Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-05-25
COMPANY A WON,
Prize Drill of COlored High School
Cadets.

fr11e Drtll of COlOred High School
Cadets.
The entertainment given by the pupils of
the Colored High School last night for the
benefit of the library was a success, both
financially and artistically. Quite a neat
sum was rallied. The entertainment took
place in the hall of the school building he
lore a large audience. comic operetta.
entitled "A Merry Company" opened the
performance, and reflected great credit nm
on the pupils, who took the several char
acters in really clever style The singing
was especially good. and the choruses ali
that could be expected. Profs. Bailey and
aylon gave their personal direction to the
presentation OF the operetta A class of
Hlhe young ladies' opened the second mart
u the program with a clever exhibition of
Iaaia1 Grub swinging. Then came the COM
the feature of the entertainment. II was
the great rivalry between these COMPANIES
that made the drill interesting
After the judges had announced everv-
lining ready the drill commenced. Company
A, under the command of Capt Burweli
twenty-eight strong, was the first to drill
!neir appearance was greeted with cheers.
AND how well they deserved 1t was shown
by their drilling. They drilled like veta
rams With and without the numbers they
went through the manual with few errors
ana when they had concluded the COM
pany colors-yellow and blue-were waved
abort by their friends in the audience This
company was especially proficient in load
ing and firing, although few mistakes
ment. ~
a vigorous applause greeted company r.
as IL marched on the stage, under the conn
MANI OF capt, Payne The company colors
req ana white-were conspicuous in the
audience, and 1t was evident ii was NOT
friendless. "o'
Company B presented twenty-six men.
and lost no time getting to work For the
numbers he
pad case of rattles in drilling by numbers
made their chances look glum. After that
tney got over their nervousness and exc
cuted many movements in a superior man
ner to their rivals In stacking arms the
company was trifle slow, but proved SUI
perior to their predecessors in loading and
nring, not single error marking this
movement. In the last movement of sup
port arms one of the privates in the front
rank made glazing error, and the result
OF the competition seemed a foregone con-
clusion. Company A hsd won. although IT
was conceded on all siues that company b
would have put the result in doubt had il
not been for few individual errors
After the drill the judges. who We're Capt.
Chas H. Ourand of company c. first bat
talon; Lieut. Jesse F. Grant of company b.
first battalion, and Lieut.. z. l.. Webster,
company A, first separate battalion, all of
the District Of Columbia National Guard.
retired to decide upon the winner. They
soon appeared, and declared company A
the winner. Maj. George H. Harries deliv-
cred an address and presented the medal
to the winning company.
The Winning Company.
The roster of the winning company is as
follows: Captain, Henry D. Burwell; first
lieutenant, Clarence Wormiey; second lieu
tenant, Harry Burgess; first sergeant. w.
D. Stewart; second sergeant, Geo. D. Sgd
nor: third sergeant, Harry Bell; corporals,
Frank Brent. VIM. Lee. John White; pri-
Yates. John Butler, A. Chew, A. Greenlease.
Raymond Jackson, Granville Pollard, Isaac
Scott, Lawrance Wooden. w. Bell, Geo.
Edmonston, Henry Gross. r. Kidrick. Lew
is Patterson. John Saunders, VIM. A. Bal
Lewis, Ed. Ridgley, Hayward Smith, VIM.
Bowie. NJ. Goodrich. John Jones, Geo.
Mayo. M. L. Robinson. Leon Turner. Rich.
ard Ware.