Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A lokacin yakin Mutanen Espanya-Amurka, ya yi aiki a kan jirgin asibiti "Relief", yana jigilar sojoji marasa lafiya da rauni tsakanin Cuba da Puerto Rico. Ya kuma yi aiki a cikin Philippines daga 1902 zuwa 1903, inda ya kasance mai kula da asibitin farko a Manila. Daga 1904 zuwa 1908, ya yi aiki a California a matsayin kwamandan Babban Asibitin a Presidio na San Francisco. Bayan girgizar ƙasa ta Afrilu 1906
A shekara ta 1917, tare da yawancin birnin da girgizar kasa da gobara suka hallaka, an nada Torney shugaban likita na birnin: ya bude asibitocin soja don amfani da birnin kuma ya shirya ƙirƙirar asibitin filin wasa da sansanin 'yan gudun hijira, kuma ya hana annoba.