Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-05-16
THE NATIONAL GUARD.
Commands Are Going Into Separate Cam
ON Their Own Account

THE NATIONAL GUARD.
Commands Are Going Into Separate Camps
ON Their Own Account
| SOME TO THE SEASIDE, SOME INTO TIE COUNTRY
AND OTHERS HAVE NOT rrr prrERxrSEp WHERE
THEY Will eo-ExPLANArrox Al TO THE CRIED
| MOOR MEDALs-NorEs
In the spring young mans fancy lightly
turns to thoughts Of love-" sang poet years
ago. The truism which the bard uttered is un-
shaken by time and had he lived in the District
Of Columbia recently he could iruthfully have
added to his poem = veracious verse or two
about the members of the National Guard. who.
at the approach Of warm weather. turn their
eyes longingly toward Fort Washington aud
want to know why there cannot be a brigade
camp there every summer.
or course every one realizes that q camp dur
ing the present season Is an impossibility-
gress In Its great wisdom so ordained-and that
is why SO many Of the commands are preparing
to start at an appropriate time and do little
camping on their own account Some Of
the camps will be more or lees ornamental
Tor II is extremely difficult to keep up 10 the
highest disciplinary notch at fashionable
watering place. but the probabilities are that
tne miniature canvass cities will be more sol
Iieriy than they have been in years gone by:
the men learned many valuable lessons in the
two brigade camps which have been held at
Fort Washington.
CAPE MAY rc BIZ INVADED.
The nrst battaiion-the Washington Light
Infantry-will spend . week or two at Cape
May. This statement has not the benefit of
omcial sanction, but il is believed to be about
| correct. committee Is looking around for
sui,aDie location aud it is generally understood
that II the stockton lawn can be secured IS q
| camp ground the boys Of the first will tramp
around on that large grass plot early in Sep
| TENDER or Whereabouts.
Atlantic City seems to be the choice OF the
second battalion although there is something
| nebulous In connection with the plans SO far
discussed. II has not vet been definitely as
certained that the companies of the second are
unit Tor going anywhere. but the trend of
gossip around the armorics has 1t that Mai.
brackeu and his fine organization will visit the
some time in August.
Ihe third does not just know where II will
| go, put there IL a strong sentiment among some
OF the members favorable to locating for a
week or two at Fort Washington. The sug-
geston seems TO be a popular one. but Just how
deeply 1t has taken root in the organization is
not yet evident.
| THE THIRD BATTALION.
On Thursday night Maj. Harrison presided
over meeting Of the commissioned and nom
commissioned officers of the third. and il was
| then and there decided that the battalion
| would go into camp at some time during the
| summer. committee, consisting OF Mai
Harrison, Lieut. Meyers, Lieut. Stewart. Q. Nj.
W. L. Aughinbaugh, Capt Simmons, Lieut.. A.
| j. Robinson, Sergt. c. Z. Sweigert and Sergt
Jenkins, was authorized to make inquiries as
| to a suitable place to encamp and any induce
ments that might be offered to them by pro-
prietors OF various watering places A band
L xrI 81. II.
| music throughout the evening. The battalion
will be instructed in battalion and skirmish
| drill with blank cartridges and dress parade
| will be given each evening.
Neither the fourth nor the fifth at present
contemplate camping as battalions, but some
| OF the companies have the camp fever and will
| almost certainly follow the example set them.
The sixth will sojourn at Bay Ridge for
| awhile, which means that while that command
| Is down on the Chesapeake there will be very
| lew pretty girls IN Washington until the last
| tram returns TO the city each of the evenings
while the camp is on.
Ii the first separate battalion intends going
anywhere the news has not yet been spread
abroad the probabilities are though that Mai.
keyeiis men will not have any camp this year.
BY this time everybody in the city knows, or
ought to know, that troop A is going off on q
practice march Of the most practical and en-
Joyable variety and il has also been stated in
HE STAR that the light battery would prob
ably spend few days at Bay Ridge in company
with several members Of the ambulance COM
pany.
| The engineer corps is going to do some out
of-doors work during the summer and fall, but
Just what 1t will be does no yet appear.
THEY ARE NOT cREEDMooR MEDALS
Some people who ought to know better, and
numerous others who are not supposed to
possess much information on the subject, insist
on referring to the gold medals which were
presented to the rifle team Of 1890, as "the
Creedmoor medals" They are nothing of the
kind They were presented to the twelve men
| who now wear them because those individuals
had won places on the team. They would have
| been presented had that team failed to dis
tinguish itself at Creedmoor or anywhere else and
they will be donated this year and every sue
ceeding year to those who throughout the
season SO shoot as to gain for themselves place
in the dozen who will represent the District
National Guard in all contests with teams from
the National Guard of any of the states.
And while these medals are being mentioned
it is not out Of place to remark that had il not
been for the unobtrusive energy Of staff Ser
| geant Eugene Corvaizier the decorations would
| never have been secured. Other people were
active, but he made the gratifying result posi-
| BILE.
DO YoU WANT TO SEE SOLDIERS?
The rife gallery will be occupied on two
nights next week by commands that have scores
| to complete. On Monday evening troop A-the
best disciplined command in the brigade-will
face the targets and on Friday night the fifth
| battalion viii have possession. Members of the
guard who do not belong to the cavalry and
who want to see how thoroughly citizens can
| transform themselves into soldiers might do
worse than drop in at the gallery on Monday
evening.
By order Of Maj Harrison, commanding the
third battalion, a board Of survey, consisting Of
First Lieut. William J. Simmons, company A.;
First Lieut. James T. Simpson, company C,
and Second Lieut.. Otto L. Suess company ID,
was appointed to meet at the armory of the
third battalion "Globe building" this city, on
Thursday last, at o'clock p. m, or as soon
thereafter Is practicable, TO examine into, re-
port upon and fix the responsibility for the loss
Of certain articles of public property claimed
to have been taken from the locker Of Private
| Geo. 4. McWilliamson, company B, third bat
talon, and for which Capt Michael Mahany,
company B, third battalion, d. G. n G.. is re-
sponsible. The board has not yet reported.
The second annual benefit of company c,
first battalion CWashington Light Infantry
Corps), will take place next Tuesday evening
at the battalion armory. II will be literary
and musical entertainment Of high order
Adjutant Shaw Of the fourth battalion has
been detailed - acting sdjutant for the second