The times., 1898-05-03
The District Guard Active and
Ready to Fight.
ROSTER CT IT'S OFFICERS
IDny of the Companies Already Full
at-IIome Organizations Furnish
Many VoIuntcerS-Impnti TO
Get 10 the Front.

Guard circles last night. The armory was
ablaze with lights and members of the
District militia presented themselves for
regular service. The men are anxious to
go to the front, and they have accepted
the situation and viii offer their services,
no matter who commands.
II IS understood at headquarters that
just as soon as the captains of the diff
ferent companies furnish their fun list of
volunteers then the call 10 camp will be
issued.
The drill hall was lined with tents last
night all ready to be sent to the Soldiers
Home grounds, and there is every reason
to believe that the new volunteer Tegi
| ment, known as the First District Of &C
lumbia Volunteers, viii soon be in camp.
The work of getting up the volunteer
muster progressed rapidly las night.
! Several of the companies viii be made up
] from organizations now in existence.
/ The Emmet Guards. Capt. Walsh, will
go without any change at all The Ord
way Rifles win go with changes only in
! heutenants; there will be no change 81
the National FencibIes, nor in Company
| b, commanded by Capt. King. Capt
! Young will take his company intact eX-
cept for the introduction of DR. French
as p lieutenant. Company L, Captain F.
/ l.. Graham. will be made up from Com
! pany Of the Fifth Battalion and G.. W
| England. its present captain, will 60
4 with the company as first lieutenant. Ma
/ jor Hodgson of the Fourth Battalion
who has been assigned To Company u,
will find recruits in the Morton Cadets
]
4 Chisolm. the captain, who will accom-
pany them as first lieutenant.
Several Of the companies had to pick
up recruits throughout the stay-at-hOme
| organizations The first company 10 be
| recruited and TO be able to present itself
| for muster is Company 7. commanded by
Major Otto Simonson Of the Fifth Ba,.
TALON. He was al work all day yester-
| day at the armory assisted by Lieut..
Simms and by last night had recruited
a fun company. hc drew many men from
Company g Of he Fifth Battalion. which
with Capt. Sayers. was among those left
out Of consideration. Nearly the whole
company went over TO Major Simonson
and il is understood that Capt. Sayers
viii accept a first sergeantcy under Capt
Simonson. Last night the strength Of
this company was nearly ninety men. the
following being part of the roster:
W. f. Behrens. F. ". Blessing. -
! Bradley J. s Bladen. Joseph Collier. Ben
jamin Collins. Henry Conden. r. 3. Camp
bell. w D. Campbell J. G. Challice, Maui
rice Cunningham, John Dolan, Duncan
| Davenport Burt Everson Henry Ford, l.
! | r. Frech. Roy Gurley. J. w. Green, Ortor
| ". Hyde Bernard Hendren l.. G.. Hitch
! | cock, G. II. Hayre. {. G. Hahn. Henry
Jost, Thomas Keefer, John J. Keatng
a ! John Kammerer j. F. McCauley JOIN
/ ~
4 ter Mabin, Frank Nelson, II. /. Nuss
! baum. ". H. N0rbeck. John Orlmaun
( ! George Paschal, john Presnell. II. w
A | Reeves, Charles Raymond. c. H. Rott
y man, J. +. Reinus. Charles Raney. Osca
a ID. Snyder, c. II. Snyder, J. $. Sargent
- Thomas Swallow. r. r. Sheppar, ir, ar
thur Thorp. W. ID. Talbot Richard Walls
Lieut.. Col O O'Brien. who will have tn
captaincy OF Company Z, was at tn
| armory early last night and assisted b,
| Capt c. Fred Cook. who will be lieuten
ant. preparations We're made for tn
recruiting Of men. The first step TO
ward organization was taken by the ap
poinument Of Sergeant Major Bert Nei
I ligan OF the second regimental staff a
first sergeant Of the company. Then i
less than an hour several men presente
: themselves for enrolment They were
- +. II. Smith {. H. Humphreys. r.
Lamb. J. f Barghausen. Albert DeMunt
ford. Harry 4. Moran William Sanford
]. c. Duvall. c. G Dyer. Richard I
Clayton. {. d. Lazelle. J. +. HendricB
SON Jos. Summers, T. A. r. Taft. ]. !
Armstrong. T. p. Carroll. J. J. o O'Briei
W H. Chapman, Jr.. Z X. Ferry, J. y
Bird. L. d. Brown, E. F. Farley.
Adjt. James L. Mock Of the Second Re;
iment. who will be lieutenant of the Or
!. way Rifles last night commenced maxim
1fG any md az
d in securing many new men, the joril
os of whom came from the Light Battery.
p Late yesterday afternoon Gen. Harri
On gave out an official list of the office
nd Of the regiment containing all change
The list as ii now stands will be fns
1t is as follows:
Colonel. George H Harries: lieutena
colonel. c. II. Heyl: major, NJ. Emm
= Urel: major. c. d. Hine; adjutant Fir
Lieut. ". Z. Horton; quartermaster, Fir
Lieut.. J. NJ. Field; surgeon, Major +.
Woodman; assistant surgeon. j. G. Poo
assistant surgeon, w. NJ. Sprigg or
A Weaver
9nYs Senior Company. E-R. A. OBrien. ca
tain; c. Fred Cook, first lieutenant; J.
% Griffiths, second lieutenant.
lay Second Company. F-o. G. simonsc
The captain; r. d. Simms, first lieutenaI
r. b. Hayes, second lieutenant.
. Third Company, CT. S. Hodgson, ca
is tain: ID. V Chisholm, first lieutenant;
/. Lanham. second lieutenant.
L Fourth Company. H-H. b. LOCKER. ca
. tain; @. c. Shaw. first lieutenant; l..
- Boisseu, second lieutenant.
- Fifth Company, I-E. {. Edwards, ca
- - tain; c. B. Hudson, first lieutenant; c.
,lfc Meyer second lieutenant
NV Sixth Company, A-HarTy Walsh, ca
tain; r. J. Harden, first lieutenant; {.
Harlow, second lieutenant.
Seventh Company, &C. s. Domer, "a
tain; W r. Crist, first lieutenant; S.
RedTnan. second lieutenant.
!, Eighth Company, DIV. $. Hodges, G.
tain; James l.. Mock. first leutena
?, Horace NJ. Bell second Lieutenant
. Ninth Company, B-W. 4. II. King c.
= tain; T. s. King, first lieutenant; Will
- r. Harrison. second lieutenant.
ne Tenth Company. K-G. B. Young. G
tain: I. II. French, first lieutenant;
+. Sorrels, second lieutenant.
Eleventh Company, l.. f. l. Graha
captain; George ". England. first II
!, tenant A. G. a. Smith. second lieutena
Twelfth Company. Nj j. Jenki
. captain: F. @. Stutz. first lieutenant
y. Meekns, second lieutenant.
The Only Way.
(Fr0m the Concord Monitor)
-. The only way 10 bring peace to Cuba and
an end to the Spanish cruelty is 10 drive
Spsniards from the island. This is the view
Gen. Lee and every other American who
had OfD0TiuuitV of witnessing Spanish metl