| Show PUS PLANS PL NS TO BETTER UNCLE SAMS ARMY New Quartermaster General is Right Man in the Right Place MAKES GOOD SUGGESTIONS Immense hOlly of or Mm Jell In Is Xo No o Small bellied In Washington D C Aup Aug Au SI Tho first report of ef the new general ef ot the a ann SamO Jam tt It Ale Me Alen n shire hi re a native of Ohio who vrho wh entered the military BC academy In from which h he was gradUAted In 1180 USO with honor In every ery subject ct con eon lder l not 1101 only a lv knowledge of ot the needs of oC the time great grent department dIlI of ot the army arm but a sympathetic Int Interest ret t In the time broadening ami aud developing of at the department deportment o oer evar r which h he ha hu been called culled upon to tn pre preside p preside side ald vice MaJ Chart Charle F P Hum Humphrey Humphr y retired Unlike many man soldiers Gen lien AI In gIving credit to whom credit l I II du due and In the fleet para part graph of hi hili hia report to the Ule secretary of ot war wr he shon Iho the ha he i is made of ot by paying a moat moct deserved derv oomph compliment ment to General Genral Humphrey who he heay 1188 ay a had planned and mend outlined In memoranda the scope of ot the U report anti and hi hIe ideas Idea have been followed a as ae a u po It was wan desired and deemed proper that Gen Humphrey II sign Ign I n this report but his hie hi from tron the city ctt and nd the ImpossibIlIty of tie di it laying It submission prohibited prohibit MO UK THAN TItAN AULa The report Sport in is an In exceedingly Inter ting eating document following closely in tat inthe Inthe the footsteps of ot the reportS report made me by b byan Gen an AI Immediate predecessor who 1 I Is cAM l In army cir circles des cles the bet best the department has hAe ever e had having HanaK served nerved with hen Oen Humphrey during the campaign campaigns in China and the the younger man ha has h Im Ian Imbibed blUed the l Mn and ami the tearless na n ness of tho older and It to Ie I very Yel gen generally entity predicted that O G Gait Mr will moro more than mee me the Ia of the U k I growing hard hald harder halder er Sr to till fill Iery evIr year f r by 11 reon of ot the therk work rk requited in hat the ter generals department Die DE tViS CREDIT It Is Ie to Gen Oen that the largest measure of or credit for tor h having establish ed 4 while chief quartermaster In the tile Philippines a system of ot for or military post pasta on the Iho coat coast through water transportation G Gen n Al took up and perfected by mean of ot transports transport a thoroughly equipped eye system IY tern tem whereby all coast stations in thi Ih islands Island were we regularly b It lay transports Ori thereby affording the Ile troops troop an en opportunity to get set fresh h meats and vegetables vegetable besides b mall clothing and asad lId other othel supplies tore he h became CM chief quartermaster of ot the Philippines the troops troop In the far tar east were compelled to depend upon UIn Irregular boats boat and some 1 sometime sometimes times time for tor weeks at a time our soldiers were vere compelled to go g o without fresh h meats or vegetable depending upon the natives native nath for rOI subsistence All this thle Con Gen changed After Gen Humphrey left lett the Philippine Philippines he was wae placed in charge chars of ot the water and land Ind transportation In Manila and he ha per performed performed formed the duties dulle In so lID splendid a man manner n ner muir r that ho he won the heartiest of ot con eon congratulations from from hi superiors When Gan Gon Humphrey became beame quartermaster general his hI assistant was wac wa Col Co Pond now on the retired list and upon ullon the retirement of ot Gen Pond having basing star MIC tI to the rank of ot gen general mini eral on retiring Gen Oell was tras mild made principal assistant to Gan Oon Hum lIum Humphrey and very VIII naturally should sue suc succeed coed him himAN himAN AN N AIt Perhaps no bolter Idea can an be ob obtained of the magnitude of ot the Ihil deport depart department ment mint to the management of ot which Gen Con has b been en called than by b Pint sim simply ply lilY considering that It has line at it its disposal al during the lineal year ending June H 10 O 1007 appropriations appropriation aggregating JU Sll Since the occupancy of Cuba utHa by b our American soldier and nd l Iy by called OI led the army of ot pacification the quartermasters department ha haa ha ex for this I which I l ble to the American treasury by the Cuban government nt when It got on Its Ita feet tNt one on more moreGen Gen Con call calls attention to 10 tin th feet fact that larger appropriations must mUI be made mado for tor hi his hla deportment department due duo to the Increasing cost of ot lV r and supplies lie He says say the Increase of ot out ost In III almost all directions Uon 1 iii Ia of ot such general knowl knowledge edge that lie he I doe does not deem It wise wIlle to cite any an specific p cases case At times time It has baa been bean to submit deficiency es estimate B for tor large sums sum but bUI butIn butin In tome some of oC the ncy estimates they the have hat arisen through causes no human foresight could anticipate and others Oen non Aleshire ay lay M may my be he expected In Inthe Inthe inthe the future the quartermaster general makes make a II plen r for tor economy he believes believe It bad economy to cut down clown estimate on the tile theory that thet a R policy looks look only to tb lb t Immediate ear sav saving No ing of ot money meno may my In the ibm end prove un uneconomical economical I OI 11 DA h Oki O of at U th he subject which I is very He W ta the quartermaster general la tIr that of ot th the remount lunt e to which liI groat t Attention nUon I Ie now being given gien armies In hi report roP ft ke lie k recommend the th eta of t a division on of r t the quart ter e office to be bo known u WI us the re remount remount remount mount dIvision and under charge barp of ot an All of ot the tile deport depart department moat ment especially selected elected by ih secre tIlT tail or of war on Oft the th of lit the general of or the army who would Id supervise all porches purtha Os II of In addition to 10 the main boosted In the Itle quartermaster ova gen Gee a recommend that there be established near to the great groat hMM boise sections of ot the th country three or fo t tots r remount depot ta where h could be purchased pUr and where tile the tAnd rd desired dred could coul l be Insisted upon II It would uld be h the bust bul ness flee n of oC the In charge of or these I remount deN depots dellOt t to k keep kep p a record nt f the tha I number Mid lid class CAH of ot horses horse h In lit the re 11 remount remount mount district t how w bred bird by b whom owned p ned and where h located The he oh nh and pu ot of f these I hp 1 dietrict be being beIng ing to give dive W to each Mh remount depot ept a particular 8 of ot the State States from which bleh to 10 receive It II supply of ot num nung horses It Th TIt There r Is its t no nn Intention on onlie the lie pMt part of or the tile quartermaster lr general generallo 1 lo to breeding farms farm In certain motions of the country ui atas ha hu has been tn reported the Ih only object t tt of t Gin Oen n being to III rate rat the standard of horses and aim mule mul in lb the army secure younger hor hoeR hes and lind mules mul and If hay have them educated for forthe forthe the service for tor which the they are ar Intended at al the time of ot purchase purche The Tb and many mn oth other r things a are arc taken tn up and lid discussed d In one ono of the tM most reports report which has haa been bean prepared prep by b a government official |
