Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-04-20
STATE HOUSE.
p.
A New Militia Company
at Rumford Falls.
VIII Become Part Of the Ma.
iiona| Guard, April y.
Major DooIey Talks About Ammu.
milton For New Rifle.

Announcement was made Saturday
at the office of the adjutant general Of
the issuance OF two special orders rel
ative to the unattached company of
the National Guard Of the State of
Maine which was recently enlisted by
Iucian w. Blanchard at Rumford
Falls under Special Orders No. 10, the
first of which provides for the muster
ing of the company into the military
service of the State, and the second
for the election of the commissioned
officers Of the company. The text of the
two orders is as follows:
Augusta, April II, 1908.
Special Orders No. 20.
7. The men enlisted by Lucian W.
blanchard, unds-. Special Orders, No
1s. A. G. O.. c. g., will be assembled by
him at some suitable place on Wednes-
day., April %, 1908. at 7.3O o'clock p
NJ. for the purpose of muster into the
military service of the State of Maine
III. Brigadier General Charles f.
Davis is hereby ordered to muster in
the men who shall have been duly en-
listed and passed by the examining
surgeon, provided that not less than 81
men shall have been found to be duly
qualified.
III The muster will be made on fri
picate enlistment papers and the mus
terng officer will require the signature
TO he written in ink and in full. He
will retain one copy of each enlistment
PAPER and forward two copies to this
Office.
BY order of the Communicating Chief:
AUGUSTUS B. FARNHAM.
Adjutant General
Special Orders No. 80.
/. An election is hereby ordered
for the position Of captain, 1st lieuten-
ant and I'd lieutenant in the unat-
tached company of infantry, National
Guard of the State of Maine at Rum
ford Falls.
II. The election will be held at
some suitable place on Wednesday,
April %, 1908, at 8 o'clock p. NJ. Prig-
adler General Charles f. Davis will
preside.
III The entire proceedings will be
conducted strictly in accordance with
the Militia Law and Regulations for
the National Guard.
BY order of the Commander in Chief:
AUGUSTUS b. FARNHAM,
Adjutant General
Major John J. Dooley of Portland,
assistant chief of ordnance, was at the
State House Saturday on matters of
business connected with the office of
the adjutant general. Aside from the
object of Major Dooley's visit several
matters were taken up in a general
way and included therein was the new
Springfield rifle and it's ammunition.
1t may be truthfully said Major Dooley
it without doubt the best authority
on the military rifle and it's ammuni-
ton in Maine today. and it is doubtful
if there is anyone in the country who
has a more complete. knowledge of the
rifle and its component parts than he.
In speaking of the ammunition
which will be supplied for the new
Springfield rifle of the 1908 model Ma
jor DOOley said that it was the third
time that the ammunition had been
changed within the past five years, and
hat with each change there had come
Il decrease in the weight of the pro-
jectile. The cartridge of the Old fash
toned Springfield of the model of 1898
carried a charge of 20 grains of black
powder behind a 500 grain bullet. In
the krag Jorgensen rifle. which sue
ceeded the arm above mentioned, the
caliber Of the arm was reduced to 80.
and the weight of the bullet to go
grains, while behind it 81 grains of
smOkeless powder called wv. a. pow
der"
The ammunition which is to be fur
nished for the new rifle is the latest
production in the way of explosives
and projectiles and is without doubt
the most powerful small arm ammuni-
ton in the world. The cartridges are
loaded with SIN grains of pyro cellu-
lose powder behind a conical bullet
weighing $50 grains and composed of a
core of lead covered with jacket
of cuprc-niclel. This bullet has muz-
zle velocity of 200 feet per second,
which is faster than sound travels.
The new rife has the greatest range
of any army rifle known, the maxi
mum range being 5000 yards. more than
three miles,
Capt s. r. Ansell of the Sth United
States Infantry will begin the fifth
week of his tour of inspection of the
National Guard of the State on
Wednesday. April %. Owing to the