Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-29
GOSSIP OF THE GUARD.

CAPTAIN JAMES II. MURDOCH. of this city,
spent the past week in New York.
QUARFERMAsTRR JOHN HUBBARD, of the
Fourteenth Regiment, is down with bad at
tack Of the grip.
COLONEL W. ". GREENLAND, the new
Quarternaster General of the National Guard,
is spending few days in the city.
MAJOR PATTERSON, Inspector of the Second
Brigade: inspected the Fifth Regiment last
week. The Tenth Regiment will be put through
the ordeal this week.
COMPANY B, of the Fourteenth Regiment,
intends giving masquerade ball at the Turner
Hail. In Allegheny, shortly. the proceeds to be
devoted TO the company fund.
THE members of Companies and II, of the
Eighteenth Regiment. have made arrange
ments to give q reception and guard mount at
Silver Lake Grove on the 18th of June.
The City Troop of Philadelphia has received
permission from the Adjutant General to use
the new cavalry tactics. The City Troop and
Troop A, of New York, are the only ones in
the country now using the new tactics by per-
mission.
COMPANY f, Eighteenth Regi ment. was in
spected last Monday evening by Lieutenant
Colonel Rutledge Three officers and q men
were IN line and fair showing was made
Captain Awl has denied the runor that he in
tended to resign his commission, and statesithat
the idea was evidently started for malicious
purposes.
THE Washington Infantry members have de-
cided to get an extra dress uniform, and for
that purpose have already raised purse of
Sl.OO0 The uniforms are to cost 50. .500 and it is
expected the entire amount will be ON hand be-
fore many moons have passed. The infantry
boys are hustlers and deserve the success they
are attaining.
COLONEL NORMAN NJ. SMITH, of the Eight
eenth Regiment, is one of the officers of the
guard who observes the rules of fashion closely.
He has the grip. A number of other officers
and enlisted men in the Eighteenth are being
handled pretty roughly by the common ailment
az present, and as a consequence the drill
nights are not productive Of as large attend
ances as there might be.
ADJUTANT GENERAL WILLIAM McCLs1-
LAND spent few days in the city last week.
The prospects for the encampments this COM
ing summer are not particularly brilliant Gen.
eral McClelland announces that if the appro-
priatIon to pay the departm me DEFICIENCIES Of
past years is not made up, he will use his annual
fund IN which to pay these debts, In which case
tnere Will De no encampmentS.
MA JoR SAMUEL HAzLET, of Washington,
Pa. Brigade, Inspector of Rifle Practice,
attended the meeting of the sinners in the city
last Wednesday. Major HazeIet states that
the prospects for the eoming year in target
practice In the guard are pretty good, al
though several of the organizations in the
Second Brigade are without ranges as yet, but
will probably be fixed before the season opens
next month.
The Haftranft Memorial Commission held
meeting at the Division Headquarters in
Philadelphia last week. No definite time for
unveiling the Hsrtranft Monument was
selected, owing to the absence of so many
members of the commission, but it is thought
Decoration Day will be the time set. 1t is ex-
peeted that ON the occasion there will be
parade take place In the afternoon, made up Of
provisional brigade taken from regiments all
over the State.
LIEUTENANT BEAN, the regular army officer
who has been detailed for instruction purposes
with the National Guard Of Pennsylvania for
the past three years. spent few hours In the
city last week on his way 10 San Carlos. Ariz
Mr.. Bean could not say who would succeed
him in the detail to this State, as at present
there are no applicants for the position. San
Bean has been ordered is generally considered
one of the glo0miest of the Western posts be-
ing situated in the heart of the Indian country
and void Of the pretty scenery or other natural
attractions which help to lessen the monotony
Of life at small post.
THE members of Company e, of the Tenth
Regiment at Mt. Pleasant, were sworn in as
deputy sherifs in connection with the troubles
at the Morewood mines last Friday, the Sheriff
of the county asserting that in case of trouble
he had no time to beg of the proper National
Guard thorities to issue orders for the as
sembling Of company to protect property. 1t
seems rather peculiar that body of men en-
listed and sworn into the service of the State
for the protection of lives and property of
citizens Of the Commonwealth would be re-
quIred to register their services In the capacity
of deputies to county official, yet repeated re-
fusals TO demands on the National Guard on
account of troubles in the coke regions have
rather tended to lessen the respect Of the gen.
eral run of people for that body. That the
guard is efficient no one who understands its
workings will for moment doubt, yet it is
kept up for purpose, and when the accom-
phshment of that purpose demands its pres
ence there should be q trife less dillydallying
over red tape.