Evening star., 1901-11-09
THE NATIONAL GUARD
Prizes to Winners in Recent Competi-
tions to Be Distributed.
ORDER ISSUED FROM HEADQUARTERS
Protests Sustained by Report of
Adjutant General Mosher.
MAI. LEES RESIGNATION

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The distribution of prizes to the winners
OF the several contests during the recent
annual rife matches of the District Of
Columbia National Guard and the National
Rifle Association at the Ordway range will
occur Thursday evening, the 21st in
slant, in the drill hall of the Center Mar
ket Armory The following order. embrac-
ing the details of the affair, was prepared
today at militia headquarters:
1.-THE prizes won in the recent competi-
tions at Ordway will be distributed in the
drill hall of the National Guard Armory on
the 21st instant.
Successful teams and individual winners
of prizes will report to Maj. William F.
Harvey, 9th Battalion, at the drill hall not
later than $50 o'clock pm. on the date
specified; will be formed by him, and will
be under his command until dismissed at
the conclusion Of the ceremonies.
Fatigue uniform, with caps and side
arms, will be worn.
Maj. William E. Harvey 9th Battalion
VIII, on receipt of this order, report to Maj
James E. Bell inspector general of rifle
practice. for instructions relative to the
ceremonies provided for in paragraph one
The following named officers and enlist
ed men are announced as distinguished
marksmen under the conditions prescribed
in paragraph two, circular No Q series of
1S92 First Lieut.. Horace NJ. Bell in
spector of rife practice, I'd Battalion; First
Lieut.. w. Milton Farrow, inspector Of rifle
practice, 4th Battalion; First Lieut. Will
lam w. Cookson, inspector of rifle practice
9th Battalion; Private Edmund W. Scott
Company A, 9th Battalion and Private
Charles Nee. Taylor, Company A. 9th Bat
talon.
Paragraph three, General Orders No. 2,
1898, is revoked.
BY command of Brig. Gen Harries.
THEODORE MOSHER,
AdJutant General"
Gen. Harries will present the prizes to the
winners. The special guests of the occa-
sion will include the donors of prizes and
others.
A reception in honor of the local rif1emen
who were victorious at Sea Girt last SEN
tember will be held at militia headouarters
the evening of Monday, the 25th instant.
Protests Sustained.
Adjutant General Mosher has officially
notified Major Bell, inspector general of
rifle practice, that Sergt. C. E. Groome and
Private r. L. Pile were not transferred
from Company A, 9th Battalion, to Com
panX B, 4th Battalion, until October 20.
Therefore the ruling has been made that
the teams on which Sergt Groome and
Private Pile shot were not eligible to COM
pete IN the company, battalion and regi-
Farrow and Private Fink in the Gersten-
berg match has also been sustained These
TWO guardsmen arrived at the range late in
the day and fired over the longer range be-
lore facing the targets al the shortest
range. The matches We're governed by the
sH alarms firing regulations of the United
states army. These regulations require
that the firing shall first be over the short
est range.
Rife practice decorations for the current
season will not be distributed until after
the Both instant, as the reports of the in
spectOrs of rifle practice will not be sub
mitted prior to that date.
The revolver association has arranged 70
lnaugurate its shoots Saturday evening of
next week.
Appeal to Congress-.
The committee, consisting of Gen. Har-
ries, Gen. Riggs of Maryland and Gen,
Spencer of New Jersey, appointed by the
National Rifle Association of America to
petition Congress to properly recognize and
encourage rifle practice, will hold "a meeting
In the near future.
Major Lee to Resign
Major Jesse B. X. Lee, commanding the
list Battalion, has announced his intention
of rendering his resignation. Major Lee
has been connected with the 1st Battalion
for many years and has risen to his pres
ent position through the several grades
from the ranks. He thinks he has perform
ed his full quota of military work and is
now entitled to a rest, although it is with
regret that he sewers his connection with
the organization as it's commanding officer
Il is a matter of conjecture as to who will
succeed to the majority of the 1st Bat
talon.
Gen. Harries has recommended that the
president commission the following as Off
GERS of the District of Columbia National
Guard: Harry Walsh, recently elected can
COmDdnV A
Lieut. VIM. p. Pumphrey chosen first lieu
tenant and Sergt. John w. De Maine, elect
ed second lieutenant of Company d, 9th
Battalion.
Lieutenant Commander Sherbourne G.
Hopkins, Lieut.. r. B. Brummett, Lieut.. S.
Clifford Cox and Lieut.. A. p Lang have
been appointed a board to examine and de-
termine the fitness of persons elected off,
GERS of the Naval Battalion.
Report of Chief of Ordnance, U. S, A.
OF interest to the National Guard is the
following extract from the annual report
of the chief of ordnance, United States
army just made public:
For two years past Congress has appro-
priated under approved estimates of this
department $1,1O0,000 for the manufacture
of arms; has also appropriated liberal sums
for the enlargement of one part of the
national armory at Springfield, Mass and
for the installment of plant for the man
ufacture of small arms at the Rock Island
arsenal. These improvements are well un-
der way and nearing completion. The man
ufacture of the present service small arm
has gone on until now, after the needs of
the service have been met and kept up,
there sufficient in store of the standard
pattern; and the time has come when this
department can recommend, as it has fo-
some time desired to do, with safety to the
regular forces, the arming Of the state Ma
tional Guards with the same arms. The
regular army, navy and marine forces ara
now armed alike, and the arming of .he
state forces in like manner will .omDletc a
condition much to be desired. For the
forces named to be equipped with .iIercnt
arms was an anomalous and not L credita-
BILE state. All the fighting forces on whicn
the nation relies should, so far as practica-
BILE in the nature of the different se.vicss,
be armed alike.
The arms now in store, considering sl:e
present output at the Springfield armory and
the prospective increase by increase of plant
at that place and installment of the one at
the Rock Island arsenal are deemed sufii-
c1ent to meet the present wants of the reg
ular service and also to issue to the states
for their National Guard, and it is SO rec
ommended but if done without paymen. Of
money to the credit of the states under