The Hawaiian gazette., 1914-09-11
GENERAL ANDREWS
REARED IN ARMY
Retiring Adlutant General Last
Of Family Long Identified with
Twenty-fifth Infantry
ROSE TO HIGH RANK
49,. HIS FATHER HONoRED
Successor Has Enviable Record
as Soldier and Vast Expert
ence in staff Duties

In the retirement for age Of Brig.
3en. George Andrews, the adjutant gen.
eral of the army, August 25, there pass.
ed TO the retired list the last Of a
family whose career for many years
was spent In following the fortunes OF
he Twenty.6fth Infantry.
Brigadiet. General Andrews, retired.
the father Of the retiring adiutant gen.
,iral, Is now at the advanced aye OF
nghty.six years and spent twenty.two
years of his army career as the colonel
Jf the Twenty fifth from 1870 "a
1892. This is believed to be a record
IN the Army and the service Is all
the more remarkable in that during
he many years that he was the col.
mel Of his regiment he had no detach.
d duty away from his command.
Like Father, Like Son
His son, the adintant general, was
assigned to the Twenty firth Infantry
IN his graduation from West Point in
$40 and his entire service with the
Inc of the army from the day he Join
I'd from the military academy until
february, 1898, was spent with the
rwonty-hfth Infantry. He became n
irst lieutenant in 1883, captain An
1899, and was appointed an adiutant
general with tho rank Of major In Feb.
ruary, 1898. He was assigned as adiu.
ant general of the department of the
dissouri, and remained there until April
in that year, when he was assigned
IS adJntant general of the Fourth In
dependent Division Of the Fourth Army
lorps, in Mobile, Alabama. From that
)laee General Andrews went to Gov
rnor's Island, and in March, 1899, was
'ent TO the department of Santiago,
Cuba. Later he served In Washing
ton, ID. g., in California, the Philip.
pines, Colorado and Illinois. He was
promoted to be lieutenant colonel in
1901, colonel in 1908 and was appointed
the adjutant general Of the army with
he hrigadier-generalship ON August s,
1919. 5ls
Colonel Mccain Wins Prize
President Wilson Is nomination Of Col.
Henry P. Mccain to sneeeed General
| Andrews 40 he adjatant general was
not surprise to the army. Colonel
Mccain, who had been in the Philip.
Zines as the adjutant gen . that
department, was hurriedly it -
~ cable from Washingoi s5fe SIS
our Of duty In the Islane asp
,ver and he became at 1919.
lest candidate of the seve
or the promotion. :..-
Previous TO going I, ..l@
arly in 1919, Colonel \ p. S.
lnty In the adjntant genuIa4 .f..
he war department for eight yearn
lie Is q native Of Mississippi and was
,radnated from West Point In 1885,
icing assigned as second lieutenant 20
he Third Infantry upon graduation
lie served as a first lieutenant In the
Fwenty-f:st and Fourteenth Infantry
regiments, receiving his eaptainey IA
he latter regiment in 1899. Al the
BEGINNING of the war with Spain, Col
mel Mccain was serving in Alaska as
IN acting assistant adjntant general
nd returned TO San Francisco In MAY.
sos, when he was Immediately ordered
Q the Philippines as adjutant general
Il the First Brigade, and later, after
he landing in Manila Bay, Of the sec
nd and first divisions of the Eighth
Army Corps operating at Cavite and
Manila respectively. He was present
It the attack on Manila, August SO,
1898. ts tst5e
Transfers to A.G, Department
Colonel Mccain was transferred 20
he adiutant generals department from
he line in November, 1900, and was
promoted to be lieutenant colonel IN
90l, and colonel In 1904. He was a
member of the general staff from An.
nst Is, 1908, 10 April 81, 1904. Col
mel Mccain was third on the list OF
olOnels IN his department, being junior
O0ol. Henry o. s. Heistand and Col.
William A. Simpson.
As Colonel Mccain will not retire for
lRe until January, 1925, this precndes
he appointment Of either Colonel HE
tand, Colonel Simpson, Colonel AIyord.
Y Colonel Ladd as the adiutant general
IF the army.
Another change in the adjutant gen
rails department is caused by the re-
-irement of Col, James T. Kerr, who has
Neen found ineapaeitated for active ser
vice. Colonel Kerr is a graduate Of
West Point In the class Of 1881 and
began his army career as a second lieu.
tenant in the Seventeenth Infantry.
1uring the Sioux campaign In South
nakota IN 1870 and 1891 Colonel Kerr
1eryed as adiutaat OF his regiment. He
vas transferred to the ndiutant gen
rails department. as major in No
rember, 1900; promoted 10 be lieuteng
ant colonel in 1909 and TO be colonel
n 1908. Colonel Kerr is a graduate Of
he infantry and cavalry school of the
lass of 1897 aud served four years ON
he general staff, a#
r. Colonel Ladd Advanced
To OIL the vacancy caused by Col
mel Kerr s retirement Lieut.. Col. En-,
'ene }. Ladd, the last permanent of,
ieer Of his grade in his department,
Nas feen advanced to his eoionelcy.
The appointment OF Colonel Mccain
70 be the adjutant general makes
'aepncy among the colonies 10 he filed
ny detail from the line Of the army.
A line lieutenant colonel will be de,
tailed to I'LL the vacancy made on. Col,
nal al - al .