The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-10-20

AIS, or rs less. The Third Infantry witt!
8 companies had only membership. OF
400, or less than the First, but Y more than
the Second. The Second with 41S then had
per ceDtage of S0.14 in attendance, so that
S35 must have drilled that month, while the
First with 494 men and 71.9l per cent must
have drilled $3.50 more than the Second
yet, Notwithstanding, its attendance was
very poor"
The Third with 400 and s companies,
and 1918 per cent, drilled 36o men-lo
more than the First and 80 more
than the Second-yet the Second, with actu-
ally the smallest number drilling OF all,
had the largest percentage of attendance"
So much for the face value OF the AdJutant-
Generals tabuated figures of merit.
Look at these figures from another stand
point ard note the result. The Thirds sos
men, in companies, represented 3 maxi
mum companies with SO men over; the
First's 355 in companies, maximum COM
panieS and 46 men over, and the Second
335, in companies, 8 maximum companies
and 90 men over, so that the % companies of
the three regiments represented during that
month at drill only 10 maximum companies
(or l maximum regiment with rs men over.
THE ARMY OF 10000.
The oracle, who certainly must be a first
cousin, if not closer blood relation. to the
S. w. c., has seen fit to comment as follows
upon the report of Captain OCOnnell, u.
S. A.:
Certain it Is that the National Guard OF Cali
fonla have urgent need for better weapons. State
aImories, camping ground and rifle range
With these the "army' of 10000 men alluded
TO In that report would be efficient soldlers,
what ii Is not possible under the present arrange
ments Tor them to be.
The total company strength of the n. G.
c. during the month CT August, when all
but one of the encanpments reported upon
were in progress, was 3773. The alluslon OF
the officer to an army corps was as 1ollowS:
California can place in the lied an army
corps of $1,000 well-trained soldiers In
thirty days should the Government require
it," so that there is no connection whatever
between the actual 3TI3 and the contin gent
10000.
Not even can paragraph in general
orders be copied correctly as the following
bright gem from a contemporary will attest:
"Lieutenant-C Colonel Samuel J. Taylor,
First Infantry, Second Brigade. U. S. A,
has been retired with the rank of Lieuten-
ant-Colonel from January II, 1885," VIII
the author of this kohinoor please elucidate
what and where is the First Infantry,
Second Brigade, U. S. A.?" Shades of the
oracle and the s. w. c., and what has the
retirement of U. S. A. officer to do in
orders from general headquarters, State of
California"
There is a tradition that an annual muster
and inspection was held of the Second
the cncampments. no report of it has vet
been published for the information of the
\. G. c."
Captain u. O'Connen. First Infantry,
L. S. A, who inspected the National Guard
eneampmeGtS, will entertain some of the
officers of the citizen soldIery next Thurs
day afternoon at Angel Island.
On the last Thursday of this month the
board of officers in the First Infantry will
sit for the examination of eligible non-com-
miSsioned officers.