Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-12-21
body.guard on that journey. He also
accompanied the presidential party on a
Trim 10 Indiana at the head OF seventy.
two rayly decorated warriors.

well as at the regular monthly drills,
Colonel Hartman leaves his Brooklyn
home and takes command. Early last
December n company Of West Point
officers who had served under the Colo.
mel invited him TO a supper in this city
and publicly presented him with won
derful sword. Lieutenant Smith, then
in command of the Texas frontier,
made the presentation speech, and early
last March the officers of his Washing
tom staff gave him a diamond medal
This is the reason that the Colonel now
leaves some of his newer medals at
home. Ire has not been able to enlarge
his chest at the same time that he has
increased his roll OF victories. and he
cannot wear all of his medals Mt the same
time unless he pins some of them on the
flowing tail OF bis coat or hangs them be-
tween his muscular shoplder-blades.
VICTORIOUS TRIP ABROAD.
Shortly after this last medal came to
hand. as the commercial phrase has II,
Colonel Hartman received challenge
from Lieutenant Edward Jones, OF the
British army. to drill for the champion
ship Of the world. Money was soon al
vanced. and under the direction OF Gene
raj II. q. Jordan, United States army,
OF Baltimore. who acted as his hacker,
he started out TO wrest more laurels and
capture more medals. How well h
succeeded the readers OF the Hcrd'd
are aware. He won the coveted
prize in a drill before the Queen
aud the Prince Of Wales in Buckingham
Palace, and was given Seton urn by
the Queen and diamond medal by the
Prince. From that time on during his
three months tour on the Continent he
was an abiect Of general interest among
military persons. President Garnet gave
him a cane. and the Emperor of Ger
many laurel wreath. said TO be the first
that the young ruler has ever bestowed
during his short reign.
PHOTOGRAPHIC THE COLONEL.
I met the Colonel in Brooklyn the day
before he returned to Washington to re-
mort to the President after his foreign
| trip. At tho request of the Heratd he
posed in full uniform to photographer,
and / am therefore able with this artl
Gle to present the first sketches that
have ever been made OF the champion
driller as he appears during q contest.
"There are twelve movements in tho
sword drill" explained the Colonel,
"and the average time taken by good
syorlsman is seven minutes. OF course
expert drillers can 20 through them
much more rapidly. ! have completed
them in less than two minutes. Any
one can learn to drill, but to become ar
| expert one requires certain glit tol
the exercise. 1t usually takes n com
panv of men two years to thoroughly
master the sword and musket drill, drill
ing once q week. When you consider
that precision and neatness OF action,
perfect time and a good memory are re-
duired to go through the manual IN per
feet form, the time is not too long. Bu
I will guarantee that | can take a com
pany of picked men or boys and make
them the best drilled company in the
country in a years time by drilling tgc
evenings week.
EXPLAINING HIS PICTURES.
"There are twenty-four movements II
the musket drill, and they usually take
ten minutes to go through with. j have
record OF four minutes and thirty
seven seconds made during a contest
One OF the chief faults that's to be found
with the musket drill, as shown by thC
work OF the National Guard and even IL
the regular army, is the lack of precision
There is a rattle and roar as the BUTT
strike the floor. Now in Germany they
have the best drilled soldiers | have ever
seen. The men move like clock-work.
They act as il they were made OF iron
and the same spring moves them all al
the same instant.
"The photographs that were taken o.
me show me in three positions of The
sword and two Of the musket drill. The
first is the charge This movement Is
an attack used by cavalry officers against
cavalry. The second is the cavalry
lunge.' The third is blow used by q
cavalry soldier to strike foot soldier
The difference in pose between it and the
cavalry charge is easily distinguished"