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Cost-Pius Plan
Added Millions
To War Waste
Tremendous Graft Flour?
ished in Building Camps;
Delay and Gonfusio>n Add
*ed Enormously to Expense
Many Never Completed
Contractors' Profits Estimat?
ed at About 22 Millions;
? Labor Paid 60c. an Hour
This ia the second of a series of
er'irles revealing what the inefficiency
of the Administration cost the people
n?f'ir United States in the conduct of
f*<* World War.
The cost-plus system, which the gov
crnmert adopted in the erection of war
camps nnd war plants, was responsible
:or enormous expenditure and waste.
By this system the government fur?
nished everything and paid all costs,
depending upon the contractor to do
the w6rk efficiently and expeditiously
a!?(i with as much economy as possible.
The system waf> adopted because of the
necessity for haste in the construction
cf war establishments and because of
fluctuating cort of materials and labor,
which would have made contractors
reluctant to assume obligations involv?
ing millions of dollars on their own
revsponsibility
Records of Congressional committee
investigations show that the cost-plus
system resulted in tremendous graft,
delay and confusion. Contractors* prof?
its above the cost of the project came
to enormous sums, in many instances
waste and delay appeared to result
from systematic efforts on the part of
contractors to make their jobs cost
more and last longer in order to in?
crease their own percentages of profit.
Goethals Condemned Plan
General Goethals, one of the greatest
of American engineers, condemned the
cost-plus system in his testimony be?
fore a Congressional committee. He
suggested that greater speed could have
I'cen attained by intrusting the work
to government constructing engineers
instead of to independent contractors.
Army training camps cost the gov?
ernment 51,200.000,000. Contractors
net profits were about $22,000,000.
Sworn testimony after the armistice
elicited, for example, at Camp Grant,
Chicago, that there was reckless "cost
plus" construction. Four thousand car?
penters were hired where 2,000 would
hav? sufficed and would have completed
the work possibly in less time at less
cost. Laborers, were paid CO cents an
hour, and when discharged as ineffi?
cient were rehired as carpenters at
$960 a day. Cement and nails were
ruined in great quantity by weather.
Workmen loafod and at the "end of the
day would throw their tools in the mud,
receiving new tools on request.
At Camp*"Sherman, Chillicothe, Ohio,
evidence elicited that hospital plumbers
loafed and gambled through weather
28 degrees below zero, while soldiers
contracted pneumonia and died in great
numbers. Joseph E. Poole, who had
been employed at Camp Sherman, tes?
tified that nurses and doctors clad in
sheepskin and fur coats attended sick
soldiers lying in frigid buildings be?
cause the steamfitters refused to work
on the heating system, and loafed in
order to make the job last longer and
the pay greater.
Other witnesses testified as to roof?
ing material., piled like cordwood, so
that two-thirds of it became useless be?
cause it would not unroll; tons of nails
thrown on tho ground and wasted;
dump fiies fed with costly lumber;
large gangs of men uselessly employed;
boys, listed as journeymen carpenters,
drawing big wages.
W. G. G?nther, of Chilliccthe, tes?
tified: "The waste in lumber was enor?
mous, mountains of it piled up and
burning; waste of nails in the same
. proportion. I have salvaged enough
nails myself from a building to build
another one."
Waste at Camp Sherman
G?nther told the investigating com?
mittee that the men were admonished
by foremen not to woi!; too hard oi
they would lose their jobs. "1 think 1
am safe si saying that it could hav?
been done in two-thirds of the time
one-third was wasted. I said then
'.vas waste, waste enough, in my hum
ble opinion, to build another camp.'
G?nther in a contracting carpenter o?
twenty years' experience.
Camp Sherman cost the governmeir
$12,902,635.18.
Not only the erection of war cstab
lishments on the cost-plus system, bu
the disposal of them after the armis?
tice, exhibits tremendous loss.
The records show that the Old Hick
cry powder plant, built at cost-plus for
the government by the du Pont Powder
Company, was completed lor $90,000,
00?, and after the armistice became
worth only $10,000,00" ::: ?>:>h*age value.
Copper wire and Valves were sold as
| junk, and two-acre lots, as we?? as 244
i carloads of "good material," were dis
| posed of at junk prices. ?
The powder plant at Nitro, W. Va.,
cost $70,000,000 to build, and was sold
1 after the armistice for $8,551,000, most
! ly in deferred payments.
