The morning call., 1890-09-29

on hand ON the following day to go home
! with the regiment. But Biscuits missed
| his train on Sunday; there was no use of
! returning to Santa Cruz by the next train,
| for the regiment and the brigade would
| about be home at the same time, and " Bis
cults" was thrown on his resources. True,
! he was with friends, but it was too humli-
ating TO confess his quandary. But =" Bis
cults" reported Mt the armOry in San Fran
cisco some days after his regiments arrival.
lie had worked his passage up from Mon
terey on one Of the steamers as a dish
washer in the uniform of private in the
n. g. c..
RODE HOME ON THE BRAKES.
Another young warrior also wanted to
commune with the idol of his heart at Los
Gatos, and obtaining furlough on Satur-
day left camp having promised his Captain
to meet the regiment on the following day
at train time. The homeward train with the
regiment was at the depot at the appointed
hour sure enough, but no young warrior,
who found himself without money enough
to pay his fare to San Francisco He came
to town, however, a day after the regiment,
having rode up on the brakes of "a freight
train. That young warriors uniform Will
prObablybe accounted for by the Captain at
the next annual muster and inspection un-
der the head of damaged in service"
PRETTY SOUVENIR CARD.
One of tie prettest souvenir menu cards
was that devised for the dinner rendered OH
last Tuesday evening by Leutenant-COl-
onel E. A. Denicle. 5. o., to the Signal
Corps of the Second Brigade, n. G.sC. On
this occasion Leutenant-CoIonel S. |. Kel-
logg,I. r. p, and Major D. E. Miles, S. O..
were guests and Corporal p, }. Perkins
was presented with the medal for being the
best all-round signalman. The souvenir
was bound in white satin with fringed end.
On the face and embossed on diamond
shaped piece of card was the corps helmet,
with the orange plume i'll colored satin
fringe; on the back, also on diamond,
was the embossed badge OF the corps in red
silver and gold. The first page of the SOU
venir bore photo of 1.-The father of the sig
nal corps with his autograph, and the
third and fourth the menu in the signal
code, which menu, though probably not in
tellglble TO everyone, was undoubtedly
The two last pages
gave the names of the officers ana members
Of the corps, forty-one in all.
THE BEGINNING OF THE END.
From Alameda one report is that the
new military company is still keeping up its
organization and living in the hope that
some day it will be mustered into the Ma
tional Guard: If it does not succeed pretty
sorn the recruiting officers are likely to ffud
1t difficult TO keep tie ranks full" Another
conveys the information that 1.-THE officers
of the military club. which was organized in
this city about six weeks ago, now state
that the club cannot be mustered into the
National Guard except by an act of the
Legislature, and it is doubtful if the club
will hold out much longer" As no one,
save the ill-advised organizers, imagined for
one moment that it ever would "hOld out
at all, there will be no lamentations heard.
Now, probably, not one of the officers so
suddenly fired with military zeal. will work
off their superuous steam by enisting in
any of the three companies in Oakland and
SO near home. They would have to enlist
as prlyates and military enthusiasts OF the
Alameda kind all want to be officers, SER
geants and corporalS-not priyateS.
WHAT Is THE CONNECTION?
A contemporary yesterday published in the
order given the two items which. follow, CIV
ing out, unlntentlonally perhaps, the impress
sion that there is a connection between the
position on the regmental staff and the
dinner given by Mrs. Lieutenant Z. Kehr-
lein:"
1t is reported among those who know that
there will lie Il vacancy In the Office OF Second
Lieutenant OF Co mpany b, Third Infantry, soon,
owing TO The probable promotion of Lieutenant
kehIlen 10 a position on the reglnentai stan
with the rank of First Lieutenant and Paymaser.
very pleasant social event IN military circles
The dinner given by Mrs: Lieutenant L.
kehrleiH TO Colelel Thomas L. Barry and Lieu
tenaut- Colonel 0Connor. The menu cards
beautiful samples Of the photographers art, and
were emblematc OF military organizations.
GRACEFUL ACT.
Brigadier-G General Cutting did graceful
act in connection with Camp Waterman,
and that is ne did not appropriate for bri-
gade headquarters the $1,000 bonus for the
camp subscribed by Santa Cruz, but ordered
it divided among the companies composing
his brigade. This stands out prominently
when compared with the action of division
headquarters in 1885, also at Santa Cruz, in
hogglng $500 in such shamefaced manner
as to call forth circular in protest from
the Colonies of the Second Brigade.