Evening star., 1904-02-23
Competitive Drill for Evening
Star Trophy.
THE BOYS BRIG ABE
SIX COMPANIES ENTER AS CON-
TESTANTS.
The Individual Drill Honors Won by
Private Huntington of Company
f, 1st Regiment.

Distric: division of the United Boy Brig
AIDES OF America for The Evening Star tro-
ply cup, held yesterday at the Washington
Light infantry Corps Armory. proved to
lie a decided success. Company F. 1st Resi-
ment representing Trinity II. E. Church
won the cup, putting up magnificent drill
Company d of the same regiment and Com
pany d of the I'd Regiment were given nom
orable mention. Both OF these latter COM
panies are attached to The Tacoma Pres
byterian Church. the last named being com
pcsed of small boys under five feet in
height. Private c. C. Huntington of the
winning company won the individual drill.
The exercises incident 10 the drill were
of very interesting nature, although it is
conceded they were too long. The boys in
tine brigade Were kept standing at attention
for more than an hour after the program
for the day was opened, and it was con-
siderlhly after clock before the last
company had drilled. The competitive in
dVt,ilLal contest and several other numbers
on the program Yet remained.
Tie program Was opened al 30 o clock
promptly by the formation of the brigade
The TWO regiments We're drawn up i'll line.
two battalionS tn each regiment. The LIST
Regiment. composed of the larger boys. was
commanded by Lieut.. Col Alfred u. Smith.
with capt Peytun Nicholson as adjutant
The ID Regiment. composed of diminutiye
cadets. was comma nded by Col. George H.
Huddi9son, with Lieut.. Van Tuyl Bien as
adjutlnt.
The Regiments Formed.
The regiments were. very quickly formed
and the division adjutant general, Col.
James NJ. Pickens, took charge. He formed
the brigade and turned it over to the major
general William Hart Dexter. Gen. DeX-
ter announced that the exercises of the day
would he opened with a prayer by Rev. j.
&. Nicholson. u. ID. After the prayer. Brig
Gen John M. Wilson. L. s. A., retired. pre-
.Sented each nf the regiments with flag.
the gift of the fadies' auxiliary. In present.
ing the flag Gen. Wilson cautioned the
boys To hold il as a slcred emblem He
made a brief address on the history of the
Tia & and the men who have fought under it.
The color bearers of the two regiments
advanced and took the gs, and they
were marching back to their places in line
the High School Orchestra, stationed be-
hind Gen Dexter played The Star Span
gled Banner and the spectators sang. Al
ter another selection by the orchestra and
an address by Mr.. Charles H. Nesbitt the
competitive drill was announced
Company ID Of the 1st Regiment. Lieut.
Arthur Skinner. commanding was the first
on the field. This company put up an ex-
cellent drill. Several numbers of the pro-
gram were wrongly interpreted ny the COM
manding officer, however and the line be-
came broken on several occasions. The
work of Company A. First Sergt. Jerome r
b. Meacham Commanding. not so good
as that of the preceding company. 1t was
not so large as Company d and did not
present as good an appearance.
@ The Winning Company.
When Company F marched on th, field
It was received with cheers. This company
plainly had the cup before it went through
a single movement of the program. It was
a full company, IL enlisted men and three
officers. Ii drilled with double ranks. 1t
WAS the only company. but one on the field
where there was a near approach to uni
forrnity in dress. those in the front rank
wearing the same uniform. To great eX
tent Company + i made up of cadets from
the Eastern and Technical high schools. Its
commanding officer, Capt. p. II. Nicholson,
is first lieutenant of one of the companies
at the Tech: its two leutenants come from
Eastern and almost the entire front rank
of the company is composed of Eastern
cadets. The drill they pat up yesterday
would have been creditable to any organi-
executed with great precision aud military
eXactness. Capt. Nicholson made an excel
lent commanding officer If the work Of
yesterday can oe taken as an evidence OF
what the hoyS can do now. Company G., OF
the High School regiment Will make very
strong bid for the Nailor medal next
spring.
Th, fourth company 10 drill. Company D
of the "a Regiment. created as favorable an
impression a. lid the preceding company.
This command was made up entirely Of
small boys and tney We're all dressed in
khaki II was the company indicated in the
foregoing which had a uniform There were
sixteen enlisted men and one officer all OF
the boys, az stated, being under five feet in
height. They put up an excellent drill with
HCOLeu guns. Their appearance was most
soidiefly and their officer, Lieut.. Van Tuyl
Bien. handled his company with the skill Of
a veteran.
The other two companies to drill merely
went through the program. The boys had
lost hope OF making any headway against
the Impression treated by Company + OF
the lSt Regiment. The judges. Capt. Frank
Dew. Ramsay and Lieut.. Charles L. Hay.
bu,a Of the regular army, retired after the
last company had drilled and IA few mo-
ments returned with the announcement that
Company r mad interpreted the program
with better results than any OF the other
companies anu awarded them the Evening
Star cup. Company y. 1st Regiment came
second. and Company u, I'd Regiment was
third
The Individual Competition.
The individual drill followed. There we're
representatives from almost every COM
pany in The individual contest The line
was quickly narrowed down 20 three men,
Private G. e bennington OF COMPANY f.
LIST Regiment First Sergt Tgugi Davis.
Company - Regiment, ana Sargt W y.
Iiin of '"n5o-f =. lst Reg fE"nt. The
last ,wu nsIn.d were put oIt SGortls. and
pun1.Hgton y..S declared tie winner Hd
Was picked NJ fN his comrades uf COM
pany + and borne oa their shoulders
around tne hili.
An exhibition OF signal work by the mem
bers al Company h, 1st Regiment repre-
senliug Wilson Memorial NJ T.. Church.
was the closing number on the program,
and thc exercises were ended with the
beneG Ctiu1 10y Rev. Charles II. Butler.
Following an" the names of the mem bars
or the three leading companies in the COM
petitsvc drills
Company F. Winner.
OF Trinity Nj !, Church: Captain. p. ri.
Nicholson; first lieutenant. II. f. Hill. see
ond lieutenant. r. III, L!nthicum: first SER
seant acting {. c. Burritt; secord ser
ge:.nt jaetinel. J. " Field; third sergeant
6acting) = =. Hutchinson; corporal tact-
iug). r, = ErneN. J. c. Alexander. Z. Ber-
keicy, Da,itpru. J. j. Butler. W +. Carter.
Il = Chaplin, J. CIauSel. r. a. Crawford, III.
crawford, 4. Dunn, J. I. Elder. J. Feiail-
ley, \. Fugit;. L. H. Fulton. T. t. Griffith.
J. r. Iian6y, X. T.. Handy. W. L. Handy. l..
Harvey. W g. Hin. L. l.. Johnson Z.
Jones. =. g Jones, Ii. Il. Macabee L. Me
Cathfan, F. McPhee. G. Offutt. u. otter