Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1913-02-14 | Page 2 | Achievements of General Crozier

I ACHIEVEMENTS OF GENERAL CR0ZIER I . The announcement by Brig. Gen. William Crozier, chief of the bureau of ordance, United States Army, in his annual report, that this is his last report on account of being relieved re-lieved from the command of the ordnance ord-nance department and assigned to other duty, calls attention to the great services he has rendered to the army in his position as head of that very Important bureau. To the meeting of the great responsibilities of that position he has brought tho qualities of energy, studiousness, receptivity re-ceptivity to new ideas and steadfast devotion to high IdealB that have lifted lift-ed his department into a wider field of usefulness and efficiency. General Crozier was appointed chief of ordnance in November, 1901, and the department was then operating operat-ing under the detail system as established estab-lished by the act of February 2, 1901. Previous to his regime the officers of the ordnance department had ac- ; I quired their education as specialists that is, as engineers of ordnance as best they might, teaching and training themselves as haphazard opportunities opportuni-ties were offered by their various duties. The result was that only a part of the officers of the department were able to handle the engineering work con-nectetd con-nectetd with' the design or even the manufacture of guns, carriages, etc.