The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-10-19
STATE GUARDS.
Camp Macdonald Described by
Military Experts.
all Serene After the ConsolidatiOn-COlOnel
Barry's Rstirement-Regulations Ig-
nored- Going to Chicago in 1898

Were the religious editor called upon at a
sInch to repOrt q sensational and ''unSuc-
fessful attempt at suicide" or the sporting
editor to chronicle the deliberations Of
Christian Temperance Union, the result
would be something like the reports on
Camp Macdonald Of the Third. There were,
as given in THE CALL, probably not more
than ifty-siX tents pitched for the seven
companies, making with the line officers,
nine tents to a company, yet one morning
paper calmly spoke of ID canvas city OF
more than 700 inhabitants"
The sixty-three tents, packed like sar-
dimes, might be made to contain $50 men,
but sufficient is the answer that the reEi-
ment never has had membership Of 200,
and at the muster this year, and counting
eight companies, the band, staff and every
thing connected with it it numbered,
present and absent 496-lackjng Pa Of the
canvas city," Nor will the thirty five regu-
lars and the ten from Sacramento swell the
number to 700. This report also had THE
excellent band Of the First Infantry supply
ing the music"
Tie rifle competition on the following day
was announced under head lines such as
"Won by the List Shot," and THE Shoot
ing Contest Uncertain to the Last" In
Tact the VICTORIOUS team, NulCu l"ue ITO
points, and which it was said was one Of
the last set of teams to shoot" shot early in
the forenoon, was among the very first to
shoot and long before noon it was known
that lO6 had to be beat TO win the match,
and not for some hours after Company b Of
the Third had shot and mads lU2 being one
of the very last TO shoot, was Il determined
that 106 had wOn. Then. whoever has heard
of a shooting match that was uncertain 10
the last"
This report had as the winner of the sec
ond prize Company b, Sc oud Infantry,
regardless Of the fact that there is on the
Pacific slope no company SO designated. s
good deal of nOtOrlety was shOweTed on one
"PriYate Holiay" and "Hally" in all the
papers for winning the match" for his
team by his last shot, and also for making
the best individual scoTe-24 out OF 25-yet
the man who really accomplished what
"Private Hullay" received credit for was
Second Lieutenant Dwight L. HOlley Of
Company Il, First Infantry, U. 5. A, and
who shot as a member Of tie team from his
company.
CONCERNING TIE OTHER MATCH.
Speakl ing Of match shot off during the
day between the Governors staff under Gen.
eral Dickinson and the Brigade st IF under
Colonel Burger" this extraordinary report
says "it ended in an easy victory Tor the
Governors" yet showed that Dickinson
shot with his staff officers OF the brigade
shooting with the Governors stat, scored
only 63-a difference of II points-ytt it
ended in an easy victory for the Cover
nOrs."
This genius giving roster of the line
officers blunderlngly put Company Of the
Third in the hands Of the then officers of
Company Il and made no mention Of Cs
officers or Of Company II. Another mill
taTy genius called the camp " the annual
shooting competition Of the Third" which
4 ANrgv.
breath said that the camp was so named
in honor Of the senior Colonel In the in
fantry regiments" whereas the regiment
OF that Colonel Is designated as artillery.
Then again guard mount followed and
10 officer of tie day was appointed, neither
were any sentTies posted" yet according to
other chroniclers it was "a military camp"
1.-TWO days Of army life" and "a two DAYS
active service in CAMP" One of the experts
ascertaned that for the skirmish drill de-
tails were made up Of six men each from
the three divisions of the regular army"
whatever that may mean. Another Oh
served that lat intervals during the day
squads OF soldiers were marching, coulter
marching, wheeling and going through all
sorts of military maDeuYers," which con-
veys no sane idea OF anything, and is a
labOred attempt to say nothing
The evening sheet, which never makes
alusiOn 10 military matter but to do so iu-
correctly or sneeringly, was particularly
happy in announcing the three prize win
neTs as follows; First prize, " Company II,
First Infantry, n; 6; G." (nO such team en-
tered; second, COMPANY B, Third In
fantry, u. 5. A" mo such company on the
slope; third, " Company q, First Infantry,
n. G. c." another hard guess, for this COM
pany was fourth, having been "ereed-
moored by " Battery" G; First Artillery,
n. 6. c.. There's after all nothing ike
facts.
ALL WAS SERENE.
The election on Monday evening for off,
GERS of consolidated Z and II OF the Third
Infantry turned out as The CALL said it
would after the turn which affairs had taken
shortly before the election. The members
Of II that was and who will remain with c
that Is had it all their own way, and the
members present of c that was threw up no
obstacle but passiVely acqulesced in the
proceedings. Captain Henry Levy Of c that
was did maneuYeT q nice act when he hon.
mated Captain S. j. Ruddell OF II that was
10 command the new company. The cleo
tons were unanimous, ana John j. Kerwin
was chosen first and Arthur j. Barlowe Sec
Ond Lieutenants. Kerwin is an enlisted
man OF Conn any + of the battalion, and
Barlowe was sergeant Of II and joined the
company in May, 1886.
Captain Ruddell has been unfortunate in
his service in the n. q. c., and has been
three times mustered, egislsted and cOnso-
dated out, so that he has come to be-
lieve himself verltable ho0doo in the
regiment. Ruddell enlisted in July, 1873, in
the Shields Guard OF the regiment, but was
mustered out as First Sergeant with his
company on March 81, 1882, when the regi-
ment was mustered out aud reduced to the
Third Infantry Battalion. under command
OF a Major, with the company assigned to
the First Infantry, where it is now G Of the
Nationals. He re-entered the service In
March, 1855. as First Lieutenant OF Com
panY q of the regiment, and on July II,
1886, organized the cadet company known as
II, which was legislated out Of existence in
March, 1889, but whose membership was
kept intact, and January 7. 1899, became
the Company III which consolidated with G
by the orders Of September 26, 1891.
At the time of the Issuance OF these or
ders 1t bad sixty-one names on the roll, since
which twenty-five applications to enlist have
been received. And 50 has quietly ended
the scheme by which Company C-though
small, yet one of the best companies IN the
bTigade-was practically ma tered out to