Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-26
GOSSIP OF THE GUARDS.

COLONEL NORMAN M. SMITH IS recovering
from his fall of a week ago, and expects to be
out in a few days.
CAPTAIN CHARLES y HOLMES, of Company
b, Eighteenth Regiment, returned to the city
yesterday, after an extended wedding tour in
the East
MAJOR MCKEE, who for the past four years
has been stationed at the arsenal in this city.
left for his new assignment at Frankfort last
week. Major Phipps, late of the Dover arsenal,
has taken Major McKees place in this city.
LIEUTENANT COLONEL JAMES STREETER,
of the Tenth Regiment, spent few hours in
the city last week. Colonel Streeter halls from
Little Washington, and is the tallest man in the
Guard. to say nothing of his ability to tell
stories.
BISHOP MCCLARAN, who has been in the
city during the past week in connection with
the conference of bishops here, was old
member of the Duguesne Greys before he en-
braced his present calling and in those days
strictly one of the boys.
H. j. LANGHAUs. formerly Quartermaster
Sergeant of the Eighteenth Regiment, and for
many years connected with the local militia,
died last Friday and will be buried this after
noon. Six of his friends, most of whom are
now officers in the regiment, will act as his
pallbearers to-day.
LIEUTENANTs HORACE F. LOWRY and Will
lam A. Dock have been detailed as instructors
for the non-commissioned officers of the
Eighteenth Regiment. Certain nights will be
set aside for the school and it will probably be
continued through the winter. 1t would be well
for the other organizations in the city to follow
suit In the matter of non-commissioned officers
schools, as it is expected the inspectors next
spring will be even more rigid than ever in de-
termining the knowledge of the sergeants and
corporals.
THE rain during the past few weeks has
seriously interfered with rifle practice in the
local organizations and as a consequence consid-
cradle work will be done in the coming ten days
as the season closes November g. An effort
will be made to have the time for closing the
ranges extented until the last of November, as
Battery and the Eighteenth Regiment did
not commence practice until the early part of
September on account of being unable to
secure grounds. Both of the Pittsburg regi-
ments and the Battery will excel the record OF
last season in the number of men qualified.
THE companies and the field music of the
Eighteenth Regimen. are ordered to report for
battalion drills Monday, October q, Thursday,
November 13 and Thursday, November ~. at
T:S0 P. M. They are also ordered to assemble
on Thanksgiving Day. November "a, at 2:30 P.
N. for parade. A little more attention is ex-
pected from the line officers, as company drills
must be held weekly hereafter, and the num-
Der of men and officers on each drill is to be
ported to headquarters weekly. AS number
of officers have lately been abserting them
selves from the city without leave, hereafter
leaves of absence are to be required and other
forms of military courtesy will be expected.
CAPTAIN HENRY SCHMIDT. Of Company A,
Fourteenth Regiment. is having pair of very
pretty marksman's buttons made to be con-
sested for by the enlisted men in the local or
ganzations on some day before the closo of the
present season. The buttons are to be of gold
and enamel, with garnets in the bulleyes. and
will be patterned after the ones in
use in the regular service, the winner
of them the first time to keep them.
Captain Schmidt's example would be good one
for some of the other officers IN this end of the
State to follow, as no greater incentive can be
given to rifle practice than by putting up few
trophies to be contested for. By barring out
some of the crack shots who wear shoulder
straps the results become much more uncer-
tain and consequently more interesting.