Neither Old Hickory nor Nitro fur
? nished powder which was used in the
war.
The government built another powder
plant at Perryville, Md., at a cost of
$14,000,000. This plant furnished no
powder used in the war.
At all plants modern cities w*<ere
erected, with houses, waterworks, paved
streets, theaters and other places of
amusement. At Nitro the waterworks
system was sufficient for 600.000 peo?
ple. The government furnished free
housing, gas, light, heat, water, drugs
and medical service.
At Nitro in August and September, !
1918, 50,000.000 pounds of cotton was
dumped in the mud and ruined. Thirty
one thousand tons of sulphur, valued at
$30 a ton, was also wasted by ex?
posure to the weather.
Perryville Plant Leased
The post-armistice fr.ve of the Perry- J
ville, Md., plant was involved in a bill
passed at the end of the last Congress, |
grouping it with several hospitals j
turned over the United States Public j
Health Service for the care of wounded ;
and disabled soldiers. When the Secre- :
vary of the Treasury and the chief sur- !
geon of the IHftlth Service, whose de- i
partment is an adjunct of the Treas- !
ury, discovered that they had assumed j
a powder plant they found no use for j
it.
It was found that under a statute of |
1879 the Secretary of the Treasury had |
authority to "lease, at. his own dis?
cretion, for a period not exceeding five
years, such unoccupied and unproduc?
tive property under his control."
The Perryville plant was consequent- j
ly leased to Captain Charles E. Cole, j
former disbursing officer at the plant, !
a friend of Secretary of War Bak?r :
and brother-in-law of George Creel, the
"White House publicity agent," and of
Dr. R. II. Creel, an assistant surgeon in
the United States Public Health Serv?
ice. Captain Cole's recommendations
for a commission in the army were
made by the (.'reel brothers. The terms
of the Cole lease are as follows:
1- Use of the $14,000,000 Perryville
plant, with machinery, for a year free !
of charge.
2- After the "first year the govern- j
ment is to be given 50 per cent of the :
profits, provided profits do not exceed j
So,000 a month. If the profits exceed i
this amount the residue is to go to the I
lessees.
3?Authority to sub-lease the plant ;
is granted.
4?-The government agrees to buy the
electric light and public services of the
plant.
5 Preferential right to lease sev?
eral hundred houses built by the gov?
ernment in that part of Maryland is
grante d.
Captain Cole had two associates in
his lease. aTid they were not required
to furnish bonds or give security for
the safe care of the $14,000,000 prop?
erty. The lease covers five years.
The government's shell loading plant
at Fort Dell, Delaware, was not com?
pleted when the armistice was signed.
Up to that time it had cost about $14,- j
000,000. Witnesses before an investi- I
gating committee swore that among!
the builders there appeared to be little I
efiort to aid the government, the chief
object being to beat it.
The Muscle Shoals nitrate plant in
Alabama was the subject of some hun?
dreds of pages of testimony. Built on
the cost-plus basis, it cost about $81,
000,000. There is testimony that a
cook was employed as a draughtsman,
a furmer was employed as an engineer
and a movie actor as a mechanic.
Boilermakers were found asleep in
their boilers, electricians lonfed, pay?
rolls were padded, lumber was stolen
in quantity, teams were left idle, near?
ly $1,000,000 was spent to recruit
labor. Union scn'.e carpenters cut
brush, water boys appeared on pay?
rolls as structural iron workers and
gambling was permitted to keep the
employees contented. The commissary
closed down with a deficit of about
$1,000,000.
The establishment of Camp Benning,
near Columbus, Ga., appeared extraor?
dinary from the testimony bf wit?
nesses. Camp Benning was planned
as an artillery reservation, despite the
large reservation at Fort Sill, Okla?
homa. The government bought a plan?
tation, as part of the site, for $439,000,
which had cost the owner $32,000, as
testimony showed. So much land was
required for the whole site that it
l( ft an entire county without enough
taxable land to support it. The camp
was building when the war ended.
Secretary Baker told a committee of
Congress that all work had been
btopped. Congress adjourned and the
work was resumed. Later, before the
Congressional investigating commit?
tee, Secretary Baker admitted the con?
tinuance of work at Camp Benning.
"I certainly made a mistake in doing
that," Secretary Baker testified.
