The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-10-05

RPSlmenIal orders nave been issued In tne
Fifth Infantry as follows:
Regimental ORDERS No. 81.
/. From and after the LIST day OF October
1890, the headquarters OF this command will be
located IN Oakland, Alameda County. California,
as follows: Rooms % and %, Blake Block, 1o65
Washington street, to which place. from the
dale above mentioned all communications re.
Iating TO the affairs OF this command must be
addressed.
ii. Hereafter the regular order announcing
discharges, promotions etc, Will be issued not
later han the 2Oih OF each month. Company
commanders will govern themselves accord
ngy. Their attention is directed to paragraph
1884 OF The regulations relating 10 The discharge
OF enlisted men, and they are directed to make
application Tor the discharge OF members of their
companies conform 10 the requirements as there
In stated. Their attention is likewise directed
10 paragraph 31S, and they are further directed
to at once arrange their companies accordingly.
III. The attendance Of officers and enlisted
zen at the regular drills and asspmblageS being
not only required by law,~Dut absolutely Deces-
safy for the efficiency and Improvement of the
companies, company commanders will in the
future require regular attendance, and will ex.
cuse none except for good and sufficient cause;
which absence and excuse must be noted and
either approved or disapproyed in all cases on
the regular monthly returns.
Colonel Fairbanks made the change in
headquarters because he considered that it
would be for the good of the regiment to have
them where the reatest number of menI-
bers of the regiment is located, two of the
six companies being in Oakland with the
Major and also the band. Colonel Fail banks
is resident of Petauma, and long COM
manded the company there. His service
as a line officer, it would seem in this in
stance, serves him well in the Colonecy in
consulting for the best interests of his COM
maud the desires of his officers and men. A
more selfish man would have disregarded
these considerations, consulted only his per-
sonal convenience perhaps and located head
quarters in tile place where he resides. The
Fifth has always been handicapped in the
fact that its companies and field officers are
so scattered, but Colonel Fairbanks seems
to be Il man OF tact, ana If the Fifth does not
make the mark again it will not be for the
lack of trying Upon assuming command
things were found in very neglected state
in the Fifth, and the Colonel and Adiutant
CASTOR have had no easy time of it, This is
in explanation of the above orders.
There was growl very recently from
Oakland because its three companies are so
frequently shelved on the occasion Of pa
rades. The battalion had chance to show
itself Oh the occasion OF the escort of the re-
mains of the late Governor Stevenson of
Nevada. What was the result? When Ma
jor O'Brien looked over his battalion of
three companies he saw to his SURPRISE that
he did not have the minimum strength of
one company in that battalion. The three
companies We're represented by forty-eight
luGll. NUllplHy - VI lllt lllllu Udu IWtulS,
Company of the Fifth thirteen, and Com
pany + Of the same regiment had fifteen
men in ine-a very uncredtable showing in
deed.
Says the Oakland Tribune: Early last
week the death Of Ward Davidson occurred
IN San Rafael, and he was quietly buried in
Oak and on Wednesday last, September
9th. Here is a man that should have gone
10 lis grave with military hOnors, but very
few knew of his death. Mr.. Davidson was
the founder of the signal corps In the Ma
tiOnal Guard. and for a long time Lieutenant
of the first corps organized in the Second
Brigade, which was the reglmental corps Of
the Filth. Previous to this Davidson was
Second Lieutenant i'll the Old Oakland Light
Cavalry, which became Company 4 Of the
Fifth in 1855.
The drum corps of Company A of the
Fifth, remembering with appreciation the
many kindne>ses extended while in camp by
the members OF the drum corps OF the First
Infantry Regiment and to show their good
feeling toward the latter, are making ar
Tangements for Sumptu0us banquet to the
drum corps of the First on next Saturday
evening. No sumptuous banquet, please;
but if there must be sumptuosity, let 1t be
materiaiZed in beer, cheese and crackers
and coffee and doughnuts.
The oracle in announcing that several
elections have been ordered Ill the Fifth In
fantry Regiment backs the statement with
the further assertion that on Friday evening
a certain A. ID. G. presided at an election
for officers of Company E. Now, the cleo
ton was held in L of the Third and the re-
suit was announced in The CALL on the
following morning, which caught on to
the blunder in orders us soon as the latter
were published.
The transfer of Second Lieutenant Sey-
mour Waterh0use of the cadet company of
the First to Company G of the regiment has
been approved. 1t is noticeable that all the
members of the cadet company who have
seen fit to join any Of the ocular companies
OF the regiment are found in one certain
corps.
- The noise Of political warfare is making
itself heard and is having the effect of cur
failing all but routine duty i'll the various
regiments of the Second Brigade" 1t goes
without saying, of course, that this is from
the oracle. But what else could there be at
this season of the year save routine duty,
and. what moreover, is ext aUrdinary routine
duty?
Colonel Dickinson finds himself unable to
attend the battalion duties ordered in the
regiment. The Majors and the Captains
will have command, the latter being a new
idea of the Colonel.
g Battery" + of the Second made an in
formal call upon Light Battery A at It's ar
mory on Pacific avenue on last Monday even
ing.
Now Second Lieutenant Batchelder of
" Battery" ID Of the Second has rendered his
resignation.