The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-05-18
NATIONAL GUARD.
Changed Conditions for the State
Target Practice.
Appointments on Stats Captain Bush Will
Qualify Recognizing the Music Of the
First-The Encampment.

of May or June, as heretofore. The practice
will not be conducted under the rules of the
National Rifle Association bat those pre-
scribed in "Bluuts Manual" which has
been adopted, except that the targets now
in use may be adopted until others are OBJ
tanned. Ten shots will be fired next month,
and as many III ore in September, and where
before it was only demanded when practl-
cable" now commissioned officers must be
detailed to act as score-keepers.
The aggregate scores Of June and Sep
TENDER will be the basis of award Of med
ais. as follows: a silver medal and bronze
marksman's clasp TO him who shall make
not less than 60 per cent formerly 80 per
cent or more, but less than so; silver
medal and silver rifleman's clasp for not less
than so per cent heretofore so per cent and
over but less than 90, and silver medal
with gold sharpshoOter's clasp for not less
than 90 per cent las heretofOre), but no
award will be made to any one who. for the
year ending August 81, 1891, has attended
less than 60 per cent Of company drills
heretofore 80 per cent.
Winners of gold bars Will be permitted to
compete Tor the first and second, or gold ana
silver medals, under rules to be prescribed
hereafter For the competition an issue of
1880 more than in 1890, and for the Second
Brigade 80, 100, an increase of %, 100 Com
pany championship medals have been done
away with, so that with the exceptions here
with noted the orders are the same as for
several previous years.
CHANGES IN sTAFFs.
There will be number of changes in
General Diekinson's, staff very shortly.
Lieutenant-Col0nel George c. PaTdeP, Sur
geOn, will be transferred as Engineer Officer,
vice Major r. p Hammond JT., who will
avail himself of the provisions Of Section
1878 and retire himself for service for cOn-
tlnuOus period of seven years; Major
George NJ. Terrill. Surgeon of the First In
fantry, will be promoted Brigade Surgeon :;
Major G. c. Keene. Q. NJ, will go on the
retired list after twenty-three years OF SER
vice as a commissioned officer, and viii be
succeeded by First Lieutenant Z c. Hughes.
Ouartermaster Of the First Infantry, and
better known IN the regiment as Grandpa
Hughes"
Necessary changes will also be made in
the regimental staff of the First Infantry.
COmmissary Thomas Cluff will be trans
feTTed QuartermasteT, vice Hughes pro-
NOTED; John T. Bull will be appointed Pay
master, vice Phillips retired for disability;
DR.. John Gallwey will be appointed Sur
geon, vice TerrIll promoted, and Private
Louis Barrere of Company G Nationals
will be appointed Inspector Of Rife Prac-
tice, vice Strong retired Colonel Sullivan
has in his minds eye a gentleman to sue
coed Cluff as COmmlssaTy, but he has not
yet accepted the appointment offered him.
The next parades in order are those on
Memorial day, next month for target prac-
tice and then on the 4th Of July with depart
ure for camp in the afternoon.
COMPANY II OF THE FIRST.
Captain Bush will shortly qualify as Lieu
tenant-COlonel of the First, ana would have
done so before perhaps hut for the perpet-
ual naggng of "those Post-street fellows"
for the right of the line. Captain Bush is
not the man TO be nagged into anything.
But he cannot well back out OF the Lieuteu-
ant-Colonelcy now, considering that he has
publicly accepted the Saber aud belt OF
line officer, aud considering that the Adlu-
tant-GeneTal has by mistake Issued the com
mission even before the Captain has quail
fed, AS regards the Captaincy Of II, Ii IS
reported that First Lieutenant William ii.
Fraser will succeed to the same, hold 1t for
about six months and then go on the retired
list: that he will be succeeded by Second
Lieutenant Edward G. Essen, who will in
the meantime have been promoted, and that
before the latter receives tho two bars, some
one will have been f. und TO help him out as
Second Lieutenant.
The First will lose within a fortnight
its ranking First Sergeant. and, hy the way,
also the senior in the brigade. First Ser
ais has Internationally surrendered 10 one
Of the other s. Y, and with all these mar
Tiages in the regiment no wonder the Col.
onePs hair is turning gray. 1t may be in
siructing to know that Sergeant Harry
Drscoll Of G Of the Third-"the dandy
First Sergesnt" be the senior in the
brigade.
Second Lieutenant F. A. Baldwin of Com
pany OF the First viii very shortly re-
sign. Hp IS about to take unto himself
wife. More trouble for Door Colonel Sui
liyan.
BAND AND FIELD MUSIC.
Colonel Sullivan, aided by Adjutant Bur
It's, has read the riot act to Bandmaster Ca
sassa and a reorganization of the band will
result. The band has been ordered to hold
rthearsaS between now and camp time
twice every week-One in the afternoon and
the other at night Twenty-eight drums
have been purchased and the drum corps
has been recognized and will be augmented.
The god effect was already exhibited in the
time kept in The parade on the 10Th. Then
the Colonel proposes to enlist fife corps Of
six, and hereafter there will be no lack Of
or break in martial music on parade. The
fat has gone forth that there Will be no
bugle corps in the First
A circular has been issued from head
quarters to the army publishing an order of
the Adiutant-GencTal Of North Carolina in
regard to rife practice. By the way, this is
an honor rarely given an officer OF the Ma
tiOnal Guard, and in this case the order is
reproduced as meeting with satisfaction"
In the next parade the brigade staff will
sport the new saddle-cloths-go ld-trimmed
with the initials IN. g. c." and the corps
device in the lower corners. They come
high" said the General, but the staff must
have them"
Artillery, William F. Chapman was elected
Second Lieutenant, vice Batchelder, re-
signed.
THE AUCTION FLAG HUNG OUT.
Santa Cruz is breaking its neck to secure
the encampment If the Second Brigade, n.
q. c., in July and no doubt the following
from the Santa Cruz Surf may aid the Off
GERS in making a selection
For several years the different militia Tegl-
ments Of this S ate have sold themselves TO the
highest bidder In The matter or summer encamp-
meDts. Every spring the red auction flag is
hung out and a committee of epRuleted-they
would be gentlemen II not bummers, and they
would be bunmers If they were not gentlemen
Start out aud make the grand rounds OF The
provincial towns of the State seeking bids for
The location OF the summer encampment
There is more OF the mercenary than the martial
air about such proceedings, and they are not
calculated to enhance the military reputation OF
the Stale.
Santa Cruz yearly halls "the red auction
flag" with delight
Major Burdick has been detailed to sit as
a regimenal court-martial in the First In
family. -Four deliuquents will come up be-
fore him from Company A-three for unex-
planned absence from the muster and
Inspection, and the other for willful absence
from a recent parade.
The Connecticut. Guardsman of Water
bury, Conn, has brought out the deadly
parallel column TO demonstrate where 1.-THE
oracle" derives his little Inspiration, adding
sarcasticaly that comment is super1uous."
The annual meeting OF the Veterans will
be held on Wednesday evening, and the
third annual banquet on the following
evening
HER FIRST HUSBAND.
They Were Indebted to Him for His
Widows Hospitality.
Years ago a dark-eyed, yellOw-haired