The bill for Camp Benning was $7,
154,887.06. Congress put a' stop to
Camp Benning by legislative enact?
ment. Senator Owen, a Democrat, said
of Camp Benning, in the Senate:
"The conduct of the War Depart?
ment discloses a proceeding which
seems exceedingly scandalous."
Business Holds
Taxation Chief
Campaign Issue
3,673 Men of Affairs in
. All Parts of Country
Express Their Views on
Vital Issues of the Day
For Modified Prohibition
Radicalism Is Regarded as
Still Being Aggressive;
Optimism Should Prevail
Four thoughts are paramount in the
minda of the men of affairs in the
United States, if a survey just com?
pleted by Harris, "Vinthrop & Co.,
bankers, of New York and Chicago, is
an indication of the trend of thought.
The survey was made so that a com?
prehensive idea of political and eco?
nomic conditions in this country could
he obtained. It is described as a "com?
posite picture of business America,"
and is the consensus of the views of
3,673 business men on vital issues at
this time. The four questions on which
the majority Are agreed are:
1. That taxation is the main issue in
the campaign,
2. That liberalized prohibition is gen?
erally desired.
3. That radicalism is still aggressive.
4. That optimism should prevail.
Twenty-five questions were submit?
ted, and of the 3,673 replies 2,641 hold
that the question of reduced taxation
is considered of greater importance
than tho League of Nations by the
voters in their section of the country.
About the same number report that a !
majority of the people, wago earners j
included, favor tho abolition of the ex-j
cess profits tax and a reduction of the
income tax. Of the answers 2,621 indi- ?
cate that a small consumption ta* or !
turn-over tax of 1 to 1V_ per cent |
levied on the total business or sales of'
every going concern is favored.
In regard to the tariff tho answers j
indicate that public opinion is abf>ut
equally divided between a desire for
higher tariff protection and a main- I
tenance of the present duties.
Opinion on Prohibition
Question No. 6 roads ap follows:
"There are some who favor prohibi?
tion that have come to believe that it ?
is practically unenforceable and that !
the corruption and lawlessness that it |
breeds more than offset its benefits. !
A definite answer to the question is i
difficult, but we would like to know I
whether you favor a liberalization of i
the law in order to permit the sale of !
light wines and beer."
This has elicited many replies, a ma?
jority of which iavor the proposed lib- ;
eralization. In the Northwestern dis- j
trict, comprising Minnesota, Wisconsin
and the Dakotas, opinion is equally ?
divided as to the desirability of modi?
fying the law. The verdict elsewhere
seems to indicate that a large portion
of the national territory is sentimen- i
tally "humid" or "moist" if, indeed, it ?
is 7iot "wet."
Collectively considered, tho answers
to the questions which have to do j
with commercial and financial condi- j
tions seem to indicate a qualified opti- !
mism.
Most of the firm's correspondents
seem to think that Liberty bonds have j
now been permanently distributed '
among those who will keep them, and
this opinion finds confirmation in the ,
sharp advance in government bonds ;
that has occurred since the report was !
compiled.
Opinion as to the immediate future ;
of business seems to bo evenly divided.
A majority of less than 10 per cent
look for a further contraction, but
from the cotton states there is re?
ported a preponderant expectation of
an early business revival.
"This," Harris, Winthrop _. Co. say,
"is somewhat remarkable, when the
decline in cotton and the outcry it has
caused are considered."
In answer to an inquiry as to wheth?
er tho organizations known as the In?
dustrial Workers of the World (I. W.
W.), the Communist party of America,
the Communist Labor party, the Non- !
partisan League, the Socialist-Labor !
party, the Socialist party of Amer?
ica, the. anarchists and the Union
of Russian Workers were active or ag?
gressive, the replies indicate that near?
ly all of them appear to have a sub?
stantial membership in most states of
the Union, and that while an effort to
oppose them is being made in some
quarters it is not by any means as
general as those who believe that the
beginnings of political evil should be
resisted ought to hope.
Pardee Sees Prosperity
For Electric Railways
Declares Roads' Greatest Trials
Have Passed and Better
Days Are at Hand
ATLANTIC CITY. Oct. 12.?Pros?
perity is in sight for the electric rail?
ways of the country, John II. Pardee,
president of the American Electric
Railway Association, declared at the
opening to-day of the association's an?
nual convention.
