War Department reorganized staff to boost wartime efficiency
A major report urges expanding the War Department staff with three additional officers and chief positions for cavalry field artillery and infantry, transferring civil legal work to the Justice Department, and preserving a lean yet capable structure as the nation shifts from peace to war. It cites Mexico operations and a unified eight-branch approach as key factors shaping the reorganized system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army General Staff
War Department
Battar
Nombée
Secretary of War
Cavalry
Coast Artillery
Department
Department of Justice
Judge Advocate General of
Altornay Crenaral
Army Quartermastera
Tsade
Mexico
Acess
Algnal Corpé
Fort Huachuca
Ariz
Fort McIntosh
Tex
Fort Bias
Mexican
Fedlo
Gen. Pershing
Gen. Funston
San Antonio
Quartermaster General of the Army
Kirkpatrick
New York
Canal Zone
Galveston
Neoéparty
Quartermaster Corps of
Army
Panama Canal
Canal
Meade
Newport News
Judge Advocate General
Congress
Panama Railroad Steamship Line
Sumner
State
Chess Puzzles and Club Notes Highlight Brain Teasers
White to play and mate four dominates the page with problem 171 noted as delayed by Dr. Blankingship. Club reports include Georgetown and Capital City Club players, ladder matches, and forthcoming lectures by Mundelle and Beadle, with team match planned between animal industry and internal revenue offices at Capital City Club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dell
M.W. i
J. A
White House
Scribéa
Norman T. Whitaker
Capital City
Washington
E. B. Adame
Amatedra Jane
Capablanca
Dr. Blankingship
Mr. Stonier
Mundelle
J. D. McClure
Paere
P. J. H. Capablanca
Seattle
Portland
Oreg
Georgetown
Stringer
Marye
Gordon
Collina
Anderson
King
Booker
Craighill
John B. Beadle
Ehask
Midgate
Beadle
Roberts
Adame
Roberta
Adama
F.B. Walker
L. Tharp
J. W. Byler
J. B. Beadle
L. H. Cake
Intérburesy
Bureau of Animal Industry
Department of Agricultura
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Treasury Department
Arkansas City Poker Tale From 1882 Flood Era
iM Traveler recalls visiting Arkansas City during the 1882 flood. He describes players at a crooked poker game led by old Greenlaw with Winterbottom and Pearsall, Bassett’s volatile outburst, and how Greenlaw upheld the stranger. The tale ends with the flood barrier and a hasty departure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David A. Curtis
Post
Arkansas
Greenlaw
Tha Post
Memphis
Little Rock
Arkansen City
Littles Rock
Winterbottom
Pearsall
Blain
Arkansas City
Bassett
Bagsett
Joe
Also Mentioned on This Page
General Staff
Forr
Border
Flanal
Curtiss
New York News
Buffalo
T Ie
Hawali
KIH
Signal ¢Orpa
San Diego
Cal
Springfield (Maia
Morrow
Armory Yeaterday
Boward
William R. Mmadburg
Second Cavalry
Aulbert FE Stewart
Ordnance Department
Thomas W. Trawn
Seventeenth Infantry
Armory
Pleca
House
Senate
John Hays Hammond, Jr
Hammond
Joint Board
Alfred W. Bradley
Governors Island
W. J. L Lyster
Surgeon General
Clyde 8. Ford
St. Louis
Medical Department
Europe
William Co. Gorgas
James HR. Church
Medical Corps
France
England
Ask Transport Service
Pershing
Adams
Fallanard and
New
Capablanca Va
Marshall
Marehall
White House Vs. Press Club
Walker
Knapp
F. B. Walker
KE. M. Knapp
Black
Robert H. Ramsey
Ramaey
Gustave Reichelm
Ramsey
Whith
Pbs
Marahall
Afehall
Habana
Petrofy
Lane
Lack
oaRte
Eidas
White
M. W H
Charlottesville
T. L. GC
Dr. Spear
Cumberland
J. L
Newark
J. D
Yoakley
John Amrein
John J. Huff
Alexandria
RC. A
W. D. Brown
Charles J. Berner
PF. F. H
Prince Albert
Baricom
Blaisdell
306 Bassett
Interenough
Calaboose
Kentucky
Hassett
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