Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-05-28
THE NATIONAL GUARD
Several Commands Will Take
Memorial Day Trips.
CRUISE OF JACKIES
FIRST BATTALION TO PARADE
WITH THE GRAND ARMY.
Capt Summers Suggestions for City
Rifle Range to Be operat-
ed With Safety.
CRUISE OF JACKIES

The 1st Battalion. LIST Regiment, COM
handed by Maj s. Porter House, will act
as escort to the parade of the Grand Army
of the Republic Department of the Poto-
mac next Monday morning. The battalion
commander has been ordered to report TO
the officer of tie day, Gen. l.. G. Estes at
the corner of Pennsylvania avenue and 18th
street at 0:45 O'Clock.
First Lieut.. Pinckney w. Smith. quarter
master of the lst Battalion, and assistant
TO the acting quartermaster general DIS
trict of Columbia Militia, proceeded today
t. Harr er's Ferry, w. Va, accompanied by
Capt F. III. Grove. First Lieut.. Alfred r.
McGonegal and four enlisted men of Com
pany C, LIST Regiment; First Lieut.. Thomas
d. Evans. jr. commanding the Signal
Corps and Quartermaster Sergt. VIII h.
Chase and Commissary Sergt. d. Spencer
Bliss d. c. Militia. When the party re-
turns it is expected that final arrangements
for the coming annual encampment of the
local brigade may be made. The only mat
ter that remains in doubt In regard to
establishing the camp near Harpers Ferry
is the question of an adequate supply on
water.
The Naval Battalion under the command
of Lieut.. Commander r. b. Brummett, will
sail tomorrow morning aboard the U. 5. y
Oneida for a short practice cruise. The
Oneida will steam down the Potomac river
probably as far as Colonial Beach. The
cruise will terminate at the wharf here
next Tuesday morning
Company II, I'd Regiment; Company K,
I'd Regiment, and Company l., I'd Regi-
ment, will each indulge in a practice march
beginning this evening Returning, the
companies will reach the armory not later
than Monday evening. One will head for
point near the Chain bridge, while the
others mean to go beyond Rock Creek Park
and there pitch shelter tents.
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six or eight rifemen from Company l, LIST
Regiment. to Sandy Spring. Md. Memorial
day and there engage in competition at
200 yards with a team made up of residents
of that locality, including George e. Cook,
s. w. Wetherald, DR.. s. I. Scott and E. w.
Scott. Cook and Wetherald were members
of the all-American rifle team that cap
tured the Palma trophy in England last
summer
A City Rifle Range.
The long-continued search for site to
be used as a rifle range by the National
Guard of the District of Columbia has thus
far been without result. Capt Alexander
Summers. Company 1, I'd Regiment, how
ever, has presented for the consideration
of the commanding general plan for a
20O-yard rifle range which may be built
near the center of the city, he says, and
which may be used without any danger
whatever to nearby residents. In his COM
Almost any government reservation may
be utilized when strip of ground can be
Gound a little more than 600 feet long and
about sixty feet wide The most desirable
location is Armory Square, on the south
side of b street between 9th and 7th streets,
alongside the present Pennsylvania rail-
road station.
1T seems hardly necessary to recount
the advantages of having such rifle range
near the center of the city, but the reasons
strike US with double force at this time
since the rifle range at Ordway has been
closed by law and the District rflemen are
deprived of all outdoor practice. If the
200 yards work on that range including
timed and rapid fire, could have been
omitted, nearly all the danger to people in
that locality would have been eliminated
and Ii Is almost certain that there would
have been no objection to our midrange and
long-range firing.
"A city range would afford opportunity
for Strengthening our 200 yards work. in
which we have always been weak. A man
who fires 200 shots at the different ranges
during a season should fire about one-third
Of that number of 200 yards. A man who
becomes proficient at off-hand shooting at
this range will meet with few difficulties at
the other ranges.
Amy District guardsman could spare the