The morning times., 1895-09-22
DISTRICT SOLDIER BOYS
One Weeks News and Gossip
Around Local ArmorieS.

| fFdcuce meet tO-InOrrOW evening IN tne
lecture room at brigade headquarters
| They will discuss the arrangements for
official practice at the range. During
the week the orders providing for it will
be issued.
| After this matter has been decided the
! affairs of the National Rifle Association
| will be taken up. 1t is the intention of the
department to make the association ma
tional in its aims as wellas in its name To
accomplish this several things will be done.
The National Guard of Maryland is to be
invited TO use the range. 1t is located in
Maryland, and the boys over there have
no chance of exercising themselves in rifle
practice 1t is true that Fort McHenry
is at their service, but the range there is for
only 200 yards. If the Maryland Guard ac-
cepts the offer schedule can be arranged at
once.
In addition the government has signified
its intention of using the range at Ordway
for its troops stationed at Fort Myer. This
will give them all the chance for practice
that they want. No definite time has been
arranged for yet.
At the meeting tomorrow night the
inspectors of rifle practice VIII also
discuss the advisability of securing a num-
Der of ring targets These Will be for theuse
of the association on Saturda VS. There
are number of marksmen in the city who
are anxious TO try their hands again at such
shooting. and it is to oblige them that the
new targets will be procured. The desire
is 10 make the range satisfactory 70 every
If h.ipp,r ~ la ms
make your wants known and some one will
help you out. Themeeting, then, Ia o-morrow
night W i'll be one ofa great deal ofimportance
A WIND CLOCK.
Lieut.. Hutterly, of Company A, En-
gineer Corps, is about the busiest man in
the guard on range matters. He has his
hands full just now constructing Il wind
clock. The Engineer Corps donated the
material and Lieut.. Huttcrly is making
the clock.
1t will be placed at the 3GOyard range
and will stand about twenty-five feet
high. The dial will be about five feet in
diameter, and the hand is about three
and one-haif feet long. Surmounting the
dial Will be a vane six or seven feet long,
and this viii move as the wind blows.
In turn the vane moves the hand and the
direction of the wind can thus be easily
determined by the marksman.
The need of such a clock has been felt
ever since the range was opened. When
Major Harries was asked about it lie
said nothing could be done until next
year. The work of preparing the new
practice grounds had used up all the ap-
preparation. But when the Engineer Corps
offered to present the clock to the range
ior Harries most chcerfully gave his
consent.
Lieut.. Harvey, of the corps, who has
been in Minnesota for some weeks, was
much interested in the Sea Girt shoot.
He takes great interest in rifle practice
anyhow, and is very proud of the record
made by the Engineers.
He has written to friends in the city,
and in one of his letters said he had
been trying TO get up match between
the crack shooting company of Mime
sofa, Company C, First Regiment. He
thought in skirmish they could give the
Engineers a hustle. but othe rwise the
boys could beat them. 1t was all knocked
in the head, though, by the Hilton trophy
score; that frightened the Minnesota boys
off.
iht huSodehustttS iiith1 WIN htit
the worlds record before in this match,
are determined to get the record back in
their state. They have already begun to
form their team, which will try to beat
the score made by the home team They in
tend to practice all winter, and hope to
be in elegant shape. What will the Dis
trict boys be doing all this time?
A MILITARY FUNERAL.
Troop A buried one of its members with
military honors last Sunday afternoon.
II was the second death of an active member
since the formation of the company. The
services were held at O'Clock at Bethany
Chapel, Thirteenth street and Ohio avenue,
and the interment was in Congressional
cemetery. The trooper buried was Private
Walter Acton, killed at the new Library
building q few days before.
Forty troopers turned out, under COM
mand of Capt Harry Barbour. The firing
squad of eight was under command of Sergt
Simpson. The pallbearers were Privates
White Douglass, Smith, Poetzman. Gard
ner, and Ragland. The troop marched to
the mothers home, Fifteenth and C streets
northwest, and escorted the body to the
church Here ii was carried through a
lane of troopers with arms at present.
After the services the funeral process
sion was formed. First came the firing
squad. Then followed the hearse, with
three pallbearersson each side; then a horse
with arms and equipments tied to the
saddle and boot in the stirrup reversed.
Then came the troop, followed by the
friends.
1t was very impressive scene. Troopers
in full dress marching slowly after the
riderless horse. Large crowds watched
the procession as it moved slowly along.
At the cemetery a salute was fired over
the grave and the buglers sounded taps.
This was the troops tribute to comrade
who was q universal favorite. On the
March down through Virginia and Maryland
last summer he enivened many a campfire
by his sweet singing, and something was
very wrong indeed If there were not
urgent calls for more.
IN THE FIFTH.
Major Suess has issued his first orders
for the fall He says:
Active work in the battalion will be
resumed on Monday, October 7andcontinued
during the winter as follows: Battalion
drill and parade, fatigue uniform, first
Monday in each month. Assembly of COM
panies p. M, adjutant's call S:15 p. m.
Company drill and guard mounting on the
second, third, fourth and fifth Monday
of each month. Assembly OF companies
8 o. m. Hour of guard mounting to be
published from time to time. Battalion