Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-13
GOSSIP OF THE GUARDS.

AN election for Second Lieutenant in Com.
| pany ID. Eighteenth Regiment is ordered for
| April "a
MAJOR SAMUEL HAzLET, Second Brigrade
Ordnance Officer. spent few days in the city
| last week.
| COLONEL j. EWING MEARs, Division Sur
geon, has been granted a five months leave of
| absence for the purpose of spending the summer
| in Europe.
SEVEN commissions were issued throughout
the State during the month of March. Among
| the list was Emerson E. Proper, of Titusville,
another Brevet Second Lieutenant.
MAJOR GRAHAM, of the Fourteenth Regi-
ment, is still in pretty serious condition from
his recent illness. He expects to spend a few
weeks at Atlantic City, as soon as he is able to
be moved.
THE Washington Infantry will give a recep-
tion in the old Miller mansion, on Center ave-
nue., on April "a. 1t is expected that the organ
Ization will also take in the dedication cere-
monies of the Garfield monument in Cleve-
land, next month.
COLONEL NORMAN NJ. SMITH, of this city
expects, shortly to apply for leave of absence
for the purpose of making trip to Burmuda.
Colonel Smith has been in poor health for
some time and will try a few weeks on the
water for Improvement.
CAPTAIN SIMMONS, of Company H, Eight
eenth Regiment has made arrangements for
a held day for his company on June 81 at
Verona. The forenoon will be taken up in
target practice. and the afternoon in skirmish
drill, guard mount and other exercises. The
boys expect to have a good time generally.
PETITIONS are being circulated In the
National Guard throughout the State request
ing Pennsylvania members of Congress to give
as much assistance as possible for the passage
of the Henderson bill, which will shortly be
officer in the city has attached his signature
A MEFTTNH of ba Roo I'd of Nontro1 oF .L.
Fourteenth Regiment is called for tomorrow
evening, in the old Market House. Some I'M
portant business will be brought up. A meet
ing of the Board of Control of the Eighteenth
REGIMENT was held in the Diamond Street Ar
mory last night, and set of lron-clad rules for
the governing OF the building was adopted.
In orders from the Adjutant Generals office,
John NJ. Lindsay, of Company d. Eighteenth
Regiment, is discharged as a Second Lieuten-
ant Mr, Lindsay never appeared before the
Brigade Examining Board, and consequently
was never reported for commission. His dis
ties him to the commission as SUCH and he will
probably receive it. This is another case
where the Adjutant Generals Office and its
numerous decisions get badly, lied up.
GOVERNOR BEAVER and 4djutant General
Hastings visited the grounds at Mt. Gretna last
Friday. and made arrangement its with Mr.. Cole
man, the owner, in regard to- the coming en-
campment of the National Guard. The cues
ton of five or eight days pay this year is still
undecided but it looks as if the militia appro-
priation will only admit of the shorter time be-
ing allowed. The encampment will be for
eight days, however, and as it is expected a
number of the men will not stay the full period
on account of the short pay, the inspections
will he held few days earlier than usual in
order that the full strength of the guard can
be taken.
THE Second Brigade Examining Board is
ordered to convene at the Monongahela House.
Pittsburg, on Friday. April Is, at $50 p. N.
Commanding officers are directed to present
all elected or appointed officers in their re-
spective commands who have not already been
examined. The names OF all candidates for
commissions must be furnished to Captain
James H. Murdock, Recorder Of the board, be-
fore the hour for the examination. The meet
ing of the board should have been held some
time ago. so that the newly-elected officers in
the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Regiments could
have appeared at the inspections in their
proper capacity with their companies.
Mr.. FLORENCE MILLER, Paymaster of the
Fourteenth Regiment, has rendered his resig-
nation to Colonel Parchment. The 0osition is
an honorary one, no commission being allowed
for the Office but almost every regiment in the
State carries some citizen on its rolls IN that
capacity Mr. Miller's reason for declining to
serve any longer as Paymaster of the Four
teenth is said to be a general feeling of dis
satisfaction that exists among some of the
officers of the regiment, over the manner in
which the affairs of the organization are being
conducted. Surgeon McCandless, and 1nspec-
tor of Rife Practice Brown are contemplating
sending in their designations, but will probably
not do so until after the spring inspections
next month.
Mr. DENNIsToN, who is connected with the
management of the West Penn Hospital, has
about completed arrangements for o two days
programme to be carried out some time in the
early part of June, for the benefit of that in
stitution. All the railroads in the city have
agreed to haul passengers for radius of l25
miles of Pittsburg, and the Exposition Park.
in Allegheny, will be the objective point. Base
ball games and other features will be given in
the afternoons while the Eighteenth and Four
teenth Regiments will take alternate evenings
in displaying their abilities. All receipts, both
from railroad fares and admissions, will be
turned over to the hospital The features of
the affair will be the military display, |
but just what this will be will not be apnounced
as it is expected that the regiments will vie |
with each other in making the best display,