Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-04
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Battalion. and Coal Passer t. w. wilson,
4th Division. Naval Battalion.
! The following were ordered discharged
! without honor on account of being CON
| tinuously absent from their commands
/ for three months: Privates Edward Day,
William Hunter. John Mahaney and Reg1n
| Watkins. all of Company @, 1st Infantry.
and Private Samuel {. Tichenoe, COM
pany ID. ID Infantry.
Big things We're doing at the shore
station of the Naval Battalion, y. G. u. c.,
/ In connection with the general muster
| last Thursday evening. There was prize
drilling. wrestling matches. moving pic
| lures. music, dancing and refreshments
When the affair was over everybody WILL
] ingly praised Commander Joseph A..
Dempf for the Improvement and the
f., spirit showed by the members of the
| new" Naval Battalion.
| Promptly at $50 o'clock the sounds of
| a bugIe echoed and re-ecnoed through
! the rooms and halls of the building. The
men were marched to the drill hall and
the colors paraded Then the first excite
ment occurred. due to an individual COM
| petitlve drill in the manual of arms. for
which prizes were given.
! The men were put through the PAGES
| with the rifles and one by one they were
| eliminated. The winners were: Yeoman.
| third class. G. +. Anderson. first prize.
S2.O; ordinary seaman. G. f. Lewis, sec
ond prize. $3.50 and quartermaster, third
CLASS, Ellison, tn1fQ prize. 81. me Judges
We're Maj Joseph F. Hodgson, Maj. Wal
ZACH A. McCathran and Maj. Harry Coope,
| n. q. ID. G. At the conclusion Of the drill
the judges declared themselves agreeably
surprised at the way the jack tars han
| died the firing pieces of the landlubbers.
Next were wrestling matches. T. P.
Mayhem of the Memorial Athletic Club
| and A. Inorganic of the National Guard
tussled for while. and then s. Dominic
| and j. Wilson took a turn together on
the mat (tnannCey II Rooney the
| t:mekeeper. During the time the wres-
ting bouts We're on the room was dark
| ened. The wrestlers fought It out under
| spotlight.
| lures. Then came dancing, the Naval
Battalion Band, WINGED Dorio, director,
furnishing the music. About 900 guests
/ We're present, and the members of the
battalion saw to 1t that the entertain
! ment would not soon be forgotten.
At the conclusion of the entertainment
Commander Dempf, Ensign Joseph B.
Dalton and the other officers were the re-
| In which they had planned and managed
| the affair.
! The two thirty-foot whale boats which
| Commander Dempf has secured for the
use of his battalion have arrived at the
Washington navy yard from the Brook
| lyn navy yard. The boats will be over
hauled within few days, and will then
| be sent to the foot of 18th street. They
will be used by the men for drill
and in practicing for races in the harbor
X *
That the Isla de Luzon upon the
| movements of which depends the sail
ing of the L. S. S. Wasp from New
York for the District Naval Militia,
probably would not get out of St
Louis this year was the very little en-
couragement held out al the Navy De-
partment yesterday, when an official
there was asked about the matter
II was declared again that the water
was Yet too low for the vessel to move
1t was asserted that the commanding
| of1cer of the Missouri Naval Militia
and the United States naval recruit
! ing officer at st. Louis had instruc-
lions to telegraph the department as
soon as there was water enough to get
the vessel from st. Louis.
| In the absence of messages from these
! men, it was declared it. had been as
| water was yet low. The fact that an
| officer of the National Guard of Mis-
souri,. who was a guest of the District
Naval Militia at their entertainment
Thursday night. had stated that there
was more water opposite st. Louis at
the present time than there ever has
been before, and certainly there was
enough to get the Isla de Luzon out, has
made the members of the District or
know the reasons why the Navy Depart
ment doesn't ascertain why the vessel
is not started on her trip to New York.
Commander c. M. Stone, having charge
of naval militia affairs could not be
located yesterday.