The herald., 1894-01-16
THESE SOLDIERS ARE NOT TIN.
The Annual Meeting of Company A of
the Seventh.

The Annual Meeting of Company A of
the Seventh.
The annual meeting of Company A
was held last Tuesday evening, and the
yearly reports OF the civil officers and
committees of the company, together
with the election and appointments of
civil officers for the ensuing year took
up the time o the members. A review
OF the years work found everything in
satisfactory. condition. The finances
were great improvement over year
ago and $75 were turned into the treas
ury as the result OF the late rife tourna-
ment and annual entertainment. The
target and range committee reported the
interest in rifle shooting continuing and
improving, with a match shoot on the
tapis with the Turner's in the near fu-
ture.
The civil officers elected for the ensu-
ing year were as follows: Private 0.
Montgomery, secretary; Private 6. o.
Grindell financial secretary, filed dur
ing his temporary absence by Private
Ii. R. jackson. Governing board OF the
beneficiary department, Lieutenant F.
i. Baldwin, Sergeant, j. d. Jaynes. Pri-
vate w. j, Reeves; finance committee,
Quartermaster Sergeant w. Clarke, Cor.
poral F. Willard, Private ]. f. Marek !;
target and range committee, Lieutenant
F. L. Baldwin, First Sergeant H. G.
Miles. Corporal d. Clarke, Corporal A.
W. Splittstoesser recruiting committee.
Lieutenant Samuel Crawford, Sergeant
]. d. James, Sergeant A. Roth.
Recruiting of the company is now re-
ceiving serious consideration, and care
is being used TO receive none but desir
able material. Responsibility, good
physique and good health are three
prime requisites. Recruits serve sixty
days before being allowed to enlist, 80
they may thoroughly understand the
service before joining.
New blouses for the company have
been received and the balance of their
re.equipment is looked for shortly. This
will give the men new uniforms through
out, together with campaign hats, leg
gings. haversacks and csnteens.
The company is considering the ad-
visibility of giving an entertainment in
the course OF couple of months that
will have for it's ground work complete
presentation of the work done by it in
drill. A committee is now ut work con-
sidering other portions of the program.
The drills will include the movements
of the company, the extended order
and work of the fighting line, ''setting
up' or military calisthenics, bayonet
exercise, the gun detachment on the
field piece and Gatling gun, and in the
sabre exercise, dress parade and prob
ably review.
This evening after drill will be dis
cussed whether company supper or a
''stag party" shall be given at an early
date.
What with the free use of the
gymnasium, the care OF the click and
burial of its dead. the variety of its
drills and the Systematic business-like
management of Company AIS affairs,
there would seem to be no reason why
the company could not be built up to
the maximum strength allowed by law,
one hundred and three officers and men.
Captain Steere is now in communica-
tion with some of the New York regi-
mental inspectors of rife practice, rela-
tive to reftting the company's armory
range, and some interesting 500 and
600-yard matches on reduced targets are
booked Tor within the next sixty days.