cisco with Thirty-first and Forty-first, and Company H, Forty-second Infantry, U. S. Volunteers. May 20.-Transport Thomas arrived at Manila from San Francisco with detachment of recruits, etc. May 22.-Transport Pennsylvania sailed from Manila for San Francisco with Fortieth Infantry, U. S. Volunteers. May 23.-Transport Grant arrived at Manila from San Francisco with 9 officers and 24 men, Hospital Corps. May 25.-Transport Lawton sailed from San Francisco for Manila with Companies K and L, Eleventh Infantry, Maj. J. E. Macklin commanding. May 26.-Transport Kintuck sailed from Manila for Portland, Oreg., with Company B, Forty-second Infantry, U. S. Volunteers. May 27.-Transport Thomas sailed from Manila for San Francisco with Fortyseventh and Forty-ninth and three companies Thirty-eighth Infantry, U. S. Vol unteers. May 29.-Transport Ohio sailed from Manila for San Francisco with ten companies Forty-second Infantry, U. S. Volunteers. May 31.-Transport Logan sailed from Manila for San Francisco with Second Battalion, Thirty-eighth Infantry and the Forty-fourth Infantry U. S. Volunteers. June 1.-Transport Sheridan sailed from San Francisco for Manila with 17 officers and 249 enlisted men, recruits, etc. June 1.-Transport Thyra sailed from Manila with Company B, Thirth-eighth Infantry, U. S. Volunteers. June 2.-Transport Grant sailed from Aparri, P. I., for San Francisco, Cal., with the Forty-eighth and two battalions of the Forty-ninth Infantry, U. S. Volunteers. June 6.-Transport Kilpatrick sailed from Manila for San Francisco, Cal., with Forty-third Infantry, U. S. Volunteers. June 6.-Transport Pukling sailed from Manila for the United States with Tenth Field Battery, Artillery Corps. June 9.-Transport Hancock arrived at San Francisco from Manila with Thirty-first Infantry, U. S. Volunteers. June 19.-Transport Aztec arrived at San Francisco, Cal., with Company H, Fortysecond Infantry, U. S. Volunteers. June 20.-Transport Indiana sailed from Manila for San Francisco with the First Field Battery and the Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth, Thirty-second, and Thirty-third companies, Coast Artillery. June 21.-Transport Ohio arrived at San Francisco from Manila with headquarters and 10 companies Forty-second Infantry, U. S. Volunteers. June 23.-Transport Lawton arrived at Manila from San Francisco with detachment of Signal Corps and Hospital Corps men. June 24.-Transport Grant arrived at San Francisco from Manila with Forty-eighth Infantry, U. S. Volunteers, and headquarters and 8 companies Forty-ninth Infantry, U. S. Volunteers. June 25.-Transport Logan arrived at San Francisco from Manila with Forty-fourth Infantry, U. S. Volunteers, and Second and Third battalions Thirty-eighth Infantry, U. S. Volunteers. June 25.-Transport Hancock sailed from San Francisco for Manila with Generals Corbin, Weston, and Sternberg, and other officers; also Second Battalion of Engi neers. June 26.-Transport Buford arrived at San Francisco from Manila with Forty-first Infantry, U. S. Volunteers. June 26.-Transport Thomas arrived at San Francisco from Manila with Fortyseventh Infantry, U. S. Volunteers; 3 companies Thirty-eighth Infantry, U. S. Volunteers, and 4 companies Forty-ninth Infantry, U. S. Volunteers. June 28.-Transport Sheridan arrived at Manila from San Francisco with 17 officers and 249 enlisted men. June 29.-Transport Pakling arrived at San Francisco from Manila with the Tenth Field Battery. July 4.-Transport Meade sailed from Manila for San Francisco with the Eighth Field Battery. July 10.-Transport McClellan sailed from New York for Manila with 6 officers and 94 enlisted men. July 15.—Transport Sumner sailed from Manila for San Francisco, Cal., with sick. July 16.-Transport Grant sailed from San Francisco for Manila with General Ludington, 26 other officers, and 49 recruits. July 16.-Transport Indiana arrived at San Francisco from Manila with the Twentyninth, Thirtieth, Thirty-second, and Thirty-third Companies Coast Artillery, and the First Field Battery. July 20.-Transport Sheridan sailed from Manila for San Francisco with Company A, Engineers, and headquarters and 8 companies Fourteenth Infantry. July 23.-Transport Thomas sailed from San Francisco for Manila with 1 officer, 4 contract nurses, and 1 hospital corps man. July 28.-Transport Meade arrived at San Francisco from Manila with Eighth Field Battery, and sick and discharged soldiers. August 1.-Transport Kilpatrick sailed from San Francisco for Manila with 13 officers and 97 recruits, etc. August 5.-Transport Hancock, with 11 troops Fourth Cavalry, sailed from Manila for San Francisco. August 11.-Transport Sumner arrived at San Francisco from Manila with sick discharged soldiers, etc. August 16.-Transport Meade sailed from San Francisco for Manila with General Breckinridge, 7 other officers, and 102 recruits. August 18.-Transport Sheridan arrived at San Francisco from Manila Company A, Engineers, headquarters Second and Third Battalions, Fourteenth Infantry. August 21.-Transport Thomas arrived at Manila from San Francisco. August 22.-Transport Ingalls sailed grom New York for Manila with 4 officers and 26 enlisted men. August 25.-Transport Grant, with Troop B, Fourth Cavalry, and Twelfth and Thirteenth Field Batteries, sailed from Manila for San Francisco. August 28.-Transport Hancock arrived at San Francisco from Manila with 11 troops Fourth Cavalry. August 31.-Transport Sheridan sailed from San Francisco for Manila with General Grant and 13 other officers. September 5.-Transport Dir arrived at San Francisco, Cal., from Manila with the remains of 300 deceased soldiers. September 12.-Transport Sumner sailed from San Francisco for Manila with 5 officers and 2 hospital corps men. September 16.-Transport Warren sailed from San Francisco for Manila with 9 officers. September 16.