Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-19
WAR DEPARTMENT.

Secretary Garrison returned to this
city last Thursday from a short vaca-
ton at Seabright, n. J.
Gen. Frank Mcintyre. chief of the in
sular bureau of the War Department,
who has been on a tour of inspection
of the Philippine Islands, sailed for
San Francisco on the 9th instant and Is
expected to reach this city about the
middle of October.
Judge Advocate General Crowder has
returned to this city from a short
visit to New York.
Mai. Samuel +. Ansell of the judge
advocate generals office has concluded
his vacation and is back at his desk.
Col. Harry C.. Hale, commanding the
Goth Infantry, at Fort Bliss. Tex. was
In rhfs city last week on sick leave of
absence n registered at the Army
and Navy Club.
Col. George s. Young, 21st Infantry.
has been transferred from Vancouver
barracks to the command of the Sth
Infantry, at Manila For several months
he has been in the Letterman General
Hospital, at San Francisco. n was
discharged last week. Col. Young went
to Vancouver barracks with the 21st
Infantry when the regiment returned
from the Philippine Islands. in 1912.
9Th Field Artillery. who recently re-
signed from the army, was graduated
from Pennsylvania Military College in
1911, and in September OF that year
the 18th Field Artillery. He is a son
of Capt. Henry D. Thomson. Medical
Corps.
First Lieut.. Charles ]. Taylor and Sec
ond Lieut.. John H. Carruth, Corps of En-
gineers, have been advanced in rank by
the death Of Capt. Endress. The promo
ton of Lieut.. Carruth will leave Second
Lieut. Oscar o. Kuentz. who was commits
stoned from civil life last April. the senior
officer of his grade in the Corps of Engi-
neers.
Col. George A. Dodd. cavalry. has been
assigned to the command Of the I'd
Cavalry Brigade at Douglas, Ariz-, to sue
coed Col. Charles NJ O'Connor. cavalry,
who win retire for age October 3 next.
Col. Dodd has not been in command of a
from the 18th Cavalry September IT.
1911. He will leave active service for
age July rs. 1916.
Miss Mary S. Nixon of the secretary's
Office has been detailed to a tour Of duty
at the Panama-Pacifc exposition in con-
nection with the exhibit Of the War De-
partment. She left for San Francisco last
week.
Frank ". Hoadley of the office Of the
chief clerk and Mrs. Hoadley are spend
ing a few weeks of the summer at Blu
Ridge Summit. Pa.
The following-named candidates for ad-
mission to the United States Military
Academy were appointed last week: Ken
lucky. Eliey Blackburn (aIternate) and
William f. Smith Missouri. Andrew J.
Francisco: Nebraska, Louis Z. Sedlacek,
falternate) Rhode Island, Harold L.
Peckham fa~lternate) Ohio. Sterling A.
Moody. Arnold Hitchins and Frank A.
Allen (alternate).
Paul Randolph. chief of the accounting
division. bureau of insular affairs, re-
turned last week from a trip to the Pa
cifc coast. during which he visited the
exposition at San Francisco.
L. H Camfeld of the discussing diyi-
sion. insular bureau. has Just returned
from a three-week ~sojourn at Atlantic
City.
John Patrick Murphy of the mail and
records division. atjutant generals office
has Just returned from Erinville, Mass,
after a thirty-day absence from the of.
nee.
Miss L. v. Keithley of the disbursine
DIVISION. fnsular bureau, spent last week
al Sandy Spring. Md.
J. +. James of the law office, insular
bureau. is on a visit to the San Diego and
San Francisco expeditions.