The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-08-04
THE FOURTH DRILLING.
Rife Practice and Field
Exercises Making Sol
diers of the Vol
unteers.
pUHISHHEHTs GREAT AND SMALL
Pay Train Soon Expected
President to Visit the
Camp at Sea Girt.
pUNgHHEHTs GREAT AND SMALL
Especial to .rhe Jersey city News."l

SEA GIRT, Aug. A, 1S98.-Rifie practice
was continued yesterday, as usual, on the
long range. Company C was the only
Jersey City company to go on the range,
the other companies assigned yesterday
were Company G.. of Trenton; Company
F.. of Atlantic City, and Company Fl, OF
woodbury.. The shooting was about aver
age. Captain Charles Springstead, OF
Company C, made q clean score on the 2V
yard range. IS out Of a possible 80. Lieu
tenant Bowley, of the same company,
made 80 on the same range When the
company reached the 300 yard range a
light rain. had set in and the targets were
more or less obscured. Captain Spring
stead finished mis- string with 81 on the
300 range making a total score OF %,
which is second only to Major
wonderful score of Monday, which he I'M
proved yesterday to 81. The shooting OF
the men Of Company C was, as would be
expected of raw recruits, poor; but the
men gave signs of being able after they
were a bit better acquainted with their
rifles and the kick, TO do better things.
The ammunition which is being used on
the range is the 20 grain u. S. target cart
ridge. The recoil from one of these cart
ridges is fully 120 pounds, and it is a sur
prise to a new man. There have been a
large. number of sore shoulders in camp
since rifle practice commenced, and es-
pecially SO among the officers, who make
practice shots for the men in washing.
Early his morning the camp was visited
by a storm which almost repeated the
performance of the storm the night the
z-:-- --4 -o0otn1 ~ Tho wind WAS A
gale and the tents swayed back ana forIu
until it seemed that the next gust would
take them up bodily and carry them
straight out to sea. The rain was heaNy
and as many of the officers and men
had left the flaps of their tents either
open or loose for ventilation, there Was
much scurrying and many wet peas aiteT
the first furry of rain.
The number of prisoners at the guard
house is slowly increasing day by day
There are now twenty-one eonflneo there,
for various offences. from being out at
the check roll to threatening to strike an
officer. but the main proportion, in tact
very nearly all are plain cases or guard
running. of men who stayed out beyond
the time of their passes and in getting
into camp were caught by the guard.
There are also two of the guard of q day
or two ago who, 1t is said, were caught
asleep on their posts.
Governor Voorhees, returned to Elizabeth
today. He has preserved the most pro-
found silence upon the subject Of he
E0uIT0 regiment ana us movements, II
any. after leaving Sea Grit. Among the
visitors to the cottage yesterday were
State Senators Miller and Hand, Judge
James n. Van Valen and ex-senator
AL the payrolls are now in and the
men are anxiously awaiting the arrival
Of the paymaster. Their pay viii In no
instance amount to $40. but the men are
all short Of funds and are busy figuring
on the time before they are paid. AS a
rule, the rolls were well made up when
it is considered that many regiments in
the first call had their rolls sent back
several times for correction and in some
instances for complete rewriting. These
rolls are a credit to the regiment and
especially so to Lieutenant Colonel Gill
more, who took it upon himself to see
that they were all correct.
The length of the drill before break
fast will in all probability be lessened
to half an hour from forty-fve minutes.
The men are compelled to rush to get
into line for roll call and to spend more
than half an hour seems to have a pad
effect upon them. The lines of discipline
are being drawn closer and closer and the
men are becoming more Soldierly daily.
There are still many who do their com
for offenses such as disobeying orders or
profane language or other minor offenses.
not great enough to send a man to the
guard house. The -punishnents are var
led. The main one and the one most dis
liked is the wood-pile. The cook houses
consume enormous quantities Of wood
Gdc1 Jay l1LS WOOd Is QtllFcTed al LiiS
cook house in sticks, which nave to be
split into several pieces and lengths, and
this is the work of the men who are TO be
punished. The cooks use considerable
sand. and a trip to the beach after d
bucket of sand weighing perhaps sixty or
eighty pounds generally is sufficient to
convince the most hardened sinner that
the way of the transgressor is hard.
Dress parade last evening was in COM
mand of Major Lehman. Captain Du
Bois was in command of the First Bat
fa1fon and Ganfain Christie had nharoa
of the Second Battalion. After retreat,
Major Chambers marched the regiment
past In review. The marching, as usual,
was excellent.
Captain Charles -Springstead will be
officer of the guard today. Lieutenant
Frank H. Cole will have command of the
guard, and Lieutenant Albert c.. Her.
ron viii be supernuerary officer of the
guard.
There seems to be no doubt that Presi-
dent Mckinley will be at Sea Grit next
week some time. When he comes Com
pany B will act as escort.