ORDERS DEPARTMENT , June The following is published for the information and guidance of all concerned: In order that the Quartermaster's Department may be fully advised as to the correct proportion of the various sizes of the new pattern uniform clothing and shoes that should be procured and carried in stock post commanders will cause each of the enlisted men at their respective posts to be carefully measured, after which each measurement will be compared with the new and improved sizes as established and which are as follows: DRESS COATS AND OLIVE DRAB AND KHAKI SERVICE COATS. Sizes. MOUNTED. Waist. Seat. Inseam. Outseam. Knee. Ankle. The widths of the new Army shoes hereafter to be purchased will conform to commercial measurements known as C, D, E, EE, and F. "C" is a new and narrower width than any heretofore supplied to the Army, whereas widths D, E, EE, and F conform to the old Army widths AA, A, B, and C. The lengths are the same as heretofore, viz: Sizes 5 to 12 inclusive. After it shall have been determined how many of each of the various new sizes as specified will be needed by the respective commands, consolidated lists giving the number of each article required of each particular size or width will be prepared and forwarded to the Quartermaster General of the Army direct with a certificate as to the correctness of the same. In addition to the consolidated reports herein called for at this time similar action will be taken and reports made on July 1, 1905, and July 1, 1906. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: OFFICIAL: ADNA R. CHAFFEE, Lieutenant General, Chief of Staff. F. C. AINSWORTH, The Military Secretary. NOTE.-General Orders, Nos. 99, 100, and 101 are not issued to the Militia. GENERAL ORDERS, Į No. 103. WAR DEPARTMENT, By direction of the Secretary of War the accompanying tables of the price of clothing (both old and new pattern) and equipage and of tableware and kitchen utensils for the Army of the United States, with the money allowance for clothing of the enlisted men for each year and month; the price of clothing and special clothing money allowance for troops stationed in Alaska; the money allowance of clothing of Philippine scouts; also of the allowance of equipage and of tableware and kitchen utensils, is published for the information and guidance of all concerned, to take effect July 1, 1904, and to remain in force until further orders. Clothing and equipage purchased in Manila for service in the Philippine Islands will be charged at invoice or cost prices. Should this order not be received at post on July 1, 1904, then the same will take effect on the date of actual receipt, in which case the provisions of General Orders, No. 95, Headquarters of the Army, Adjutant-General's Office, July 1, 1903, will govern until the date of receipt. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: ADNA R. CHAFFEE, Lieutenant-General, Chief of Staff. Official: F. C. AINSWORTH, The Military Secretary. JUL 27 Reco |
