The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-11
9Th REGIMENT FORMALLY CUT
COMPANIES c AND N MUSTERED
OFT or STATE SERVICE.

n hcn Neenllsteu IN F-COl, Jarvis Nheored
by the Discharged Men More Trouble
said 10 BE Near breaking ~ OF the
10 Commissioned Omcers Resign.
The Eighth Regiment. N. G. n. Y, was
formally shaved to a battalion last night
in h armory on Ninety-fourth street. OF
the three companies ordered abolished by
Gov. Higgins. G and Z were mustered out
OF service. The few members Of Company
A have decided to be absorbed by Company
F. The Colonel Of tho regiment. James NJ.
Jarvis; Lieut.. Col. Kerby and Major Robert
Edwards are placed on the supernumerary
list.
The ceremony was run on on the big drill
floor. The militiamen who were leaving
the service appeared in company formation,
but that was the only evidence Of their
being military folk. They wore civilian
clothes-overooats and dripping hats. just
as they had come in from the rain.
Lieut.-Col. @. A. wingate Of Major-Gen.
Roe's star did the mastering out. All went
with military formality. The Captains
called the roll and the Lieutenant-C Colonel
banded out to the p~rivates heir honorable
discharges. Once the thing was over tho
men Of Companies c and z vented their
opinion OF the r~egimental reduction. Col.
Jarvis was cheered by both companies
again and again. When some one proposed
Major Edwards's name some OF the Com
pany c men Kissed. Major Edwards Is the
man to whose ambition many of the militia
men charge the whole trouble.
Later. in Col. Jarvis's room there was
allowing cup presentation. Capt. Lyons did
the honors and said hat The cup was from
the officers of the Eighth who were loyal to
the Colonel and believed that injustice bad
been done.
1t was perfectly evident last night that
the family skeleton of the Eighth is bent on
further manifestations. The ~adjutant de-
clared that there were in his hands the
designations OF twenty-seven OF the thirty
nine commissioned officers. Col. Jarvis
admitted that sixteen designations had
reached him.. All those who are withdraw W.
ing are, it is declared, agreed that the regi-
ment has not been treated fairly and the
best way they can help the cause Of hsr-
mony is to get out.
II is also asserted by the Jarvis faction on
what they say is good authority" that
there is plotting aplentv behind this re-
duction Of the Eighth. One of the officers
said:
Two companies. thought among the best
in the regiment. are arbitrarily disbanded
az their six officers are friends of the Colonel
Seven companies are left in the battalion.
One more will entitle II 10 regimental for
nation. When the time is ripe and the alb
sorbed A company is again evolved the
necessary eight companies are in evidence
and the Eighth is again a regiment.
The whole board Of officers. elected
really when the Eighth was a battalion. are
rerfunCtorily reelected. On the ticket Of
ied officers for the reincarnated regiment
appear the names of two or three men
whose designations were asked for.
The two designations never got beyond
brigade headquarters. Not only did bri-
gade headquarters forward the report
without a hearing. but Col, Jarvis has been
dismissed from the service by a trick. and
not even allowed to see the contents Of the
report that went TO Gov. Higgins. Some-
body must have had a pull"
II was also learned at the armory that
on December : Col. jarvis prepared a state
menU of facts connected with the disband-
ing of the Eighth. and sent 70 il the Gov
ernor. VIII had asked for il. The report
was favorable to the regiment. In it Col.
Jarvis informed the Governor that az the
time he, Lieu. Col. Kerry and Major Ed
wards had been asked 70 resign by Brig =
Gen. Smith, and he had refused. he had
been told tina, there were no charges against
him.
On December 5 a committee Of the Eighth
az Inc request Of twenty-three Of its oicers
called upon Gov. Higgins and asked that
they have a chance to present their side
Of the case. Finally, Col. Jarvis's report
asked for a suspension of the ~disbandment
order and for reconsideration.
Gov Higgins, it was ASSERTED al the
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