The news., 1884-08-12
Military Notes.

/ Military Notes.
The recent challenge of Company ~
First Regiment,N. G. Pa, to shoot against
company team in the Second Brigade
n. G. N. j., has been accepted by Com.
pany A, Seventh Regiment, of Trenton
and the match will take place at the
brigade encampment, near Sea Girt, N,
j., on the Goth instant. The shooting
will be at the 2G0. and 500 ranges.
The farm where the Second Brigade is
to encamp adjoins the station of the Long
Branch Railroad at Manasquan, and is
owned by Captain Bailey. Qus rter-Mas-
ter Perrine took possession on Friday,
and will proceed at once to construct the
camp. There will be 1900 tents, with
cooking tents, etc for | 800 men. The
Quarter-Master General has also rented
the property adjoining, belonging to the
estate of Captain Jackson. and running TO
the sea, where rifle range will be erected
with targets, at 200, 300, 400 and 500
yards.
Colonel Grubb, who commanded the
Yorktown Battalion, and has long been
Captain Of the Phiiadelphia First City
Troop, started with his command on Fri
day week TO march to Gettysburg. The
plan followed was biyouac each night and
live on army rations, arriving in camp
about Wednesday. The members of the
troop are wealthy young men of social
standing in the Quaker City. They own
their own blooded horses, and their uni
forns are very costly. The organization
dates back over one hundred years.
Suit has been commenced by Captain
Emmor D. French, owner of the land on
which the Stockton Rifle Range was To-
Gated, against Major W. NJ Palmer. as
treasurer ofthe late Stockton Rifle Range
Association, to recover $500 for rent dae
him whilefhe association had control of
the ground. When Mcclellan was Gov
ernor a stock company was formed by
General Gershom Mott, Lewis Perrine,
William S. Stryker, w. j. Sewell, e. B.
firnbb, George w. Gile and Colonel R.
S. Stockton, after whom the range was
named. Major w. M. Palmer was treas
urer, and John S. Lee, secretary. The
object OF the association was to make the
Stockton Range one Of the finest and best
adapted 10 rifle shooting in the country
and they expended large amount OF
money op it. 1t was conceded by rife
men to have no equal in this State or
Pennsylvania. An arrangement was en-
tered into with Governor Mcclellan
that the association should allow on
certain days in week the officers and
members ofthe Third, Sixth and Seventh
regiments, General Sewell's brigade, to
practice on the grounds, the State agree
log that If the annual receipts from all
sources were not up 10 the expenditures
it would make good the deficiency. This
was done as long as Gen. Mcclellan was
Governor, but when Ludlow was elected
Governor, change was made and in 1882
the whole OF the Second Brigade was or
dered to practice at the Brinton range,
near Elizabeth. The order caused great
dissatisfaction among the members Of the
brigade, many Of whom refused to go 10
Brinton. An appeal was made to the
authorities at Trenton, asking them to act
mp TO their contract, but Governor Lud-
low positively refused to DO so, and as the
expenses were exceeding the receipts the
secretary Of the association called meet
ing at which it was decided 10 abandon
the range, il being impossible to keep it
going without the help from the State.
Each member of the defunct association
will bea defendant in the suit, but Major
w, N. Rslmer being the financial repre-
sentative, be was singled out to serve the
writ on. The suit will be contested, as it
is claimed that the State should be made
10 meet all jast obligations, as it was the
party to first break the contract.