Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-17
THE CITIZEN SOLDIERS.

THE members Of Battery will receive their
camp pay tomorrow evening.
THERE is rumor that Captain @. 9. Holmsa
Of Company B, Eighteenth Regiment. will
tender his resignation shortly owing to his ap-
preaching marriage.
MAJOR ALEX. MCCANDLEss of the Four
teenth, fuctuates between Atlantic City and
Pittsburg almost weekly. At present he Is in
the city, but will go East tomorrow night.
CORPORAL Ross, of Company G, Eighteenth
Regiment, has been practicing on the Fifteenth
Regiment range at Freeport. He has made
score of 46 out of possible 50 and expects to go
to Mt Gretna with the team next month.
LIEUTENANT W. 9. BROWN, Inspector Of
Rifle Practice of the Fourteenth Regiment,
has been assigned to duty by reason of his
leave of absence expiring and will Commences
70 hustle the boys at once on target practice.
FoR the first time in many years there are no
colored cadets in West Point, and consequently
no colored officers will be added to the army
for i've years to come. There are four colored
officers in the service now, two of whom are
chaplains. and all of whom are serving success
fully with colored regiments.
MosT of the company .commandants have
suspended drills until the hot weather Is over.
Colonel Smith will probably order the regiment
out for street drill as soon as the weather gets
little cooler. The street drills held before camp
were great help to both officers and men, and
showed their good effect the first drill in camp.
CAPTAIN w. H. DAVIS and Liautenant A.
l. Pearson, Jr., of the Eighteenth Regiment,
left Thursday evening for two weeks trip In
the East They will visit West Point and the
encampment of the New York National Guard
at Peekskill. Captain ]. P. Penney was to havo
accompanied them, but owing TO sickness in
his family was unable to do so.
THE inactivity of the Eighteenth Regiments
fr.p
its percentage. Company is the only COM
pany that has a range and the chances are thst
Captain Coon will have 60 marksmen before
the season Is over. Several officers of the
Eighteenth Regiment will endeavor to secure
the old range at High Bridge, on the Castle
made with the present owner, il having been
sold since last season.
THE State of Massachusetts has decided not
to send = team to contest for the National
championship at Creedmoor this year, on ac-
count OF the treatment given the visiting teams
there last fall. At meeting of the Inspectors
of Rifle Practice of this State few weeks ago
1t was decided not to send a team to CreedmOor
this year. so 1t looks as if the meeting at Creed
moor next month will be somewhat of a failure.
No other States outside Of New York has as
yet signifed intention of participating in the
contests.
THE correspondent of the Army and Navy
Journal has the following in regard to the
artillery of the National Guard: ",rhe artillery
arm is not a credit to the State. There are no
signs Of system or discipline observable In
their work. and a more disreputable looking
set of drivers and caDnoneerS it would be difh-
cult to imagine. The uniforms were torn,
shabby and soiled. The drivers were un-
provided with spurs and leggins,
aud some of them had 10 whips.
The guns are old and the carriages dilapidated.
The gatling guns give satisfaction. especially
those of the SO mouel. Is it due to lack Of
funds or to culpable neglect that the guns and
carriages make SO disreputable an appearanee1
They look as If they had not been painted In
the last five years" The above criticism 10
rather harsh, and il seems as if the author oft
had not been received as cordially as he ex-
pected no would be in the battery camp. The
personnel of the batteries is equal to any other
arm of the service.