The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-18
GUARD PLANS.
General Sewell Tells the
Changes Made By Re-
organization.
FOURTH REMAINS HERE
General Wanser Will Con-
tinue To Command His
Brigade Few Changes
in Companies.
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TRENTON, April IS. 1sss.-The order
for the reorganization of the National
Guard will be issued this evening. Genera
William ]. Sewell who, with General
E. Wanser and General r. BIRD spencer
has arranged the Reorganization, was d.
the State House this afternoon and gave
to YOUR correspondent the substance OF
the order to be issued later in the day
1.-THE new Guard said General Seweli'
twill consist of four regiments of twelVe
companies each. with headquarters al
Jersey City, Newark, Trenton and cam
den. Each regiment will consist OF three
battalions, the same as the present regu-
lar army organization and the organiza-
ton of all European armies.
..There will be two brigades ana at
tached to each brigade will be agnt
battery, consisting of two Gatling guns
and two three-inch howitzers. There Will
also be a troop of cavalry to each prl-
gade, the Essex Troop going with the
First Brigade and the Red Bank troop
with the Second Brigade.
1.-THE present gun squads will be either
disbanded or placed in the batteries.
There will be two Brigadier Generals and
one Major General. A signal corps Will
be attached to Division Headquarters for
assignment to either brigade when the
occasion requires.
ssrhis VIII give a force of about 3.7o0 TO
1900 officers and men, which is quite suf1i-
cient for the State of New Jersey. ne
officers in charfge of the reorganization
think that it can be kept up to a very
high state of efficiency.
.-bv reason of the recent return of the
volunteer regiments from the field and
the proposed change and question OF
clothing and general equipment, the Gov
ernor has decided not to have an en-
campment this year, but the rifle prec-
tice which is one of the essential -
tures of the National Guard of late years
will go on this year as usual at the
Sea Girt Camp. Next year when the
new equipments are adopted and the re-
organization is in force 1 hope to see an
encampment of the division at Sea Girt-
The grounds are ample for it. The body
of men in the new guard will be a COM
pact one and the organization l think
will be a credit to the State
.The present Guard has sixty COM
panies of infantry. two of artillery ana
two &C cavalry. The wiping out of
twelve companies will occur in the First
Brigade, owing to the fact that the Second
Brigade covers such an immense area OF
the State that it would not do to take
away any of it's present quota of COM
panies.
1.-THE regimental officers of the Firl
Regiment. which will continue its head
quarters at Newark, and the Fourth
Regiment, which will continue its head
quarters at Jersey, will continue. For
the Second Regiment. with headquarters
at Trenton, and the Third Regiment, with
HEADQUARTERS at Camden, new officers will
have to be elected. The officers of the
present Second and Third Regiments will
go out. The present Second Regiment
will be merged into the new First and
Fourth Regiments. The Armory at Pater-
son will be used as a battalion head
quarters. In the merging of the old First,
Second and Fourth into the new First and
Fourth it will be necessary to consolidate
thirty-six companies into twenty-four
companies as these three regiments now
have twelve companies each.
s'In the make-ump of the Second Bri-
gade this difficulty will not be expert
enced as the three regiments now consti-
tuting the brigade have only eight COM
panies each. The companies will be
merged into the two new regiments so
that there will be no change whatever
necessary in the construction OF the com
panies.
There will be two Brigadier Generals
and one Major General. General Peter
F. Wanser will continue in charge of the
First Brigade and Colonel Cooper OF Com
dren will command the Second Brigade
until an election for Brigadier General
is held