The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-01
MODEL SOLDIERS.
Gallant Militiamen OF
the State on Dress
Parrde.
CITY GUARDS TRIP.
Matters Of Interest to the
Wearers of States
Livery.

An intense interest is being manifest
ed in the coming military tournament
lat Mechanics building, Boston, durirs
the week of May to 10.
Capt Barrett is making the arrange
ments for the attendance of Company
A of this city.
1t is probable that Col. Clarke of the
Second Mass. infantry, the ranking reg
iment of the state, will command al
the troops.
The weeks entertainment will oper
with grand welcome TO the Massachu.
sets troops that entered the United
States SERVICE Battery ID, First rsSi'
ment, heavy artillery, Capt. Frothing-
ham; Company A, Sixth Massachusetts
infantry. Maj. Gihon. Company M
Eighth Massachusetts infantry, Capt
Whitten Company A, Second Massa
chusetts infantry and Wards light bat
| terry A. Battery A is making arrange
ments to duplicate its feats of rough
riding and artillery gun drill given al
| its recent exhibition. Invitations have
also been extended to Company A, Fifth
Massachusetts infantry, Capt. StoVer
| and Company A, Ninth MASSACHUSETTS
| infantry, Capt. Keefe.
! Gov. Wolcott will review the troops
1t is hoped that the companies viii
carry the battle flags of their COM
mands. The remainder of Monday eve
ning's program will consist of guard
mount a realistic production of a
nights bivouac, calisthenic drill. and
rough riding by Capt. Dodd's troop t.
| Third limited States cavalry.
| Tuesday evening, troop ID, RoXbury
horse guards, the Massachusetts ara
bulance corps, the naval brigade IN
| light artillery, full drill and other or
ganizations will appear, in addition to
Capt. Dodds command.
| Wednesday, the National Lancsrs
Company l., Sixth Massachusetts, in
fantry the famous colored company
United States marines and Capt. Dodd's
troop F, Third United States cavalry,
will participate
The program will be varied for the
other evenings of the week, the whole
eliminating in a grand review ana
demonstration Saturday evening.
With the muster out of the Eighth
regiment it is to be expected that the
red stripe worn on the arm of the IA
tigue uniform of It's members will dis
appear, forever. 1t never should have
been there.
Members of the regiment when asked
for the significance of this decoration
Invariably say 1t was for "a foreign
war service stripe"
There is no provision in regulations
for this stripe, and there never has
been.
Within two days the war department
has issued an order on this matter
which knocks the foreign war service
stripe" sky high. 1t is appended:
"All soldiers who have served during
the war of the rebellion, and who were
honorably discharged; all who served
in the Indian campaigns enumerated in
general orders from the headquarters
of the army, and all who have served
or may serve in the army of the United
States in war, or in such Indian cam
paigns approaching the magnitude OF
war, as may from time to time be Sc
designated by the secretary of war, are
entitled to wear the Service in war
chevron.
IAN enlisted men, who between April
q, 1898, and April H. 1899, were assem-
bled in camps or rendezvous in the
United States or into separate bodies,
such as regiments, brigades, divisions
or corps, for the purpose of carrying on
military operations and bringing to a
conclusion the war with Spain, and all
who embarked on transports for cam
paigns against the enemy in Cuba,
Porto Rico and the islands of the Pa
cific or on the high seas or elsewhere,
are entitled to wear the Service in war
chevron.
THE foregoing will not apply to en-
listed men who were performing SER
vice in garrisons on the western from
tier which is requisite in time of peace
and in no wise considered a part Of the
army assembled to carry on the war
with Spain"
These service in war chevrons should
be made of one-half inch gold lace,
with white piping, one-eighth of an
inch wide, on each side, for infantry.
But this chevron should never be worn
except on the uniform dress coat.
The governor is in receipt of a letter
from Gen. Sanger, the commander of
troops stationed in Matanzas, Cuba.
He suggests that in guard duty and
camp sanitation, as well as in admins
trative work, the state should here
after follow the rules laid down for
the regular service! He admits that the
administrative work hardly commends
itself to business men," but says, as 1t
is the method laid out for troops that
may come under army administration,
il would be well that hereafter in state
camps the army system be followed. In
short, his opinion seems to be that how
ever preferable the militia system de-
vised by the states officers may be for
home consumption, if the militia is ever
to be used in connection with the
armies of the country, ii should follow
such system, even with all its faults.
In this connection it is understood
that Col Pew has written a letter to
the governor. in which he declares that
he never learned anything at the state
camps. He had a good instructor at
Americas and in Cuba, evidently.
By an act of the legislature signed by
the governor April %, number Of ex
officers of the NJ. V. NJ. have had JUS
tice done them by being placed on the
retired list, with one point increase in
rank. This action appears not to be
generally known by the members Of the
militia. The officers in question who
have finally received their dues are:
Lieut.. Col. BOwdoin S. Parker. formerly
assistant acknowledgement, 1st brigade,
BILIOUS