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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 23, 1910)
r 1 Military ttAaSOR ! HALE AJUTA NT HE repTtmnt of th Mlisourl, with hadqurter at Omh. hMa within IU boundarlci th flnt, third Mid fifth lr8t punt of th United Bt.ti army. Fott D. A. RueaeU i the largwit pot. Fort Riley l third In th llt and Fort Ltavenworth fifth. Aa at present constituted, the depart ment he txltited elnce January, 1904, when Wyomlnc and Mouth Dakota were added. It was known a the Department of the lMtttte up to im, and the itate of Utah wan then in the department. It now com prise within Its boundarlea the atatee of ftehraaka, Kanaae, Wyomlnv, Iowa, South Dakota and Mleeourl. In the matter of officer- quarters, non commievtoned offloera' quarter and bar- ack the department hae capaolty for: One brigadier general, fifty-eight field of ficer, &V1 company officer, aeventeen tem porary offloera, 137 non-eommlaaloned of ficers and married men, and for 13,713 en. Hated men. At the date of the laat report, June 80 of thla year, tha enllated men In the various post totaled t.ili, the greateat number by almoat t.UiO ever on the de partment rolls. The were commanded bv &oo officers. The strength of the various poHta to date wa, as follow: Enlisted Officer. Men. Fort Crook. Neb. Fort Omaha, Neb Fort L. a. Russell. Wyo. Fort Dea Molnea, la. at .. 6 ..lf4 .. bi 1.711 7ti5 X.B00 Ul t7T5 r ort Leavenworth, Kan, Fort biackensle, Wyo, t Frt Meade, o. D Ml Fort Hi ley, Kan 14 Fort itoulnson, Neb.... 88 At headquarters and citlee In the department 16 Total '. .MO Thus the aggregate strength of the de partment waa ,71 ' 1 A DlaT Baalaiasa Cancers. In a department such a thla nearir rvery branoh of bualnesa that civilian taptaln of Induatry would have to handle omee under the view and direction of the commanding general and hi ataff; and some that no civilian manager la called on to meddle with. Oreat amounta of aup pllea are purchaaed and distributed, large aiun of money are received and expended, changing of men and organisations la going on almost continually, train service la to be arranged for, court cases are act, tried and disposed of, a vast clerical routine la cared for efficiently and with a punctuality not surpassed In any sort of bualness, con. traata are let and their execution carefully overseen, hospital conducted, a big slab'. of horses Is kept and found, wagon trains organised and maintained ready for Instant service, bakerlea are managed on a large aiale, meat supplied In Immense quantities, vegetables In even larger amounta, lumber U bought, and iron and nails, tenteU cities are built and removed, wireless stations, telegraph of does, balloun house, gas plants kept ready for action, clothing purchaaed by the loo dosen. medical service la provided. and dental work for a population equaling that of aoma quite Important cities, school maintained and hlgh-claaa teacher put in them, band and muslo supplied to lighten the routine of duty, road built aud kent In order, building erected, repair made In hort, It wouid be dlffloult to name aoine li.'.ase of human activity that army admin istrate uo not have to become thoroughly familiar with. it Is drill, drill, drill; but It I also do, do. do; work, and then work some mora; and always it la pay, pay, pay, promptly and to a tremendous aggregate. Uncle Ham and the directing members of his mili tary household leave nothing to chance. Kvery least detail Is somebody's business, and it Is attended to with nice knowledge and absolute precision. Nothing is luft to gufs, and everything fits and fills tho space assigned to It. To the oulalde ob service, this big machine ahowa little or no lost motion anywhere. It is assembled to Uo certain work, and doea that work with certainty, without noticeable friction, and un time. So Detail overlooked. The people of Omaha and Nebraska had a splendid chance to view the thorough ness of army methods during the recent military tournament at Fort Omaha. When the exercises and drills were over late in the afternoon the field waa a acene of In animate disorder, with litter of many kinds strewq all about, Under civilian methods it would have been found In pretty much the aaine condition next day, whereas, the early visitors saw IU tie or nothing to In dicate that aa army had maneuvered and K a I loped to and fro, horse, foot and ar tillery, during the whole of the preceding (afie?noon. Those who cared to use their !eye noted, too, that the various sections of the camp were clean, with nothing un sightly or unhealthful left about to offend If the sight or smell. Sanitation has come to l almost a science In actual practice by the troops of the t'nlted tales army. In the Fort Omaha camp, also, the clti sena who put up the taxea to pay the aol dlrry had a good opportunity to in how jinelr money is spent. If aa much care, ifaltlifulneaa and good Judgment Were ud Jin other departments Of government, mu i.lcaal, county, stale