San Francisco Call, Volume 69, Number 92, 2 March 1891 — MILITARY JOTTINGS. [ARTICLE]

MILITARY JOTTINGS.

Places Are in More for All tlie

Academy Graduates.

The promotions resulting from (he large number of letireinents ,-oon to occur will create a greater number of vacancies in the line of the army than lias occurred at one lime for twenty yenrs. Undoubted!; there will be a great pressure for civilian appointments and probably n good many will bo made before the end ol the year. The numcious military schools of the country are turn ing out many graduates, whe, while not so well fitted for the duties <f the army as the graduates of the Military Academy, still are much superior to youug men who have had no such training. Tho graduates of tlie Military Acßdemy this year will all be provided for at ihe time of graduation, and the title of "additional" will not be affixed to any oi the names in the oflicial register.

'i lie First lufautry Regiment, expected to arrive to-day in ,Sau Francisco on return from Tine Bidgt, S. Dak., cannot reach tliip city before to-morrow at tlie earliest. Tlie regiment was obliged to march a considerable distance bcfoie reaching the. point of transportation, and the depth of snow impeded movements. Of the companiaa vrhlea left for the scene of hostilities only five will return to \lie Pacific Coast, the other rive having been transferred to other regiments. Prior, also, to the departure of the regiment for the East two of the companies, I nnd X, were consolidated with other companies in the regiment. It is rumored that the two companies of the First formerly stationed at the Presidio

will nnt return to that post, but will be assigned to others within the jurisdiction of the department In asking for an increase of tbe enlisted force of the army General Schofield says: "A careful estimate made leads to the conclusion that, if the emergency had required it, about i£i cavalry, 195G inlantry and 1251 artiltery, mostly acting as infantry, might have been added to the forces under General Miles' comniaud; so that, if the h> dtile Indians near l'iue Ridge had been so numerous as to require sucli action, it would have been possible to concentrate a force there amounting in enlisted strength to SlB cavalry, 3100 infantry aud 1-01 artillery— total, 6175." Authqritv has been given General Gibbon to detail Troops I (Captain Wood) and X (Captain Dorst), Fourth Cavalry, for duty In charge respectively of the Yosemite and Sequoia parks of California. They will be transferred from the Presidio to these parks about May Ist, but thould any emergency arise in the meantime requiring the presence of troops to protect these parks General Gibbon has been given authority to call upop those at Fort Walla Walla and Vancouver Barracks. What a dull place "Vancouver Barracks, Wash., must be. According lo a correspondent "guard duty is light. From seven to eight nights 'm bed' for privates and nine for non-commissioned oflicers is tbe rule. There are uo drills yet" A general order will soon appear from headquarters publishing a list of officers entitled to honorable mention for various services. It is understood that tlie character of the service is not confined to action iv the, field, ana that the period exteuds for some years back. The Army and Xavy List, issued on the L'lst ult., contains an unusually large number of changes. Hereafter the list will be published at the end of each month instead of on the 15th. Second Lieutenant John P. Finley, temporarily with the Signal Service in this city, has been assigued to Company H, Nineteenth Infantry, at Fort Wayne, Mich. lost Chaplain Cephas C. Bateman, rerently appointed, has been ordered to proceed to Vancouver Barracks, Wash., to report for temporary duty. The President lins approved the act to transfer officers on the retired list of the army from the limited to the unlimited list.