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Show . i NEW HEAD HAS EXCELLENT RECORD i : .... '"N?v Mil 1 t'J 'V2x i Sf Col. George P. Scriven, who has succeeded Brig. Gen. James Allen as chief signal officer of the army, has had a career of remarkable activity. He has been attached at different times to three branches of the military mili-tary service, and has seen service in all parts of the world and participated participat-ed in the front of every campaign which has been waged since his graduation from the military academy In 187S. He was born in Pennsylvania and appointed to the military academy from the state of Illinois, following several years' preliminary study in the University of Chicago, and in the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, N. Y. He began his military career In the artillery, but was soon on detached de-tached service abroad, carrying him through Europe and Iceland. He made one of the most noteworthy note-worthy military horseback rides on record, beginning at Laredo, Texas, and emerging on the Pacific coast of Mexico, after traversing hundreds of miles of the mountain trails of that country. During the Spanish war, as a member of the signal corps, he took an Important part in the army of invasion of Cuba, and afterward was with Major General Merritt's fourth Philippine expedition, and later on with General Chaffee in the famous march to Peking.- |