Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-27
THE NATIONAL GUARD
First of the New Service
Medals Received.
NO MORE SOLICITING
GUARDSMEN FORBIDDEN TO SEEK
OUTSIDE AID.
First Regiment Wins in Team Match
The Passing Of the EN-
NETT Guard.
NO MORE SOLICITING

| National Guard have been received by
! Gen. Harries, and. with certain modlh-
| cations, the remainder of the lot needed
| for distribution among the District guards
| men has been ordered. The method of dis
! tributing these medals has been explained
| heretofore Any officer or enlisted man who
/ has served faithfully for ten years is en-
! titled to medal. Blank forms of appli-
| CO ton will be distributed among the Or
| CARNATIONS, which the applicants for medals
will be required to fill out. When the APP
plication has been approved by the com
pany commander it will go to board Of
| officers appointed for the purpose of pass
ing upon the qualifications of the appli-
| cants. Gen. Harries announces that the
award of service medal will only be made
to men who have served faithfully. The
bare fact of having been ten years in the
| National Guard will not entitle man to
| such recognition.
Form of a Medal.
| The model of the medal which General
| Harries has received and approved is one
! OF the handsomest things of the kind that
| has been issued to any troops. The finished
! medal will be in the form of a sunburst of
| oxidized silver, surmomted by an eagle
| bearing in it's talons scroll on which are
| the words Faithful Service" In the center
| of the sunburst is a shield of the United
| States in enamel, surrounded by circle on
| the upper half of which are the words Ma
| tional Guard and on the lower half Dis
| trict of Columbia.
| The medal will be suspended from a pin
| by dark blue watered silk ribbon two inches
| wide at the pin, which it conceals, and
| tapers sufficiently toward the medal to pass
| through a ring placed In the back, half an
| inch in diameter. Across the center OF the
ribbon and clasped to it tightly will be bar
Ia ola dc Van nnrCf f.
| teen Years will be placed in raised letters,
the bar being of oxidized silver with the
| letters highly polished. NO decision mas yet
| been reached as to what the tWenty-year
service medal will be, but it is probable that
| it will be of the same general design as the
| others, only made of gold. On the back of
| the medal will be engraved its number and
| the name of the man to whom 1t Is awarded.
| A record of the medals Will be Kept IN the
| office of the adjutant general.
| In the model submitted to General Har-
| ries the bar is detachable and the ribbon Is
| of satin. When the changes are made as
| required by the commanding general the
medal will be ready for distribution.
Unauthorized Solicitation of Funds.
A number of merchants in the District
have been visited within the past two weeks
| by men representing themselves TO be con-
| nected with the naval battalion of the local
| militia who have solicited subscriptions to-
| ward the erection OIL dL
| for the battalion. The matter came to the
attention of Gen. Harries early in the week
| and a stop was put to 1t. The solicitors OF
| these subscriptions were in no way con-
| nected with the national guard but they
| had received the unofficial sanction OF some
of the officers of the naval battalion lor
| their scheme. They are said to have been
| professional solicitors for such purposes.
| 1t is their practice. it is said, to go into
| town and select some meritoriouS pubic
| institution in need of rehabilitation, either
| in the shape of building or of stock, etc.
| They propose to the managers of the AFFAIR
| to go out among the people and solicit the
| funds requisite to make the needed i'm
| provements For their share of the work
| the solicitors receive a percentage of the
| funds collected. 1t Is said that this per-
| centage amounts to 80 or 40 per cent OF
| the gross receipts. Their business Is PROB
| ably very beneficial to some communities
| and evidently lucrative to superlative de-
| gree Much as the District needs further
| accommodations for its militia, the conf
handing general will not permit the citi-
| zens to be called on to furnish funds.
| 1.-THE business men of the District are
| liberal enough to us now said Gen. Har-
| ries in discussing the matter. I'VE do not
| want them TO be taxed any more for our
| support. We could not permit such thing
| to continue in the District, and have is
| sued a general order which will put stop
| to such things in the future
| The order referred to was issued yester-
!
man of the national guard to solicit money
| or other thing of value from the business
| houses or citizens of the District without
special permission from the commanding
general
Gallery Practice.
Tuesday last the general staff of the Dis
| trict militia was ordered to present itself
| at the rifle gallery III the Center market
! armory for the regularly ordered gallery
| practice for the season. There was only one
| member of the staff there at the appointed
time and none came in during the evening.
| Mai. James E. Bell. the inspector general
! of rifle practice, who was ready for the
practice and on hand at the armory. In
| tends to present the matter to Gen. Haf-
| ries for his consideration. The failure of
| the staff to shoot is not looked upon Ia
vorably by many OF the officers or the
| guard. The cannot criticise the actions of
! the official family of the commanding gen
| eral, but they do not believe they should
I be expected TO turn out their commands in
| full when members of the staff do not trou-
| BILE themselves to attend the practice.
| While they argue that rifle practice would
not be of any particular use to brigade
staff In the field, they point to the fact
| that an order came from headquarters di-
rectng the staff officers to appear for the
practice, and say this order should be
| obeyed
When the members of the headquarters
| force think so little of brigade orders as
| to ignore them entirely 1t is not to be ex-
pected, line officers argue. that the enlisted
| men should put very strict Interpretation
| upon the orders they receive. Gen. Harries
| said, when questioned regarding the Incl
| dent that the staff officers are very busy
| and have many other important duties to
| perform; that rifle shooting would hardly
benefit them TO a marked degree; but that
| as example to the men the members
| of the staff should have appeared and
| should have shot its score.
| Company Disbanded.
with the exception of Second Lieut..
Thomas F. McAnally, Company A, I'd Reg
| iment, is hereby disbanded.'
The order cited appeared in the second
paragraph of a general order issued from
| brigade headquarters yesterday. and sig
nalizes the passing of an organization
of the District National Guard which
at one time was famous throughout the
country and which has been known as one
| of the best drilled and best disciplined mil
itary organizations in the country. Com
pany of the I'd Regiment was known to
fame as the Emmett Guards, and was made
up almost entirely of men of Irish ancestry.
lit retained its organization through many
storms and trials and rendered good serv-