. Morton memorial; a history of the Stevens institute of technology, with biographies of the trustees, faculty, and alumni, and a record of the achievements of the Stevens family of engineers. he Provinces ofHavana and Pinar del Rio. This work in-cluded the establishment of the city systemsof telephone and telegraph in the city ofHavana and in Camp Columbia. In May, 1899, he was appointed chief sig-nal officer on the staff of Lee,and was shortly afterward sent to GovernorsIsland on the staff of Merritt, andput in charge of the purchase of electricalmachinery, Signal Corps s
. Morton memorial; a history of the Stevens institute of technology, with biographies of the trustees, faculty, and alumni, and a record of the achievements of the Stevens family of engineers. he Provinces ofHavana and Pinar del Rio. This work in-cluded the establishment of the city systemsof telephone and telegraph in the city ofHavana and in Camp Columbia. In May, 1899, he was appointed chief sig-nal officer on the staff of Lee,and was shortly afterward sent to GovernorsIsland on the staff of Merritt, andput in charge of the purchase of electricalmachinery, Signal Corps supplies, and theoutfitting of a machine-shop for the repairof Signal Corps material in the September of the same year he was de-tailed to represent the Signal Corps in wireless telegraph experimentsduring the international yacht races. In October, 1899, Lieut. Wildman was or-dered to the Philippine Islands and placed incommand of Company H, of the SignalCorps, with orders to establish telegraphiccommunications in the Department of theVisayas. In June, 1900, he was appointedchief signal officer of the Department of theVisayas on the staff of Air-Compressor, Norwalk Iron Works/,. D. Wildman In August, 1901, he was detailed to the cableship Burnside, and with Capt. George laid the Signal Corps cables connect-ing the southern islands. On the establish-ment of the Department of South Philip-pines he was appointed chief signal officer of 6i4 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY that Department on the staff of , in charge of the communications onall the islands of the archipelago south of theisland of Luzon. On the passage of the Re-organization Bill of the Army, February 2, 1901, he was transferred from the rank offirst lieutenant U. S. Volunteer Signal Corps,to that of captain in the Signal Corps, UnitedStates Army. In March, 1901, he was put in command ofthe cable ship Burnside, and afterwardwas made traffic manag
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