The evening star and Newark advertiser., 1907-11-18
WILL BE LESS
GOLD LACE
IN GUARD
New Military Law Makes
SOfne Notable Changes
in Staff Positions.
Especial to the Evening star.l

| Especial to the Evening star.l
TRENTON, Nov. 1s.--There viii b
wholesale shaking-up among tn
division, brigade and regimental ofn
GERS of the National Guard of New
Jersey when the new military law be
comes effective January 81 next. Sew
eral present holders of titles in the
organization will suffer by the abo1i-
tion of their offices and Others will bt
considerably reduced in rank
Among the officers who will bt
| obliged to surrender their commissions
| entirely are Major Edwin Robert
Walker, judge advocate; Lieutenant
Colonel Robert L. Patterson, Of Eliza
beth. INSPECTOR; Major Edwin b
Broadway, of Camden, engineer
Major Allan B. Wallace, of Newark
paymaster; Major Robert ]. Hopper
of Paterson, judge advocate; Major s.
Wood McClave. of Cliffside. engineer:
Colonel George e. p. Howard, OF
Orange, judge advocate; Colonel A.
Judson Clark, OF Newark. chief Of ar
tillery All of these officers, with the
exception of Colonel Howard and
Colonel Clark, are attached to the First
Howard and Clark are on the division
staff.
Four officers in each of the four regi-
ments in the State will also be forced
to give up their connection with the
service, at least In their official capaci-
ties. In the Second Regiment the off,
GERS affected in this manner are Pay
master David M. Flynn. of Princeton;
nNAA Ua -
Doren, of Princeton; Chaplain Otis
Glazebrook, of Elizabeth, and Inspec-
tor of Rifle Practise Franklin Phillips,
of Newark. All of these officers have
the rank of captain. The same four
officers in the other three regiments
will be similarly affected.
The reductions in rank because of
the new military status Of the State
militia will be numerous and sweep
ing in character. On the division staff,
Colonel Thomas 8. Chambers, assist
ant adjutant-general, will be reduced
to major; Colonel Daniel B. Murphy,
of Camden, to Inspector; Colonel
George w. Terriberry, of Paterson,
surgeon, and Lieutenant-C Colonel James
w. Howard, of Newark, quartermas-
ter, will all be reduced to the rank OF
major The aides-de-camp on the divi-
sion staff, Major Walter F. WHITE
more, of Hoboken: Major Forrest F.
Dryden, of Newark, and Major Leon
W. Martin, of Jersey City, will descend
to the rank of captain.
On the Second Brigade staff, Lieuten-
ant-Colonel Fred Gilkyson, assistant
adjutant- general; Lieutenant-Colonel
Paul M. McCray, of Camden, surgeon,
and Major Harry B. Salter. quarter
master, will be reduced to captain. The
aides-de-camp on this staff, Captain
Mahlon R. Margerum and Captain
Alexander w. Mack, the latter Of Som
ervi1le, will become lieutenants.
In the First Brigade, Lieutenant
Colonel Alexander p. Gray, of Paterson,
assistant acknowledgement; Lieutenant
Colonel William j. Parker, of Jersey
City, surgeon, and Major Hobart Tut
tie, of Paterson, quartermaster, will
also go down the official line to the
captaincy. The aides-de-camp, Cap
tain William B. Miles, of Summit, and
Captain Charles E. Burgess, of Mont
clair, are to be reduced to lieuten-
antcies.
1t is probable that some of these
officers will be retained lin the guard
and recommissioned to Serve in some
of the new offices provided by the
changed military law. For example,
on the division staff 1t will be nee
essary to name an engineer officer. a
chief commissary of subsistence and a
chief signal officer, all of which carry
with them the rank of major. On the
brigade staff the Office of commissary of
subsistence, with the rank of captain,
is to be created. Other officers af
fected may be absorbed by the follow
ing departments: Adjutant- general.
Acknowledgment paymaster-ge
eral, ordnance and Judge advocate-gen-
eral. In that event, they would be re-
commissioned to serve in the various
departments and assigned to duty in
the particular department to which
they were assigned.
The composition of the regiments is
also to be altered in order to comply
with the new law. Each regiment Will
consist of one colonel, one lieutenant
colonel, three majors, fifteen captains,
fifteen first lieutenants and fifteen Sec
ond lieutenants. The three captains
not required for duty with the COM
panies will be appointed, respectively,
regimental adjutant, regimental quar-
termaster and regimental commissary.
This new military law, which passed
the Legislature on October Il, last, was
framed with the Idea of fulfilling the
requirements Of the Dick bill, which
became law of the United States on
January 2l. 1903, and which provides
that the organization, armament and
discipline of the organized militia of
each State, conform TO that of the
regular army of the United States. In
other words, the idea is to bring the
National Guard up to the same stand
ard as the regular army.