The record-union., 1891-08-15

ana members OF General DlmOnd'S Stat.
To-day teams of ten men each from
Companies C, E and Fsshot match at
the range. ana Company e came off vic
torious by twelve points. Sergeant j.
i. Hughes made the highest score, A.
Company Cs team made 337 points, F's
367 and E's 379.
Several Of the campers contemplate
making a trip to the Big Trees or Camp
| Capitola, before the week is out.
1t is the universal verdict OF spectators
who are posted on military movements,
that tor steadinesS in ranks, personnel of
the companies, etc., the First Artillery
Regiment is the best that has trained this
year III Santa Cruz, that its officers ex-
hlblt high degree of intelligence in the
discharge Of their duties, and socially are
gentlemen in every sense of the word.
The citizens Of Santa Cruz have paid the
regiment, its officers and the Brigade
Staff every attention in their power, and
| as long as the regiment continues to go to
the SeaShore for its annual outings, Santa
| Cruz will have firm hold on it.
Among the citizens who have been in
defatigable in making matters pleasant
| for the brigade and regimental officers
are Mr.. McCollum, mine host of the
| Ocean House, and genial Jim (''Honest
JIM as he is popularity dubbed) Cum
ningham, Senior Department Com
mander Of the G. A. r.
At the brigade reception on Wednes-
| day evening, the band was rendering an
imitation Of the bagpipes in its inimitable
style, when the cry was started that
Captain OConnell was dancing q jig on
the platform. The entire camp rushed to
see the staid regular army officer doing"
a Scotch reel, but of course they were
'sold.n
The Colonel's young son Bruce is the
pet of the camp. The young tOddler is
rugged out in q musicians uniform, and
endeavors to initiate the Drum Majors
step, but does not succeed. His time is
too correct for Dave.
The Colonel ordered Bruce out from
the band while it was going on dress
parade one evening, and it nearly broke
the little fellows heart. His mother had
to cOddle him for an hour before she
could get him into his normal condition
of cheerfulness. 1t took him until bed
time to get over charging his father with
being "a nasty Kun'l," and declaring
that he would rather have QuartermaSter
MaydWell, who gave him ride on the
pommel of his saddle.
Major w. |. Wallace. so rumor says,
endeayors to have his wife cling firmly to
the rope III the surf, while he takes some
other lady out TO swim. Madam viii
drop onto your little game some day,
Major.
There are about dozen young ladies
in Santa Cruz who roundly score the
Brigade Commander for taking Major
! GetJ home with him SO soon.
Colonel Hubbard, Chief Of Staff, could
not tear himself away from the camp, and
did not return with the brigade COM
mander.
Majors Fred. Neary and John a. Shee-
han, Of the retired list, are enjoying
themselves, the former with hot and the
latter with cold baths.
Private Scroggs, of Camp StOneman
fame, carries away the palm for size
among the bathers-about six feet tall
and seven feet two broad. Captain Sey-
mour Of Company E is getting to be
good second.
Mrs. Captain Hall is the most graceful
! of all the ladies on the beach.
Major +. d. Ryan's family will remain
in Santa Cruz until after the Native Sons
/ celebration on September 9th.
| Mrs. Senator Dray is not enjoying good
health. Her daughter is now with her.
Captain Frank Dray, A. d. c., has turned
the heads of the girls in their teens He
and his chum imagine they are the two
most important officers in camp when
astride Of their Rosinantes, with boots,
! SpurS etc, and Captain O'COnnell vows
/ they are 'dandies.''
| The boys play their regular tricks on
! Uncle John Douglas. He left camp for
annual pets" skirmiShed about the
woods for an hour or two, and then came
back and reported that the Colonel had
ordered him into camp, and that, OF
course, he had to obey. He is all right
now until next year.
Major Gilchrist, now a member of
/ Company q, returned home on Thurs
day He is an ardent lover of target
practice and tayorite among officers and
men.
Colonel Murray. Assistant Adiutant-
General, has been looking closely after
matters in camp the entire week.
Mesdames Colonel Guthrie, Mckee.
Hall, Seymour, Maydwell and others are,
as usual, making it very pleasant for all
the ladies who visit the camp. This idea
of the officers wives camping out an
nually is a feature with this regiment
and will be continued; and, let me say for
the benefit of the Cuti critic, who knows
so very little Of what he is talking about.
| that the State IS not out one cent on aC-
count of the presence of these ladies; and
| further, that the regiment does not 90 to
camp for lark, as this reliable (?)
correspondent intimateS, but that it puts
in harder work than regiments that are
nearer the Cdtt office, and that the result
can be seen by the eVOlutiOnS of the First
Artillery Regiment, which does not take
second place to any regiment in the State
in general efficiency.
In proof Of this, your correspondent re-
fers the C0tI man to Captain O'COnneu.
\. >. ~, VINO IS supposed to know some
thing of military tactics, camp life, good
conduct of men, steadiness in ranks and
the general duties Of National guardsmen.
The CaU may surfeit its readers with
putting up its local troops, and no one on
the outside will object, but when it
attempts to criticize the troops from the
interior it should get competent person
10 do 50, and not one who thinks nothing
good can possible exist outside of San
Francisco.
Many well-known Sacramentans are at
present sojourning in Santa Cruz.
Prominent among them being Hon.
Grove l.. Johnson and his son Albert, w.
X. Cothrin, Mrs Theo. Deming and
daughters, Miss Carrie Stevenson and
others too numerous to mention.
The ladies are having glorious time at
Camp Capitola, near Santa Cruz. There
is scarcely man about the place, and I
have it as a fact that one evening this
week there We're fifteen girls and one
lone man going the rounds Of the place.
beating tin pans and endeavoring in
other ways to beat some life into the
pretty camp. E. NJ. S.
FELL OVERHEARD.
One OF the steamer San Joaquin No. 3's
Crow TS