Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-08-04
THE NATIONAL GUARD
How the Brigade Rifle Team Will Be
Made Up.
NAMES OF THE SELECTED COMPETITORS
All the Practicing to Be Done at
Sea Girt.
NEWS OF THE TROOP S

District National Guardsmen have been
waiting with a good deal of interest and
| a trife of not unreasonable impotence for
| some definite information as to how and
when the brigade team Of 1894 will come
| into existence. 1t was the original intention
| of the inspector general Of rifle practice
| to conduct an exhaustive competition, the
competitors being selected by the various
| regimental and battalion inspectors. But
circumstances over which the local soldi Try
! had no control compelled a change in the
program, GO that there cannot possibly be
the looked-for competitive effort. With the
range at the barracks completely disman-
| tied. team practice in Washington or it's
| vicinity was impossible, and the short
| time available was nothing like enough
to afford opportunity for tine equipment OF
another range-where to be located no
body knows-an appeal was made 20 Gen.
Spencer, New Jerseys inspector general
of rife practice, for target and camp ac-
commodations at Sea Girt. The response
was hearty one. and in the affirmative
and 1t is now definitely understood that the
seventeen men from among whom the bril-
gade team Of twelve and the four alternates
| will be selected are to leave here on the
evening of Saturday, the 18th instant and
Will put in several hours each day from the
Monday following until the next Saturday
| In red-hot fight for the much-coveted po-
sltions. In many respects the week of pre-
| liminary competition Will be almost, If not
quite, as interesting the following week.
| when the matches for which the team is to
be trained will be shot.
These Are on the List.
The final roster Of those who will be or
dered to Sea Girt as brigade team competi-
is possibility of one or two Of the sharp
shooters who have been selected being I'M
able to fulfill the practice requirements
The selection at present is as follows: Cor
poral Maurice Appleby. Capt. James Z.
Bell. Private r. +. Carleton. Capt. W. l..
Cash. Private George Cook, Col. Cecil Clay
Sergt. g. W. Dickey, Lieut.. A. o. Hutter-
ly, Sergt. John A. Kirk, Lieut. Charles
Lair. Private II. IL. Leizear. Capt W. H.
Meyer, Private J. NJ. Pollard. Private S. l.
| Scott, Brigade Commissary Sergeant J. NJ
Stewart, Private S. Il. Wetherald, Lieut.
| q. II. Young. The team will be commanded
by Maj. Geo. II. Harries, will have Capt
H. II. Parmenter as quartermaster, and
Lieut.. w. L. Vale as adjutant and ordnance
officer.
As to Rcsimentnl Teams.
1t now seems certain that the first regi-
ment will not send team to compete for
the New Jersey interstate trophy, which
tIle iiTst regiment ) representatives won in
| 1891 and 1892. This is regretted very much
by national guardsmen. but it SO happens
that NEST of Capt. Cash's team material
has moved into the second regiment so Col
Moore and he have come to the conclusion
that regimental team cannot be had dur
ing the present season. 1t is possible
though, that a team may be organized n
the second battalion, but any precise state
ment as to that probability cannot now be
second wi nnt in ha
field the strongest team 1t has ever had;
Capt. Bell is very hopeful. and with good
reason The engineer team promises to be
at least as good as the team of 1893, which,
without very much trouble, succeeded in
covering itself with glory; Lieut.. Young
and mis- men will make a desperate effort
to capture the bronze horse for the second
time. As those who will be on teams of the
second regiment and the engineer battalion
are included in the list of competitors for
the brigade team, the regimental teams will
also have ample opportunity for practice
1t may be that Capt. Tominso one of the
most enthusiastic of national ,uardsmen-
will, as in years past, take dozen or SO of
his best men to do battle for the sixth bat
talon. Last year Capt Tominsons team
achieved an aggregate larger than that with
which the first regiment team won the
trophy in 1881; this year the sixth battalion
boys may do good deal better. Nothing
Is as yet known to the individual marks
men who of their own motion desire and
propose to become part of the detachment
1hOSe
contemplate going will need to make I'D
their minds in a hurry and report at once
to Capt H. II. Parmenter. who will dis
pense all the necessary informant ton as to
terms and accommodations. The remark
ably fine program presented by the New
Jersey State Rifle Association, and publish
ed some time ago in The Star, should at
tract a large number of the local ezra ks''.
better program has not been seen in the
east since Creedmoor was in all its glory |
Last year the total number Of District |
guardsmen who went to Jersey was about
thirty-Eve; this year 1t should not be less
than fifty.
An error in the Sea Girt program gives
to the second D. c. regiment the credit for
having won the New Jersey interstate
trophy In 1891 and 1899. The error some
how or other was perpetuated in The Stars
reprint of the program. OF course Wash |
, hnsnaa know that the magniilcent
team, which. unfortunately, no longer
exists.
How the Official Work May BE Done.
Plans as to how the official practice of
the brigade will be done as yet in a some
what incomplete condition, but the chances
are that as soon as the fourth artillery
gets through with its rifle practice on the
Marshall Hall range pest will be
established near the range and that the
practice will be pushed through with vigor
Broadly, the idea is to have battalion
ed by steamer from this city in the even
ing and put into camp at the Hall. At
daylight of the following morning practice
will commence and viii continue until
every man present has fired the required
scores; whatever time might be to .pare
could be used up by those who want to
improve their scores by voluntary practice;
In the evening another battalion would be
taken into camp and the first battalion pro-
coed back to Washington on the boat
which brought the relief 1t is believed that
the entire brigade could get through with
the requirements in less than a week AS
soon the official work is ended the an
nual competitions will doubtless take place
Praise for the Illinoisians.
The good work dune at Chicago by the |
Illinois National Guard has been the sub
ject of much comment
The Chicago Record says: People in this |
city and throughout the state will not soon !
forget the debt of gratitude they owe to the |
various militia regiments which have taken
part in quelling the recent scenes of riot /
and disorder. OF all the bodies of troops |
thus engaged not one has failed to give a |
20 cd account of itself. The membership of |