The San Francisco call., 1903-12-11
TARGET TRIALS
TO BEGIN SOON
Regular Quarterly Practice at
Presidio Range Will Com
mence During Coming Week
BAND WILL PLAY TODAY
Private S. Eldridge Fairfield
Comes Into Fortune of $780,
600 Through Death ofMother

The regular quarterly target practice
at the Presidio. as directed under gen
eral orders No. 100, will begin early
during the coming week. The exact
date has not as yet been announced.
The Twenty-s Twenty eighth,
Twenty ninth, Sixtieth, Seventeen,
Ninety-second and One Hundred and
Fifth Artillery companies will partici-
pate in the contest. They will be sta
toned on the bluffs and will fire from
batteries Lancaster, Godfrey, Saffcld,
Cranston, Crosby, Slaughter, Sherwood.
Howe. StOtsenburg and Blaney. The
targets viii be out in the open sea,
about three and half miles off shore.
The target, which consists of a can
vas sail, pyramidical in shape and
about 20 feet high and 30 feet long, rest
ing on a float. viii be towed by a tug
attached to it by a hawser 500 yards
in length.
This viii be the final practice of the
season.
Major J. z. Baxter has been ordered
TO report TO San Francisco to relieve
Captain R. L. Brown as quartermas-
ter on the United States transport
Sherman. The Sherman is due here on
the 18th inst. Captain Brown has been
ordered to report to Manila.
SOLDIER HEIR TO FORTUNE.
The Third Band Artillery Corps viii
give its regular weekly concert this
afternoon at $3.50 on the parade ground.
Armand Putz viii direct. Following
will be the programme: Overture.
Fra Diavolo," Auber: Mexican dance.
Maria D'Avila; selection, The
Huguenots." Meyerbeer; intermezzO.
IN Spring Time" Brooks; selection,
popular songs, Byer; popular two-step,
Ell Salero.' Leila France.
Private S. Eldridge Fairfield has just
come into fortune Of $4,000 left him
by his mother in Connecticut Fair
fields term has nearly expired. and
when his time is up he will take his
discharge from the army and return to
the life Of a civilian.
Bert McGrath, one Of the general ser
vice recruits who escaped from the
guardhouse on May 27. was captured
in Modesto by Constable George T. Da-
Wis and returned to the post yesterday.
INSPECTION OF ARMAMENT.
Major Ira McNutt of the ordnance
department came down from his head
quarters at Benicia arsenal yesterday
morning and at once began tour Of
inspection Of the armament of the post.
The cavalry drill regulations have
been amended to read as follows:
Horses when received at regiment are
assigned TO troops according to color,
under the direction of the commanding
officer. They are branded on hoof of
one foot, one and one-half inches be-
low the coronet, with the letter of the
troop and number Of the regiment.
Captains viii make permanent assign
ments of horses TO men. After a horse
has been so assigned his rider will not
exchange him nor allow him to be used
OF the captain
Leave for twenty-one days has been
granted Major Francis J. Ives surgeon.
Fort Sheridan, Illinois. to take effect
upon his arrival at San Francisco.
Enlisted men not belonging to organi-
cations which have been supplied by
the quarterInaster' department with
the uniform prescribed by general orders
No. 1872, 1902, are forbidden to wear
either on or off duty any articles of the
new pattern adopted.
The new bakery at Fort Leavenworth,
Kansas, equipped with the latest bread
baking machinery, turns out from $500
to 1000 lOaves per day.