The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-06
NATIONAL GUARD AFFAIRS
Orders Regarding the Logan Statue
dwelling Ceremonies.
Stone for the Ordway Memorial Not
Selected Date of Dedication I'm
certnin-DissensiOn in Company ID,
Fifth Battalion, to he Investigated

The District National Guard will be rep
resented by provisional regiment com
manded by Colonel Urell of the First Regt-
ment at the Logan statue dwelling
ceremonies Tuesday afternoon. Orders
were received at militia headquarters last
week, but were not issued at that time
because Col. F. l.. Guenther, of the Artil-
lery Corps, who has command of the mil
itary feature of the ceremonies had not
at that time announced the hour when the
exercises would take place. AS soon as
this was determined the orders were is
sued. The provisional regiment and the
brigade band will assemble at 1:20 o'clock
in close column. right in front, facing
north on Executive Avenue, with the head
of the column resting on Pennsylvania
Avenue According to present orders the
Guardsmen will be clad in fatigue uni
form, consisting of cap blouse, trousers.
leggins, and white gloves.
The provisional regiment will be made
up of attachments from the First and
Second Regiments, and the First Separate
Battalion The First Battalion will be
composed of a detail of the First Regt-
ment selected by the commanding officer
and will be organized under command or
Major ]. b. X. Lee. of the First Bat
TALON. The Second Battalion will be pro-
vided in like manner by the commanding
officer of the Second Regiment, ana Will
be organized under Major Richard u.
Simms. of the Fifth Battalion. The Third
Battalion of the provisional regiment Will
be made up from a detail of the FIRST
Separate Battalion.
The Committee on the Ordway Memo
rial, which is to be erected over the grave
of General Ordway at Arlington, has as
yet made no selection of the stone which
will be used in the construction OF the
There are number of varie-
.ies of stone under consideration De-
signs for the memorial are being prepared
by a number of sculptors. but they have
not all been yet completed. Neither have
the prices for the stone been submitted to
the committee. Until this is done there
will be no date set for the dedication of
the memorial. The committee realizes
that the memorial is to stand for genera
tions. and they will, consequently, go
slowly and be careful to avoid any posi-
BILE mistakes in the selection of material
or the design which would in years to
come make the memorial unsatisfactory.
A number of the members of the COM
mittee among them Major Neumeyer, the
Chairman. have visited Arlington recently
and inspected monuments and memorials
which have been erected over the graves
of soldiers buried there. An idea gener-
ally favored by the members of the COM
mittee is that of a large, rough hewn
block of stone which will endure for
ages. After the foundation is prepared
1t is likely that it will be allowed to settle
for month before the memorial, which
will hah ly twenty TONS is ralared
upon it. Inasmuch as the stone will
hardly be delivered for month, 1t is not
likely that the memorial will be dedicated
on Decoration Day. May 80 as was origi-
nally intended. In that case the Guard
will not turn out on that day, and their
appearance next Tuesday will be the last
until they leave for camp next summer.
Every time camp is mentioned there is
considerable discussion as to the probable
location which will be selected. Nearly
everyone appears to dislike the posi-
bility of going to Gaithersburg and there
is little likelihood that the citizen soldiery
of the District will see their active ser
vice there during the coming summer
months.
The members of the Guard who were
at Leesburg several years ago talk with
pleasure of the beauties of that camping
ground, and expatiate at length on its adj
vantages. The Jim Crow law, however,
Is the stumbling block which upsets the
general possibility of the camp being To-
Gated there. A number of the officers OF
the Guard are looking around for a site
near Washington. and perhaps some point
not yet thought of Will be fixed upon. The
next meeting of the general staff will
take place at militia headquarters on
and at that time the question
Of the camps location will be discussed.
During the past week there have been
no developments In the factional fight
which recently broke out in the ranks of
ON n go
ter known as the Gould Rifles" and of
which Capt. +. Penrose Smith is the
officer. There WILL however
be an investigation of the trouble. Cap
ter to Major L. ID. Sims, commanding the
Fifth Battalion, but the matter has pro-
crossed no further.
The trouble appears TO be more personal
han anything else. Captain Smith is and
has for some time been at odds with a
number of members of the company The
rouble eliminated recently when a num-
Der of members OF the company voted
4 sum of money in the company's treas
Try for defraying the expenses of a smok-
sr. This was directly In opposition to
he wishes of Captain Smith, who desir-
ed that the funds be used for the pur-
.hase of furniture for the company quar-
Lers. Then the friction. which had for
some time been evident, broke out afresh.
Tie company rifle matches at the last
stage, 600 yards, have been postponed
rom Wednesday and Thursday evenings.
April 10 and II, until The same evenings
IF the following week, April II and IS
This was done in order to give the mem
1ers of the companies time to get consid-
srable practice before the company teams
are made up. The battalioa match will
be shot the evening of April &c and the
regimental match on the evening of
April So The latter will close the indoor
shooting season.
Already there begins to be keen inter-
est manifested in the rifle matches at
.tNf ~.
Guard marksmen Will soon commence
getting into shape for these important
events, where the representatives of the
District of Columbia generally rank high
Target practice Will be INDUCED in at the
Ordway range during the month of May
The Springfield rife will be used by the
teams In practice. but in the matches at
Sea Girt the Guardsmen will use the
krag-Jorgensen. Especial attention will
be paid to the ammunition which is to
be used by the teams at Sea Girt this
year The District team only missed cap
turing the Hilton trophy on account of
the inferior ammunition with which they
were provided. That difficulty will doubt
less be obviated at the matches in Sep
TENDER.
Members of the Naval Battalion, En-
cheering Corps. Ambulance Corps. Sig
nal Corps, and Battery A, who had not
previously received compensation for ser
vice rendered during the period of six
months ending December 81, 1900, were
paid off Thursday evening at their respec-
tive armories. The members of the Sec
ond Regiment and the First Separate
who have not received pay
ment will be paid on April is. This will
be the last chance these Guardsmen will
be afforded to get their money.
The following members of the Guard
have been honorably discharged at their
own application: Private Thomas NJ.
talon: Corp William L. Gordon, of Com
pany IL. Second Battalion; Privates w. J.