The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-02-27

were also in attendance Adjutant-genera
T. S. Peck Quartermaster-genera w. H.
Gilmore, Colonel julius j. Estey, com
manding the First Regiment and staff
Leutenant-colonel G. G. Kinsman, Major
o. III. Bond and Adjutant j. A. Liliis.
The officers of the Norwich Cadet Corps of
the Rock Point cadets and the Vermont
Academy cadets were also present by invi-
tation of the commander. Brigadier-gen-
eral w. l.. Greenleaf presided, and was
attended by his staff, Colonels NJ ID. Green
and William Smith, Majors Coffey and
Spooner and Captains Nelson and Kirk.
On Wednesday the entire time was devoted
to instruction in sighting with rifles and ar
tillery firing. The instructors detailed by
the war department were First Lieutenant
II. w. Hoyt of the Eleventh United States
Infantry and First Lieutenant Peter Leary
of the Fourth Artillery. The former gave
instruction to the company officers and the
latter to the officers of the Fuller Battery.
Governor Dillingham; and staff were pres
ent at the afternoon session and inspected
the drill. In the evening Lieutenant Hoyt
read an interesting paper on the subject of
rifle practice and target-shootng. He
maintained that the time was past when
the efficiency of an army depended on drill
and military tactics, and that now the true
test of the usefulness of body of troops
was found in the skill of the individual
soldier with his weapon. Skill in marks
manship was the one great essential, and
for this reason, he said, all the time at the
school was devoted to instruction in the use
OF arms and in target practice. Lieutenant
Leary read valuable paper on artillery
firing. On Thursday the officers were in-
structed by Lieutenant Hoyt in target rifle
practice in the Golden Fleece bowling
alley The men practiced firing in various
positions, standing, sitting, kneeling and
lying down. Lieutenant Perkins of St. AL
bans made the best score-twenty-tw
into nt1t nf oil 1,1a a.
shots. The school disbanded Thursday
afternoon, after one of the pleasantest, as
well as most profitable, sessions ever held.
The officers were unanimous in their ex-
pressions of praise for the able and enter
tanning instruction given by Lieutenants
Hoyt and Leary. AT the close of the school
a meeting was held for the purpose of CON
sidering the matter of sending the militia
to the Washington centennial in New York.
Colonel Fuller, one OF the Vermont COM
missiOners for the centennial, stated what
measures had already been adopted bv the
commissioners for representation of the
National Guard at the celebration. In sub
stance he said it was proposed to send the
First Regiment OF ten companies, the First
Separate Battalion of four companies and
the Fuller Light Battery the latter includ-
ing forty horses and eighty men, and also
band of forty pieces, the whole force
amounting to over seven hundred fifty
men, The route will be via the Central
Vermont railroad line to New London,
where the troops will embark for New
York on steamers chartered for the occa
sion. The troops are to leave the state
Monday morning, April %, arriving in New
York Tuesday morning 1t is proposed to
have the men carry their own rations for
the trip and to have them quartered on the
boat at night. The commissioned officers
of each company voted to take their respec
tive commands to New York, providing the
oil ~.
York over Wednesday, making a trip of
four days instead of three, as first proposed
The officers agreed that the men would be
willing to turn their pay for two days in
spection and drill over to the quartermaster-
general for the payment of transporta-
tion expenses, and that they would also be
willing to furnish their own rations. 1t
was unanimously thought that the additional
funds necessary to pay the expenses of the
trip should be raised by popular subscrip-
tion.
SEMINARY HILL.
PROFESSOR BISHOP attended the dinner of
the alumni of the Vermont Methodist Sem
mary at Boston last Friday == Profess
sor Hillery has purchased team. 80 The
Washington Glee Club gave an enter
tainment last Friday evening. - Rev.
w. A. Evans gave a lecture on The Bible,
Its Use and Abuse, last Sunday evening
before a large number of the students
- Mr.. Duffe from Dartmouth College
spent Sunday on the hill. 60 Fred Morse
finished his school last Friday. - Two
hundred fourteen students have been regis
tered this term. 60 G. g. Hammond, a
former student, visited here last week. He
starts for Mexico next month, in company
with a person whose business it is to collect
botanical specimens from that country.
He expects to return about January /. -
The Band society has placed in its hall
pendant and electric chandelier of six
lights, the list price of which was nearly
500 Last Thursday evening the students
were invited to the hall to see them lighted
for the first time. - The Juniors will
and the seniors Friday evening.