Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-08

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IL of the District Of Columbia
N have been preparing during
the past week for the parade
next Wednesday, on the &C.
casion of the unwilling of the statues of
Brig. Gems. Pulaski and Kosciuszko,
United States Army.
Companies, battalions. regiments and
separate organizations are to assemble in
or near their armories in ample time to
be inspected and to enable the guard to
form in line at 2 o'clock with regulation
intervals on the east side of Sd street.
facing west. with the right Of the line
at the intersection of Pennsylvania ave-
nue. and Sd street northwest.
The parade will start al $50 o'clock
o. M and will march west on Pennsylva-
mia avenue to near 18th street, where the
column will be halted: during this halt
distances will be reati1ed and no one
will be allowed to leave the ranks. After
the parade the command will proceed to
the White Lot. where brigade review and
parade may be held.
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Companies L and M Of the ID Infantry
inaugurated the rife practice season
when they went into camp on the range
last Monday night at 10 o'clock. Com
pany L was in command of Capt. Alvin
ID. Hathaway, with Lieut.. Spencer E.
Bowan. while Capt. William j. Bowman
commanded Company M. The first night
within very short time after taps all
of the members of these two companies
were abed and asleep.
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Tuesday morning found the range en-
veloped in an impenetrable fog. which
prevented the commence firing" bugle
sounding until O'Clock. one hour after
schedule time. Capt. Cookson and Lieut.
Hollifield Of the small arms department.
with assistance OF the company officers
and Maj. George l.. TAFT and Lieut.
Walsh, who reported in the morning, soon
sifted out the marksmen and devoted the
remainder of the day and part OF
Wednesday to the sometimes difficult and
tedious work of pulling through the less
skillful shots.
Thetcompanies had their first experience
in firing at a moving target Wednesday
afternoon. The practice was an enjoyable
feature and is destined to become perma-
nent and popular in training the guards
men to fire quickly and accurately.
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Companies l and X reported for their
tour of duty Wednesday night. Capt. Ed
ward D. Turnure was in command of
both companies. as Capt. McCathran was
not able to appear in camp until Thurs
day afternoon.
Many of the officers and men were up
early Thursday morning viewing the
comet, which, in connection with the cres-
cent moon and morning star. then just
above the horizon, presented view which
compensated the snivering soldiers for the
trouble of tumbling out In the frosty at
mosphere. Thursday and Friday were
busy days as the preceding ones, and the
last shot was not fired I'm III it was found
that the few remaining unqualified were
about hopeless cases.
Col Ourand, Lieut.. Col. Young and
Capt. Coup of the regimental staff were
present and fired scores for record. Col.
Young was particuary interested In his
practice for the shoot with the midShip-
men next Saturday. Col Harvey and
Lieut.. Holt were also practicing for the
same event.
The total qualifications for the week fol-
low: Staff, Sd Battalion. present:
marksmen; Company /, "a present; 2
sharpshooters; q marksmen; Company K,
II present: 1 sharpshooter; Is marksmen
Company l., p present; IL marksmen;
Company M, % present; "a marksmen
Total, 90 present; 3 sharpshooters; Is
marksmen.
Company firing at moving targets-Com-
pany I, eighteen men, 80 hits, 1O7 points.