The Washington times., 1903-11-01
appointments Announced at
Mckinley Mammal Tram
ing School GiUe Salts
faction TO Students There.
ORGANIZATION AS FIXED
BY SEPARATE BATTALi0NS
Eil1isfmentS aggregate Near
y One hundred More
Than Wee Recorded Last
Year in Same Building.

With the announcement OF the revised
list of the cadet appointments at Nc
KinIey Manual Training School the en-
tire regimental organization of the High
School Cacst Corps is complete Al
though it was announced at the begin
ming of the year that Tech" would
have three companies. and consequently
q separate battalion. for some time it
was doubtful il the requisite number Of
men could be secured. The boys were
seemingly loath to enlist, and evinced
SO little spirit that 1t required the hard
est efforts OF the teachers and officers TO
round up" the needed number. All
doubts have disappeared now, however,
and the entire school is rejoicing.
The military committee Of the school.
consisting of A. l. Gardner principal;
Col Burton r. Ross, d. c. n. c., mill
tary instructor OF the Cadet Corps: F.
L. Skinner. L. w Mattern and J. d.
AIinnick, announced the appointments to
the cadets when they assembled for drill
on Thursday. and the new officers i'm
mediately assumed their new positions.
The revised list is as Follows:
Cadets as Oficers.
Major, john Alden Hall. Third Battal-
ion; captains r. N Conwen, c. H
Butman and c. L. Turner; first heuten-
ants. A. W. Skinner. NJ. Clark and E p.
Hutchinson. and J. G. Mathers. bat
TALON adjutant; second lieutenants. P.
L. Carroll q. W Suliinger and W. A.
Darrah; first sergeants. w. A Backus,
II f. Cunningham and Z. II. Culbert-
son; second sergeants, B. B. Ramey, c.
F. Butts and w. E. Lamb; third ser
geants. R. c Clahin. J. NJ. Tufts and
Patterson. W. L. Pipes and P. Q. Corn
ing; fifth sergeants, w. X. Durand, G..
w Fulton and W. S Dulin; corporals.
W. II. Hunt, ". A. Oleson, W. c. Braiy.
H. Pipes. c. E. Gersdorff. w. r. Hum
phries. A. A Henderson. G. W Frazier.
r L Browning, Z. H Ingersoll. ]. A.
Corcoran and V T. Bien-
The companies viii be c, . and x.
The officers believe that with the three
companies a reality more enlistments
viii be secured and the school prob
ably have the largest three companies in
the regiment. This is the first year the
regiment has ever had thres battalions
and already the regiment IS (he largest
% the history Of the High School
Formation Of Bsttalions.
The regimentaI organization as COM
"A
and I. OF Central High School. forming
the first battalion; Companies E and G.
of Business High School. and F. OF the
E.astsrn. and II. Of the Western. form
ing the second battalion, and c, ID and
X. o5 Mckinley. forming the third bat
talon.
The enIistments at the various schools
have increased since last reports. and as
corrected stand: Central. 154: McKin-
ley Manual Training School. $50; East
ern. ca: Western. 50. and Business, los.
making a total OF almost q hundred
more than last years enlistments.
Central High School Notes.
The first Issue OF the Review" was dis
tributed among the students on Friday
and its makeup bespeaks much praise
for its editor. Albert c. Alnew. II has
twenty-eight pages Of good reading mat
ter Of interest to the school and four
paz'es OF advertisements Mr. Agnew ex-
presses himself as pleased with THE out
look. and thinks that the paper is en-
teasng upon its most success tuI year.
lambda Sigma Fraternity.
Lamba Sigma. the largest scholastic
fraternity in the United States, has or
CARRIED a branch at Central this year
and IS meeting with much success. Four
teen members have been initiated and
four more are on the probation list "
Fire Drill.
On Friday afternoon, instead Of a con-
cert which had been planned and for
some reason or other failed to material
lie. the pupils sere treated" 10 a fire
drill. The scholars were surprisingly or
Derby and showed no inclination to do
forbidden things" At the sounding OF
the alarm the students formed by sec