Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-24
GOSSIP OF THE GUARD.

MAJOR FRANK PATTERSON, the Second
| Brigade Inspector, returned from Phila
| delphia yesterday.
WILLIAM MCCLELLAN, Adjutant General
left Harrisburg for Fortress Monroe last
Thursday. He expects to remain there some
time in quest of health.
LIEUTENANT COLONEL THOMAS HUNTINGTON,
of the First Regiment, has obtained a four
months leave OF absence. His commission
in the guard expires during his absence and
he will refuse to accept reelection.
THE vouchers for the armory rents for the
various commands in the Second Brigade
were received and issued last week. Two
hundred dollars per company is the allow
ance, and landlords as a consequence are
wearing broader smiles than usual this
week.
TEE Fourteenth Regiment is now equipped
with music enough to last it for at least q
year to come. Adjutant Hubbard enlisted
40 musicians last week from the East End,
and he claims they are superior lot of fel.
lows, both as to their ability to play brass
instruments and as to morals. They have
not yet been fitted out with uniforms, bnt
will be fixed up in that line shortly. The
Fourteenth has been in bad shape as regards
music for several years past, and IL is to be
hoped that no more trouble will be ex-
perienced for some time to come.
TIE annual spring inspections in the Sec
ond Brigade commence with Company f, of
the Fifteenth Regiment, at Iron City, on
February ], at O'Clock p. NJ. The Fifteenth
Fourteenth, Fifth, Sixteenth, Eighteenth
and Tenth Regiments follow in the order
named with the Sheridan Troop on February
Is, Battery b March "A, and the Brigade
Band February 27. The Fourteenth Regi-
ment commences with Company on Feb
ruary s, and the Eighteenth Regiment with
Company A on March Z Musicians are to
be inspected with their companies and
special attention is to be given to the
armories, their condition and location. A
complete report o. the reserve ammunition
on hand must be made to the inspecting
officer.
SEVERAL men are at present at work on a
publication ostensibly in the interest of
Company A, of the Fourteenth Regiment.
The scheme is to obtain high priced adver-
tisenents from railroads and manufacturers
on the plea that the company mentioned is
badly in need of uni orrnS and that the funds
raised will be used that purpose. Already
five or six thousand dollars worth of sub-
scrfptions have been obtained. Some com
not sufficiently understood that the scheme
is for the benefit of Company A only.
Many and In fact most people not directiy
interested in the guard do not pretend to
know the details OF companies, ETC., and this
scheme of raising money on the credit of
other organizations is decidedly unfair to
the ones not benefited.
AN election has been ordered for Januerv
80 to fill the vacancy of Captain now existing
in Company B, Eighteenth Regiment. Lien.
tenant William Doak, who has been in COM
msnd of the company for the past two
months, will be promoted to the vacancy
but just who will be his successor is hard to
saw Company B is now one of the hest
commands in the regiment and is probable
about the only one in the State that has not
vet been equipped with the new 45calfber
Springfield rifles. Lieutenant Doak last
week put in another reQuisitIon for the
guns and complains of being badly bandi-
capped by being compelled to use the old
style guns. There are at present over 100
of the new guns now in the State Arsenal Mt
Harrisburg, and just why Company is
kept in suspense is hard to say.
BR1GADIER GENERAL JOHN A. WILEY has
received notice of his reappointment by
Governor Pattison to command of the
Second Brigade for five years longer Gen
eral Wiley has proven himself most ex-
cellent and competent officer during his
preceding term and his reappointment has
been well merited. During the past month
an interesting attempt was made by well
known PltIsburger to obtain the appoint
ment now held by General Wiley, ana
numerous rumors were put into circulation
as to the possible result OF his effort. The
considerable reputation, while General
Wiley has always been noted for his ardent
tendencies Governor Pattison,
however, has wisely decided to keep politics
as far as possible from the practical work
ings of the guard, as his predecessor Gov
ernor Beaver did in his appointment of
Generals Snowden and Dickert.