Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-04
rounded him with an excellent company.
"The Mid ddlelnan" will be the bill here.
GOSSIP OF THE GUARD.

CAPTAIN W. n. wAssELL leaves for wash
ington City tomorrow night on brief busi-
ness trip.
CAPTAIN JAMES II. MURDOCH, aid-de-camp
on the staff of General Wiley, spent the past
week in the East on q business trip.
COLONEL WALTER GREENLAND. Quarter
master General of the National Guard,
dropped into the city for few hours last
week.
A RIFLE match between Lieutenant Frank
Dork, of the Eighteenth Regiment, and
Lieutenant Hull, of the Fourteenth Regi-
ment, is talked Of
THIRTEEN commissions were issued to Off
GERS in the Second Brigade during the month
of September of which one went to the
Fourteenth Regiment, five to the Sixteenth
Regiment and seven to the Eighteenth.
SPECIAL meeting of Company A, Four
teenth Regiment, is called for tomorrow
evening. The Captain of the company de-
sires to arrange for n field day, as the mem
no target work.
THE members Of Company A, Fourteenth
Regiment have been ordered to report at
Central Armory Monday evening, October 8,
for special business and to arrange for
field day on Fourteenth Regiment range at
Saltworks station one day this week.
THE Coleman range of the Eighteenth Regi-
ment, although in use scarcely two weeks,
has been great incentive to target practice
in the regiment, and large number of men
can be seen daily hustling for the copper and
silver bars. Although the regiment was
away behind time commencing work in this
direction, it is expected quite good show
ing will still be made.
ARRANGEMENTS were made last week for
an officers match in the Eighteenth Regi-
ment, to be shot among n number Of the
A. Ns-cN and
second place medals will be contested for
and the idea is to have the match occur an
nually different trophies to be put up each
year. The match will occur the latter part
of this week on the Coleman range.
MAJOR SAMUEL HAzLEr, Brigade Ordnance
Officer spent n few days in the city last
week. Reports from the various organiza-
tions in the Second Brigade show that con-
siderable hustlinc is now being done in rifle
practice, and should the favorable weather
continue for few weeks longer, there will
be very large increase IN the total numDer
of marksmen over that of last season.
DRILLS in Battery have been pretty well
attended lately, although nothing unusual
is ahead to attract attention. Several
squads from the battery have been attend
ing the Exposition in the capacity of firing
squads Lieutenanant kimmel, who has
been acting in the capacity of inspector of
rifle practice this year, reports the number
of qualified marksmen up in the thirtieS,
and that the total for the season will proba-
bly, reach 40.
CAPTAIN HENRY SCHMIDT Of the Fourteenth
Regiment, arrived home from four months
trip abroad last Monday evening. He was
received at the depot by his company and q
number of friends, including Colonel PERCH
ment Colonel Gray and others. A banquet
was rendered him at the armory imme-
diately after his arrival. Captain Schmidt
presented rather dazzling appearance rs
he alighted from the Train and marched up
Smthfield street, as he was arrayed in the
uniform of an Austrian officer of Hussars.
OCTOBER II is the date selected by Inspector
of Rifle Practice Brown, of the Fourteenth
Regiment for the contest for the Brown &
Hirst and Robb medals. The match will
take place on the Saltworks range of the
Fourteenth Regiment and is open to all
members of the three city organizations.
The first medal last year was won by Ad-
iutant Robb, of the Fourteenth Regiment,
and the second was won by Captain o. C..
Coon, OF the Eighteenth Regiment The
contest promises to be quite interesting as a
number. of new names will be entered this
year that have not appeared in the match
before, and as it is the only match which
takes place annually between members of
the city organizations.
THE annual target contest of the Washing
ton Infantry for markeSman's badges and
gold and silver medals will take place at
Manor, Pa, on the Pennsylvania Railroad,
on Tuesday, October 6. The company and
their friends will leave on the s:35 A. NJ train
in special car, and will be the guests of |
the Manor Rod and Gun Club. The club |
will offer four prizes for shooting, consisting |
of a Winchester rifle, Colts rifle and two /
money prizes, $40 and S5 in gold The COM /
pany medals are one gold and two silver /
badges which have been in the company /
since way back in the sos, and are shot for
A pleasant days sport is antici-
pated, as the boys have many friends at
Manor, having held their field day ut that
brisk in the company, nine new members
being in the recruit squad, and others have
applied for application blanks of the men,
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