"The industry, having passed through
ils greatest trials, is now on the road
to better days," said Mr. Pardee. "Sta?
tistics indicate largor earnings and in?
creased ridings for all companies.
Some companies aro now earning a
satisfactory return. Many are earn?
ing an amount above their operating
expenses. Only a few are in that des?
perate financial condition that con?
fronted them two years or even one
year ago.
"There has been too wide a de?
parture from basic economic law in the
control and regulation of the indus?
try. Whon an emergency ca"me the in?
dustry %vas in no condition to guard
itself. What then was, and is, needed
to restore it to a completely sound con?
dition is the adoption of a few com?
mon-sense principles. A perusal of
the reports of numerous commissions
that have investigated electric rail?
way affairs dieclopes a striking unan?
imity in the conclusions reached."
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Dog Chasing a Cat
Nearly Costs Lives
Of Eleven in Fire
Seven Sisters Rescued and
Four Firemen Injured at
$50,000 Blaze in New?
ark; 3 Taken to H capital
A dog's inclination to rout a strange
cat found prowling about his home
yesterday caused the destruction of a
three-story frame building by fire,
property damage estimated in thou?
sands, and the narrow escape from
death of at least eleven persons,seven
of them sisters. After several thrilling
rescues three of the fire-trapped vic?
tims are in St. James Hospital, New?
ark, and four firemen are suffering
from minor? injuries.
Shortly after 7 o'clock Joseph Meiti
reg, owner of the building at 150 South
Street, Newark, heard his dog Brownie
barking vigorously. Descending the
stairs he saw the dog chasing a rat
through a lonp hallway. At the enc
of the hall was his store, a combina
tion toy and fireworks emporium. A;
he opened the door he was met by ;
rush of flames, which later proved t(
have been caused by the dog, whicl
upset, a combination lighter.
Rushing to the street, he summon.!
Engine Company No. 3, barely twi
blocks away, and hurried back int<
his home to awaken other member:
of his family.
When the firemen arrived they sav
two daughters, Grizella, eighteen year
old, and Lillian, nineteen years old
shouting for help from a third floo
window. The building was envelope?
in flames. In a window on the secon?
floor were two other children, Jane
ten, and Marie, eleven.
While an extension ladder was ru;
up to the third floor Fire Chief Men
singer placed the only other laddei
too short to reach the second floor, o:
his chest, pushing it up far enough t
be reached by Jane and Marie.
The flames were rapidly croepin
toward the two older daughters, ?in
they were.painfully burned before th
extension ladder could be hoisted t
them.
Firemen hurried up the ladder to ai
the girls, who had started down, bu
Grizella's hands were so badly burne
she was unable to hold to the rung:
slipped, caught herself for a momen
and then dropped on the backs of th
firemen waiting below to break he
fall.
Lillian, standing on the windo
ledge while the flames roared back i
her, waited until tho firemen carric
her to safety.
Shortly after the four sisters hs
been brought to the street lire men n?
ticed Elizabeth, the oldest daughte
groping her way into the smoke-tillc
hall. She paid no heed .to their wan
ing, but pushed her way forward to
rear room on tho third floor, where V.\
other children, six and.seven years ol
were trapped. She carried them to
window in the rear of tho buildin
whence all three were carried to saf
ty. Two minutes later the buildii
caved in.
Three of the children were taken I
the hospital to be treated for bun
und shock, a.nd the four firemen <
v. hose backs Grizella fell were treatf
by doctors at the scene.
Arrests Preacher,
Woman and Editor,
Soapbox Orators
Kin-raid's Crusade Against
Street Corner Speakers in
Ml. Vernon Traps Holmes
ami Rose Schueidermann
Special Ol-ipatch to The Tribun*.
MOUNT VERNON, Oct. . 12.-Mayor
i Kincaid's crusade against speakers on
street corners who have overlooked the
formality of first securing a permit.
I resulted Mast night, in the arrest of
three persons here. They were the Rev.
John Ilaynes Holmes, pastor of the
Community Church at Park Avenue and
I Thirty-fourth Street, New York; Miss
Roso Schneidermann, candidate for
Stato Senator and president, of the
Women's Trade Union League of New
j York, and Norman Tnomas, a New York
i clergyman and editor of 'The World
i To-morrow.
