The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-15

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law, but evasive and unsatisfactory an
swers were given, and the Reserves. being
new to that sort of thing and not realizing
what a force they had to buck against"
in the National Guard. went patiently
from pillar to post and back again.
Every week or so word would be passed
around that in a day or SO the men would
be to undergo the swearing in
process, but the day never came, and the
recruits. becoming Disguised, dropped out
by twos and threes. The Newark division
fell in the fall of 1894 from eighty men to
less than forty. The temporary officers
were at their wits end to keep the men
together and to tide over this dark and
trying period. A member who had served
in the National Guard for years, was pre-
vailed to give the men Instruction in mill
tary drill. The men were asked to buy
white fatigue uniforms. in the belief that
the uniform would ave attraction enough
to keep them together and would bring
other recruits.
But perhaps the hardest problem. of all
was to keep up the tone Of the division.
Men were needed and needed badly, Tor
any day, it was said, the call to appear
to be sworn in might come. and if TIE
minimum number (about forty vas net
on hand, the division could not be enlist
ed. There was a constant flow of appli-
cations for enlistment. but the material
tina offered itself was not all of it desira-
BILE. The Recruiting Committee had Its
hands full. 1t had to investigate the
standing Of applicants and practically de-
cided whether the applicants should be re-
ceived, for the division always sustained
the action of the committee. Tho COM
mittee, then, wanted men and it had to
fight constantly against the tendency to
accept men which it did not entirely ap-
| prove of, in order to keep its ranks up
| TO the minimum number required by tie
law. AL this time the National Guard
officials were quietly watching the strng-
| gle, and more than once the word came
from Trenton that certain National
Guardsmen had said smilingly that tie
Naval Reserve would never be accepted
by the State. But these guardsmen did
not realize the force they were fighting.
In the early winter Of 1895 light broke
1t was found at last just why the Gov
ernor would not permit the organizing
of the Reserves. A new law was neces-
sary; the State Military Board must AVE
control of the Naval Reserves, and the
law directing the forming of the Reserves
did not give the power to that body. Then
the Reserves, determined 10 get their or
! ganization accepted by the State, ap-
pointed a committee of three to 60 to
Trenton, find out just what the Governor
wanted in the shape of a law and draw
up the bill. The Jersey City end of the
battalion was torn and disrupted by dis
putes and differences caused by the long
and wearisome delay, so the Newark men
took things entirely into their own hands.
| The committee sent from the Newark di-
/ vision wrote on to some of the prime
movers in the formation of the South
Jersey Battalion and asked them to confer
with it on its arrival in Trenton. The
delegation that waited on the Governor
consisted Of three Newark men only, but
when the trio adjourned 10 a hotel to put
the finishing touches to the bill, the South
Jersey men appeared and the bill was left
with them to secure its proper recog-
milton BY the Legislature. The bill went
through, and to make a long story Snort,
the Battalion of the East, New Jersey
Naval Reserves. after a year and a half of
constant struggle, was mustered in, OH
May 20, 1895, in Ferryman's Hall, Hobo
ken.
Last winter, and during the previous
winter, attempts were made by politi-
clans and others to do away with the
Reserves. but, hanks to the prompt ac-
tion of members of the Reserves at this
end of the State. the Reserve was con-
tinued. Now war has come, and the peo-
pie lave already seen for themselves the
value OF such an organization. Popular
opinion has been made in the Reserves
favor, and 1t is now a certainty that the
organization will never again be seriously
disturbed.
The writer stood on the quarter deck
of the old ship Portsmouth with Com
mander Washington Irving, of the Bat
TALON of the East, on the day the battal-
lon was mustered into the service of the
United States, a little over a fortnight
ago. Over two hundred well-drilled, in
teligent young men swarmed on the spar
deck and stood In readiness for the en-
listing officer. Doesn't it seem a big ac-
complishment," said Commander Irving,
that in three years there should be form
ed a body of men like this, whom the
Government can trust sufficiently to give
over to its charge a costly vessel like the
Badger? Three years ago these men were
as ignorant OF practical seafaring on a
modern vessel as any men you may find
ashore; now they are drilled and compe-
tent to take the Badger wherever Uncle
Sam desires. They can fight her, too,
and all the boys want Is the chance to
show the State that what little money
it has spent for the Reserves has been ex-
pended in a good cause.
ST pAui,S PICNIC.