Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-16
WAR DEPARTMENT.


/ Col. Chester Harding, Corps OF En-
gineers, assistant to Gen. Goethals.
Governor of the Panama Canal Zone.
is in this city on leave of absence
from Panama. He and Mrs. Harding
!, have been the guests of W. P. G. Har-
ding Of the federal reserve board, and
will next visit Col. and Mrs. E. E.
Winslow. Col. Harding formerly was
engineer Commissioner of the Dis
| trict.
Lieut.. w. W. Hicks of the Coast Ar
at Fort Totten, N. Y. Is visiting
friends at the Westmoreland prior to
his departure for his new station In
\ Hawaii.
on duty with Field Company No; l.
Signal Corps, at Fort Bliss, Tex, has
been ordered to Valdez, Alaska, to
take charge OF the first section OF the
| Washington-Alaska military capie ana
telegraph system.
| The first retirement in the new year
was that of Maj Horton w. Sickle,
Corps of Engineers, who left active
| service last week on his own appilca-
ton, under the Panama canal service
act Maj. Sickle will retire as lieu
tenant colonel at the age of forty, and
after a commissioned service in the
army of only seventeen years. He en-
tered West Point in 1895. and was
third in a class of seventy-two men,
bers. Maj. Sickle attained the rank of
major in February. 1912.
| Six of the candidates recently ex-
| amined for appointment as probatlonal
second lieutenants in the Corps of En-
gineers were found qualified Tor ap-
| pointment. They are Gilbert d. Fish
of New York, Columbia University;
George Mayo, Washington, d. G., Uni.
| versity of California; Paul I. Book of
New York. University of Illinois;
Charles o. Boynton of California, Uni
versity of Kansas; Arthur P. Won
Deesten of New York, Columbia Uni
versity. and Edward N. Whitney of
Mayo is a son of Vice Admiral Henry
T. Mayo. commanding the first division
of the Atlantic fleet. Some twenty-five
applicants were designated for exam
year. and about twenty took the exam
ination. This is the largest number
examined in any year since the enact
ment of the river and harbor appro-
priation act of 1911, which permits CT
villains to compete for such commits
sions. Up to this time only three CT
| villains have been appointed under this
law, each in different year. w. Nor
ris Chubb was the first to enter, being
appointed probationary second lieu
lieutenant. as is also John c. Gotwals,
appointed a probationary second lieu
| tenant March 8. 1913. The third CT
william to be appointed is Oscar O.
kuentz, and he is still on probation.
Army officers who reported at the
War Department last week were Lieut..
Col. Amos Kimball, Q. NJ. c.; Veterna-
rian William p. Hill, Field Artillery;
Capt. ]. F. Howell c. A. c.; Col. John
| Mills. engineers; Maj. B. Bashford.
NJ. c.; Lieut.. Col. julius Rem, Sd In
fantry, and Capt. H. N. Courts, 18th
Cavalry.
Joseph K Boyce of the division of
acquisitions and accounts was absent
on account of sickness last week.
Charles L. Harris of the supply dlvi-
sion was confined to his home last
week by an attack Of grip.
John C. Hesse completed fifty-four
years continuous service in the War
department last Monday. having been
detailed in the adjutant generals Office
January 10. 1862. He rose gradually by
his own merit and Is now a chief OF
division in the adjutant generals office.
Mr.. Hesse is eighty-one years old. hav-
ing been born in Germany September
10, 1885. He is a remarkably well pre-
served man, and his services are par
ticularly valuable because of his long
office experience and knowledge of the
records, especially those of volunteers
during the civil war. The fact that he
usually walks from his home at 6th
ana "A streets southeast TO the war
Department building is an evidence of
his vigor. Before his entrance into the
War Department he served in the sth
United States Infantry from Novem-
Der IL, 1857, from which service he was
mustered out November IL. 1852. A
medal of honor was awarded to him
for preserving and bringing away the
colors of the 9Th United States Infan-
try after the capture of that regiment
at San Antonio. Texas. in April, 1861"
The following named candidates for
admission to the United States Mill
tary Academy in 1915 have been ap-
pointed during the past week:
Observation-Disclosures G. McGill, West
Haven: Robert s. Rowe, alternate. New
Haven; Henry b. Nichols, alternate,
New Haven; Michigan - Clarence
Burgher, alternate. Bay City; Robert
f. Page. Detroit; Edmund II. Bremen,
alternate. Detroit; Frederick Mott
Thompson, alternate, Detroit: Missis-
sippi-Samuel p. Walker. jr. Horn
Lake; Missouri-Smith f. Brandon, al
ternate. Kansas City; George NJ. Stiller,
alternate. Kansas City: New York-Ed-
ward j. Dooley. alternate, Flushing;
Frederick g; Sheriff.. alternate. East
Hampton; Oklahoma-Virgil S. Black,
alternate. Cyril; Pennsylvania Fran,
els A. March, 3D.. Easton; T. H. Rocka-
fellow. alternate, Easton: Elvin L. Barr.
alternate, Easton: South Dakota-Os.
car F. Gassen, Gregory; Leon Anderson.
alternate. Rapid City; Carl A. Hunter.
alternate. Hot Springs: Tennessee
Lawrence p Woodward conn Pu
laski; Texas-Joseph H. Warren, Dali
las, and David T. Stafford. alternate.
San Antonio.