New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-24
NATIONAL GUARD NEWS.

Major General Roe has decided several
changes in the dates of organizations selected 10
perform field service at the State camp. The 12th
Regiment will be on duty from June IS to %. in
stead OF July 9. With the 18th will be the Sth
Regiment and the 1st Battery. The 6sth Regiment
will be in camp from June . TO July 2 instead
Of June IS Is. and the eth Regiment will be IN
camp with it. The list Regiment and the % Bat
to .
The 7th Regiment Rife Club is spending $500 in
improving it's clubhouse Creedmoor. The regt-
mental baseball club will play game with the
Crescent Athletic Club at Bay Ridge. on April 10
officers of the 2sI Regiment already cOnsid-
ering the choice OF suitable candidate for colo
mel TO succeed General Alfred c. Barnes. resigned.
Among the names mentioned are those OF Lieuten-
ant Colonel James wray Cleveland and Lieutenant
George Albert Wingate. Of General ROe's staff;
Major f. II. +. Ebstein. L. s A. and Colonel Ed
ward +. Britton. OF General McLeer's staff IL IS
understood that Lieutenant Colonel Stokes. OF the
Cd. prefers to remain in his present rank rather
than assume the responsibilities of commanding
officer. An election will probably be held In May.
that the colonel can be commissioned before
the regiment goes to camp on June l. Company
resigned The regiment will parade for divine ser
vice in The armoTy at go p. m To-Day, Inc rev
One thousand and eghty-four officers and men
Is the present strength Of the 18th Regiment. now
the largest IN the state me companies OF the
regiment are preparing for the competition for the
Could trophy. which begins May In the armory.
when the dummy guns will be used with rubber
projectiles
The present strength Of the 47th Regiment is
90 officers and men. net loss OF twenty-nine In
the last six months.
The following officers OF the 9Th Regiment have
received company l0) per cent duty medals: Quar-
termaster Sergeant Herman G. Ellis. Serseants
Charles +. Shannon. John r Griffith and Frederick
Z ClaIbOrn. Corporals Charles c. Mathews. Hugo
Hotter John Gilon and Thomas CIeaver. Privates
Robert Alien George Helm. Alfred Lankau. Arthur
Matthews Edward Ressdorn. Herman l. SpiJz.
William Stuart, George Walker and p. Wetzelberg.
Those honored bad to attend only the drills.
but all lectures and meetings in the year.
The annual dinner OF the officers Of the 47th
Regimen will be held next Saturday night at the
ST. Marks Hotel. Brooklyn. The officers Of the
regiment are 10 place a granite monument over the
grave of Lieutenant Colonel n. II. Quick In Green
wood.
Veterans of the 18th Regiment will hold their
annual dinner Tuesday night
Colonel Bates OF the list Regiment has ordered
the command to assemble at the temporary armory.
No 50 East Fifty-ninth-st at 2:30 y. m. on Satur-
day to march TO the site of the armOry. at
Park-ave. and Thirty -fourth-st to attend the lay
ing of the cornerstone The invocation will be by
the Rev, Edgar. Tilton. jr., chaplain Of the resi
ment reading OF the articles to be placed In the
stone will then take place. after which Mayor Nc
Ciellan VIII lay the stone
Members of the National Guard who may not be
able to attend camp fer at least five days of the
tour ordered. and enlisted men who have been In