Show I I GENERAL ENERA FRED GRANT TRANSFERS COMMAND ft i I I With Simple Ceremony Hands i It Over to General Generali i Wood I. I New York Cov o ov 10 On 10 On Governors Governor's Island today Major General Frederick Dent Grant transferred tho the command comman I of DI the Department of the East to toI toMajor toMajor I Major General L Leonard Wood In so simple and Informal a fashion that no outsider unacquainted with tho the facts and looking on would have guessed that a ceremony or of first Importance I In the tho United States army was taking t place General Grant who Joes oes tomorrow to lo Fort ort Sheridan Just outside Chicago to become commander of tho the Department Depart ment of or the thc I Lakes Inkes crossed to the Island on tho the 10 trip of the governmEnt government government govern govern- ment nt tender General Alor- Alor and and l In civilian garb he walked from the landing dock to the office of the military secretary and anti from there ther- sent sont word woid b by an orderly to tow Wood and the other officers that h he had arrived General Wood who r reached his now I I post last night was walling waiting for or such sucha I a i message In five minutes he reache Colonel Heist In full uniform About 1 o'clock other officers were wre assembled assem aseem- bled there likewise In full tIli dress dross General Grant arose and ani shook h hands with his successor and bade bad him welcome General wood made short suitable response Then m th two generals r retired thed for five dye minute to an Inner room to discuss certain mutters pertaining to thu ho transfer It 4 d |