Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-20
Orders Issued for Removal to the New
Armory.
DRILL and RIFLE PRACTICE
Some Dissatisfaction Expressed at
an Assignment to Quarters.
TOBE OPEN ON SUNDAYS

to the new armory, the assignments for the
use of Convention Hall for drills, and
schedule for practice in the rifle gallery
during March, April and May, and there
fore are of more than ordinary interest to
the brigade in general.
According to the orders, the brigade. ex-
cept the first and first separate battalions,
having been assigned quarters in the new
armory, located on l. street between 4th
and 9Th streets northwest, will take possess
sion of the same with the least practicable
delay under the supervision and direction
of the quartermaster general.
The drill hall is to be used as stated be-
low:
Second battalion. second and fourth Mon
days of each month!
Third battalion, second and fourth Satur-
days of each month.
Fourth battalion, second and fourth Tues
days of each month.
Fifth battalion, first and third Mondays
Sixth battalion, first and third Tuesdays
of each month.
Engineer Corps battery A. first separate
company, second separate company, third
separate company and Ambulance corps,
first and third Saturdays Of each month.
The nights assigned may be designated
for company, battalion or regimental drills
under such combinations and arrangements
as battalion commanders may deem best
for their respective commands, or as may
be prescribed by regimentai commanders.
On Thursday and Friday nights of each
week the rifle gallery will be open for gen.
eral use squad drill room.
Small arms practice for the current year
will be conducted under the regulations
prescribed by general orders No "a. series
of 1889, and paragraphs and &; general
orders No 3. series of 1894.
During March. April and May the pre-
scribed practice in the gallery will be COM
pleted. the bdttalions shooting according
h..f fol krt1er bod
The first battalion will practice in the
gallery at It's armory, under schedule to
be prepared by the battalion commander.
Second 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 Mon
days of each month.
Sixth battalion, second and fourth Tues
days of each month.
First separate battalion, first and third
Wednesdays of each month.
Engineer corps, battery A, first separate
company and second separate company,
second and fourth Saturdays of each
month.
The general staff the field and staff Off
GERS and non-commissioned staff of regi-
n.cnts and battalion inspectors of rifle
practice. the fourth Wednesday of each
month.
Volley firing will follow the Individual
practice. three volleys being fired by each
company. kneeling. A proper record Of the
results to be entered in the company tar
get record book. will be certified by the in
spector of rifle practice
Companies will be reported at the rifle
gallery promptly at 8 o'clock pm. in un-
dress uniform, armed and equipped
The rifle gallery will be open every day
except Sunday, from to o'clock p m for
voluntary practice. Ammunition will be
furnished on the payment of one cent for
N incy Of,
VIII be in attendance. and, on request will
certify scores to the captains of companies.
to be credited as part of the required prac-
tice.
Voluntary practice in the gallery will
begin Immediately. although the regular
season does not open until March 1.
Open Sundays.
AS stated in the foregoing, the brigade
will take possession of the new armory
with the least practicable delay, under the
supervision and direction of the quarter
master general A few days, however,
must necessarily elapse before moving in,
as the floors are now being stained. Capt
Walsh. the superintendent of the build
irg, will transfer his quarters tomorrow:
the fourth battalion Saturday morning; the
third battalion Saturday afternoon the
fifth battalion Tuesday next, and the re-
raining troops as early as possible in the
coming week.
1t has been practically decided that the
armory will be open on Sundays, from 10
am. until pm, but this arrangement
does not meet with favor. An effort, it is
understood, is to be made to change the
hours from those named to 1 pm. until
pm. The armory will be closed daily until
4 pm. AT IL pm. signal for closing Is
to be given, and the doors will be locked
and the night Waterman placed in charge
at 11:3O pm. Commissioned officers will
have access to the quarters of their COM
mandS at all times, as will enlisted men
armed with a written order from a COM
missioned officer.
The present quarters of the various COM
panieS are in a dismantled condition. Car
pets are up, pictures are down, govern
ment property is piled in heaps about the
rooms, and there is not a company in the
brigade which could not move out on ten
minutes notice. There is an intense de-
sire to get into the new structure, in order
that things may become settled and drills
and other work resumed.
Dissatisfaction Expressed.
Some dissatisfaction has already been ex-
pressed over the assignment to quarters.
Maj. Suess Is making vigorous objection
to having his headquarters located in
wing and not in the front of the building.
1t is said that Col. Clay last evening stated
that he would order change to overcome
this objection by. transferring two COM
panies of the fourth battalion to a lower
floor. Should Col. Clay make this order, at
least one commissioned officer of the fourth
will, according to his publicly expressed
statements. Immediately tender his resig-
nation.
The assignments for the use of the drill
ball were made on the choice of the bat
talon commanders, each choosing, accord
ing to seniority, the nights he desired The
hall is allotted to the guard only on Mon
lays, Tuesdays and Saturdays. Even on
hose evenings it may be rented to outside
parties, but in that case, a certain per-
centage of the proceeds will be turned over
to the brigade.
Second Regiment Drill.
The second regiment will assemble on
Washington's birthday. Friday next, at 1
pm, In the Center Market drill hail. The
regiment will be headed by the National
Guard Drum Corps and is to proceed by
way of Massachusetts avenue to the vi
cinity of Dupont Circle, thence along New
Hampshire avenue to Washington Circle.
All along this route the troops will be
constantly Unanswered. The regiment
will parade from Washington Circle down
Pennsylvania avenue to the Center Mar
ket Armory and there be dismissed.
Notes.
Company c, second battalion, at a meet
ing held last evening. elected fifteen new
members, and there are now fifteen appli-
cations awaiting action. THE Greater