and national, ex penditures and flnanoca would not be the 'subject of criticism and ridicule. I Everything u bought Jnier contract, on jstrict aimciflcattons, except In emergency, nd It must be up to contract when de . Hvctit. Then every men having to do with It ordering or distribution seea to It, with : kern avnse of honor and responsibility, ihul the very best us la made of every li.in, and that every ounce la accounted (or. The thlnga that are "lot. track of iu the army tteed aot give any worry 1 I hn. within it. bounds., th. ff 11 COMMANDING g-- SJ:1 V-: '' Vl n,tL .. Staff that Handles Big h VI f i .. . r;wv 11 (f; v ; , iff rx;rr J! Jw3$'i i v. s :i ' mm Ml QUARTtRMASf even tha moat finicky economies At this time there !a movement well backed by Influential army men to have aoldlera leav ing tha aervloe turn back their outer cloth ing Issued to them, so that it cannot be old indiscriminately to those having no right to wear It Aa waa Indicated at the beginning of this article, the Department of the Mis- aouri la one of the most Important in the prise a very large section of territory, and its record la excellent. Naturally the ad ministrator of thla tremendous depart- mental buslneea, their peraonallty. char- acter and achievement are of deep Inter- est to the general citisenshlp. General SiiiKh's Experience. Brigadier General Frederick A. Smith, commanding, has been through expert- en cps as varied, and haa successfully dls- charged duties aa responsible, as falls to the lot of a soldier In any land. Bo he comes worthily by the command Of the aecond largest department In the army, by number of troops. His record shows a long list of activities, and yet he la to- day one of the mot robust officers and active workera in the army of the United State. General Smith hna the distinction of be ing the only army officer who saw the destruction of the Spanish fleet on July S, 1898, and he communicated the result to General Shatter. It was this informa tion that waa carried In a dispatch to Washington and heralded around the world on the morning of uuly 4, 1896. Today General Smith commands a de- , " " " 7 , , T partment having 10,000 men of all arm. of gantry, to the Philippine Island. In 1906. the service except coast artillery, with ln Jun6' 1907. h w" t the corn over 60 officer, serving .under him. From mand ot tMi operations and of all troops, September 24 to October 10 of this year he both res"1' ! scouts, for .the purpose was In Immediate command of the two of operating against the Pulajanes In the tournament camps, at Des Moines and Wand of Samar and also directed field Omaha. Undoubtedly much of the success operations on the island of Leyte. He attaching to thoao camps waa due to hi waa very aucceseful In this work, which wlBe arrangements and efficient direction, occupied one year, and received the corn Something of the widely diversified ex- mendatton of his superior officers and perleuces of the army career of General Smith will be gleaned from the following synopsis: Graduating from the United Statea mili tary academy, he waa appointed aecond lieutenant of the Twelfth infantry jn June IS. 1K7S; was promoted to be first lieutenant June 28. 1X78; captain December 29, 1S90; majur June 20, 1899. He was detailed as inspector geneml February 2S. 1901; was promoted to be lieutenant colonel of the Twenty-ninth Infantry July 14, 1903; redetalled as in spector general July 80, 19t2. and promoted colonel of the Eighth Infantry January 24, 1904. He was appointed brigadier general October 24. 1908, and assigned to the com mand of the Department of California and In April, 1909, to the command of the brigade post of Fort D. A. Russell In Wyoming. He was appointed major and commissary of subs'stence of volunteers July 18, 198, and waa honorably diachargod aa euch June 11. 1S99. Saw gervlee la Soathwcat. He joined hla regiment aa aecond lieu tenant In October, in, and aerved with It at varloua elation In California. Arliona, North Dakota, South Dakota and Ne braika until the beginning of the war with Spain. Wa adjutant or the Twelfth InfHntry for about nine rears, had coi aldurabla Indian aervlc and wa recom mended to the War department by his department commander for honorable men tion In connection- with the Indian em-vica In the Department ot Arixona dur ng tha aprlng of ISM) and aubaenuent campaigns aguinct the Apache. Waa on duty with the Columbian Guard at the World a Fair at Chicago from Au gUHt. 1892. to June. ls4. He aerved In the Spanish-American war and waa acting assistant adjutant general of the Ffth army coriw from May to Auguvt, 1X. participating In the Santiago campaign. He was on duty as chief commissary at the haadiu-rler of the Department of the ' : ' li ' y v-i i . i " i Lakes from August, 1S9, to June, 1M, after whloh he served In Cuba until Au- gust 1900 acting as assistant adjutant general of the division of Cuba from June to October, He acoompanled hi regiment, the First