Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-04-05

TRIP OF fxsPECTIoN TO pAvID's IsLAND-NorRs
| FROM THE ARMoRIEs.
or more present importance than anything
else In the eyes OF the National Guard OF the
District is the review which is to take place
next FRIDAY. The announcement that the bri-
gaze would have to turn out in all its glory in
! company with soldiers of the regular army
caught some OF the newly recruited companies
unawares and now they are hard at work try
ing to make up for lost time, endeavoring to
seize opportunities that have glided quietly by.
Az the armories everything is drill drill drill
companies are toiling away at the manual of
arms, uniforms are being put in the best possible
condition, and wherever a command has CT i'm
agnes it has weak point there the officers are
putting in lots of instruction. Copies of Upton
that previously had not been opened for some
TIE are now carried around in coat pockets
and are referred to at odd times during the
day, while at night their possessors pore over
them until their eyes are hot and sight is dim
and the midnight oil sinks below the lower end
OF the wick. Many of the officers and men are
new, but they do not propose to be one whit
behind the older soldiers, and as consequence
they must work without ceasing in order that
their appearance and movements on FRIDAY be
not below par.
THE ORDER FOR THE REVIEW.
Early next week Gen Ordway will issue the
following order: 1.-THE National Guard will as
semble on Friday, the 1lth instant, for review
Brigade line will be formed at $3.50 o'clock %. m.
on the north side Of Pennsylvania avenue,
facing south, with right resting at 18th street ="
For the present the guard will have to con-
tent Itself with parading in fatigue dress. As
soon as possible full dress uniforms will be pro-
cured. but on Friday the only commands which
Will wear their best clothes will be the cavalry
and the battery. SO far as the battery ia con-
cerned this will be work of no little difficulty.
The renting of the New York avenue rink for a
two weeks fair will prevent the artillerymen
from taking possession of the place for an
armory, and everything in the line of equip
ments is packed up and stored away in half a
dozen different places. The battery is bound
to make good showing, however, and its off,
GERS promise that nothing shall be missing
when the time comes
When the review is over the brigade will be
marched down to It'll street and there dis
missed. That will give an opportunity for
those people who may not witness the review to
see what the boys look like.
GEN. oRDwAY's TRIP.
The coming review has caused Gen. Ordway
to cut very short his visit to inspect the culinary
and table-servinG arrangements at David's
Island, New York. Originally the generals
program was to have gone to BROOKLYN
in company with Adjt Gen. Kelton. U.
:, A, and. Col Long, adjutaut general of
the District militia. to review the twenty third
New York (Col Partridge's regiment). The
illness of Gen. Keiton shocked Col Partridpe's
plans somewhat but he telegraped Gen. ord
way to come on and do the reviewing himself
The general has consented and left this morn
ing. This afternoon the crack command is do
ing its best before the general who commands
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missary General Mcintyre and Commissary
Sergeant L. II. Neumeyer will join the general
and Col. Long on Monday morning and to-
gether they will proceed to the recruiting de-
pot at David's Island. They will be home again
on Tuesday morning.
sKIRMIsH AND REaIMENTAL DRILLS.
Guardsmen who are interested in the coming
encampment. and there are few who are not, want
to know what will be the nature of the instruc-
ton impaired this time. Last year more atten-
ton was given to guard duty than anything
else and the results, ill spite of the extremely
wet weather, were gratifying. This year guard
duty will be kept up to the highest possible
standard but the features will be skirmish and
regimental drills. Whistle signals will be used
In all skirmish evolutions and everything will
be done to make the movements popularity
successful The main idea will be to do no
work at camp that can be done in the armories
Regimental drill is one of the things that has
been but lightly touched upon and Gen. Ord
way wants to see it worked up.
A RIFLE RANGE.
1t will not be long ere there will be force of
men at work at Fort Washington preparing for
and clearing up the ground necessary for
rifle range. This will be in the long gulch be-
hind the fort and a range of GOO yards will be
in good working order when the boys IN blue
debark at the wharf. The targets will, almost
certainly, be of the electric variety. now much
improved and very reliable. There is good and
sufficient reason for using this kind OF target
More valuable than anything else in camp is
time, and electric targets save lots of it. If
the targets were sliding" or revolving" it
would take the major portion of the day to
keep them in condition fit to be shot at, and if
the paper targets were used there could be no
firing in wet weather. With the electric
targets there is no loss of time and they can be
marked up to any extent by bullets: each shot
shows itself on the dial at the firing point The
rain may pour down in torrents without ser-
ously disturbing the rifemen, because there will
be shelter at the firing point. There are no
markers needed, and consequently there will
be no markers lives endangered