The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-01-29
Newark Reserves Discover
Why They Have Not
Been Reorgaalzed.
POSSIBLE MILITARY JEALOUSY
The Governor Considers the Present
Law Unsatisfactory-New
Bill Framed.

| .ested in the Nav Reserve movement
| they nave succeeded In finding out just
why the State authorities have not for
| maliy recognized them and made them q
! part of the available defensive force OF
the State. This understanding was ar
rived at last Wednesday when a commit
tee of three from the Newark division
met in Trenton delegations from the
| Trenton, Camden and Haddonfield divf-
| sions, and they waited upon the Cover
| nor at the Capitol. The delegates, when
| once they got together, found they were
a unit as to what ought to be done, SO
that when the would-be sailors went be-
| fore the Governor they were able to
| sbate their position In a few words. re-
| ceive the answers and depart. The whole
interview lasted scarcely five minutes,
| and at its close they saw their way clear,
and were prepared to follow in 1t.
The Naval Reserve bill, enacted just
a year ago, provides that the organization
shall be governed by a naval board, to
be constituted for the purpose. 1t also
gives transportation expenses to mem
bers of the reserve, and these two points
seem now to have been the real stumo-
ling block. 1t is somewhat strange they
were not discovered before by the re-
| serve men, for the State authorities seem
to have. been aware of them for rome
months. All 1t needed was for some one
to go to the proper authorities and in
quire, and the could have gained the in
formation only jlst now obtained.
JEALOUSY FEARED.
The objections to the naval board
clauses in the law are based on sound
principles which ought to have been
recognized by the Trainers of the law. In
TIRE establishment of a naval board the
State would have two bodies governing
the movements of the States fighting
force-tae mill tary and naval boards.
That they would be at variance frequent
" and thereby cause more or less confu-
son, Is not only possible, but probable.
The instant the Reserve gained more
privileges than the National Guar there
would be trouble, and friction between
the two bodies would be well nigh ,nce5-
SAINT. The reserve would be the sufferer
unQuestionably, as the militia is. and
should De, more powerful'inasmuch as 1t
is larger and of greater service to the
State, for the present at least. In view
of these facts it is deemed wiser for the
reserve to become subordinate to the
State Military Board than to attempt to
-antagonize it. Some time in tine future,
a score of years hence, perhaps, New
Jersey may a v three or Four battalions
each with its portion of the States coast
line to look after; each with its ship and
with a couple of hundred men or SO to
manage 1t. Then it would be time enough
for the Naval Board idea TO be put in
| operation. Both in New York and Penn
sylvania, and, so far as is known, in
every State where a Naval Reserve has
been organized, the reserve is subject 90
the military board OF to the authority
corresponding to SUCH board. Even last
ing orders from the State military au-
thorities to turn out and help suodue
the T T55lEe TA Y EGfSSsATFfs:FAcToRY.
The Reserve men who visited Governor
Werts on TUESDAY were not surprised.
therefore, to hear him say, in response
ent Naval Reserve law was satisfactory;
that it was not; And when he added
Shat he Board gri9 taeg w eg3eo ready w With 1he e
number of amendments to, the law,
which, + passed, would I'd, put the the Reserve aa e
p nnde said 5h at M onee that G Il The ~a nne Gosats
suited the Military Board they would pc
satisfactory to him, and, inasInuch as
the proposed amendments were pracfl.
caily dictated by a prominent member. Of
the Military Board, the Reserve men felt
ma lei Telie tsst Tn The e G9ysrR0g law svsf Be- re.
afed in a new one. to avoid all confusion
in the future. This suggestion vas acted
upon, for the Reserve men at once with
drew and prepared a new bib. Tais bill
was on Thursday last finally gone over
by a member of the Military Board and
put in the hands of a member OF the Sen
sR H. me- IN will become a law there
ia liftie reason to doubt, for every legis-
lator who has been talked to On the sub
RRs sas h "a a e Naval Reserve a e and WIZ wai fsvor
any project within reason calculated to
hasten fits organization. n TACT esas
New York's reserve has become 80 ci1ci-
emit, coupled with the lonS and exposed
New Jersey ooast line, are sufiietent ar
gument il themselves. The Bp pM tSn
81 Sbat sne WI. aiAi have mo for its eommanddeer e1-
Lieutenant jacques, who during his time
Ia th In n Certain sSi Ines, 1g n 81 the BEST Off
GERS in the service. Besides, What should
make him peculiarly. acceptable to the
High School, receiving his appointment
70 Annapolis ago sn from Ra ,Sai sm Congre MhseS e ais Is
hoped will ere long become the home of
the battalion. IS said to be II exception.
ally good coIdst fq 10 fo large 3 sn apa p room nv.
and when the spar deck is rooted over
win be Tg e9nf15ssa bfy inassS;
At the other n of the State more
has been accomplished on some lines than
on It's membership roll the names OF i2o
men or t~hereabouts, but as, the maxi
mum for q division is eighty-hye men. In
Guiding four commissioned officers, con
Siderable wedding out will nave to be
done. The division has A average at
tendance of sixty at drills: Last Octo-
Der. during the great PsnnsylvaniR-
| Prtnceton football game at Trenton, the
| signal squad of the division under Lieu
| tenant Woodward, wig4wagged an &C
| count of the contest, Including gains as
wei as. tonohdowns and goals. to the
| heart of the city, where 1T WAS written
| OUT upon a bulletin board. The bulle-
tin was watched by 1000 people. A man
| on the Football field wig-wa eyed the story
| monument, who In turn sent it to a man
| on the top of a building in the city
| nroper. The Camden division has only
3,lst been organized. but started off with
forty-fve men. In Haddonfeld they have
| forty or fifty men and are the only divi-
| sion in the western end OF, the State that
| have uniforms. The men in all three d.
| visions are highly ENTHUSIASTIC and nave
many plans for work for the coming
spring and summer.
MISS WYATT AS MATR0N.