Evening star., 1905-10-11

which is. perhaps, the best troop of its
kind now In the army, owing to special
advantageous conditions, is commanded by
Capt. Guy H. Preston. and Is officially
known as Troop F, 18th cavalry. Captain
Preston has had advantage over his
brother officers at Fort Myer, in that he
managed to secure the largest assortment
of trained horses that could be found in
the cavalry stables at Fort Myer when the
18th arrived. Being the senior troop COM
mander he had his pick of the animals left
by the 7th Cavalry, and he chose those that
had been used by Troop of the 7th, the
troop which gave exhibitions at Fort Myer
last winter There are very few trained
horses in the other troops, but all Of them
have good horsemen. and when their horses
are brought up to the proper standard Cap
tain Preston's outfit will be compelled to
work hard to keep the advantage 1t has so
far gained In the management Of the ex-
hibition troop Captain Preston has brought
to bear all that expert knowledge of horse
ology and humanity for which he is famed
throughout the army. He has innbucd his
men with such a spirit of enthusiasm that
If his progress continues the same as 1t
has been since he started drills he will
leave here three years hence with the sat
isfaction of having given the best cavalry
drill that was ever put up in the army
since its organization.
The drill tomorrow will include many rev
features. The exercises will be divided into
three parts The cavalry will have a sad
die squad music ride for the first part, and
a bareback exhibition as the second part.
The third part will be given over to the
field artillery. The Sd Battery drills its
horse artillery section tomorrow and the
4th Battery gives a horse artillery drill
Friday, both being the third part en- the
days program. There are several features
of Captain Prestons troops work that
stamp 1t as being above the average One
of these is in the training of the horses to
lie down. Most horsenen know that horses
do not want to lie down when they are
iS 1od
the highest development of animal training
when they are SO drilled that they Will go
down at the word. In the saddle squad OF
Captain Preston's troop there are thirty
two horses, and these animals all go down
at the word. The entire troop went down
Yesterday in nine seconds. In passaglng or
sldestepping az these horses are also highly
width of the hall sidewise at a trot. SIN
gly by twos and in columns of fours In
the bareback work there is some orpor-
tunity to display individual horsemanshlp.
First Sergt Charles F. Miller and Corporals
Richmond and Sanders Of Captain Pres
tons troop have developed unusual ability
in horsemanship and are given an oppor-
tunity during the drill to show their ex-
pertness. Sergeant Miller jumps from the
ground over three horses and alights on the
back of the fourth. facing to the rear,
without having touched either of the three
horses over which he leaped Sanders and
Richmond have feats almost as difficult
which they do with ease. One of the fea-
lures of the program will be the formation
OF a pyramid of six men on three horses
which Will be sent over two-toot hurdle.
Saddle and Bareback.
Capt. Preston will have personal super
vision over the entire drill He will COM
mand the saddle squad and Lieut. Harry S.
Berry VIII command the bareback detach-
mens: efts. The ] troop will include:
EeantS Parker. WaRpAp
and Humphries; Corporals Henderson,
Davis. Dorcas. Richmond. Sanders and
Mycoff; Blacksmith Willis; Trumpeters
Swindell and Potter; Privates Briscoe,
Burns, Carter, Corcoran, Dear. Dempsey,
Brown, Cairns, Conner Duncan, Dugan.
Johnson, Heath. McGlynn, Harper, Lizotte.
Meyers, ormondroyd. Murphy. Ray. Shire,
Stewart. Plants, Roebuck. Rogers. Smith
O. Smith (2), White O. White (2). Win
ters, Zengel
Battery Drills.
The Sd Battery, which drills tomorrow.
will be commanded by Lieut. Henry S.
Kilbourne. jr.. and will include:
Sergeants Sabins. Blawat Whitaker
and Green; Corporals volkman, East. Watt,
Buckholtz Smith, Barton and Ballinger;
Privates Yutra, Stewart, Woodall, Terrell,
Dimond, King, Meagher. McCann, Murphy.
Moon, Jarchow, Smith (2), Hawkins, Mat
tick. Modee, Irish. Golden, Robbins, Ster-
ling, Taylor, Ganseberg. Smith a., Ste
phens, Burke, Davis o., Patterson, Zinn,
Fink, Murrell, Wilson Stanke; Guidon,
Private Moore a.; Musician Siberg.
The artillery part of the program Friday
will be furnished by the 4th Battery. The
detachment will be commanded by Lieut.
Donald c. McDoAald and includes:
First Sergeant William F. James; Ser
geants Crowell and Bratton; Corporal Hav-
ersticks; Priyates Spratt, Keough, Wheel
er, F. D., Dunn. Brown, Martin, Lescar-
buo, Maynard, Raymond; Corporals Sha-
dell Spencer McGIade, Gerard Barth and
Harding; Privates Tice, Ubben. Wellman
Winfree, Grieves, Defenbach. Johnson. E
L.. Bailey, W. J., Keeler. Anderson, Ros-
selle, Ewing: Guidon Murphy; Musicians
Rodosky and Robertson.