Hail is each case was fixed at $200,
which was furnished by Gerson Robin?
son, New York business man and
owner of St. Holier, a pretentious show
place adjoining this city.
The arrests violated the advice of
former Corporation Counsel Esser and
Quinn, who held that if members of
the Republican and Democratic parties
were permitted to speak freely on
?street .corners dining the campaign
without permits other speakers of
| other parties should be allowed the
I same privilege.
Recently when similar arrests were
! made the prisoners were discharged
| when their cases were brought before
a j udge.
j To-night's arrests followed an at?
tempt to test the right of the Mayor.
| Four thousand persons had gathered in
the vicinity of Stevens Avenue, near
Fourth Avenue, to listen to the speech
making and to test the ordinance, when
a largo touring car drove up and a
man stood up and proceeded to speak.
Thirty policemen gathered about the
car and ordered the driver to move on.
He obeyed, the car making the trip
around the block and again stopping.
Again the driver was ordered to move
on and again he obeyed, but again the
car stopped and the occupant tried to
speak, this time producng the Consti?
tution of the United States, which he
began to rend.
He was interrupted by the police,
vho demanded:
"Have you a permit to speak?"
"No, I have not," replied the speaker,
the Rev. Dr. Holmes.
"Then you are undeivArrest," said
?an official, and forthwith he took Dr.
Holmes, his chauffeur an,d 'their car to
the lock-up, followed by a large crowd,
who protested against tho arrest.
Released ?711 bail, and accompanied
by a hundred automobiles. Dr. Holmes
crossed the city line into New York,
where his followers wished him good
by and ?rood luck.
ft v. as later disclosed that Mayor
Kincaid had been asked for a permit
and had been told the nature of the
Meeting, but had refused to sign the
? mandate.
Miss Schneiderman was the next per
'. son arrested. Siie had spoken but
; three words when a" no!;coni:in tool
. lier in charge.
A like fate awaited Mr. Thomas, whe
: raid he resided at 206 East Eighteenth
: Street, Manhattan. Appeals will be
i taken immediately to the Supreme
I Court, it was announced.
j Two /irrcstcd Trying
To Address Socialists
Special Dispatch to The Tribunr.
NORWICH, Conn., Oct. 12, Mrs
; Glendowen Evans, a wealthy societj
woman of Brookline, and Albert Board
man, a local Socialist, were arrestet
! here to-night when they attempted tc
i address a crowd of several hundrec
persons In defiance of an order of
Mayor H, M. Leroys.
An open-air meeting had been nv
ranged and the Mayor had notified the
speakers that thoy would not b?_ par
rnitttid to address the crowd. Th?
prisoners were released on bonds and
will be arraigned in tho police court to?
morrow morning.
J. L. Snivak, of New York, a repre?
sentative of the American Civil Liber?
ties Union, who arrived here Monday
' night, Hfcid his organization was sup
Dorting Mrs. Evans and Boardmnn in
their attitude toward the local authori?
ties, and that, ?f they were convicted in
tho police court the cases would be ap?
pealed to the higher courts.
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Army Orderp
From The tribune's Washington Hmr,i?
WASt I IN? ;?.? ?X. o,;. 12.?Army orders
Issued to-day follow:
Honora))!)- Di?? harg.d
Ballard, Capt. H. .! . or?..
Carman, Capt. ?'. I.., Eng.
i Qulnn, l.i. T. .1.. In.'.
I Whltehouse, Lt. I.. S., Tank C.
| .'?ton, I.?.. R, F., Med. c.
Hafner, Capt, J.. ?.j. M. C
Onlifr, M?.). ?'. .1.. Q. M. C.
'.nuls, 2,1 Lt. ?.l. HJ.. M. T. C.
Hendrlcks, Lt, II. II.. Med. r.
Cah&lnn, :;?! i.t w. s . Q, M. c.
'?a;.. Capt. ft. ?F. San. '7
O'Connell, MaJ. .1. J., Air Sv..
I.arrabeo, Capt. ?'. II.. ?.. .M. C.
liane, M:? i. i" m ':. m <".
Mock, Capt. :'.. Mod. ?'.
Schreck, I.'.. il . Vet. ?'.
N.al, Capt, ?'. B., ?..?. M. C.
Juno?. Lt. W. 13., Cav.
?lanln.'r. 2d I.t. .1 F , Air Svr.
