Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-12
DISCUSSING THE GUARD.

Adjutant General Greenland Meets With
the Second Brigade Commandants-
Tactics and Other Subjects Discussed
An Informal Meeting of the Brigade
Board Held.
Adjutant General Greenland yesterday
met the various commandants of the Second
Brigade at the Seventh Avenue. Among
those present were General Wiley, Colonels
Hawkins, Smith and Burchfeld, Lieutenant
Colonels Rutledge and Glen, Captain Jones,
Sheridan Troop, and Captain Hunt, Battery
B. The purpose of the meeting, the Adju.
tant General explained, was to discuss the
National Guard and receive suggestions.
The subject Ct, of brigade or regimental
cussed. General Wiley was in favor of a
brigade camp and others were in favor of
regimental. The question was discussed at
balance. Those in favor of fregimental camp
will probably come out on top, as the ques-
tion OF expense will figure materially this
year in order to make good showing at the
Worlds Fair next year.
The new tactics were discussed. The chief
question was whether the battalions should
be commanded by the Lieutenant Colonel
and Major or the Major and Senior Captain
All the ColonelS were in favor of the latter
plan and advanced the argument that if the
Colonel should happen to be absent the
Senior Captain would not be able to as
sumo command, not having the expert
ence. Another matter discussed was
the taking of raw recruits to the Worlds
Fair. General Greenland expressed himself
as being decidedly against company COM
manders picking up men just to ill out their
companies for trip, and was sustained by
all present. Colonel Hawkins suggested
that recruiting be stopped from the first of
next December and no one be permitted to
take the trip who had not been regularly en-
listed within the specified time. The Ad-
jutant General seems to think favorably of
the plan and will probably issue an order to
that effect at an early date.
General Wiley created Il slight sensation
by announcing that he had filled the exist
ing vacancies on his staff and requested
that an informal meeting of the brigade
board be held in order that the gentlemen
might be examined. They were W. J. Singer,
of Bellefonte, to be Brigade Commissary,
andJ. J. Miller, of Pittsburg, Judge Advo-
cate, with the rank of Major Major Singer
was Brigade Commissary Sergeant under
Major Curtin, and succeeds him in that
position. Major Miller is prominent at
torney of the Allegheny. county bar, and
succeeds Major Braden, formerly of Green
willie. Theappointments were tavorably rec
commended by the board.
The matter OF shutting ont the recruit
who only enlists for the pleasure trip and
then iails to report for drills and other duty
meets with general approval. "In fact"
said one officer, "there are certain class of
people who have slight knowledge of mil
to drills, etc, but when trip is pro-
posed you will always find the various cap
tains besieged with applicants to be taken
along. This, to considerable extent, has
been done in the past,but the present admin
istration has concluded to shut them
out" This meets the hearty approval of
the maj ority of the company comman dants,
and If the present system syst IN, OF quarterly re-
tect Captain who does not follow out the
order.