Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-01
HIGH SCHOOL PARADE
The Cadets to Be Reviewed on the White
Lot
The Regiment Will Be Seen as q
Whole, With the Marine Band
in the Front.

The High School regiment, a body of
| young soldiers in which the people of the
| District have always taken great pride, will
| this year give Its friends, who are about
| everybody in the limits of the District,
a chance to see the organization in it's en-
| tirety parade and in regimental drill.
| This event will take place Wednesday af-
| ternoon on the White Lot. Several years
ago the High School regiment turned out
annually in regimental drill and parade but
this event always took place after the com
pany competitive drills, and as the compe-
tition by companies was looked upon by the
members of the organization as the grand
climax of the years military history the
regimental parade and drill had something
of the effect of an anti-cimaX, and was not
gone Into with the snap and vim which it
deserved. This year the events have been
put into their more natural order and the
rcsimental parade will take place before
the competitive drills
Wednesday the regiment will rendezvous
in front OF the New YORK Avenue Church
at 4:3U O'Clock. The Marine Band will
march at the head of the regiment to the
White Lot, 1t will be remembered that, ac-
cording 20 the regulations put in force in
regard to the Marine Band, it was decided
by the authorities that the band could not
turn out for the purpose of this drill but
the matter was laid before President Nc
Kinney, and just before he left the city he
granted permission for the band to take
part in the local event This permission
was extremely gratifying to the cadets
ana thelr friends, and reflects credit upon
the organization itself, as showing that the
PRESIDENT takes the broader and bigger
view of the usefulness of the school organi-
cation.
There have been two WAYS of considering
the usefulness of the cadets one side look
ing at the work as something in the order
OF the old broom drill i'll the earlier schools
ana the other holding that the military dis
cpllne obtained by the young soldiers might
be OF lnestimable value to the country in
time of need
The incidents of the last war have very
clearly shown that the latter view was the
true one. In the District regiment, in that
war. one company, the Morton Cadets was
made up entirely from eX-High School Ca
diets, while other graduates were scattered
thickly through the regiment, both as Off
GERS and privates. Gen. Ordway always
considered the High School Cadets as the
training school for officers in the National
Guard, and this view has also been main
tanned by Gen. Harries The President evil
IDENTITY looks on the matter in the same
light.
The command will reach the White Lot
about > o'clock and will be reviewed by
Brig. Gen. Harres and his staff. There
will then be rigid inspection by the gen.
erai in order to show the young soldiers
the great necessity for a proper care of
their equipment. The regimentaI drill will
follow, where the young men will be given
a practical experience of movement in large
mass and of different practical methods
Tor handling regiment the firing line.
The regiment will be dismissed immediately
after leaving the White Lot.
The Commissioners IF the District, all the
school officials and undoubtedly a large
audience of citizens will be present at the
affair. The cadets themselves have been
busily engaged for two weeks in preparing
for the event and will turn out about 400
strong under their officers, as follows: Col
Gunnell, Lieut.. Col. Evans Regimental Ad-
Jutant MerrOn, LIST Battalion. Mai Alden.
% Battalion, Maj. Graham; Company A.
Capt. Murphy; Company B, Capt Heyl-
mann; Company c, Capt. Washington:
Capt. Shannon; Company F, Capt. Hoover;
Company G, Capt Tricky; Company H.
Capt. Burch.