The Irish standard., 1912-05-11
Believed That he Will be Made Com
mander of Eastern Division
of the Army.
Has Record of Sixteen Years of
Active Service With Troops
West of Mississippi.
Fought in Spanish War-Was First
Adjutant General of Army in
the Philippines.

An unconfirmed report has it that
Major General Thomas H. Barry, U.
S. A., superintendent of the United
States Military academy at West
Point, Is to be the successor of the
late Major General Frederick D.
Grant in command of the Eastern di-
vision of the army with headquarters
on Governors Island. This command
embraces all the army in New York,
New England, Pennsylvania, New
Jersey, Delaware, together with most
OF the southern states and all of the
coast artillery from Portland, Maine,
to Galveston, Texas, as we'll as the
Panama canal zone and Porto Rico.
While General Barry's commission
still has two years to run it is GER
tain that he will willingly relinquish
IL for the larger field Of duty.
Was Popular as Cadet.
Thomas Barry received an appoint
ment to West Point in 1872 through
Congressman Roosevelt, an uncle of
the ex-President. At West Point he
was one of the popular cadets Of his
class. He was a good student and a
fine athlete, and when he graduated
in 1877 he was assigned as a second
lieutenant in the Seventh cavalry
Clusters old command.
After three years in the Seventh
cavalry he was transferred to the
First infantry, and with that COM
mand he participated in various In
dian campaigns in the southwest, oe-
ing one Of the officers who were
prominent in the campaigns against
Chief Geronimo and his Apaches
from 1882 to 1885, and against the
Sioux in South Dakota in the winter
of 1890-91.
In the Pine Ridge campaign Of 1891
Barry was promoted to captaincy
and two years later he went to Wash
ment, and up to the time OF that ap-
pointment he had served for sixteen
years west of the Mississippi, always
with troops.
When the Spanish war broke out
General Barry was the adjutant gen
eral of the department of the Colum-
and went to the Philippines as the
first adjutant general of the Amer
ican forces in the islands. He was
one of the officers who had a promi-
nent part in the Boxer campaigns ir
China, and when the foreign troops
were recalled from Peking he return
command.
In August, 1908. President Roose-
welt sent General Barry's name to the
senate for confiration as a brigadiel
general. In 1907 General Barry was
sent to Cuba as the commander Of
the America troops in the second oc.
cupation of the island. In that ca.
pacity he did his work so thorough,
that he earned not only the gratitude
Of his own government but that o.
Cuba as well, and when the islant
was for a second time turned back tt
the control of it's own people Genera
Barry was accorded when he left al
ovation such as few officers have evel
received at home or abroad.
Admired BY Cardinal Farley.
It was while he was in command il
Cuba that he came to New York to b.
grand marshal of the Catholic cen
tenary parade. At the close of tha
great celebration he was dfled by thu
Catholics of New York at the Cath
olic club. Cardinal Farley was on
of the speakers, and when it came hi
time to talk he put his hand affec
tionately on General Barry's shoulde
and called him his "big brother"
"Some years ago." said the cardin
al, when General Barry returned
home from the Philippines, met hin
at dinner, and he was SO gracious
and SO handsome that I took to hin
Immediately and l said to myself
There is my big brother, and ii
ever get into trouble will get hin
to get me out of it, General Barr,
Is an honor to his native city. to hi
country. to his faith and to himself.