Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1909 — NEW NAVY AIDES NAMED BY MEYER [ARTICLE]

NEW NAVY AIDES NAMED BY MEYER

SweeplngChanges In Department Go Into Effect Today. GENERAL STAFF IDEA TRIUMPHS Reorganization Contemplates Merging the Work of Many Branches to Secure Greater Efficiency—Experts to Control Business Which Has Suffered Delay In Passing Through Unwieldly Machinery of Maritime Office —Construction Board is Abolished. Washington, Nov. 30. —A sweeping re-organization of the naval establishment of the United States has been begun today. Practically the whole reorganization scheme will be put into operation without additional legislation by congress. It is evident from the new naval regulation just issued that the advocates of the principle of establishing a general staff for the government of the navy have been triumphant The board on construction is to be abolished and hereafter, as long as the new order of things lasts, the work of this bureau is to be performed by the exisiting general board in conjunction with one of the secretary of the navy’s new aides, assisted by officers with the fleets. The bureau of equipment will be abolished also. Meyer Names Advisory Staff. Coincident with the promulgation of the regulations to carry these radical changes into effect, Secretary Meyer announced the appointment of officers who will form his advisory staff and who to that extent at least will have the last word in matters which come before the secretary for final action from the present bureaus, who heretofore have carried out the departmental administration. These officers, all of the line, are to constitute the aides mentioned. Their names follow: Rear Admiral Richard Wainwright, who commanded the third division, Atlantic fleet; to be aide for operations and management. Rear Admiral William P. Porter, chief of bureau of navigation; to be aide for personnel. Rear Adimral William Swift, commandant of the Boston navy yard; to be aide for material. Captain Aaron Ward, president of Board of Inspection and Survey; to be aide for inspections. Captain Reginald M. Nicholson, now a member of the Board of Inspection and Survey, is to be appointed chief of the bureau of navigation to succeed Rear Admiral Potter.