Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-15
GOSSIP OF THE GUARDS.

THOMAS B. WAKEFIELD, OF
the Tenth Regiment, spent q few days in this
city last week.
THE strength of the National Guard in New
York State last year was Is, S32 men, OF nearly
double that OF the Guard in Pennsylvania.
ANUMBER of the Ohio regiments are being
consolidated into l2-company organization ms.
and it is probable that the entire guard will be
remodeled on the new plan.
COLONEL HuL1NGs, of the Sixteenth Regi'
ment. is instructed to hold an election to I'LL the
vacancy caused by the resignation of First
Lieutenant P. w. Welsh, of Company f.
LIEUTENANT WILLIAM G. HANNUM, of the
United States Navy. arrived in Pittsburgl last
week on inspection duty in connection with the
being made here.
LIEUTENANT JAMES GANLY, Inspector Of
Rifle Practice Of State Fencibles, and Lieuten-
ant George Coulston, Inspector of the First
Regiment. have rendered their designations.
In their leaving the First Regiment loses two
hard workers and excellent shots.
QUARTERMAsTER JOHN HUBBARD. Of the
Fourteenth Regiment. has returned from an
extensive trip through the West. While away
he took the opportunity to keep an eye on the
militia companies he ran across. and in some
of the smaller National Guards-of the West, he
said he saw more generals than privates.
THE preliminary inspections in the Eighteenth
1scHlIuoub pSSlh ucAb Wcch anu tu6 ulu6TeuL
companies, field music and hospital corps will
be put through a rigid examination by Colonel
Smith, accompanied by Colonel McKibben, the
new General Inspector. Several of the CON-
panies will have to hustle pretty lively this week
in order to make a favorable showing.
COLONEL HAWKINS presided at a meeting of
the Second Brigade Examining Board last Fri
day night at the Monongahela House. All the
members of the board were present except Gen.
eral Wvlie and Colonies Parchment and Burch-
field. There were q applicants examined. of
whom the Eighteenth furnished /. the Six
teenth II, the Fifteenth ! and the Tenth s. All
the candidates passed favorably. and will be
commissioned.
THE new clerical force in the Adjutant Gen.
erals office is hard at work Strengthening up
matters and clearing the desks of lots of mat
ter that has been piling up for some time past,
among other things being the data for the re-
port for last year. Adjutant General McCleI-
risburg since he took hold of his office and
doesn't propose to leave until everything is in
first class working order.
ADJUTANT GENERAL McCLELLAND. in or.
ders issued yesterday, announces that. in pur.
suance with the regulations issued from the
Wal Department in Washington last month,
the 'undress for all officers for marches, ia
tigue duty and ordinary wear shall be a sack
coat of dark blue cloth or serge; falling collar;
single-breasred, with i've buttons in front and
three small buttons on the under seam of the
cuff, arranged like those worn on the dress
. coat The skirt to extend from one-third to
two-thirds the distance from the hip joint to
the bend In the knee.
THE recent court martial in the Eight
zenith Regiment, while productive OF
considerable good in the way of increas-
ing the merit of discipline and attendance
throughout the organization, should be carried
out completely to the end. The finding of the
court was the imposing of q fine on each of the
officers, and while one of them paid his
sentence several weeks ago, the other subject of
the court seems to haveSabout made up his
mind to treat the matter with silent contempt.
If the military code is of any value whatever
one of the members of Company II should now
be languishing in jail. There never was a bet
ter chance to test the law than in the present
case.
COLONEL PARCHMENT, of the Fourteenth,
expects shortly to have another vacancy on his
staff, as Adjutant Robb has signified his inten-
ton of resigning on account of the military
business interfering with his private affairs.
MT. Robb has been connected with the regi.
ment since 1881 and has been Adjutant for the
past seven years, during which time he has ac-
Quired quite a reputation as a tactician. In
the department Of rife practice the Fourteenth
will lose one of its best Representatives, as Mr..
Robb is probably the suresI and safest shooter
in the regiment, having won the Brown and
| Rfrth medal for the third time last fall. Mr..
Robb expects TO leave as a memento among
the Guardsmen o handsome trophy, to be con-
tested for annually.
Mr.. NEsBIr, Of Allegheny, has introduced
q bill in the State Legislature authorizing the
Governor to commission as Brevet First Lieu
tenant a graduate of any college In which
military instructions are given, who may fill
the position of instructor of military tactics.
1t has always been the policy in the Pennsyl-
vania Guard since the reorganization some
years ago to issue as few commissions as pos
sible consistent with the practical working of
the different organizations. Just why men to-
tally outside the militia and who have often re-
fused to contribute their efforts toward its sue
cess should receive the same honors as those
who spend time and money to acquire, does not
seem altogether just There are plenty of
active workers in the National Guard to-day
who are capable of acting as instructors, and If
outsiders are to be commissioned at all. a
Brevet Second Lieutenantcy should certainly
be rank enough for the purpose.
SHILoH's Curl will Immediately relieve