Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-07-25
JACK TARS IN CAMP
State Naval Militiamen to Have
Weeks Outing at South
Chicago.
ROCK ISLAND SENDS go MEN
A Day With the Soldiers at Camp
Lincoln, Spring.
field.

South Chicago, July 25.-Arrived
here at a. m. Boys all well. Wealth
er lovely. Voss.
The I'd division of the Cd ships
crew, N. NJ. l., or. in other words. the
Naval Reserves, of Rock Island, left
over the Burlington last evening for a
weeks encampment at One Hundred
and First street, South Chicago. They
occupied extra coaches on the regular
st. Louis train leaving at 7:15. At
Moline they were Joined by the Mo-
line Reserves and at Galesburg by
those from Quincy and Alton. From
there a special train was run to Chi
cago.
Before leaving, the boys paraded
Third and Second avenues headed by
Blsuer's band. and a large crowd fol-
lowed them to the train. The fare
wells spoken added touch of reality
to the scene. They were often tender
and in some cases the tears were very
near the surface. Following is the
roster:
Lieutenant Commanding-W. l.
Rutledge.
Lieutenant, j. G.-Sam Bowlby.
Ensigus-F. L. Tubbs and j. G.
Frey.
Chief Master at Arms-U. G. Rut-
edge.
Bos'n's Mates-Lundberg and Don.
Gunners' Mates-Skinner, Furbos
and Sharp.
Coxswains-Engdahl. K. Collins,
Voss and Schadt.
Buglers- Stroehle and Collins.
Standardization, Bishop, G. b
Campbell, ID. A. Campbell. Champion,
Eihl. Hale. Banshaw, Holland, Huss.
Keys, Marshall, Mclean, Nelson, Rut-
ledge, Townsend. Yerbury, Scully,
James Sullivan, Nicely, Christensen.
Enderton, Valentine. Brandenburg.
Allies, Griffin, Pemble, A. G. Blair, j
Blair, Van Cleave, John Sullivan,
Scott, Ferguson, Davis. Stewart, Kirk.
man, Swanson, Spencer, McWilliams.
Several mem bers of the division are
residents of Chicago and will join it
there, bringing the total number of
men to about 60.
DR.. S. B. Hall, surgeon of the I'd
ships crew, left with the boys. A
special car took the officers with their
wives and such friends as they chose
to take.
To Change Military Code.
Springfield. July 24.-Gen. Glen
denim has called meeting of the
officers of the Sd brigade, to be held
tomorrow, when the proposed amend
ments to the military code of the
state will be considered. The amend
ments in which the officers are most
deeply interested are those which
provide that mem bers of the militia
shall be paid 25 cents each time they
attend drill and which fix fine for
failure to be present at company
meetings on drill night. The next
Iegisla ture will be asked to make
some such amendments to the code to
encourage the work of drilling.
The 1st battalion of the 9Th regi-
ment occupied the range at Camp
shooting of the men was good. Dur
the 9th held the range.
The I'd battalion of the 9th will be
on the range tomorrow morning and
their work will complete the rifle
practice of the week. As soon as
they have done the inspector will |
make up the scores and the award of
honors will be announced later. The
officers say there has been a wonder |
full Improvement in the rife shooting |
of the men in the national guard.
The regimental detail for tomorrow |
will be:
Sixth Regiment-Officer of the day, |
Capt. Conrad A. Byhoff, Company @.
Galesburg; officer of the guard. Lieut.. |
Harry E. Weaver, Company 1, Morri |
son. and supernumerary. Lieut.. Viii
liam c. Goss. Company B, Geneseo.
Third Regiment Officer of the day, |
Capt Clement II. Bell, Company F,
Pontiaci officer of the guard. Lieut..
c. Johnson, Company II.
30 oxford; supernumerary. Lieut..
Fred A. Jordan, Company c, Ottawa.
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