The herald., 1894-03-21
THE SHODDY UNIFORMS
MAJOR DRIFFIL MAKES A FUR
THEIR STATEMENT.
The Cloth IL Poor and the Dye IL
Net Set aud Many OF tho
Blouses Are Use.
less Misfits.

Maj. j. A. Drifil, the inspecting off,
Ger OF the First brigade Of the National
guard, was in the city yesterday, having
inspected Company B at Pasadena on
Monday evening.
The major yesterday stated to q
HERALD reporter that he found the
same criticisms could be made on the
new uniforms sent to Company B that
applied to the blouses furnished to the
rest of the brigade. He had pair OF
white isle thread gloves that were
stained to deep blue color.
These gloves, said the major, were
d.scolorsd by being merely rubbed dry
over one OF the blouses-a sort OF dry
shampoo. II the uniforms were exposed
to Q Tainstorm, the men would be striped
like Bengal tigers in five minuies time.
The dye is not set in the
cloth, the texture is poor, and the
uniforms are i'll fitting. want
to say that this cloth may not
be worse than the cloth selected by the
uniform board, but il this is the cloth
they selected it is mighty poor stun.
The contract tailors sent men down here
TO measure the boys for their uniforms
and they were measured, but they have
turned out lot of shockingly ill-ftting
clothes. Some of the boys when ar
rayed in the new uniforms look like
grotesQue ecarecrows. We will ask Tor
a board OF survey, and | am satisfied
that when the uniform board up north
find out how they have been misied
in this matter they will be
equally indignant with the citizen
..,t,{ -, naEfornfo a
have forwarded today to the board sam.
ples OF the clothing furnished here, and
are inclined to believe that the inspect
or who was employed by the uniform
board slighted his work.
ut will only be justics on the part of
the uniform board, whe7 it sees what
kind of uniforms have been sent south,
to require the contract tAilors to loot the
bills incurred in order to make these
uniforms fit the men for whom they
we're intended"
MEETING OF THE UNIFORM BOARD.
A dispatch to the San Francisco Ex-
aminer from Sacramento under date OF
March 18th says:
A meeting Of the uniform board of
the National guard, composed of Adiu-
tant General and Quartermaster Cen
eral Dickinson and Colonel Depue, divi-
sion inspector, has been called for to-
morrow stthe Office of General Dickin-
son in San Francisco, for the purpose of
inquiring into the charges made by the
inspector of the fret brigade, Major
Driffil, ss published in a Los Angeles
dispatch to the Examiner, to the effect
that the material used in the new uni
forms Just issued to the fifteen comps-
nies of the First brigade is inferior, and
that not one in ten Of the uniforms fit
the men for whom they are intended.
General Allen left here for San Fran
cisco this afternoon to attend the meet
ing. Before going he stated that the
uniform board would make rigid in
vestigation OF the charges, which came
as a surprise to him, as he had thought
all along that the uniforms we're giving
satisfaction. The cloth will be tested
again to see il the quality conforms to
the sample az adopted.
Quartermaster Williams, U. s. A., had
told the board that the material was of
q far better quality than that used by
the regular army. The cloth of the
National guard weighs 241s ounces to
the yard, while the army material weighs
% ounces to the yard.
''Should the charge prove true on in
vestigation," continued the general,
''the state will not be q loser, for the
reason that out OF the $40, 1000 appropri-
ated but about $4,000 has been paid the
contracting tailors, while that amount
of bills and more still remain unpaid"
The dress coat is no longer a part OF
the National guards uniform, which
now consists OF cap, blouse, trousers and
leQQinRs