Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-25
NATIONAL GUARD RIFLEMEN.
Dates Fixed for Practice at the Ord
way Range.

Dates Fixed for Practice at the Ord
way Range.
An important announcement specifying
the dates and giving complete Information
concerning the outdoor, rifle practice for
the District National Guard will be issued
from brigade headquarters this afternoon.
The troops will be ordered to parade for
rifle practice at ordway as follows:
Fist battalion, Tuesday, October 1; sec
ond battalion. Wednesday. October 2; third
battalion, Thursday, October 8; fourth bat
talon. Friday, October 4; fifth battalion,
Monday. October Z: sixth battalion. Tues
day. October s; first separate battalion,
Wednesday, October o.; first and second
separate companies, Thursday October B.;
engineer corps. Thursday, October 10; bat
terry A, light artillery, Thursday, October
10; general staff, general non-commission-
ed staff, and the field and staff and non
commissioned staff Of regiments and bat
talon inspectors of rifle practice, Friday,
October II.
Organizations excepting the general staff
and officers and non-commissioned ofhcers
required to shoot with it will be ordered to
report at the Pennsylvania avenue railroad
station promptly at $50 am, on the dates
specified. in uhdress uniform. armed and
equipped. In case of wet weather over
coats will be worn. The general stan and
those associated with 1t for rifle practice
will report at the Pennsylvania railroad
station on the day specified at las pm.
Practice will be at 200, 800, 500 and 6oO
yards. Two scores will be fired by each
man and they will be recorded. Govern
ment employees will be given certificates
requirements Of this order.
Battalion commanders will be directed to
detail twenty men for duty as markers,
to be worked in reliefs. Markers will re-
inc in 10 rifle
at 8 pm. of the evening preceding the day
on which their command will shoot. OFF,
GERS or enlisted men not properly uniform
ed, or who have failed to complete the
gallery practice prescribed, will not be
permitted to participate in the regular
practice herein ordered.
The range will be open for voluntary
practice Friday. September q. from
o'clock pm. The use Of any ammunition
other than that officially issued on the
range Is prohibited. Applications for per-
mission to experiment with ammunition
must be made in writing to the inspector
general of rife practice. No person other
than the range officer, or some one desig-
mated by him shall signal the markers or
mold communication with any person In
any Of the pits. On days set apart for
official practice sighting shots may only
be fired on targets set apart for pool shoot
Ing. Pool tickets may be purchased at the
range office.
Another announcement of interest in the
oroer Will De paragraph providing that
the modified manual Of arms and the mod
. itications in connection of the infantry drill
regulations and of the manual of guard
duty, published June II, 1895. by the Secre-
tary of War for the government of the
army pending a complete revision of the
infantry drill regulations, is adopted for
the instruction and government Of the Ma
tional Guard, in SO far as applicable to the
rifle, caliber AS.
Capt. James E. Bell, inspector of rifle
practice for the second regiment, and Sec
ond Lieutenant Jesse B. X. Lee, company
B, first battalion. will be detailed in the
order as members of the brigade board OF
examination.