-Transport Kilpatrick sailed from Iloilo, P. I., for San Francisco with headquarters and 8 companies Eighteenth Infantry, 27 officers, and 896 enlisted men. September 18.-Transport Grant arrived at San Francisco from Manila with Troop B, Fourth Cavalry, and Twelfth and Thirteenth Batteries, Field Artillery. CHINA. November 1.-Headquarters and eight companies Fourteenth Infantry sailed from China for Manila. Commander not reported. November 7.-One troop Sixth Cavalry sailed from China for Manila. Commander not reported. November 8.-Two troops, Sixth Cavalry, and four batteries, Third Artillery, sailed from China for Manila. Commander not reported. December 2.-Headquarters and First Battalion Fifteenth Infantry sailed from China for Manila. Col. E. Moale commanding. 1901. April 9.-Transport Egbert sailed from Taku, China, for San Francisco, Cal., with 3 officers, guards, prisoners, discharged soldiers, and remains of deceased officers and soldiers. May 27.-Transports Sumner and Lennox sailed from Taku for Manila, with Troops I, K, L, and M, Sixth Cavalry, Tenth Field Battery, Artillery Corps, and all of the Ninth Infantry, excepting Company B (150 strong), which was selected as the legation guard. THE MILITARY ACADEMY. Special attention is invited to the remarks of Colonel Mills, the superintendent, upon the improved discipline and general excellent condition of the Corps of Cadets. It is safe to predict that hazing, of a brutal or objective nature, is a thing of the past, and that it will not soon again be a subject for consideration by the War Department. All in all, it is believed by those most competent to speak that the Academy is in a better condition of discipline and in everything that relates to its success to-day than at any time in its history. Colonel Mills's recommendations that To make the hospital service perfect, a detached building for the isolation and treatment of cases of infectious diseases is necessary, and should be furnished. Should such diseases break out when cadets are in barracks there exists no sufficient means for properly isolating such cases if in a considerable number. An electric lighting plant needed; the present gas plant is taxed to its capacity, .and when buildings under construction are completed, it is not believed it will be capable of sufficient enlargement to meet the demands that will be made upon it. To further improve and broaden the education given at the Academy the superintendent renews his recommendations of last year for a small appropriation for the purpose of establishing a course of lectures on timely topics by capable speakers from civil life. It is imperative that additional barrack-room for cadets be provided, in order to meet the demands of study and give to each the air space health requires. Other buildings, also necessary for their training, must be enlarged. This matter was made the subject of a separate report last year, showing in detail the necessity existing in each case. The most urgent necessity exists for sufficient appropriation for additional quarters for officers, and for the construction of a carriage road from the south dock to the south end of the reservation. Attention is called to the West Point Hotel, with the recommendation that Congress be urged to appropriate sufficient funds to renovate it. If Congress is unwilling to do so, it is recommended that the right to renovate and reconstruct the building be given to civilians on terms which will be to the advantage both to the Government and to them. This is one of the most urgent needs of the Academy, are commended to your most favorable action. The cost of installing a modern seacoast battery being too great to warrant the expenditure at this time, the cadets of each graduating class should be sent to Fort Monroe for practice and instruction in seacoast gunnery, and a thorough post-graduate course therein. This could be done at little expense and with far better results than could be obtained with a single battery, which, as has been stated, can only be erected at great expense, and for this reason is not urgently recommended. MILITARY INFORMATION DIVISION. On November 17, 1900, Capt. Eaton A. Edwards, Twenty-fifth Infantry, was detailed for duty in the division. Capt. Joseph C. Castner, Fourth Infantry, was relieved from duty in the division on March 30, 1901. Lieut. (now Capt.) Winfield Scott Overton, Artillery Corps, and Lieut. Joseph S. Herron, Eighth Cavalry, have remained on duty in the division during the fiscal year. Captain Overton is now under orders to join his battery. Lieut. Harley B. Ferguson, Corps of Engineers, was detailed for duty in the division on August 30, 1901. Capt. Edwin A. Root, Tenth Infantry, was relieved from duty in the division on September 6, 1901. All the military technical publications, dispatches, reports, etc., received in the division from our military attachés and other sources abroad, have been noted, carded, and properly classified. Many communications addressed to the War Department or its bureaus and written in foreign languages have been translated in the division. A considerable amount of data on various military subjects has been furnished from time to time to the different bureaus of the War Department, officers of the Army, and service schools, in addition to that published in the several pamphlets prepared in the division. Capt. Carl Reichmann, Seventeenth Infantry, and Capt. Stephen L'H. Slocum, Eighth Cavalry, who accompanied the Boer and British forces in South Africa, respectively, have submitted their final reports on the military operations in South Africa. Extracts from these reports have been published in Military Information Division Publication, No. XXXIII. Since the last annual report the military information division has prepared and issued the following-described