The San Francisco call., 1907-01-21
M|L|T|AMEN GOING
To SACRAMENTO
VIII Visit Capital to Ask
Aid of Legislature in
Work of Improving Guard
MORE RESERVATIONS

of the State, assumes command and
confirms the appointment of ]. B. Lauck
as adjutant general, also the appoint
ment of Arthur w. Bradbury as colonel
and assistant adjutant general.
There is a vacancy in the law sub
committee of the association of the
National Guard of this State by reason
of the resignation of Colonel w. n.
Kelly It is expected that it will be
filed this week.
The association at a meeting held
last week discussed a proposition to
ask the other States to form similar
organizations and then organize an in
terstate association with view toward
improving the condition of the guard
in all parts of the country.
The leading members of the State
association will visit Sacramento this
week to look after the measures that
have been introduced already and those
that are to be introduced Among those
that have been presented is one for
State armory to be constructed in Sac
ramento at a cost of 500, 900; another
is to follow the plan in vogue of the
Eastern States-of paying a bonus of
81 a month to all who enlist in the
guard and to grant an allowance of
! 90 per cent in case OF war. third is
to establish practical rifle corps for
boys of the public schools at the ex-
pense of the State.
Adjutant General Lauck and Colonel
r. K Whitmore of the Sixth Infantry
had a long conference last week on Ma
tionaI Guard matters, and at it's close
the general made the following state
ment to reporter of the Sacramento
Union, after declaring that interest in
the guard must be aroused among the
| business men of the entire State
DUTY OF BUSINESS MEN
"The appropriation of $400, 600 for the
/ militia organizations WIFI be just so
much money wasted unless this moral
and physical support is given us. We
don't want their money, but we must
| have their good will.
THE employers of the young men in
our regiments are prone to keep them
away because of petty business rea-
sons, from the drill and training they
need, and for which they are giving
their time. But in the event Of emer-
gency these same business men are the
/ first to complain or the lack or Ma
/ tional Guard.
No business man knows when the
guard may furnish the force that will
rescue his business and his home, and
we had a shining example of 1t in the
San Francisco disaster.
What we want is the support of the
local business men and the merchants.
The young men of our State will give
| their time, but they do not want to be
hooted at as tin soldiers nor to be
! threatened with discharge when it is
their duty to attend to company or
ders."
AS yet nothing has been done with
Troop A, Cavalry, and Captain Green
niger has not turned over. the property
/ in his keeping. Captain ]. A. Margo is
anxious to form a new troop of cav
kl.fe off fc hot
he has fifty-nine men for such an or
| ganization. II is doubtful whether he
will receive authority to organize 1t.
Colonel Wilhelm, inspector in Califor-
MIA for the United States and the State,
does not think much of cavalry in a
\ city such as San Francisco, unless it
/ has an opportunity to either furnish
to men who would compose such an or
ganization horses that can be used con-
tinuously at drill, or have men who are
in a position to furnish their own
horses for such purpose.
/ Brigadier General Roster has not
given Captain Margo any encourage
ment in his endeavor to organize a
troop, and he declares that so far as
/ he is concerned there shall not be an
other troop of cavalry in this city, un-
less 1t can be one that will be credit
to the guard.
Companies A and B. First Battalion
of Coast Artillery, are now located at
| 401 Cole street and Companies and G
of the same organization are at the new
headquarters of the Nationals on Eddy
street, near Laguna- AT these places
the several companies have assembled
once a week and go through drill in
struction three times month.
The talk about converting the dis
I f6a% rH-
main in the First Infantry into addi-
tional artillery companies is likely to
end in talk, in view of the expression
of prominent army officers in relation
to making coast artillery out of ma
tional guardsmen. Among those who
have expressed themselves on this sub
ject is General Macarthur, who said
some time ago that guardsmen organ
lied as coast artillery would be a detri-
ment to a defense line, by reason of
the fact that few drills in the course
of a year at the big guns would not
fit them for the duties expectedg of
them. To handle such guns. the gen
eral said, requires constant practice
by men who will think of nothing else,
and who understand the value of the
ordnance they are required to handle.
A battalion of light artillery, it is
said by military men, would be of
value in San Francisco, but one of
heavy coast artillery, in case of need
by the United States Government
would not be accepted. for the reason
that the men would not be, with theo-
retical instruction, in a position to take
their places at the big guns, and IL
takes too long to teach them
The officers of the First Infantry who
have rendered their designations, which
have not yet been forwarded to su-
perior headquarters from the office of
the brigadier general of the Second
Brigade, or in other words have been
held up" in the hope that those who
presented them may be induced to re-
call them, are:
Staff-Captain Choynski, First Lieu
tenant Lowe. First Lieutenants Me-
Mutt and Wright, surgeons. Company
A-Lieutenant Carcass; B-Captain Nc
Culloch, Lieutenants Middlestadt and
Creighton; C-Captain Corcoran, Lieu
tenants Hagans and Defanis; D-Cap-
tain varney, Lieutenants Talbot and
! Sengstack; E-Captain Wehser. Lieu
tenants Thorpe and Tully; F-Captain
Stindt. Lieutenants Hyde and Branch;
+Captain Wall, Lieutenants Suydham
and Tuggy: H-Captain Peckham,
Lieutenants McKenny and Harris.
CAPTAIN Wehser of Company e for
warded the resignation of Lieutenant