Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-24
National Guard Notes.

CAPTAIN ALFRED Il. HUNT, OF Battery b,
Is in Washington. getting things in shape for
the boys arrival next Sunday.
MASTER JAMES G. READ, of this city, has
been. designated as a candidate for admission
to the West Point Military Academy.
AN invitation has been extended to several of
the regular army and navy officers in this city
to accompany the Eighteenth Regiment to
Washington next week.
MAJOR JOSEPH T. SPEER, formerly of the
Eighteenth Regiment, has made arrangements
for an extended trip to Europe. He sails May
and expects to be gone year.
SPECIAL Orders No. from Division Head
quarters announces the discharge of Captain
Joseph E. Valentine, of Company G, Second
Regiment, by reason of resignation.
ADTUTANT GENERAL AxLINE, of the Ohio
National Guard. was in the city during the
week. He expects to take about 5000 men to
washington for the inauguration parade.
CAPTAIN A. J. LOGAN, of this city, has been
appointed an aid ON the staff of Governor
Beaver for the inaugural parade. He has de-
c1ded to remain with his regiment, however.
A MEETING of the Board of Control of the
Fourteenth Regiment will be held tomorrow
evening for the purpose Of completing arrange
ance is requested.
GEORGE R. RUSSELL, of Boston. a member
Of the Massachusetts, Volunteers, recently
made 50 points ON the standard American tar
get, at 200 yards. 1t is the highest record Ier
made with the national arm at that distance of
hand.
MOST of the city companies in the two local
regiments have been inspected during the past
Well In several cases there was a considerable
absence OF State property in the shape of KNAPP
sacks and canteens.
The new Minneapolis armory, lately erected,
is said to be fearful and wonderful piece of
architecture, and glorious monument to the
contractor that built it. The walls vary several
feet in height, and the roof has a sag in it like
the back of horse.
COMPANY A, of the Fifth Infantry Cali
fornia National Guard will pass through the
city this week to attend the Inauguration at
w aSh1ngton. They propose to give an exhibit
tion OF fancy drilling during the parade, and
their expenses for the trip will be 81 800, raised
by subscription.
AN election for captain in Company A, Eight
eenth, will be held tomorrow evening at the
barracks, on Penn avenue. The election will
be conducted by Major ]. c. Kay and the new
officers will be: Captain. Charles Roessing;
First Lieutenant, F. II. Mattern, and Second
j. Z. Tracey.
COLONEL w. II. BLooMER, of the SEVENTY
fourth New York Regiment, who was recently
tried by court martial for conduct un becoming
a gentleman and officer and making false
parade returns, has been found guilty of the
charges and sentenced to be cashiered from the
State service. There were % specifications to
the charges and he was guilty of them all.
THE staff officers of the Eighteenth Regi-
ment received during the week the new regula-
tion sabers and white gauntlets, which they re-
Gently adopted at a meeting held for that pur-
pose. The sabers are Of extra quality, with
white shark-skin grips. The stoekinet pants
and top boots will not be completed in time for
n fr.nr
New York, should the regiment decide to CO.
Two-THIRDs of the Sergeant Majors
the State habitually use the officers
sword attached to the belt by sling, either
through ignorance or desire to make bigger
display. recent note in a military journal
states that the proper sword for Sergeant
Majors is exactly the same as those worn by |
that the sling and bright scabbard business |
doesn't go in the regular service.
THE Washington Infantry has completed |
final arrangements for the trip to Washington |
The company will go in two special cars and |
take brass band of Is pieces. The full COM |
pany will go, 81 men and three officers 1t is ex-
pected to leave here on Saturday evening next |
and leave Washington on Tuesday evening |
March 3. The quarters engaged in Washing |
ION are at No. 433 Maine avenue. two blocks
from the P R. r. depot. The armory will be |
'pen, every night this week. special meteing |
will be held next Tuesday evening. Forty. |
.ight men drilled last Friday night.
THE commandants of regiments in the in
,ugural parade next week, should by all means
pay attention to one point. and that is the
equalization of their companies. Those who
nave seen photographs of the turn cut in Phila-
ielphia last fall, will remember the ragged
appearance many of the regiments made, on
account of the failure to equalize. Whileit is
probably little hard on Captain who has
worked hard and taken so good men with him
ba them q |
yet the appearance of the regiment is
70 much at stake that personal feelings should
,e overlooked.
NEXT Wednesday will be a red-letter day for
he officers of the Tenth Regiment. They will
Issemble at Little Washington for the purpose
# re.electing Colonel Alex. L. Hawkins as
heir commandant for five years more. Colonel
Hawkins entered the Tenth Regiment as Cap
ain of Company II in 1877, and has served as
of the regiment for the past ten
ears. His record in the late war was brill
ant one, having enlisted as a private in the
fifteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry in 1862, stead
ly rising to the capacityo of Captain, and being
Vill be conducted by Colonel Norman NJ. Smith,
f this city.
BATTERY B is ordered to assemble at City
Iall on Smithfield street at 730 next Sunday
vening to proceed to Washington. Men must
ppear in full regulation uniform and mounted
nd non-commissioned officers will appear with
op boots and buckskin gauntlets. The Battery
1ill laeve Washington toreturn on Tuesday
light, March b. Special transportation will be |
iven to men wishing to return the night of
farch 4. The baggage car, together with four
ondolas carrying the guns and carriages, will
cave on Tuesday morning; February 26. The
leeping-car. and So 90 per man for rations
1hile away, the amount being payable at once |
o Lieutenant r. e. Kimmel.