GEN. FRANCIS V. GREENE.
A New York Volunteer Officer Wlic
Is Making: a Name for Himself
in the Far Fast.
Gen. Francis V. Greene, who had
command of the third expedition tc
the Philippines and whose men fought
so bravely against the Spanish forces
before Camp Dewey, was appointed
from civil life to his present position
but there is no man in the regulai
army better equipped as a soldier than
he is. He was born in Providence, R.
I., 48 years ago, and was appointee
when a lad to the military academy at
ft
West Point. He was graduated first in
a class of 58 men in 1870, and began his
career in the army as an engineer with
the corps of engineers, the highest
and most brainy department in the
militarj- service. He was astronomer
and surveyor for the United States
GEN. FRANCIS V. GREENE.
(Hero of the Battle Before Camp Dewey,
Manila.)
government, and assisted in the sur
vey of the boundary line between this
country and the British possessions
in the northwest. Twenty years ago
he was assigned to duty in the office ot
the secretary of war at Washington,
and was then sent abroad to watch
the Turko-Russian war. His observa
tions in that field are standard and are
published in two volumes. In 1886 he
resigned tc become vice president of
the Barber Asphalt Paving company,
a position he filled when the president
selected him as a commandant in the
war with Spain. He was colonel of the
New York Seventy-first regiment when
he took the comand he now holds.
Baltimore is said to contain the
largest negro |>opulation of any city in
the world. The coming census is ex
pected to show at least 125X00.
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