Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-06
GOSSIP OF THE GUARD.

CAPTAIN WILLIAM AwL spent the past week
at Mt. Gretna taking in the shoot.
CHARLES s. HOLMES, formerly captain Of
Company B, Eighteenth Regiment, leaves
for Chicago this week to engage in business
in that city.
LIEUTENANT JOHN N1EBAUM, Of the WASH
ington Infantry, has been spending the past
few weeks in the Northwest. He is expected
home this week.
LIEUTENANT HORACE F. LOWRY, formerly Of
Company E, has been appointed on the
honorary staff of Colonel Smith, with rank
of Captain. He will attend to the commits
sary department..
COLONEL W ALTER W. GREENLAND Quarter
master General of the National Guard, spent
a few days in the city last week. Colonel
Greenland has finished his reports OF the
costs of the encampments this year, and
they have been placed in the hands of thS
Adjutant General.
CAPTAIN SHANNON, Of the Washington In
fantry, has announced that the drills in his
company will be resumed at once and that
all members will be expected to be as
prompt in attendance as usual. The mem
: bers of the Washington Infantry are enthus-
iastic over their camp experiences, and it is
stated that organization is in better condi-
ton than ever.
TOMORROW being a legal holiday Captain
Davis, of Company C, Eighteenth Regiment,
has decided to take his company to McKees-
port for target practice. Owing to the fact
that the regimental range is still not in con-
dition to shoot over, Captain Davis has
obtained the privilege OF shooting over the
range of Company l, ut McKeesport. Almost
the entire company is expected to be pres
ent in uniform.
CoNsIDERABLs comment is being indulged
in on account of the delay in paying Off the
members of the Second Brigade for the re-
cent tour of duty at Arnold station. Both
the First and Third Brigades were paid in
full within ten days after the, camps had
broken, but already double that time has
passed bv and no signs of the money for the
Second Brigade are to be seen. The delay
is said to be entirely due to errors in the
and if such is the case some scheme should
be devised to make that organization alone
wait for its money and not include the other
six or seven organizations in the brigade.
THE local teams of the Fourteenth
Eighteenth regiments and Battery B are ex-
pected in from Mt. Gretna tonight. While
the Second Brigade team as a whole did
splendid work at the contests, the teams of
the local organizations have not much to be
proud of. While it is scarcely to be ex-
pected that the city ors ami cations could
compete with the country boys in the way
Of shooting, still the showing this year is
very much below the standard. Both the
Fourteenth and Eighteenth Regiments have
done very little work on the ranges this
season, as their poor totals in the recent
matches would indicate.
IT is expected that the Eighteenth Regt.
ment will be able to do some work in rife
practice this week on the new range, which
is almost completed at Coleman station on
the Allegheny Valley Railroad, about seven
miles from the city. Owing to a refusal of
number of company commanders to devote
the State allowances for rifle practice to its
proper uses, it has been impossible to make
any progress in target work this season so
far, and several pieces of property which
had been secured for range purposes have
gone by default owing to the regiment not
having the money, to place the target in po-
sition. The new range at Coleman station
is handy enough to the city to prevent kick
ing from that source, and while the advant-
ages and comforts to the shooters will be as
good as the meager funds will allow, con-
siderable hustling will have to be indulged
in by some of the companies in order to get
in out OF the cold.