotsenburg Pampanga, as sec
ond In command OF that regiment.
Colonel John c. Gresham has been
serving as lieutenant colonel of the
Fourteenth Cavalry, but a recent pro.
motion has made him full colonel,
with the command of the Seventh
Cavalry, He is coming through in the
Thomas.
Captain II. M. Fales and Captain
J. A. Moss, both of the Twenty-fourth
Infantry, will be passengers in this
next transport, going to join their reg.
iment, which passed through here. a
few months ago for station in the
Philippine Islands. The Twenty-fourth
Infantry is stationed at Camp Joss
man, having relieved the Nineteenth
Infantry at that beautiful post. The
Nineteenth is going to Fort William
Mckinley to complete It's short bal
ance of duty in the Philippine Divis-
ion, and will return to the mainland
in May
Captain A. s. Morgan, subsistence
department, will see friends in Homo
lulu on the arrival of the Thomas.
He is under orders for an assignment
to a commissary depot in the Philip
pine Islands.
Captain A. La Rue Christie is a
member of the Eighth Infantry that
passed through here the early part Of
February for the Far Eastern out
posts of Uncle Sans Army. Captain
Christie will be stationed in the De-
partment of Luzon on reaching Ma
Mia.
The SEVENTEEN company of Coast
Artillery he's been designated for duty
in the Philippine Islands and will pass
through here on the twelfth of March,
going to Manila.
Captain M. s. Crissy is in command
of this company, with Second Lieuten
ant r. w. Wilton, both of the coast
artillery corps.
This company has been stationed at
the Preside, San Francisco, for a
tour, and will embark for Colonial ser.
vice on March 5.
The seventeen will take station at
Olongapo, P. I.
Lieutenant D. c. T. Grubbs, Sixth
Infantry, will be a passenger in the
Thomas. He will join his regiment in
China, which has been doing patrol
duty for the railroad in the land OF
the new republic.
Injustice to Medicos.
Lieutenant George P. Stallman
medical reserve corps, is bound for an
other tour of duty in the Philippines.
DR.. Stallman went to Manila in Au,
gust 1904, as a lieutenant in the den.
tai corps Serving we'll in that cap,
acity and by dint of hard study and
close application, Lieutenant Stallman
has successfully passed into the med
ical corps, on the reserved list.
This instance, of DR.. Stallman, and
dozens of similar ones that could be
cited, prove a great injustice that is
being done a fine class of physicians
and surgeons in tho United States
Army.
The trouble is these medicos offer
ed their help and skill, many of them
at the beginning of the Spanish-Am
ercan war, 1898, and were sent to the
Philippine Islands for duty. They at
tended to their sick good and faith
fully, remaining in the islands for
years.
Finally a bill was passed by con
gress allowing all contract surgeons
as they we're then called, in the army
twenty-five years old or younger, tc
take an examination for an appoint
ment in the regular medical depart
ment of the army. This was all right
when the age limit was on his side
but many excellent surgeons had pass