New-York tribune., 1889-12-22
A HANDSOME NEW ARMORY.
THE COMFORTABLE HOME OF THE sTH
REGIMENT
FORMALLY ACCEPTED BY THE ARMoRY BOARD
THE sEMI.ANNUAL COURT MARTIAL
RECEPTION

RECEPTION.
Orders were received at the First Brigade head
quarters the latter part of the week from Albany for
the semia annual court martial for delinquent officers
and BrigaderG General Louis Fitzgerald will issue orders
to have the court some time in the first Of
January out of the seven regiments in the First
Brigade there but two in which there are no officers
who will be called to account for delnquences of one
sort another Those two are the 7th and oth. IN
the 9th, 18th, 22d. list and 00th Regiments there
are one or more officers in each who will be called
upon to explain why they have been absent from
certain number OF parades, or why they nave Deeh
delinquent in other minor matters
Commissions have been received from Albany for
Major and Engineer Francis Vinton Greene. OF the
First Brigade and Captain Andrew e. ZabrisNe as
inspector of rifle practice of the list Regiment
The sth Regiment has at last got home whlch IL
can call its own. At a meeting of the Armory Board
on Thursday evening the armory was formally
accepted, and orders given for the payment Oh
the balance due to the contractor who built II. III
architectural beauty, well as in the completeness
and convenience of its equipment, 1t has been pro
nounced one of the best not the best National Guard
armory in the country 1t occupies the entire piock
between Fourth and Madison aves. and Ninety fourth
and Ninety fifth sts., fronting in Fourth-ave' INC
ground on which it IS built is within short distance
of the highest point on Manhattan Island. Inc
armory consists OF administration Dulldlhg III lo
and a drill hall in the The latter Is 2Oo leeO
Il
The original intention TO have the drill nan -oo
by 24o feet.
The front of the building in FOurthave Is a VIDE
gable deeply recessed behind two powerful towers
80 feet in diameter and 125 feet high Tie lower
story between the towers is occupied by teiTacc'
the front wall of which is pierced by an entrance
archway or sayport, leading directly to the main
drill hall This terrace has an of 33x0O feet,
and can be used for additional drill purposes. One
hundred feet at the Madson-ave. side OF the Dloch
IS unoccuped and this space will be surrounded by
a substantial stone wall and the space maoc ihto
drill ground II will also be used for holding ateuc
sports In the subbasement of the armory and ex-
tending the length of the main drill nail IS the
armory rifle range which is equipped with six targets
and all tile improved appliances for indoor shooting
The terraccd basement referred TO Is used as
suuad drill room, and supplementary rooms Tor IhiS
purpose are provided on the basement
floor The armorer's quarters, boiler rooms
Kitchens avaores, storage rooms and quarermasters
storehouse take up the remainder OF this floor.
ON the first floor the Ninety fCnrth-st. tower is to
be fitted up as a reception room, which can also be
used as a meeting room for companies, the hoiuhg ~
the regimental courts, and the like In the CORE
spending room in the Ninety -ffth-st. tower the
Board of Officers room will be situated These lower
rooms are forty-seven feet in diameter and twenty
one feet high, and when completely furiShed VIII
make luxurious quarters, library and reading room,
dressing rooms for the field and staff officers Offices
for the adjutant and quartemaser quarters dor the
non commissioned staff, and the ianitor's once are
disposed conveniently in this story.
The second floor is devoted wholly to the companies
Here are ten meeting rooms. Gunracks and lockers
have no place in these quarters. The rooms fur
nished uniformly in antique oak. two desks. sxfoot
table. and fifty chairs being allotted to each. The
company rooms average twenty three by thirty three
feet and are eighteen feet high. On the third door
are twelve rooms exclusive of quarters for the drum
corps and baud which separated by the distance
between the two towers. lc rooms are lifted up with
I OGO lockers each six t,et three inches high and
twenty three inches wide AID deep. All changes m
uniforms and clothing Wiil be made here, with H..
result that the parlors or company rooms proper
at all times be available for the entertainment @.
puests and not he reauCd 10 be kept closed prccedin
or following a parade, h. The IN every other
armory in New York anC EroOllyn. The fourth hoo.
gymnasium, while at ihe top Of the Ninety dftli-,t
tower a regimenta club iU1A viii be situated. supplied
with billiard table. chcs, lndrts. and other means .
reasonable recreation ana diversion:
The % Battery will give a ball on February 90 T.
oreanizatiOn drills four uir its each week.
ono OF the topics now discussed In military circle
the coming reception Of the 22d Regiment, which , .
occur on January 10. The Metropolitan Opera IIo,
on that occasion will be clabOrately decorated ~
more and his band have prepared novel Program.
during the performance OF which many original nie,.
specially arranged. viii be rendered There Will be In
attendance military representatives from this city
Boston Philadelphia. Albany. Baltimore and Washing
Ton and the United states Army and Navy Inytl.
ons extended to prominent citizens OF those cities have
been accepted and the application for boxes together
with the sale Of tickets indicates large assembaee.
The proceeds to be expended upon the armory
now IN course Of construction at the boulevard and
sixty-eighthst.