The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-06-26
Warm Praise For the Excel
lent Work Our Naval Re-
serve Is Doing.
NEWARK LEFT FAR BEHIND
Trying to Raise a Division in
Essex-Fine Opportunity for
Boat Clubmen.
Snecfal tothe JERSEY Citu Ne1es.

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Naval Reserve Battalion. In speaking OF
| the matter the Sunday Call, In a recen'
issue, said:-
Sowing to the failure of the Reserve TO
submit its roll of members to Governor
| Werts within the time specified, no ship VIII
be assigned the Battalion OF the East unoh
next spring. The battalion will go on re-
cruiting, however. and drills with rifles
| Calling guns and howitzers will be held, so
that when the ship is secured the reserve
will have a fair knowledge of the elements
| OF the service. They are recruiting IN der,
sew City at the rate Of ten men a week ana
youne Newarkers can secure applcaUioh
| blanks. fill them out and send them In at any
time, But two more drills will be held tnis
| month, on June 20 and n: Rsgular aTliiS
for the year, however, will begin in Septeln-
har. Il is proposed, however. to swell the
membership roll during the summer, SO that
| when drills bsgn in the fall :the3fseserye may
get on its feet mmediatsly,sibaoB III az
TO AROUSE iNEMARKERsai1t 9 j..
$50 far the membership Ssiss made up OF
young plen living in JERSEY. Eitgs l ri WIN anti 6Ie
is to arouse interest in tie 'resefye on the
mart of Newarkers, in order that this city
NAV ere long have a full and proper repre-
sentation in the new organfzatlons. W nen q
Naval Reserve was first talked Oh mere many
| young men expressed themselves In tts favor
at once There are many foS whom the Ma
tionaI Guard has no attractions n there
are others who, while they would IKE TO JOIN
tha Essex Troop, feel that the expense
would be too great. The Naval Reserve fills
this gap, as will be presently shown, and 1t
is a practical certainty that, as soon as New
arkers are given some OF the details son.
nected with 1t, they Will enilsb IN cohsiuef-
able numbers.
i'm the first place there are now in exist
ence Naval Reserve battalionS in New YORK,
Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island,
North Carolina and California. The object
of these reserves is the protection uf She sea,
( coast and n~ayigable waters OF the state,
| as auxiliaries to the naval forces OF the
| United States In time of war. In all States
/ the legal status of these reserves Is the same
| as the other organizations of the National
Guard, and the ages for enlistment are pc
tween eighteen and forty-fve. The term OF
| enlistment Is also the same as In the land
militia.
. INSTRUCTED IN SEAMANsHLP.
UpThe member of the reserves receive IN
| struetibn in all matters appertalning to AZ
fairs naval, including drill as seamen In,
| fantry, in bolt service, in the use OF small
afnas4s7rifeasa 4ptlass, revolver, singie-s1lcK
exercises, aete,rin navigation, signalling by
day and night and eamanship; in the use OF
| modern rapid-fire ordinance, great guns,
toTnedbes electricity and all the compiica-
| ted mechanism belonging to the fighting
| parts of q man-of-war of the present day.
+, and In many other points, both ahoat and
| ashore"
New Jersey has a great extent OF coast
| line. and in time of war its shores might
| be left at the mercy of the enemy. Even II
| an attack upon Jersey shores was anticlpa-
| ted and United States wal vessels were
gathered to meet the attack 1t would be
hardly possible for the entire coast line to
| be kept under surveillance, and many
| exigences might arise calling for the de-
| parture to other scenes OF some, possibly all,
of the United States warshipS. La such
emergencies, and in TACT at all times during
which hostilitiss might be declared, a prop,
ef1y equipped and thoroughly organized
| Naval Reserve would prove Invaluable,
where infantryrnen would be able to give
but tardy suceor. Then, in tins OF war,
| ships crews suffer depletion, and, ia filling
IN the gaps among the petty officers and
men, the reserve would come in very handi-
ly. These are a few OF the reasons why the
various States nave adopted this new method
| Of increasing their volunteer defensive force,
and it is no wonder hat the movement, al
though but three or four years old, has
grown rapidly and spread from one State to
another, and it will probably not now be
long before every state bordering on the At
lantlc coast will nave protection OF tins SORT.
LA EBoh i L o oSo0 =
SPY the bill, which became a law over
| two months ago the military authorities
Lare given power to raise two battalions sor
naval militia, one to be known as the Bat
TALON of the East and the other as the
Battalion of the West, Before the bill had
become q law Jersey City enthusiasts had
taken sonN preliminary steps toward or
ganizing the Battalion of the East. 1Tbs
| other battalion has its headquarters at Cam
] den. 1t is proposed to havetwo divisions an
/ the Battalion of the East. and the jersey
| City company will be known as the First
ment-81 petty officers and sealnen-and ii
Newark can furnish the minimum number,
allowed by the new law, SO petty officers and
scamen, the Second division win be devoted
to Newark.
$50 far there is not q single member of the
New Jersey Naval Reserve whose residences
Ia in Newark. This is NEST surprising, In
agfnueh as there are many here interested In
the movement, and can only be accounted
for by the fact that Newarkers nave not
been kept informed as to the progress OF the
new movement. Last week, however, q few
learned of how nicely the Jersey City men
are getting along, and nearly every one OF
them signifed their attention of joining I'm
mediately. The First Division drills every
Wednesday night, and a CAL man watched
them at practice last week. q 9d' stbs
NEWARK SHOULD WAKE gPpa5;ys s ~
~ HIhe drill cOnSlslea OF bne S4nlBlese HhLauNry
m~anoeuvres, as theodivisimlisasyetd its In
! fancy. The msh sss s,soontp pc, ssffiieassRithh
/ Lee magazine rifles, and later 8jttGeutlasses.
The officers Of thee division are NJ PRESIDENT,
George M. CHRISTIAN; Vice President 5pr..
George T.. McLaughlin SECRETARY +. Erred
eriek Long; Treasurer. JnmesIBs Van Dleef.
The men as well as wellsas theeof1cefsaare
fun Of enthusiasm, and all expressed o regret
that Newark has not yet bestirfed1itself
why said one, Newark ought To- send us
a division made up Of members OF its boat
club alone This man hit the nail upon the
head, for it is the beating men before all
others who should take the initiative in this
movement. They are naturally interested
In all matters aquatic to o certain extent
and are for the most part sturdy and active.
q The yachtsnen and the oarsmen might we'll
combine to give Newark q first-class repre-
sentation. 1t may as we'll be stated here as
later on that the officers Of the reserve are
anxious to get only first-classm en-no those
who have money SO much as those who have
eonsiderable intelligence as well as the
breeding and instincts of gentlemen,
I'm other States the Nnv Reserves main
tain q high standing in regard to the quah-