B. The following tabulation shows the number of officers and enlisted men in each regiment who are proficient in signaling as defined by Army Regulation 1761: The number of hours given to instruction and practice in the different military departments is as follows: *Assuming that 75 per cent of the aggregate of each regiment was available for instruction. C. WAR DEPARTMENT, SIGNAL OFFICE, SIR: I have the honor to submit the following report for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1894: ESTIMATES. As required by law, estimates for appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1894, were submitted to the Secretary of War on August 18, 1893. The estimates for signal service of the Army, including the military telegraph lines, were reduced from $22,000 to $21,500. Estimates for deficiencies have not been necessary. A special estimate of $960 for the construction of a military telegraph line from El Paso, Tex., to new Fort Bliss, Tex., was submitted April 30, 1894. In the estimates for clerks there was submitted an item for one clerk of class 2, with a view to having the services of a clerk in the preparation of the money and property papers of the disbursing officer, but it was omitted by the Secretary of War in the estimates submitted to Congress. As a clerk is very much needed to relieve me from clerical labor, and one officer has been relieved from duty at this office, and that I may devote some time to more important matters, I urgently recommend that an effort be made to secure an appropriation for such clerk. There have been filled requisitions for property from 21 telegraph stations and 93 Army posts to the number of 286. At the close of the year 4 requisitions remained unfilled, owing to time required in removing office. CONTRACTS AND LEASES. No leases were made during the year. As required by act of Congress approved April 21, 1808 (Stat. L., vol. 2, p. 435), I submit herewith a list of contracts made during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1894: Manhattan Supply Company The Friedenwald Company. Chas. A. Muddiman. The E. S. Greeley & Co.. Excelsior Manufacturing Company. Queen & Co., Incorporated. Manhattan Supply Company. R. C. M. Burton. Western Electric Company J. P. Friez The E. S. Greeley & Co. F. P. Nash W. B. Moses & Sons. Sam P. Wreford Place. New York City. do .do SHIPMENTS AND RECEIPTS There have been made to stations and military posts 3,635 shipments by mail and 70 (260 boxes) through the Quartermaster's Department. There have been received from contractors 239 consignments, and from stations and military posts 103. SALES OF CONDEMNED PROPERTY. On March 5, 1894, at Washington, telegraph and other instruments, tools and other articles, $39. On June 30, 1894, there were in the office 34 unsettled accounts-6 for want of completion, 28 on account of time being taken up in moving office. INSPECTION OF MONEY ACCOUNTS. My money accounts were inspected and the balance verified by Lieut. Col. G. H. Burton on October 17, 1893, and February 2, 1894, and by Maj. J. P. Sanger, inspectorgeneral, on June 23, 1894. D. LIST OF PRINCIPAL ARTICLES IN ARCTIC EXHIBIT OF SIGNAL CORPS AT WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION AT CHICAGO, 1893. Greely relics. Admiralty Manual of Scientific Inquiry, found at Cape Sabine in Proteus wreck cache. Ax, used by the Greely party for three years in arctic region. This was the implement used for digging the graves at Camp Clay. It was also indispensable in preparing material for the walls of winter quarters of 1883. Body belt, worn by Lynn on the hazardous mission to Cape Isabella in 1883; also during the retreat, and at Camp Clay until his death. Can opener, left at Cape Sabine by Sir George Nares in 1875. Coat lined with skin of eider duck, used by Lieut. Greely at Fort Conger, on the retreat to Cape Sabine, and at Camp Clay when rescued. Dog-skin gloves, used by Private Henry on the retreat from Fort Conger. Originally owned by Dr. Pavy. Flag, the Greely arctic. This flag was made by Mrs. A. W. Greely, and was intrusted to Octave Pavy, M. D., and was carried by him to Greenland in a private arctic expedition in 1880. Dr. Pavy delivered it to Lieut. A. W. Greely at Ritenbenk, Greenland, in July, 1881. The flag was carried in May, 1882, by Lieut. Lockwood, Twenty-third Infantry, to latitude 83° 24' N., longitude 40° 46′ W., and was there unfurled by him at the nearest point to the North Pole ever attained by man. the summer of 1882 the flag was carried by Lieut. Greely into the interior of Grinnell Land, and was unfurled by him, July 4, from the highest point in Grinnell Land, the summit of Mount Chester A. Arthur, 4,500 feet above the sea. In 1883 it was carried to the shores of the polar ocean north of Greenland by Lieut. Lockwood, thence south In west across Grinnell Land to the western polar ocean, where it was unfurled on the shore of Greely Fiord, May 16. The flag was also displayed on the launch Lady Greely on a trip made during the summer of 1882 into Weyprecht Fiord to the head of Lady Franklin Sound, and down Kennedy Channel to Cape Craigcroft, and during the retreat from Fort Conger to Cape Sabine in the autumn of 1883. The flag has been four years within the arctic circle. Relics of the Arctic expedition of Sir John Franklin, recovered_by_party under Lieut. Frederick Schwatka, U. S. Army, and loaned by the National Museum, Washington, D. C. Three spoons and 1 fork, 3 scissors, 2 watch cases, 1 gimlet, needle and button, bottle, human hair and pieces of cloth, pieces of brass tubing, copper sheathing, fur suit, surgical instruments and photograph, writing case, barometer case, sword and scabbard, flint lock and shotgun, piece of mast, fragments of flagstaff, file, part of boat, sledge runner. Relics of Hall's first expedition. Bundle of arrows, tape measure, opera-glass case, 2 tablets, iron chisel, pair of gloves, writing tablet, 1 mahogany box, with pipe, paint brushes, paper-cutter, and miscellaneous collection, autograph papers, canvas bag, lead line and reel, double-barrel gun, copper writing tablets, boat log, single-barrel gun, letter from Eskimo Joe, empty bottle, photograph Eskimo Hannah, photograph Eskimo Joe, canvas drinking cup. The above-enumerated relics of Hall were also loaned by the National Museum, as were relics of the Jeanette, Grinnell, Perry, and Ross expeditions. The American Geographical Society, of New York, also loaned relics of the Hayes, Ross, and Grinnell expeditions, and the figurehead of the brig Advance, of Dr. Kane's expedition, was loaned by Kane Lodge, of New York. Dr. T. H. Bailey, of New York, also loaned interesting relics of the Franklin expedition. |