Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-01
OFF FOR MT. GRETNA.
Four Teams of Sharpshooters De-
part for the State Contest.
THE SECOND BRIGADE'S RIFLEMEN.
Veterans of Three Regiments Arranging a
Reunion at York
PREPARING FOR PENNSYLVANIA DAY

On the $40 train going East last evening
over the Pennsylvania Railroad, body of
sharpshooters, representing four regiments
of the National Guard, left Pittsburg for
Mt. Gretna, with determination to secure
the prize of 1889 for the Second Brigade.
Annually rifle teams from the various
Pennsylvania regiments meet at Mt. Gretna
and compete at long-range shooting. Teams
from all the IS regiments in the State are
expected to be at the meet this week, and
the contest will be highly Interesting.
Each regiment sends six sharpshooters. Dur
ing the regimental practice on the first two
DAYS of the week four men are chosen to
form the regiments team. The two others
are held as team reserves. Monday and
Tuesday will be devoted to this regimental
practice, and on Wednesday the grand con-
test by the teams of the 1S regiments will
take place. Brigade practice will be held
OH Thursday, by which three brigade teams
will be selected. These brigade teams will
compete Friday forenoon. Last year the
Third Brigade carried off the palm.
The Tenth Regiment team reached Pitts
burg yesterday afternoon by the Baltimore
and OHIO road, and the Fifteenth Regiment
delegation came in earlYin the evening over
the Pittsburg and Western. The four teams
which left here last night are constituted as
follows:
THE CONTESTANTS. l-- a
Tenth Regiment, Captain Palmer, Company
D; Lieutenant Wakefield, Company c; Cap
tain Mowry, Company H; Lieutenant Barnett
Company H; Sergeant Thompson, color bearer,
Company E, and Sergeant Hobaugh, Company
E They are under the direction OF Lieutenant
E. E Critchfeld, regimental inspector OF rifle
practice. .
Fourteenth Regim ent, Lieutenant William
S. Brown. inspector of rifle practice; Captain
Emery Thompson, Aujutant James +. Robb,
Lieutenant R. C. Patterson, Joseph Huggins
and Moses r. Smith.
Fifteenth Regiment, under charge of Lieu
tenant Caldwell Inspector of Rifle Practice;
the team consisting of Lieutenant Mccoy,
Company F; Lieutenant cJunkin. Company
E; Sergeant Apple Company D; Corporal Nc
Cleary, Company G; Sergeant Belts, Company
join the team at Mt Gretna.
J Eighteenth Regiment. Lieutenant Richard
7. Pearson, Inspector of Rifle Practice; Cap
tain Ollie C. Coon. Lieutenant Chris Laur,
Kingan, all of Company l, and W. L. Iugram,
of Braddock.
Captain Coon is very proud OF his Nc
Keesport team, and says that he intends to
show the boys some sharpshooting at the
camp.
The men will be at home on Saturday.
They reach Mt. Gretna about 8 o'clock this
A team from Battery will
leave for the shoot this evening.
On Saturday evening Company /, of Nc
Keesport, will entertain Company D, of this
city. The Pittsburg company will turn out
in full force, and the combined organiza-
tious will edify the people of MeKeesport
with dress parade. There will be a ban
quet and a round of speeches. These two
occupied adjoining lines Of tents
at the encampment at Uniontown, and &C
quired mutual admiration.
FOR THE YORK REUNION.
A meeting of representatives of the
One Hundred and Thirtieth
and Two Hundredth Regiments Pennsyl-
vania Veteran Volunteers was held last
evening in the AlleghenysC Common Council
to forward arrangements for a
Joint reunion of those veteran organizations
to be held at York, Pa, on Tuesday, Sep |
tember "a. Those regiments were all in the |
Third division of the Sixth Corps, though |
not in the same brigade. "We are growing |
fewer year by year." said one of the mem |
DerS Oh the eLlSuLy-SefeuIH, anu IL ~ lOr |
that reason that our three regiments are |
meeting together. In few years it will |
take half dozen regiments to form a good |
.-.s.-.
This will be the third annual reunion of |
The Eighty-seventh. Two companies OF that |
regiment, F and G, were organized in Al
egheny county. Captain Joseph McCor-
mack, of COMPANY F, lives in Allegheny
City. Captain Trevillo, of Company G, is
lead.
At the meeting last evening George l.
of the Eighty-seventh, presided, |
and Jacob Wise, of the Eighty-seventh, was
chosen Secretary. About 20 gentlemen
we're present. Mr.. Wise reported that the
Railroad Company had
offered a two-thirds rate for the reunion.
The Committee on Transportation was di-
-ected to call again upon the Pennsylvania
people and also to see the Baltimore and
Ohio officials and endeavor to secure a
ower rate. The meeting adjourned until
.he evening of September a.