| Show I She VeW Vet Head of ot the of the Pacific S I T l th moment of ot San SlIn coli lamentable v visitation General Adol Adolphus jA W V head I of the hue military division S of ut tim the Pacific wan not 4 at nl tho the Presidio He lie was wason wason on his imis hl way across tile the continent to be at tho the marriage of oC his hili daughter daughters s soon as mis he heard the Iho sickening news ho faced w stu with the dispatch an n unquestioning fidelity of ot hue tho train trained trainel ed el soldier made his way WilY back baek to tu toMs his Ms post It 11 was nan an nn abrupt and shock shockIng lug log Interruption of ot what had hlll promised to bo be one ono of ot the time most agreeable epi episodes episodes eo les In iii the tho life of ot a 11 man who hind had en cn encountered countered much of oC sorrow and und disaster but never before sud lIuI as liS awaited him him oh jj hh to Ho lie had need of ot nil alt lie tho fortitude that hunt his hilts long yeats of or had put mit at athis athi atuk his uk hi command Never Neer before hat halt he ho been ien projected ns as it were Into Inlo a n iosi position lion tion so difficult amid so problematical Ho Ito was vas new to time tho office oMee having been red d but iUt recently tram menu the hue na sin national leant lIonal signal service to 0 the ito Pacific coast roast He lie was comparatively n a stran stranger ger In a 11 strange country As All yot o he hue hall had not muot had toni time the time hole and an time the opportunity to establish himself firmly Gen len General tail eral Funston his hilts subordinate whom he lie had hati left teet In command during his nb ob pence reneo had hind won watt tho time approval of ot the tue na nn national local authorities und tho hue general Pull pub lie lic by b his hl vigorous and amid admin All ui 1 this was Wa limit hut there Ih re was once far till worse e For l or reasons which h e to do dl only emily with the time unwritten but ethics of ot armoy me lifo III General was WIlS not persona penona fata at ut time tho war department nt There KII 1155 no question of ot luis his merit as ns a us sol nol jiler ihie or of ot tho ito justice of ot luis his promotion U in was something entirely removed from that n a sent noil of ot Inharmonious adjust ment In a purely military clot and social tense senile between this veteran of oC tho lie civil War Var ar who had luaU won wor his hla way to locaL without tho the aid of ot IL a West est Point training mining and Ito iho younger Iun er school of ot null mil men lumen who are potential at nt Wash Sash This lach of mf sympathy In hl h tellI tet showed Itself at itt once In various Hating ways anti and added largely largel to 10 General burden Ho lie threw throw himself with nil alt time the enthusiasm of ot a aman n motto man gf Qt action Into the lie business s of ot adapting his hilts command to the iho public benefit On tho ground gr und and amol In tIll full Ill Illse i v session se lIllIn of ot the tho facts he hue made hh his plans Idaho and ama culled coiled on oil the thc war ar lortis lit at tho the na on national to help him out They riley F 1 h V VA I j A i ij iI I I q j I y yr yI sL e I l left I N r 1 tr i ii l I i it itI j I i r jr t II I I I IN THE ARCTIC GENERAL ADOLPHUS W GREELY GEBELY AS A SIGNAL I could not avoid the tue responsibility of ot doing this but they lund had It In their power to make mako It unpleasant for tor or Gen General iOu eral and they lucy seem to lo ho im ins improved Improved proved tho time opportunity by IJ a IL knotting or ot tape tapo tumid and a splitting of ot halis that would have havo been farcical If it at nt attended attended I tended with less hess serious In itt tho lie absence of ot time the chief of ot tho lie war that officious anti and h subordinates tho thio old generals task asic an nus one Ills His request for men misaim was Willi sharply and arId he Ito was wils Informed tl thuit there was no law lall for COI sending them He lie was nas ordered lt to make a 11 complete tl and classi classified fied fleit list of oC thus the III Injured although no mm one know knew at time the time limits how hol man ninny had imad been hurt When Secretory Secretary Tuft furt returned time tho were ivere w rn sent souL forthwith was sas too old n II fox to 10 be caught In a 11 Imp tr map of ot that kind No man In tho American army huts his beets been moro more subject to Impel Impertinent I I t criticism mimi III As ts 1 national I clerk clerIc of ot tim tile weather ather ho hue has been the Ihl t lm e I lii rot ion of oC more mOlo ro Indiscriminate tail in inmate mate fault finding than luau any nn other mill millman amy man mann In lIt Although goaded to time the of at distinction III by these gratuitous insults of ot the