Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-07

The ceremonies are to continue for three o. q
four days, and per diem cost Of ~ cen~
per man viii be involved.
THE date OF the encampment of the Second
Brigade has been changed from "July % 20
August /, inclusive" to August 8 to 16s In
elusive. The cause of the change ID said to
be due to desire to give the Governors
staff and inspecting officers q chance to rest
after the fatigue Of their duties at tne
Eastern encampments. The change seems
to suit the local companies all right, VINO,
however, If they had preference, woulo
ask for the encampment at once, as IL ls
reared that SHOULD the trade union strlkess
end soon it will be hard to get number OF
the men who are members OF companies to
leave their work after. such q protracted
idleness.
ADJUTANr GENERAL McCLELLAND issued an
order yesterday calling the attention OF the
Guard to the amended military law just
passed and approved, giving each company
$500 for armory rent Heretofore companies
in cities and boroughs of less than 1000 pop
ulation received but 800 year. About 60
companies are benefited by the change.
Another new feature in the law governing
the guard provides that all commissioner
officers who shall have held continuous rank
for period of ten years, or who shall nave
served Id years since the year 1851, may. upon
their honorable retirement from service, De
shall be entitled to wear on State occasions
the uniform Of the highest rank which they
may have held.
THE residents Of Arnold station, where
the Second Brigade will go into camp, do
not take kindly to the idea Of the soldiers
rudely awakening them from their rural
quiet, and it was limited during the past
week that the opposition would yet culmt-
nate in the refusal of one of the property
owners to allow the use of his grounds for
the purpose. According to number OF the
people along the line of the Valley road 1t Is
not the members of the guard that are
feared, but the hangers-on and camp follow
ers, who are impossible to keep away on
such occasions. The coming encampment
will present excellent opportunities for
patrol work in order to keep the members
Of the country regiments out of the city. Two
railroad lines and q steamboat landing Will
have to be watched constantly.
DRUM corps seem to be the source Of more
trouble to the local regiments than all the
companies put together. At the meeting Of
the Fourteenth Regiment officers last Tues
day evening the drum corps question was
pretty thoroughly discussed, and the unani-
nous opinion seemed to be that inasmuch
as but two or three of the entire corps
showed up for inspection, the best plan
would be to fire the entire lot and commence
work over again. Captain Hamilton stated
that he had been carrying one drummer on
his rolls for some time, but had never had
the pleasure Of the gentleman's acQuaint-
ance, and presumed that the man must be
dead. Efforts will be made before camp to
work up q new corps. In the Eighteenth
the condition of affairs Is almost as bad, and
1t is probable that the regiment will go to
camp this year with decidedly small cor
ner on music, as the officers are thoroughly
disgusted with the constant wrangle and ex-
pense required to keep any sort of decent
corps together. Some of the officers in the
Eighteenth favor doing away with the corps
altogether and hiring band when music Is
required.
THE Fourteenth Regiment took a good sized
representation of the local militia to Phila-
deIphia last Friday evening to attend the
ceremonies of the unveiling of the Hartranft
monument, at Norristown, yesterday. The
regiment was accompanied by q number of
officers of other organizations. During the
past week the officers of the Fourteenth
were considerably worked up over an article
that appeared in local paper rejecting on
the judgment of General Wylie in selecting
the Fourteenth in preference to other and
older regiments in the Brigade. and
the credit Of the article was laid at the
hands of the officers of the Eighteenth. In
Justice to Colonel Smith and the other gen
tlemen it should be stated that, while the
the trip, like the Tenth had, yet the almost
unanimous sentiment from the first had
been against it, and q general satisfaction
was felt when the Fourteenth was ordered
The idea that q great and growing Jealousy
is constantly gnawing at the hearts OF botf
minds of two or three petty officers who lei
no opportunity slip by to boom their favoritt
hobby.