Evening star., 1909-05-09
NEWS OF THE LOCAL
NATIONAL GUARDSMEN

oiASCIS anu SOfuleTS OF the camp.
In connection with the lecture he in
troduced a subject upon whom realistic
demonstration of the plan to be pursued
IN rescuing one from drowning and also
tne resuscltation process essential to re-
store life to a drowned person.
One feature of the lecture contained
statistics which showed that 81 per cent
or the accidents in the Union army were
from drowning, and that 60 per cent
were due to soldiers bathing. The next
lecture will be The Treatment and Care
OF Soldiers Fee. While in the Field -
while one later in the series will relate
to the Personal Hygiene of the Soldier"
The team of officers to represent the
National Guard of the District of CO.
lumbia in the rifle match with the mid
shipmen at Anna polls next Saturday will
be selected from the following:
Lieut.. Col l.. H. Reichelderfer. Majs
W. E. Harvey. Glendie B. Young and
Alfred P. Robbins; Capts. William w.
Cookson, Alexander Summers and Clar-
ence V. Sayer and Lieuts. Ralph Alder
man, F. W. Holt, F. H. Heidenreich. T.
F. McAnally. L. A. Clausel, w. M. Far
row, {. M. Putnam and Richard Powers.
1t is expected that Gems. HarrieS, Drain
and National Guard will accompany the
team.
X
National guardsmen are manifesting in
terest in the unusual arrangements that
have been perfected for instructing the
ten thousand members of the United
States Marine Corps in the art of handling
the new Springfield rife, which is now the
military arm of the United States. When
the work in progress is completed the
Marine Corps is expected to rank with
the best shooting organizations and will
probably have more expert shots in pro-
portion to it's numbers than any other
corps in the world.
A camp of instruction has been estab-
lished on the New Jersey range at Sea-
girt. which was placed at the disposal of
the Marine Corps through the courtesy
rifle practice of that state Capt. Will
liam c. Harllee, USING, will be in
charge of the camp, assisted by the fol-
lowing Marine Corps officers: Capt. d. G..
McDougal and First Lieuts. C. B. Mat
thews. w. D. Smith. Merriam. Wirgman.
Coyle and TORY. Capt. Harllee was cap
tain of the Marine Corps team at Camp
Perry last year. which took fourth place
in the match in which fifty state and
regular service teams competed. He will
in the national match to be shot at Camp
Perry in August of this year.
Capt. Harllee has assembled at Seagirt
a number of selected enlisted men of the
Marine Corps, who will be there practi-
cally all summer in attendance on a
school dealing with the rifle. The Marine
Corps in now armed with the "Krag,"
and it is desired that before placing the
new Springfield in the hands Of the Ma
rine Corps the men should be instructed
as to the proper use and care Of the new
weapon, especially in regard to metal
fouling. The camp has been laid out to
accommodate 200 men and their officers.
and in addition to those attending the
school detachments of fifty men each will
be ordered from the Brooklyn and Phila-
delphia navy yards and from various
Seagirt for practice. The camp will be
completely equipped with all appliances
in use for such practice, and tests will
be made of a number of new devices in
connection with military rifles. Prom
inent among these will be the Maxim
gun-silencer, which will be employed be-
tween the gallery practice and the range
practice.
The course of instruction will begin with
the suDtarget gun machine, on which the
men will practice at sighting and aiming
without the expenditure of ammunition.
They will then. proceed to the gallery
range of 80 feet. where the ordinary
government .22-caliber rife will be used.
At this range practice will also be had
witn the L. s. .22-caliber rife. fitted with
the new army telescope sights as well
as various Schuetzen rifles, with and with
out telescope sights. The Maxim gun
silencer will then be brought into play. as
with 1t there is, of course. much less
noise and much less recoil than with
the ordinary new Springfield. and the idea
is to educate the recruits to the use of
the new rife by easy stages. The men
will then be put on the range and shot
through the courses up to 1,CuO yards.
The special class will be instructed in
the use Of the Colt automatic revolver.
will be taught how to select and calibrate
rifles, to take down and assemble rifles
and instructed in all that pertains to
their care and use. Exhaustive tests will
be made with different range devices, in
Guiding what are known as the angle of
fire controllers. invented by Ordnance
officers Ely and Philips. In the excite
ment of battle. it Is explained, soldiers
are prone to discharge their weapons at
almost any angle, the bullets frequently
passing over the heads of the opposing
force. or to strike the ground at some
distance in front. The angle of fire con-
troller, of which two will be tested, is
designed to overcome this by locking the
piece so that it cannot be discharged ex-
cept when pointed at a certain angle.
Invitations Will be issued to expert rifle
men such as Capt. K. v. Casey Lieut.
Col. William A. Tewes, DR.. w. G. Hudson,
Capt. II. w. Mcbride. Maj. c. B. Winder
and other crack military shots and theo-
retical experts on rifles, ammunition and
targets, to deliver lectures to the school
during the summer. A detachment will
leave the camp early in August for Camp
Perry, Ohio, to participate in the Ohio
State Rife Association matches. On the
individual showing made in these matches
the Marine Corps team for the great ma
tionai match will be selected. After the
national team match, individual match
and pistol match, the Marine Corps team
will remain at Camp Perry for the match
es of the National Rifle Association. after
which it will return to Seagirt for the
matches of the New Jersey, New York
and Pennsylvania Rife Associations.
At the conclusion Of the season the men
will be distributed to the various ships
and stations of the Marine Corps, and it
is expected that every enlisted man who
is in attendance on the school will be
qualified to act as an expert instructor
for the men at the post to which he will