Evening star., 1915-01-30
ARMY NAVY.
Army Orders.

Col. Richard NJ. Blatchford, 18th In
fantry, is designated as commandant of
the School of Musketry, Fort Sill.
Okla.
Capt. Henry f. Eames, 2sth Infantry,
Is designated as assistant commandant
of the School of Musketry, Fort Sill,
Okla. Capt Eames will repair to this
city and report to the chief of staff for
temporary duty.
Sergt Arthur ]. Hart, Hospital Corps,
Army Medical School. this city, will re-
port to the attending surgeon, 1920 H
street northwest, for duty.
Maj. William F. Lewis, Medical Corps,
is relieved from duty in the southern
department and will return to the Pre-
sidio of San Francisco. Cal.
Private Harry Chapman, Hospital
Corps. Fort Slocum. n. Y, will be sent
to the. Walter Reed General Hospital,
for duty.
Capt. Walter K. Wilson, Coast Artii-
lery Corps, is detailed as member of
the board of officers appointed to make
study of all features of guns, car
riages, ammunition, fire-control fnstru-
ments, range tables and range charts,
with the object of determining their
probable effect upon the accuracy of
fire with seacoast cannon, vice Capt.
Percy p. Bishop. Coast Artillery Corps,
relieved.
First Lieut.. Walter S. Fulton, 4th IN
fantry. is detailed for general recruit
ing service at Fort Logan, Col, re-
lieving First Lieut.. Charles F. Herr,
infantry.
Is granted Second Lieut.. Arnold Helm
rich, Coast Artillery Corps.
First Lieut.. James w. Everington, Sd
Infantry, will proceed to Hillsboro, N.
D., and inspect the tract of land which
the state of North Dakota desires to
nhaS fnr q
target range.
First Lieut. Charles F. Herr is as
signed to the 4th Infantry.
First Lieut.. Joseph E. Carberry. avia-
tion officer. Signal Corps, will proceed
from Hammondsport to Buffalo, n. Y.
in connection with the inspection of
aeroplanes being manufactured at the
latter place.
The leave of absence heretofore
granted to Lieut.. Col. Ben jamin c.
Morse, 4th Infantry, is extended one
month.
Leave of absence for two months, on
surgeons certificate of disability, is
granted Capt. Brainerd Taylor, Coast
Artillery Corps.
Leave of absence for one month and
fifteen days is granted Capt. Carl E.
Wiggin, Coast Artillery Corps.
Naval Movements.
The Eagle arrived at AUX Cages
Haiti, January 81, the Cleveland at
San Bias January IS, the Wheeling at
st. Marc Haiti. January 28, the Nc
Dougal at Guantanamo January %, the
Orion at Guacanayabo bay January %.
the Prairie, k-1, K-2, KS and the ks
at Key West January %, the Paducah
and the Leonidas at Boston January 49,
the Abarenda at Hongkong January 80
and the Saturn at San Diego Janu-
ary 2s.
The Utah. Arkansas and Michigan
sailed fxom Guantanamo January 2s
for Guacanayabo bay. the Tennessee
from Jaffa January 20 for Alexandria,
the Standish and the Barney from An
napolis January 20 for Norfolk, the
Tallahassee from Norfolk January 29
for trial, the Preston and Reid from
Key West January 20 for Dry Tortu-
gas, the Proteus from Honolulu Janu-
ary 29 for 'Nagasaki, the Jason from
Genoa January 20 for Marseille and the
Bagley from Annapolis January 29 for
Norfolk.
AS the formal opening of the Panama
canal has been postponed until next
July, the scheduled cruise of the At
lantic fleet through the canal to the
Pacific coast has been deferred until
then.
| been detached from duty with the re-
serve torpedo fiotilla, Atlantic feet, and
assigned to duty with the submarine
| fotilla, Atlantic fleet.
Naval Orders.
Machinist c. H. Wiley. from re-
ceiving ship at Norfolk to Tennessee
Passed Assistant Engineer julius A
Kaiser, retired, died at Germantown
Philadelphi Pa January 2o' 1915.
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