Infantry, to the Philippine island in 1900, giving there October 1. He remained on dut 'n tnose. l8lands un 11 ''y. and during his service there participated In active operations against the Insurgents. He was selected by General J. C. Hates, commanding tha Department of Luion, to take command of the forcea on the island of Murlnduque-and, in April, 1901, received the surrender of the Insurgent forces on that island and was commended by Gcn- eral Batea for thla service. After July 30, 1901, he waa on duty as Inspector general of the Department of the Vlsayas, Fhlllp- pine islands, and subsequently of the Du- partmer.t of the South Philippines, In Office and Field. He was on duty In the office of the In spector general of the army in March and April, 1903, when he was detailed to duty with the general staff, remaining on' that duty until promoted a colonel, when he was stationed at Governor's island, New York harbor. If. n ......... ... I... 1. n. ....... . . V. T . . . V. . V. Special Continued from Page Two.) "I have a model of a bouse here that we brought along because It is the kind that most of the most successful hog ralurs are coming to use. It la an A-shape house, about alx feet square and running up to six feet at the peak. It's a good Idea to have the back alope ln, too, ao that you can reach in the back window better and give the aow any attention she may need. You can do Just as you like about having a floor, but If you don't have one you'll have to put a ring in the old sow's nose. Scatter these houses out over the hog pasture about twenty yards apart. You won't need a fence around them. The old sow loves her home and will find a couple of a right sociable turn of mind that will want to bunk in together,' but as a rule they wosVt bother' that way. The advan tage ot having them scattered out this way la that there Is little disturbance at farrowing time. There la always trouble of thla kind in a centralised house. Some of the old sows aren't very ladylike when it ccmea feeeding time. They make kits of racket, and the sow that la farrowing geta excited and Ilea on her plus. "The firHt week after farrowing is the time the pig needs lota of attention. The extension department sent out a list of quebtions to the hoK grower of the state. The average of 4 11 replleo showed that the averaged sized litter raised is tour. The average number of pigs raised per farm Is eventy-four and the average number of lost Is twenty-five. There are about a fourth of the pigs farrowed that are a dead loss, and most of this comes right at farrowing time, or the first week after. If we could save euoutil pig to Wv. .;.v.. v : mrMmh jmi those of the civil government for the re- aults obtained in thoa Islands and waa recommended for appointment as brigadier neneral. On the retirement of Brigadier General Morton on March 18, 1910, General Smith assumed, aa aenlor officer servlnw In the department, the charge of affair of the Department of the Missouri and on April 2, 1910, was .assigned by the prevldent to the command of this department. The General's Aide. Captain A. LaUue Christie, of the Eighth Infantry, personal aide to the commanding general, was a volunteer officer who went into the Spanish-American war In 1898 aa captain of tha Fourth New Jersey volun teers. Mustered out In 1HV9, he was ap pointed first lieutenant In the Forty-seventh infantry. United States volunteers, and served with this regiment in the Philippine,' where he waa engaged ln ac tive operations against the Insurgent In southern Luson, being recommended for a brevet. He waa appointed to regular extab llahment In February, 1901, and ac signed to the Eighth Infantry. All his service to date has been with that regiment. Includ ing two tour in the Philippines When General Smith received his promotion he appointed Captain Christie aide-de-camp. By reason of his promotion to a cap taincy, he will return to duty with hi regiment in January, next, as a brigadier general Is only entitled to have lieutenants as aides. Captain Christie has been chief ordnance officer of the department. The ChieToT Staff. Major William P. Burnam, chief of staff, has seen service as private, corporal and sergeant In the general service, as well a Hog Train Draws bring that average per sow to five In stead ot four there would be 2,000,000 mora hogs a year raised In the state. After the pig Is 2 weeks old he la a husky little beg gar to kill. Side TahliTfor rlti. "Don't feed the bow anything tho first day; then give her a bite. Increasing the amount slowly. Watch out tor scour. If you see any Kttns of them uliut off the sloppy feed and give the old sow some blood flour. Nothing will cure scours quicker than that. "When the pigs get big enough to eat give them a little side table of their own. Keep them coming right along. If you want to make cheap pork you'll have to make as much ot It as possible on grass. At Ames an acre of clover pasture made 400 pounds of pork through the summer. On most farms the hog pasture is the measliest, ornerlett piece of ground on the farm. It Is grown up waist high to bur dock and vervane and there Isn't enough real feed ln it to keep a bli'ygoat. Such a place Is all right for a gymnasluui- The pigs will get lots of exercise looking for something to eat, but as a hog pasture it's no good. Blue gra.