New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-06-26
FINE WORK or SETENTTFIRST
TARGET PRACTICE GOOD-NO MEN FALL
OUT ON THE MARCH TO CAMP

State Camp. Peekskill y. Y. June % Special
The march in of the list Regiment this morning
executed in the same excellent manner and
with the same speed that marked their march OUT
on Monday. The call strike sounded at
o'clock. ana S:13 the march began The resi-
ment marched along Lexington-ave. as Far as the
Summer Home for Children. where number of
its members had been cared for and nursed back
10 health after the close of the SPanish-American
War. There they halted. and. after presentation
speech by Colonel William G. Bates the flag pre-
scented by the regiment the home was run up
by Private John =. Fermilye, of Company \.
of the men VINO had enjoyed the hospitality of the
home in 1895 and the man who started the sub
scription.
After the presentation the regiment counter
marched the Five Mile Turnpike and came back
to the State Camp by that route. passing through
the village of Peekskiu and crossing the Anusville
bridge. Two halts of twenty minutes each
taken and a 11I6 o'clock the regiment marched
into camp Not a man fell the march.
Last night an entertainment given al Camp
Roe in front of Colonel Bates's tent. in comment
Grafton of the battle of Las Guasmas. in which
the regiment took part just four years before The
entertainment was under the auspices of the Amer
lean Guard branch of the Spanish American War
Veterans Association this branch being made up
entirely of list Regiment men Lieutenant Colonel
j. II. Wells. who commanded the I'd Battalion of the
list Regiment in the Spanish-American War. spoke
of the conduct the regiment during the war
Colonel William G.. Bates who was then in diff
ferent part of the service. spoke of their good
record since then Inere were also a number OF
Tomorrow will be visitors day and field day
Company 3 will excursion from New-York
TO me S'a Sat mp V excursionsts will each tb
grounds shortly after dinner In the afternoon i've
track contests will be run on the east parade
To-day the LIST Battery continued its target
practice using the range and elevation
YESTERDAY In the morning twenty-five shells
fired Nine shots went through solid most of them
i'm the buIseye and twenty-five fragments struck
the target. In the afternoon shrapnel was Used and
twenty-nine shots were fired, Every shot did more
or less damage TO the target. and when the firing
ceased the central sections of the canvas were
literally to shreds. The gunners seemed To
A shrapne target differs from she'll target in
size division lines and method of scoring: The
at the centre being the bulseye The shrapnel tar
get is 10 feet high by SO feet long. and IS divided
mel shooting the object being to cover a wide
range a fragment in an extreme end section counts
as much in a central section: .
Major General Charles r Roe, ColoneI DaEld T.
Austen of the 18th Regiment. and Captain Henry
G. Lyon of the I'D United States Infantry, were
Interested spectators the practice.
Ioui. Albrecht a private Of the LIST Battery. who
was in the target squad with Sergeant James jan
sen. injured by piece OF an exploded shell;
fully hundred yards away from where the
squad was stationed. fragment thrown by its
explosion struck Albrechts LEFT band Wnlcn was
finger. 1t did not penetrate the belt.
Captain Louis Wendell and the other members OF
battery who came up yesterday for target prac-
! rice left here for New-York the 7:35 train this
This evening the State Camp ferrymen are hold
Pavilion. which is just across the creek from the
camp Many of the Guardsmen are attending IL
Arthur l.. Robertson, of Company c; officer of the
guard. First Lieutenant Thomas Barron OF the
TIN Regiment attached officer; Junior off1cer OF the
guard. Second Lieutenant John r Jenkins OF COM
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