San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-07-24


the regular troops again at O'Clock,
as they also did on the day previous.
1t captivated the audience too, equal
ly as well as it did Thursday and the
grand stand fairly shook from the APP
plause given the men. The movements
were pretty and we'll executed and
could never fail to elicit hearty ap-
plause. This drill is the most beau
tiful exercise in the regular army and
too much cannot be said in praise of
| 1t. g..
Private Hannigan, better known as
| Captain Jack" and formerly dfstin-
| guished by the cognomen of Slick, of
company E, Eighteenth Infantry, Is a
great schemer and has a head that is
capable of carrying out the schemes
he devolves, had he only the neces-
sary aid. He has been trying to get
the drill management interested in a
scheme fro the reproduction of a milf
tary scene that took place in Madison,
square garden, New York, last Jam
uary, which took so we'll with the peo-
pie of that city at the time. 1t is an
exhibition of wall scaling, and fort
capturing combined and would prove
very interesting to drill patrons. It
could have been given some afternoon
between drills on the parade ground
and men enough could have been read
lily secured from the regulars to have
taken part in the affair and have made
it success. The idea was to have the
men advance from the improvised fort
and fire on the supposed enemy for a
distance when they should suddenly
Il \
and retreat to the fort in sections, one
section firing and covering the retreat
of the other who would carry off the
| dead. Getting to the fort they were
to place the supposed dead on the
/ other side by scaling the wall, recover
and attack again when they were to
be again repulsed and driven back,
covering Their retreat in the same way
AS there would heve been no breaks
made should the regulars have given
| it, the exhibition would have proven
very interesting as well as instructive
to the militia as well as to the spec
tators.
The regiment standard of the Fifth
u. S. cavalry which hangs in from of
the tent of Colonel S. NJ. Whitside, the
commander, is one of the most beauti
full pieces of artistic work ever seen,
especially of it's kind. 1t is one of the
very finest yellow silk heavily fringed,
is Sx5 feet and is exquisitely hand en-
broidered on each side in bright colors
On each side is the American eagle
surmOunted by an olive branch and
thirteen stars, with the words "epluri-
bus unum" in a scroll and the words
Fifth United States cavalry" in a
beautiful scroll below, all ching in ma
tional colors and so dexterously work.
ed in that from a distance it looks as
If it had been painted instead of en-
broidered.
Some of the militia boyr, especially
those young and green fresh from the
back woods. of which there are a
great number in camp, take it into
their small sized craniums that they
are the whole encampment when they
are put on guard duty either at the
gate or to keep the crowds back from
the drill grounds and become very Of
ficious and insulting. They always
change their manners, however, when
one of Uncle Sans regulars comes
along and are very meek and calm.
| One of these simlin headed idiots who
was on guard duty at the sally port
| yesterday morning ran after an I'M
molesting negro with fixed bayonet
who had entered the gate on a pass
simply because he thought the negro
was not humble enuogh to suit him,
the negro retorting to some of his in
suits.
The drill by the battery of the reg
ulars last evening was a pretty exhibi-
| ton and captured the grand stand. All
| the various evolutions included in the
| drill were carried out by the commands
| of Capt. Dillenback and no accidents
| occurred. Exhibitions of firing in all
directions, as well as the other evolu-
| tons, were given.
Lieut. Herman, in command of the
| Busch Zouaves, is favorite of all the
ladies who visit the camp.
DR.. Suttle, the excellent Corsicana
| physician, who was in charge of the
hospital yesterday did not have many
cases to attend to.
VIM. Hawkins. Hy. Weddermeyer,
| VIM. Norris and Chas. Naylor, compose
| jolly quartette of singers in the
Washington Guards, who amuse the
boys of the camp nightly with their
merry songs. They are already the
favorites of the camp and their sing
ing never fails TO attract quite
crowd of admiring hearers. Mr..
Hawkins is a member of the Curbstone
quartette, of Galveston and has an ex-
cellent baritone voice.
H. ,O'Malley, of the Busch zouaves,
will give an exhibition of baton evo-
buttons with a gun in front of the
grand stand this afternoon. He is an
adept in the art of manipulating the
ha tan and will no doubt make q great