Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-24
ARMY AND NAVY NEWS
Plans fer the Next Rifle
Matches at Sea Girt.


one that the general government AZ present |
owns and controls which is worthy the des- |
ignation OF a national range. the national |
board for the promotion of rifle practice |
decided to hold the next match las the LAST |
at Sea Grit, pending the improvements at |
Fort Riley.
Gen. Bird W. Spencer, comma ndng officer !
of the New Jersey National Guard. informs |
the national board for the promotion of rifle |
practice that when the improvements in |
course OF construction at Sea Girt are COM
piete we will have fifty-six~ targets at 300 !
yards. forty at 800 yards. forty at 500 |
yards, forty-two at 600. forty at 800. forty |
at 900 and forty at 1000; twenty-five re-
volver targets and twenty-four groups of
Skiruish targets, a total number of firing |
points of BAT. This is the largest equipped
range probably in the world. except the |
Famous Bisley range In England" The |
matches of the National Rifle Association |
Will be held at the same time those of
the national board In September.
An important change from the program of
last year has been made by the national
board for the promotion of rifle practice.
Last year the national individual match
shot first, that the marksmen might
have the benefit of the practice before
shooting on the teams in the national
match There were SO many entries for
the individual match-over 50o-that consid-
cradle time was consumed and team cap
tains fretted some over the delay. This
year the national match will be shot first,
80 that members of the teams then be
free either to remain for the individual
match or return home. 1t may be said
that plans are in process of being perfected,
which. II they can be carried out. promise
to make the coming national individual
match the greatest ever shot in this coun-
try. While the details cannot yet be an
nouBced, 1t may be said that it Is probable
that cash prizes provided by the national
government will be supplemented hand
somely by others from the friends of rife
practice.
Promotions In Ordnance Department.
The act reorganizing the ordnance depart
ment of the army will result in the pro-
motion to the next higher grades of two
lieutenant colonels five ma tors and twelve
captains and will make eligible to detail as
captains three first lieutenants of the line
who are now detailed first lieutenants In
the ordnance department. The officers to
be promoted are Lieut.. Coils. S. E. Blunt
and Frank Heath Majs. Rogers Brnie, Ira
MacNutt, Frank Baker, o. B. Mitcham
and L. L. Bruff and Capts. ]. T. Thompson,
c. B. Wheeler, w. s. Pierce. G. w. Burr,
c. L. Fl. Ruggles- o. C. Horney. George
Montgomery, T. c. Dickson. L. NJ. Fuller,
C. C. Jameson, J. w. Joyes and ]. f. Hof-
fer. The first leutenants who become eli
gible for detail captains are L. T. Hill
man, H. B. Jordan and Edward NJ Shinkle.
Cutters for Santo Domingo
The Navy Department was asked by the
War Department to detail a naval con-
structor to inspect the four revenue cut
tiers which Lewis Nixon is building for the
Dominican government. Naval Constructor
w. J. Baxter. head of the department of
construction and repair at the New York |
navy yard, has been instructed to designate
one of his assistants to make the inspec- |
ton in addition to his regular duties in
RrOOklyn. n "
enty-five feet long, will be fitted with gaso-
line engines and the complement of each |
ship will consist of two officers and ten
men.
Naval Contracts for Shell.
The chief of ordnance of the navy has
recommended the award of contracts for a |
large quantity of shell for the navy as |
follows:
To the Firth-Stirling Company, target |
shells of quantities and calibers as follows: |
Three thousand 13-inch, 800 12-inch, 500 10 |
inch 1900 S-inch, 200 finch and 1900 g.
Inch The American British Ordnance Com
panys 5000 0-inch and 5000 3-inch target |
she'll The E. w. Bliss Company, 5000 COM
mon shell of 5-inch calber
Military Maneuver Camps.
1t is the purpose to have the seven great
military camps established in every case
not later than August /, except those at
Mount Gretna, Pa, Chickamagua Park and
Austin, Tex, which must be established |
before July 81. and that of American Lake
Washington, which must be established be-
fore August 10 Commanding officers are
informed that the camps must be conducted |
with the object of hardening the troops |
with the maximum Of drills and field work
and minimum OF formal ceremonies land |
a total absence of merely spectacular ex-
hibittons." The camps will continue until |
September 30. except that at American
Lake, which will run until October 15 and |
returns to the War Department indicate |
that they Will put into actual service |
conditions the greatest number of militia
men ever assembled in the country in
time OF peace.
Monument to the Bennington Dead.
The contract for the monument to those
who persisted in the recent boiler explosion
on board the United States steamer Ben
nington has been awarded to the Simpson
Pirnie Granite Company of San Diego The
monument Is TO be plain granite obelisk,
sixty feet In height, placed at the west end |
of the grave, wherein the ma jority of the |
men now lie buried. in the military ceme-
terry on Point Iona. 1t will bear on one |
face this simple dedication:
ITO the Bennington's dead. July 81 |
1906 and on the reverse side:
Erected by the officers and men of the
Pacific squadron to the memory of those
who lost their lives in the performance of
duty"
The entire cost of the monument about |
81. 900, has been contributed by those mem
toned in the inscription.
Rifle and Pistol Competition.
Orders issued by the general staff provide
that the rife competitions of the United
States army this year shall take place for
the Atlantic division at Fort Niagara, n.
Y, August /; Northern division at Fort
Sheridan, ILL.,, August 6; Pacific division at
the Preside Monterey. Cal. July 30; South
western division at Fort Sill, Okla, August
g. and the general competition for the en-
tire army at Fort Sheridan, ILL.,, August
20. The pistol competition will be carried
on at the same place Immediately follow |
ing the rifle competitions.
In Honor Of President Harrison.
The new military post near indianapolis.
Ind, now under construction, has been des-
ignated as Fort Benjamin Harrison, In hon
or Of the late twenty third President of the
United States, in official order issued by
Secretary Taft.
Preparing Naval Rife Team.
squad of more than forty enlisted men