publications: "Military Notes on the Philippines" (illustrated)—an additional supply of 500 copies. List of military publications, books, pamphlets, etc., received in the AdjutantGeneral's Office, War Department, from August 1 to November 1, 1900." Same from November 1, 1900, to April 1, 1901. Same from April 1, 1901, to September 1, 1901. No. 31. "Explorations in Alaska, 1899, for an all-American overland route from Cook Inlet, Pacific Ocean, to the Yukon," by First Lieut. Joseph S. Herron, Eighth Cavalry. No. 32. "Notes of military interest for 1900.” No. 33. " 'Reports on military operations in South Africa and China." WORK OF THE MAP SECTION DURING THE YEAR. New edition (1901) of the "Carta General del Archipelago Filipino" (published). This work has all been of the most satisfactory character. Especially have the maps of China been of very great value to our troops operating in that country, and have been highly complimented by all interested in them. One hundred and seventy tracings have been made for the Annual Report of the Lieutenant-General Commanding the Army and the various publications of this Eight hundred and thirty-eight maps, both foreign and domestic, have been received and filed. office. WORK OF THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ROOMS DURING THE FISCAL YEAR. There have been in the photographic rooms over 500 negatives on wet plates varying in size from 5 by 7 inches to 34 by 34 inches, and a somewhat greater number of negatives on dry plates varying in size from 4 by 5 inches to 17 by 20 inches. The wet-plate negatives have been principally copies and enlargements of line work, such as of maps and official documents. In the cases of the map work, much of it has been to photograph to the same scale sets of maps of the same region drawn on different scales, each map of a set containing some desirable information not found on the others of the set, and then supplying prints from the negatives for the use of the draftsmen in the military information division for them to use in compiling a new map containing all the information on all the separate maps of the set. Such was the method used in compiling the complete maps of Cuba, Porto Rico, the Philippine Islands, South Africa, and China. By this method a great saving is made in both time and money in the compilations of maps in the military information division, besides producing them on the new scale with all the accuracy of the originals, since by photography the work of enlarging and reducing is done in a very short space of time and with comparatively small expense, which if done by the most rapid and improved methods by the draftsmen, would, in some cases, require months of steady work, with all the chances of various errors creeping in. During the sessions of Congress, when the War Department was called upon to furnish copies of important and sometimes secret letters and documents, etc., to the committees and members, these papers were sent over to the gallery to be photographed and facsimile copies of them made, which were furnished, and they answered all the purposes for which they were required, and the necessity for taking the originals from the files and letting them pass out of the possession of the Department and running the risk of losing them was thus avoided. Most of the dry-plate work has consisted in copying photographs accompanying the various reports received from different officers during the year and preparing special prints of them for the use of the photo-engravers in making half-tone plates to reproduce the photographs in the published reports. Other dry plate work has been in the copying of pictures for the war album, and of illustrations for the publications of the military information division. Considerable orthochromatic work has been done in copying colored maps and blue prints, which could not have been done on either wet plates or ordinary dry plates. There have been made during the year nearly 5,000 prints on the various kinds of paper, depending upon the purpose the print was to Most have been prints direct from the negatives, although many enlargements on bromide paper have been made, some as large as 3 feet wide by 7 feet long. serve. The work on the war album has progressed, and the preparation of new views to be included in it has been continued with all the rapidity possible in the time when not otherwise engaged in the regular map and other work of the division. Through the kindness of Mr. E. C. Rost, artist and author, of New York City, who loaned the Department nearly 600 glass negatives of scenes in Cuba, taken at the time of the occupation in 1898 and 1899, there have been made prints from about 175 of these negatives, to be included in the album. In the military information division exhibit at the Pan-American Exposition the photographic rooms furnished as a sample of their work four large prints of maps representing explorations by the Army in Alaska. The negatives from which these prints were taken were some made in the course of the regular work for the division, and not for this special exhibition; nevertheless they were thought to be as good as could be made by anyone anywhere with especial care for exhibition purposes, hence they were used. This is mentioned simply to illustrate the care that is always used to produce the best work possible at all times. No additional apparatus has been added to the gallery during the year, the only expense having been for materials and chemicals used in the regular work. Until more suitable and commodious quarters can be obtained for the gallery, there is in it now about all that can be conveniently used. All old hypo baths after becoming exhausted, the waters in which prints were washed, and all scraps of sensitized paper were carefully WAR 1901-VOL 1, PT II—3 |