Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-18
NATIONAL GUARD NOTES.

QUARTERMAsTER CHARLES BROWN, of
Allegheny, has gone to Mt Clemens for two
weeks stay to recuperate his health.
CAPTAIN WILLIAM DAVIS. of the staff of
the Eighteenth, returned to the city yesterday,
after a weeks absence on pleasure trip.
THE Twelfth Regiment goes into camp at
Gettysburg next MONTH ana will be there dur
Army.
SEvERALmembers of the Duquesne Greys
who returned from camp at Erie report that
the boys are having splendid time, with lots
of fishing and little military discipline to
bother them. They expect to break camp
about the last Of this week.
COMPANY c, of the Fourteenth Regiment,
will be relieved from further duty at Johns
town this week. While the men have had
little or nothing to do during the past few
weeks, most of them will be pleased to get the
order to leave, as the place has grown thor
oughly monotonous.
CAPTAIN E. Y. BRECK, of this city, who
spent portion of the time at the Mt Gretna
camp as the guest of Lieutenant Shepherd, Of
the battery, proved himself an authority on ar
tillery maneuvers. Several little disputes
arose at different times on certain movements
when the tactical knowledge of Captain Breck
was brought into play, somewhat to the sur
prise of the regular officers present.
THERE is some talk of the local military or.
ganizations being asked to turn out on the
opening day of the Exposition in order to give
the affair grand send of. Should the request
be made it is very doubtful whether either the
Fourteenth or Eighteenth Regiments would
respond very cheerfully, as the boys have had
quite enough duty and display this season, and
are perfectly satisfied to let well enough alone.
LIEUTENANT FRANK E HOBBS, of tho
United States Ordnance Department, was in
the city for several days during the past week.
He has Just returned from an extensive trip in
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plants and furnaces, for the purpose of ascer-
tainlng the best methods of producing that
metal. His report is now at the War Depart
ment in Washington.
BATTERY B of the Fourth United States Ar
tillery had quite tough time in the march to
the Mt Gretna Encampment, the trip consum-
ing ten days, which were about the hardest ten
days any of the members ever experienced.
They were caught in a swamp in New Jersey
and the rain poured down necessarily for two
days. The roads were terrible-and at times
perfect stream of water: The battery horses
on the picket line would, for hours, be up to
their knees IN mud, and not man in the COM
mand had dry stitch Of clothing on for As
hours.
GOVERNOR BEAVER has decided that
the next encampment of the Nation
al Guard of Pennsylvania will be held
at Mt. Gretna, and will consist of
the entire division. 1t is also announced
that as many companies of regular troops as
the Secretary of War will allow will be invited
to be present, owing to the favorable impression
left by their presence during the past ten days.
This is the first year the regulars ever mingled
to any extent with the militia, and both sides
have been SO well pleased with the results
that it will be an established thing in the
future.
The encampment at Mt. Gretna, which
ended yesterday, has been remarkable one in
some respects. Several members of Battery
B who returned to the city ahead of their COM
nand. in speaking of the tour. stated that, in
their opinion, the State troops have received
more instruction and information on the de-
tails of military duties than dozen ordinary
camps would bring forth. The rigid discipline
Of the regulars was enforced as much as posi-,