K? Ily, Ma i. W. F., I A. ?;. 1 ?.
Holbrook, M. 1'.. lof.
Smith. Capt. I.. H.. Cav.
.T?cknless, 2d Lt. E. .M.. Vet. C.
Hoyer, M. fol. W. E.. Inf.
Pleines, Capt. .1., Inf.
Kettenrlng, Lt. !.. f., M. T. C.
Sheehan, Capt. V,'. .1.. F. A.
Turner, Capt. ?F. Mod, C.
Snlder, Capt. .! F.. r. S. A.
Burton, Lt, .1. A., San. C.
Gahan, i.t. M. W., r. s. a.
Klnnaird. Lt, L., Air Svc.
Balley, Lt. W, A., si?,'. ?',
Uhu,. i.t. j. n.. Aii- svc.
Marshall. I.t. !>.. C. A. C
Shu? lleworlli, Capt. \V. S.. Den. C.
Murphy, Capt. C. P., Med. C.
bafian, Lt G. Q., F. S. A.
Sumner, Capt. W. A.. Q. M. C.
Smith, Capt. ? '. W., Inf.
Quartern-aster {'<r>rp?i
Spoar, Lt H., to Oklahoma City
Green, Lt. W. IL, to Camp I <:x
McKay. 2d Lt. .1. T., to Camp Funston.
McKinley, 2d !,'. ?S, !'? , to Camp Gordon.
Vincent. Lt. .1. s., to Boise
Ci'ahan, I.t. T. F.. to Camp Travis.
Stafford, Lt. ?". E., to ?'amp Lewis.
Farmer, Lt. If., to Camp Pike.
Fitzgerald, MaJ. F. v.. to Washington.
Welt-bach, MaJ. C. !>.. tu Washington.
Williams, Capt. II. X.. to Washington.
Carter, Capt. N., to Washington.
Jussewics, 2d Lt. L, I?., to l-'ort Sam Hous?
ton.
Cronlchite, r.t. W. D., to Governor's Island.
Kr.h, Lt. A. ",'.. i?. ? la n p Eustls.
Barlow, MaJ. 17 D. Jr.. to Fort Croo!?
Cassldy, I.t. .f. J., to Baltimore.
Dye. Lt. .1. W., to Fort Crook.
Moore, Capt. W, IS., to Camp Euatts.
Medical Corps
Stilphen, MaJ. II. X.. to Governor's Island
?'linn', Lt. F. .1 . tu Camp Bennlng.
Smith. 2d I.t. W. M., to Camp Devens.
Houck, 2d I.t. A. T.. to Camp Sherman.
Talbot. 2d I.t. M. V., to Camp Lewis.
v.'aiti. Pi, _?1 Lt. .1. A., to Camp Sherman.
Brittain, _?i I.t. T. P., to Chicago.
t_l__na_t, 2d Lt. G. a, ? ,.? Camp Devi is
Stockwell, 2?! Lt. li. !.. tu San Antonio.
Canning, Maj. A. J., to Washington.
Chapman, MaJ. W. A., to Camp Pike.
Ramsey, 2d Lt. .!. A., to Fort Sheridan
Williamson, Lt. W. II., to Camp Sherman.
Mace, 2d Lt. P. A.. t?j Camp Cram.
Barrow, Capt. W. 11.. to Takonia Parle.
Auld, Mai. F. p., to Camp Sherman.
Adams, 7'?. I.t. W. M.. to Camp Benning. ?
Davis, Capt. A. I... to Camp Lewis.
Lynch, 2d Lt. F. E., to Camp Grant.
Murphree, 2d I.t. W. M., to Fort Bliss.
Navy Orders
From The Tribune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.?Navy orders
issued to-?!ay follow:
Arnold, Lt. M. S., to V S. S. Waters.
BJorhus, Gun. B., to F S. S. Ludlow.
Brown, Kn.s. ('?. W., to I . S. S. Downes.
Chllds, Ens. c. ?'., to U, S, s. Brazos
Corley, l.i. Coindr. W. A., to F. >'. S. I'enr.
sylvanla.
Culbertson, Comdr. W. I.., to Asiatic Bta.
Cunningham, Ens. J. .1., to U. S. s. Kalk,
Dolpino, Lt. .1. C, to U. S. S. Colhoun.
Evven, find. II. I... to U. S. S. M. Farland.
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