The Washington times., 1895-02-24


lery will be completed. the battalions shoot:
ing according TO the following schedule
The First Battalion will practice IN the GAL
lery at its armory, under a schedule to be
prepared by the battalion commander; Sec
ond Battalion. first and third Mondays OF
each month; Third Battalion, first and third
Saturdays Of each month; Fourth Battalion,
first and third Tuesdays of each month; Fifth
Battalion. second and fourth Mondays OF
month; Sixth Battalion, second and fourth
Tuesdays OF each month; First Separate Bat
talon, first and third Wednesdays OF each
month; Engineer Corps, Battery A, First
Separate Company and Second Separat 9
Company, second and fourth Saturdays OF
each month.
l. The general staff, the field and staff off,
GERS, and non-commissioned staff OF regi-
ments and lat alion inspectors of rife prac-
! tice, the fourth Wednesday of each month.
Yol!ey firing will follow the individual prac-
tice. three volleys being fred by each COM
| pany, kneeling. 4 proper record OF the re-
suits, to lie entered in the company target
book, will be certified by the inspector oil
rifle practice. Companies will be reported
at the rife gallery promptly at O'Clock p.
m, in undress uniform, armed, and equipped.
The rifle gallery will be open every day, ex-
cept Sunday, from to p. m, for voluntary
practice.
a POPULAR SURGEON.
Francis Joseph woodman. A B., NJ D.,
| surgeon of the Sixth Battalion, is one OF
the popular physicians of the brigade.
He is wearing a full beard now, but every
one Will recognize the picture. He has
had none taken for a long while, so it was
impossible to give him as he now is. He
is native of the Old Granite State, and
was born at Great Falls August z, 1851.
He comes by his military feelings honestly
| His great t-grandfather, both on his mo-
| theirs and fathers side. participated in
| the struggle for American independence,
while his grandfather on his mother g
| side was in the war of 1912 The doctor
is a graduate of the Great Falls High
| School and of the Phillips Exeter A cademy
! Exeter, n. H., and received thedegreeS OLA b
| and NJ. ID. from Yale and Columbian Uni
] versities respectively.
For about three years after his graduation
from Yale he was engaged as business man.
ger OF the Great Falls Free Press Company
| Since 1879 he has held various positions in
! the Pension Bureau. He was commissioned
! first lieutenant and surgeon of the Sixth
Battalion October 81, 1889. He is a great
! favorite with the boys and take sthe best
| care of them when called on.
The Sixth Battalion itself has quite @
| record. II is the departmental battalion OF
tDe brigade, ana lne l1ea OF SUCH body IL
| the National Guard originated with Gen
| 0rdway himself. Among his earliest plans
! looking TO the adequate protection of the
city in the event of local disturbances, was
that of assigning to certain organizations
the special duty of deploying on the depart
| mental buildings, with a view of holding
| them until such time as they might be re-
lieved by regular troops. The manifest
| propriety of assigning TO such duty those or.
| ganizations whose members possessed some
acquaintance with the halls, corridors, and
apartments of such buildings was seIf-evi
| dent. To such men could be more properly
confided the duty of guarding the public
| property and records, from their daily ac
! quaintance with the buildings than to other
! troops who possessed neither the knowledge
nor the personal interest necessary to spe
| cially qualify them for that service EN-
| ployed in the four largest departmental
| buildings in Washington there are probably
| 5000 men within the ages of military eligi.
| bliity. One man out Of every ten of this
| force, properly trained, organized, and dis
fplined, armed and equipped for instant
| service, might, in the moment of danger
| save to the government millions of property
| and preserve from destruction tons of doeu.
ments and papers whose value is simply in
| calcalable.