Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-30
GOSSIP OF THE GUARDS.


THE members of Company F, Eighteenth
Regiment. will shortly be measured for new
uniforms.
NINETEEN commissions were issued through
out the State during the past few months, the
bulk of them going to the First Brigade.
The pay for the horse hire in the Fourteenth
Regiment for last camp has not yet been re-
ceiyed, although the allowance for the Eight
eenth Regiment came down more than a month
ago.
LIEUTENANT COLONEL JAMES B. STREET
Err of the Tenth Regiment, paid visit to the
quarters of the Eighteenth last week. Colonel
Streeter made quite hustle for the appoint
ment as AdJutant General.
COLONEL SAMUEL HILL, Quartermaster
General Of the National Guaru, spent the past
week in Harrisburg auditing the account of
the rations issued by the department to the
Johnstown flood sufferers, preparatory to sub
mItting the same to the Adjutant General
ABOUT 800 members of the Eighteenth Regi-
ment turned out in the parade last Thursday
afternoon, almost all the officers being in line.
The parade was reviewed by Colonel Smith on
Irwin avenue, Allegheny. Colonel Smith was
unable to be in command owing to the effects
of his recent fall.
SOME talk is still being indulged In relation
to a match shoot between Sergeant Templeton,
of Company A, Fourteenth, and Corporal Ross,
of Company G. Eighteenth Regiments. CAPTAIN
Schmitt, of Company A, offers to back Mr..
Templeton, should contest be arranged for a
purse of $50 or SlG0.
THE non-commissioned officers school of the
Eighteenth Regiment meets next Saturday
night, with Lieurenants Lowry and Dock as i'm
structors. Every "non-com." in the reg
iment is expected to be present. The school is
to continue through the winter, and non-com-
missioners who do not attend may expect to be
reduced promptly
THE report of Captain D. NJ. Taylor, of the
Ordinance Department of the United States
Army. who has charge OF the supplies issued to
the militia of the country, is exhaustive and
thorough. The total militia strength in 1890 is
l03,592 men, a slight decrease under last year.
Captain Taylor recommends the organIz ltion
of more cavalry companies in the various
States, and also suggests several means of
keeping them alive.
THE regular monthly meeting of the Wash
ington Infantry will be held next Tuesday
evening, at which the annual election for civil
officers will take place. The boys have several
schemes in contemplation to make things inter-
| esting, one of them being ladies' night, on
which the female friends of the members may
be present and watch the drill. A new uniform
is also being talked of, but no definite steps
have yet been taken in that direction.
GENERAL ORDERS No. IS from Division
Headquarters places the following officers on
the retired list and they are entitled to wear
the uniform of the highest rank they have
held: Colonels j. Ewing Mears and Charles H.
| Townsend, Majors j. B. Compton, w. W.
| Lehr, Captain J. c. Horton Major Robert Nc
| Laskey Captain ]. p. Sherwood and Lieuten-
ant ]. NJ. Lonrimore The last three were
formerly officers in the Tenth Regiment.
THE members of Battery are actively en-
gagged in working up their fair project. and the
prospects are becoming brighter every day of
the boys wearing pretty dress uniform as the
their hOrS. Among other
| of the affair will be a shooting gallery and
Lieutenant Brown, of the Fourteenth Regi-
ment, has offered handsome shooting outfit
including a gun to the member of the local
military organization. who will make the best
string score Captain Hunt has very hand
some uniform selected. should sufficient funds
be raised by the fair, the uniform to cost at
least S25.
THE Endorsement by the Eighteenth Regi-
ment of Captain McClelland as Adjutant Gen
eral was most fitting and graceful action OF
their organization. Captain McClelland is still
in Chicago attending the meeting of the
Worlds Fair Commissioners. but will return
this week. The appointment of Colonel Cham
bers McKibben as Inspector General will prob
ably be announced shortly by Governor Patti
son, and by this selection he will add another
bright light to his staff. Colonel McKlbben is
better fitted for the position than any other
name yet suggested, as his knowledge of the
Guard and its workings and his ability as a
tactician would be most useful.
SOME comment Is being made as to the reason
why number of local officers who have been
passed by the Brigade Examining Board
months ago, have never received their COM
missions. Among the officers placed in this
predicament are Quartermaster Hubbard, of
the Fourteenth Regiment, and Lieutenant
Bennett Graf. Of the Eighteenth. Both these
gentlemen attended the last tour OF camp and
received their pay for the positions for which
they were examined, and the cause of the delay
in issuing their commissions is either due to
the Second Brigade Headquarters or the Ad-
jutant Generals Office. Several important
papers are known to have been pigeon-holed in
Franklin during the past year, and it is not i'm
probable that the commissions of the gentle
men named could be found in the same out-of-
the-way place.
WEDNESDAY evening. November 26 Com
pany E. Fourteenth Regiment gave its
first select reception to its members
and their many friends. The follow
ing well-known members OF the COM
pany were appointed as committee TO make
all arrangements for the reception. and to see
to the welfare of those in attendance, and
they well deserved the many compliments that
were passed on the manner in which they man.
aged the whole affair: Lieutenant Smith, First
Sergeant Tilery, Sergeant Fowler and Ser
geant Mclean. also Messrs. Stephens, Hoffman,
Rosenstell and Ekey. Sergeant Tillery was ap-
pointed general manager, and he, with the aid
of his friends undertook to make this the great
est success the company ever had. In this they
| succeeded admirably. Refreshments were
served the entire evening and dancing con
tinued until 2A.M.