-s and white clover make a good pasture. The trouble is that blue giass takes a vacation along ln the middle of the summer. It is a gupd idea to have a good patch qf rape coining on about this time. Rape Is a great pork maker. After the rape is gone there may tie some second growth clover to turn Into. I-ate In the fall the rape will bd all right aga.n. n Of the Star Boarders. "There are a few enemies In hog culture that we've got to look out for. You will Business Expeditiously Jin H.F0FCOMMI5SARV 1 being an officer In tha volunteer organiaa tlon, when he aerved aa lieutenant colonel of the Fourth Mlnuourl Infantry from May, 1898, to February, 1889. He la also a graduate of the Infantry and Cavalry achool, '89. Major Burnham waa a cadet at West Point from July, 1S77. to June, 1880. He became a aecond lieutenant In the Sixth infantry In July, 1883, first lieutenant, Feb ruary, 14, In the Eleventh Infantry, transferred back to the Sixth In July, 1891, and to the Twentieth, July, 1&9R. He was made a captain ln August, 193, and signed to the Fifth Infantry, January, 1899. Two years later he was again transferred to tho Twentieth, and ln August, 1908, to the Ninth Infantry. He got hla majority in the Twentieth In August, 1908, and wa tranf6rrd to the Seventh ln May, 1907. Adjutant General Hale. Major Harry C. Hale, the adjutant gen eml f.' the department, wiis 'H ated from Went Point In June, 18U3, and been .Tie first lieutenant of the Eighteenth Itifanlrv in February, 1891, transferring to the Twentieth ln July of tne same year. He gained his captaincy ln July, 1898. lie was a major of volunteers ln 1898 and major of the Forty-fourth United Slates Infantry from August, 1899, to June, l&Jl. He trans ferred to the Fifteentn Infantry in July, 19u3, and has been adjutant general since April, 19;8. He is Inspector of small arms practice and an expert with the revolver. The Inspector general of the department Is Major Omar Bundy, whose wort', took him away from tho city at the titw; when a photograph could be secured. Major Buudy Is a graduate of West Point, '83, likewise of the infantry and cavalry school, '87. e served ln the Second and Third as lieutenar.t and became captain ln the Sixth April, 1898. He gained his Crowd all recognize this fellow." (lie displume a chart showing a hog louse picture about two feet across, "Of course, they don't grow so big ln this part of the state, but they make up in oinerlnehs whut they lack In size. Get the hogs souked with coal tar dip in one way or another, if you have many it will pay to have a dip ping tank. If there are only a few spray ing will be easier. "Here," holding up a bottle containing a worm about a foot long, "is one of our star boarders, lie Is on the inside ot the ho,' where you cun t see him,, but he is eat ing up your profits Just the same. When the pig a tail lost it; curl and hangs down like a piece ot rope and the pig goes around coughing like a two-cylinder automobile you can take it for granted that he has worms. He isn't any Linker this week than he was last, and ho won't be much bigger next week than he Is tills. The only wsy to nivike a profitable porker out of him again la to get rid of the worms. Plenty ot pure water will tend to prevent them. Pumpkins, on a mixture of charcoal and salt and copperas, will clean tla'iii out alter the pig once fct-is them. "There is another disease that la going to get the best of us if v c don l Uo some thing, and that is tuberculosis. About 3 per cent of the hoc that are marketed from this section aie tubciiulous and have to be condemned. Don't you think fur a minute that lias loss comes out of the packers' pockets. They Just shave the price on all the nutjs they buy down about ii rents a hundred to psy for their loss from tuberculosis. When the next legislature gets to talking about more ftrineiit laws to control this disease ou uicu waul to get in and boost." majority in July, i904, and became In spector general in July, 1908. A Yoiii Jo dire Advocate, Captain Marr O Connor, Fifteenth cav alry, is the new judge advocate of the de partment. He received hla legal educa tion at the University of Michigan, from which he haa received the degreee of L. L. B. and L. L. M. At the outbreak ot the Spanish war he was a member of the Michigan naval brigade and aerved aa an enllated man on the Yosemlte. Later he enlisted In the Sixth Infantry for the Phll llpine Insurrection, and ln 1901 waa oom missloned as aecond lieutenant of the Tenth cavalry. In 1907 he became first lieutenant In the Fifth cavalry and was detailed aa acting Judge advocate with the rank of captain in lfl.'S. Captain