ARTILLERY SCHOOLS. The 'United Slates artillery school, established at Fort Monroe, Va., constitutes an independent command, from which all reports and returns are made to the head quarters of the army. It is governed by spe cial regulations, modified from time to thne, as may be necessary. The school consists of a com mandant, adjutant, officers detailed as instruct ors, and of the troops and enlisted men assigned for duty or instruction. The commandant and the heads of the departments, in addition to forming the faculty, constitute a board of artil lery for the general service, to which questions of professional interest can be submitted. Be sides the instructors, the student-officers are usually attached to the batteries serving at the post. Details for instruction are made first from non-graduates of the Military Academy, who have not already served at the school, and then from graduates of the Military Academy who have not served at the school. The first artillery school for practice was established at Fort Mon roe in 1824, but was discontinued six years later. A second attempt was made in 1858, but was stopped by the Civil War. The school was
again started in 1867, but it was temporarily dis continued in 1898, owing to the officers being needed in the field, etc., during the Spanish American War. it was reilstablished in 1900. the course being for one year, commencing September 1, and under the plan then adopted was intended chiefly for the recently appointed lieutenants of artillery not graduates of the Military Academy, a considerable number of whom were admitted to the army during and after the Spanish-American War. "Instruction is both theoretical and practi cal, and the course is closed by all examination before a board of officers especially appointed for the purpose. The curriculum includes the sub jects of ballistics and sea-coast engineering, elec tricity, mines and mechanisms, artillery, coast defense, chemistry, and explosives, special courses including customs and usages of service, property returns, correspondence, regulations, etc. A branch of this same institution is the school for electrician-sergeants, under the man agement of the officer in charge of the artillery school.