The morning times., 1895-09-01
DISTRICT SOLDIER BOYS
One Weeks News and Gossip
Around Local ArmOriGS.


The team is off for Sea Girt Last year
they lost trophies for want of practice
This year they have had practice, and
their friends expect them to win.
Headquarters has just issued the order
detailing the members of the team. The
team is directed TO proceed to Sea Girt TO
participate in the fifth annual rifle com.
petltionunder the auspices Of ftheNew Jersey
State Rifle Association.
Maj. George H. Harries is appointed cap
tain Of the team, Capt Henry IL. Par
menter, quartermaster Second Regiment,
is appointed quartermaster, nd First
Lieut. Wilmer P. Vale, inspector of rifle
practice Sixth Battalion, is appointed ad-
jutant and ordnance officer OF the brigade
rifle team.
The following are the members OF the
brigade team:
Private Maurice Appleby, Company a,
Engineer Corps; Capt James E. Bell, 1. r.
P, Second Regiment; Corp. Robert P.
Carleton, Company A, Engineer Corps;
Private George f. Cook, Company A, En-
gineer Corps; Private w. W. Cooksou, Com
pany a, Engineer Corps; Sergt. Clarence w.
Dickey, Company A, Engineer Corps; Sec
ond Lieut.. Andrew o. Hutterly, Company
A, Engineer Corps; First Lieut.. Charles
II. Laird, quartermaster Sixth Battalion
Private Henry II. Leizear, Company A, En-
gineer Corps; Capt. William H. Meyer,
adjutant Second Regiment; Capt. j. NJ
Pollard, Company A, Engineer Corps;
Private Samuel l. Scott, Company A, En-
giueer Corps; Sergt. James NJ. Stewart,
Company "A, Engineer Corps; Private C..
McC. Taylor, Company B, Second Battal-
ion; Private Samuel Wetherald, Company
A, Engineer Corps; First Lieut.. Glendie
B. Young, I. r. P. Engineer Corps.
Beside the brigade team, the following
named officers ana men accompanied II:
Col. Cecil Clay, Second Regiment; Pr-
vate W. i. Colladay, Company b, Second
Battalion; Private W E. Christ, Company b.
Second Battalion; First Lieut.. F. Z. Gibson
1. r. P, Third Battalion Color Sergt. W.
d. Hadger, Second Battalion; First Lieut..
Thomas S. King, 1. r. p, Second Battalion;
First Lieut.. John A. Kirk l. Z. =. Proyi
sional Battalion; First Lieut.. George @.
Shaw, 1. R. p, Fifth Battalion; Cand.
sergt. A. S. McClain, Company B, Fifth
Battalion; Private George W. sneden,
Company A, First Battalion; Private F.
n. Wells, Company b. First Battalion;
Private A. A. Birney, Company a, Eng gineer
Corps; Private j. NJ Colt, Company c, En-
ginecr Corps; Private t. /. Graham, Com
pany a, Engineer Corps; SeFgt. z. J. Haiti
gan, Company c, First Battalion; First
Lieut.. II. W. Holt, adjutanJ Engineer Corps;
Sergt. George W, King, Company b, Sixth
Battalion; Private E. A. Wright, Company
c, Engineer Corps.
DAY AT THE RANGE.
Tuesday was q great day, with the team.
AS # was the next to the last shoot large
number of visitors were present. The boys
all went out on the > o'clock train and came
back away after Z.
Capt. Day, of the Seventh Cavalry, c. S
A, was one OF the visitors. Not exactly
a visitor, either, because he is going to
Sea Girt with the team and viii aid Maj.
Harries. he gave the bpys some pointers,
as it was. He told them OF some Of the
troubles be himself had with mirage.
JUST afterhe joinedhls company asa young
lieu tenant, fresh from west Point, he
learned his fiTst lesson. "Mr. Day, " saiCS
his captain TO him one afternoon, now far
off do you think that antelope is?" point
ing 10 the pretty little thing as it stood
away out on the plain.
About quarter Of a mile, ;" he replied.
It was only a short time tillhe found out that
it was scarcely z . yards away.
He also pointed out the necessity Of
watching the flags at a range. There is one
flag, he said, which always pointed the
wind. He advised the members OF the team
to study all the flags and the results of each
shot. IN this way they would soon get on
to the one.
At one OF the ranges where he had shot
Capt. Day found that the flag on the range
house was the one which marked the wind.
The men would lie down, load. and then
twist around to catch a glimpse Of the
flag The pointers were weIl taken and viii
be remembered.
Among the other visitors was Prof. Hill,
OF the Observatory. He is quite an amateur
shot himself. He was SO pleased with the
range and the way the boys handled them
selves that he has half promised to join
Company A, Engineer Corps. Capt. Day
tried a shot or two, but Prof. Hill did not.
The day was perfect and the shooting was
good. The score was very large The best
twelve men tied the worlds record, and
the probable team, twelve men, made l ,081,
In the Hilton trophy match, l,0S7 won it
last year. The boys mean to do some great
shooting this year. There We're no coacHers
at the 500 yard range, and the boys were
in a hurry TO catch the train; SO the score
is not so good as It viii be.
Tuesday the team shot as It win at Sea
Girt, provided il is composed of the same
men. Privates Scott and Wetherald led off
at their targets, as did Capt. Bella Lieut..
Laird at the second. The first named were
followed by Private Cook and Sergt. Dickey
and sergt S tewart and Corp. Appleby. The
second were followed by Capt. Moyer and
Corp. Carleton and Capt. P Pollard and Lieut..
Hutterly. The men prefer to shoot in this
order and are permitted to do so.
HOW THEY SHOOT.
The first took ten shots each at 200 yards
and 500 yards. These were counted for the
Interstate match, the second largest con-
test at S ca Girt. Then they fired seven shots
at 500 yards for the Hilton trophy. The
wind bothered them little at this range.
It took them nearly three hours and half
to shoot these scores off.
Then the fun Of the day Tor the spectator
came-the skirmisn SHOOTING. Ine regi
mental teams were brought out and Maj
! Harries himself took them in command.
In this each man has twenty shots to fire,
but he must fire them Oh tile run.
Each man is given twenty rounds Of
ammunition. The target sis not marked
UDfil he has finished so no one knows