O'Connor, who Is a young man, came from the Phil ippines to become judge advocate of the Department of the Missouri. He hasn't had time or Inclination to have a new pic ture made, tne one used being taken in the Islands. Quartermaster and Commissary. So many people In Omaha know Lieu tenant Colonel D. E. McCarthy, chief quurtcrmuster, that details seem super fluous, and yet Colonel McCarthy la a man of note in his line who may not be lightly passed over. He is a specialist whose reputation is much wider thun tho Department ot the M ssourl, since tho War department has printed and circulated through all Its departments a "Manual of Instruction for Quartermasters Serving ln the Field," written by Colonel McCarthy and regarded as standard, and probably the most complete and satisfactory volume of the kind ever Issued. Unlike most authors of today, McCarthy's book brought him no money. It was a labor of love, written while serving as post quarter master at Fort Leavenworth. A graduate of West Po nt, class of 'SI, Colonel McCarthy has run the whole rourso of army I fe to his present position of high trust and honor. Beginning as second lieu tenant of the Twelfth Infantry, he saw service in the southwest agalnt the Apaches and In the east on post. He graduated from the Infantry and cavalry school at Fort Leavenworth In June. 1H7, fourth In his class. From 187 to s;il he was In North and Smith Ixikoin t,nd par ticipated In the campaign at-'a nst the Sioux Indians In the winter of 18H0-1. He has been on recruiting duty, too. with suc cess, but undoubtedly his greatest work has been as quartermaster. He served in that capacity at various posts, among them Fort Niobrara, Nb. In October. 1S.4, he became a captain and quartermaster in the regular corps. He was at Fort Sheri dan, III., when the Spanish trouble oc curred and wa d-pot quartermaster at Camp George U. Thomat. Chickumauua, ia., when bO.OUO men were in camp. In 1K.9 he waa principal assistant to 'juarter master General C. F. Humphrey and In May of that year wa transferred to Fort Leavenworth a constructing quarter master. In June, 1906, be waa sent to tiu Philippines, where he waa chief quarter master of the Department of Luzon, alse) acting for a considerable time as chief quartermaster of the Philippine division. He came to Omaha In 1907, having achieved his majority ln 1902, and he was made) lieutenant colonel in April last. Lieutenant Colonel Frank F. Eastman la the commissary general ot the department, who takes care to see that the men are properly fed and found. He Is a West Point man, class ot '79, being sent to the Fourteenth Infantry aa second lieutenant. He was made a first lieutenant In July, 1890, and became a captain In August, 1894. He became major ln the Twenty-eighth, in fantry ln February, 1901, and waa trans ferred to the subsistence department In June, 1902, and in October, 1907, was made a lieutenant colonel and deputy commissary general. Colonel Eastman Is the purchasing commissary for the department. Medicine and Mouey. Colonel William W. Gray, chief ura; eon of the department, has been in the army since June, 1878. He Is a Tennesseean by birth, and holds an A. B. degree from Washington and Lee unlvcmlty. Ha gradu ated from Bellevue Hospital-Medical col 1ck. New York City. Colonel Gray haa served from one end of the country to the other, and was ln the Department of tha Columbia when Washington was a terri tory and when Spokane waa on the map as the site of a grist mill and a postoffloe. At that time Seattle was a place of about 10,000. Portland had 13,04), and traveling was largely by stage and buckboard. He haa been on duty In about every department In the United States and has served two tours In the Philippines. He came to Omaha a few months ago, "The man with the dough" in the Depart ment of the Missouri Is Major Herbert U. Lord, chief paymaster. He was appointed fiom civil life in May, ibjH, as paymaster with the rank of major, and was honorably discharged In May, 1901. He had in the meantime been appointed paymaster with the rank of cuptaln In the permanent establishment, February b, 1901, and at tained the rank ot major a year later. Major I -old has long been regarded as an expert on the tariff laws of the country, having been confidential adviser to tiie committee of several Congresses. Major Meriwether L. Walker of the en glneeis' corps Is the present chief engineer officer of the department, having suc ceeded Major E. H. fiehuls recently. The chief engineer officer has his office In Kanxas City, from whence he dlrecta work along the river done by the government, aa well ms attending to tils regular military duties. These o'f fleets, taken singly and to gether, constitute a group of pal riot la ciiixeris It is always a decided pk-asui td meet, modest to a degree, but when It c. lues to effective planning, pertinent sug gextlon and quick, accurate execution they arc I host In themselves; aud Omaha kaoa it and U proud of them.