Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-18
GOSSIP OF TIE GUARDS.

THE inspection Of Battery B takes place next
Thursday evening. and Captain Hunt has Is
sued invitations to the event.
The inspection Of the Tenth Regiment thiI
spring was one OF the best that organization
| ever passed. Colonel Hawkins has kept up hiI
| reputation as hustler.
All members of Company X, Fourteenth
| to be present az Central Armory on Tuesday
| evening, May 20, at . O'Clock for drill.
COMPANY d, Eighteenth Regiment, pro
duced the finest set Of non-commissioned OH
GERS of any company SO far inspected. They
were compli mentsd By Major Patterson for
their efficiency.
THE finest armory in the Second Brigade ID
said to be the one at Bradford belonging to
Company of the Sixteenth Regiment The
second best is at Oil CITY, belonging to Com
pany d Of the same regiment.
THE election for Colonel in the Third Regi.
ment will take place the latter part Of this
month. The bitter feeling existing between
the two factions in the regiment Is rapidly
dying out, and the reelection of Colonel Bon.
anon 10 now assured.
THE Board of Managers of the West Penn
Hospital have about decided not to hold the
military feld day at the Exposition grounds In
Allegheny, on June z, as that date has been se-
lected for the annual picnic Of the Amalgams-
ted Association. and many people would thus
be kept away from the former event
A PORTION Of the equipments Of the Fifth
Regiment. q. 8. ARTILLERY, passed through the
city last week en- route to New York. The bat
the far West for many years. but have lately
been assigned to some Of the garrisons In the
Division Of the Atlantic.
JOHN W. HUBBARD, Of Ellsworth avenue,
East End. has been appointed quartermaster
Of the Fourteenth Regiment. Mr.. Hubbard
has never been connected with the National
Guard heretofore but his ability as a business
man insures his fulfllment of the position In a
capable manner Mf Hubbard Is q brother
in-law Of Lieutenant Easton. Of Company F,
THE enthusiastic members of Company A.
1wenty-second Pennsylvania Infantry, Ma
tional Cadets, are complaining that parents
are very backward In allowing their sons to
Join their organization. 1t should not bo for.
gotten that the leading educators Of the coun-
try are urging that military training be intro
duoed In all the colleges. They recognizes
that nothing 80 brings out the manly and pa
trlotio instincts Of the youth Of the country as
military training.
A NUMBER Of the mounted officers of tho
Eighteenth Regiment are securing tho new
regulation boots for riding purposes and
II Il expected the entire feld and staff will be
20 equipped sssby by nsss CAMP While these boots
they have besb IN Use In the reeHlaf ssrVies
for some time, and many Of the officers OF the
First BfKhds are now wearing them They
are veiy comfortable and pretty In appearances,
and are "a Improvement over the old boot now
generally worn In the guard.
A MEETING OF the Second brigade EHamin.
Ing Board 10 called for Tomorrow evening at
the Seventh Avenue Hotel. and all appointsd
or elected 0fiieaFs who have not already been
examined are expected to appear before H.
The object OF calling this meeting so soon after
the last one OF two weeks ago is RttFibuI cd 70
several reasons. One of the causes 10 that the
last meeting was so painfully illegal
and unconventional In workings that Gem
eral Wylie was compelled to call an
ether one In order to try and square mat
tsrs. At the last meeting I'll applicants were
passed with the exception of Lieutenant Joseph
jackson, of the Fourteenth Regiment, and the
latter gentleman has asserted he will contest
the aorion nf the board before he accepts the
decision. The number OF applicants at the
next meeting Of the board must necessarily be
rather slim.
The past week finished up the inspection of
six of the companies Of the Eighteenth Regi-
ment and the remaining three companies will
be put through the test the latter part of this
week. The inspections were most thorough in
every detail, and IL IS safe to say Major Patter.
son has pretty fair idea of the condition OF
the different organizations. With few excep-
tions the work showed that the school IT the
pon.commissoned officers had been neglected,
Tue appearance OF the men. the condition OF
State property and bearing OF the officers were
good. The number presented were below
what the regiment has shown In former