The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-26

The First Brigade will parade at Van Cortlandt Park
for q neld day on Saturday, Oct. 8.
Lieut.. william j. Underwood of Company H. Sow.
enth Regiment, has been asked TO take the Captaincy
OF @ In place OF Capt. Dewson. retired. An election
will be ordered in n few days.
Lieut.. H. C.Du Val. Lieut.. A.. E. Pressinger. Capt. J.
7. Schuyler, corporals c. c. Wood. F.. d. Hewitt, and
J.H. Ford. and Private W. b. Cowperthwaite have
qualified as sharpshooters at Creedmoor.
Firt Sergeant Charles E. Goebel and sergeants W.
Dixon and Il. Rose OF Company d. Twelfth Regiment.
have applied for their honorable discharge. A mum.
Der OF other members OF the company will also apply
for their discharges az soon rs their time expires. and.
unless the present discomfort in Company d is allayed.
u fs estimated that ome fifteen members of the com.
pany will leave between now and Feb. /.
Company d. Twenty.second Regiment. will hold its
annual dinner at the Madison Avenue Hotel next
Saturday night. A committee has been appointed in
Company d to report on a candidate for Captain.
Lieut.. c. F. Kross has been appointed on the stan OF
Col. Bartlett as Inspector OF Rife Practice. and Quar-.
ermaster-serseant ]. ]. Dunn has been appointed
Rsgimental Quartermaster. Company drills will com.
mence next Monday night.
The Majors in the Twelfth Regiment. according to
orders Issued by Col. Butt, are to have plenty OF
work. In fact, to be able to carry out In full all the
details ordered OF them the Majors, 1t is said. will
have to sleep in the armory four nights a week. Col.
Butt directs that the " Majors will inspect the drill OF
the companies belonging to their battalion and make.
nc least once a week. a report In writing to regimental
headquarters. stating the efficiency OF the companies
obssrved: First, in the school Of the soldier: second,
cleanliness OF the lockers. particularly the bottom
aoorB; third, the neatness and dressing OF the lock
eFs. particularly as regards the placing of equipments
and uniforms in the manner required by the regi.
mental regulation; fourth. the accuracy and neatness
q the company books, and the number kept; NTH,
tho marking OF the property; sixth. the cleanliness OF
the command. They will particularly enforce the
rule that no tobacco. In any form, shall be used on
the drillroom floor" The Colonel also orders that
Lieutenants must be allowed to drill their companies
on each dill night and Immediately after roll cali
First Sergeants will be sent to their quarters to write
up the morning report book, which must be left at
the Adjutant'so ONCE Immediately after each drill. No
company meeting for the transaction of civil business
shall be held on q drill night. Captains may, at their
discretion. once a month march their companies on
the moor at 0 O'Clock for the collection OF dues" Tho
last clause will not be 4 popular ono among the
several companies.
Company K. Seventy first Regiment. in the course
Of the present week will elect Mr.. j. l. Downcy, a
graduate of Yale College. a Second Lieutenant. The
resignation OF Lieut.. A. N. Lichtenstein of Company
II has been received at regimcntal Headquarters. IL
was made on account of business.
Assistant nspectorGenera Goodman James Greene
10 TO DO married on Wednesday evening, Oct. 0, to
A@o AhAo "bio hthiho' u CeremOny Will take
plsce in the Church OF st. Mary the Virgin in West
borty sixth street, near Broadway.
Company d. Twenty-third Regiment. has elected
Sergeant W. W. Grinith Frat Lieutenant and Cor.
Dorai 7. y. Springer a Second Lieutenant. Company
! intends to visit Woodbridge. n j., shortly for field
exercises. Sergeant F. @. Leary of Company q has
been appointed First Sergeant. In future the reRi.
msnt will DO divided as follows: Companies c, D. r,
y, and i will comprise the First Battalion, and Com.
DAnies A. B. q. II. and X the Second.
An election for q Second Lieutenant will be held bv
Company d. Thirteenth Regiment, next Tuesday night.
The provisional battalion organizing In the Second
Brigade to visit Nashville. Tenn. early in October.
VIII be in command OF Lieut.. Col. {. II. Luscomb
Thirteenth Regiment.
II the programme OF the first division OF the Second
Naval Battalion is carried out there will be some In.
tsresting aquatic sports on Gravesend Bay mel satur.
day afternoon. on Bath Beach, at the foot OF FIfteaptb
street
Company A, Ninth Regiment, will hold an ent.r.
tAinment In the arInory on Thanksgiving eve.
Col. Smith OF the Sixty.ninth Regiment has issusd
an order approving the formation OF a regimental
Etne club. lie says he trusts It will receive tho sun.
port OF the officers and men. The Colonel also saws.
members OF this regiment have cause 10 be greatly
encouraged at the prospects OF a new, commodiou.
and thoroughly equipped armory. The commanding
oncer commends the increased interest DISPLAYED by
omcers and men in the welfare aud efficiency OF the
command evidenced by the higher percentages OF at.
tendance at drills"
Aaditiohai Water for Long IAiAnd city,
Justice Garretson OF the Supreme Court in
Brooklyn yesterday granted a writ
OF mandanus compelling the Board OF Water
Commissioners OF Long Island City to uump
water from seventeen wells located within the
limits OF Pumping Station No. 2. The action
Tor Q mandamus was instituted by the hoard 81
HEALTH. which nllauad that tha' h.nl,l