underlings ot of the time war department he hue them In Inthe Inthe the time presence lre nee of oC the he greater gr ater need and proceeded manfully to do do his imis utmost to bring somo some sort of ot order out of ot tho time chaos which prevailed In tho Iho stricken city Adolphus Washington WI Greely Ore IY Is la ono one of ot most men inca m n In point of There le is no oth 1111 other er or man lIan In III time tho army anny who has hilI been a I In imi so o He lie HeIs lieis Is III now In his hIli sl year eai eal and amil huts has been a soldier for foi to I orl fe He I ie was Willi born at nt Mimes Mats and amid when ho hmo had completed tint the courso courll In the time high school of ot that limit town at ot tho time of ot sixteen he lie enlisted an U n a I pi I vale In the volunteer army He lie served with great gallantry during the thin civil war being wounded thrice and nci promoted to major of at volunteers At t the close cloHe of ot time the I he war ho he was wan appointed second lieutenant In tho Imo regular gular r army aruny arm was wan soon detailed on un signal lima II I corps duty dill Between 1876 and 1879 young Greel himself to be one ono of oC the tue most untiring workers In lit Iho time nm During that list he hue 2000 mullen miles of ut telegraph In Texas Texa Mon lion Ion tana aim and emit Dakota This hum teat COlt mantle mude him a marked 1 man in Amer lean military clicks circles In 1881 In hum lair pur of at the thus o n 01 tile the hueI I rg Intel I lit national lena I congress he hue was given command of ot the hue United Staten StatcH expedition to lu establish one line of or a ut chain of thirteen station Tub This laItY of ot no men faither autImer north tItan than our city pie iino discovered red new nest laud land I north of or Greenland and crossed Grin i Land on sledges to the time polar sea pen en l For or many linn weary months these thieo ven 11 men were cast about by IJ the tho of ot If the arctic anti and were ivere believed to 0 be he lost host lo t Two rW teller lions ions sent In search of or them failed to tor read reach r adl them They retreated d south UK apt far ns as Carlo Capo but hul could can It get Jcl no farther Hero Here all but hut seven tl hed front from starvation I These were rescued by b a third expedition under anther the tue command of oC Captain S On his Ills return Lieutenant o reel was Willi to captain and antI on nil of Karen was lall made chief rig lg ht mil nul of oC the time States ates army This promotion gave glO him time the rank of general In thin the in my the lust list private of tho limo chit war 10 0 reach that distinction During nod the lie Spanish war sar General had a n opportunity opportunity opportunity to 10 show sImon his hl great ability as an n a n builder of oC telegraph lutes lines Under his 1 Immediate i tate IlIn 1 I lee t there thero built buill tam i It rind and operated 1000 miles In iii Porto miles mile In III Cuba Cola 2110 mile In imm China during the time outbreak and 10 00 miles mull en of oC I I lies and cables cableR In I mm hue thu t Philip Philippines Phi hi I p pines Ho lie Installed lu a s i of Df miles of telegraph lines linen stub cub ubI I marino tables and amid wireless In Jut Alaska AIl one ono of oC these lucite lines hues being time the th Ih 1 wire tirs wireless less system Iy to tn C be tie put lUt to tn commercial use life Perhaps General O most bril brilliant nt was syam the thur lion on Its It II present efficient basis bail of oC the lie th national weather bureau Previous to his him Incumbency the hue servIce vice was re remarkable only on account of oC Its 1111 ii un It had Iwen conducted In imi such r a i and ond unscientific i fashion that It II had become b thin the laugh laughingstock of oC time the world General revolutionized revolutionised tho thin service complete Ho lie began nt at once to 10 gather ather Ical data Ivory every sou ice aol In lii the lie course of ot time ho hue wits Willi able to ut lit something definite Ho lie es l a n completo system m of lit weather I stations In various parts of ot time tho coun II my anti and lifted the lie toni hue piano of Ie to that of oC respectability ity It Witch When General Central succeeded to lo toIto the Ito command of oC time tile division lon of oC time the Pa Is Pacific I IdUe dUe cub was WM considerable unfavorable ble bin comment mad by b the academic or orso orS so S it called civilian branch blanch of time tile at my 1 He lie haul had neglected d to io muk himself pop popular ular with whim this hula element and amid had hud even e c cx his hili hub contempt for Cor or It In III public It If he III lund had been a n trifle tilde more moie politic It Il would have havo II VO saved aed him munich much subsequent e quent annoyance o 0 A LANDIS |
