The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-02-16
.GRAYS WILL MOVE
|NT0NEW ARM0RY
Battalion to Take Possession as
Soon as Quartermaster's
Stores Are Transferred.
COMPANIES RECRUITING FAST
New Officers Are Elected by
Company c, and Others Are
Taking Renewed Interest.

| With the new armory at Seventh
and Marshall Streets practically COM
plctcd. the Richmond Grays' Battalion
will begin transferring its quarter
masters stores into the building early
this week: and after an inspection by
city officials IL will be ready for oc-
cuianey. The battalion expects to ne
settled in its now quarters before
March /.
The moving from tho temporary
nrmcry on Capitol Street will take
about ten days. There are several
hundrcc lockers to be transferred and
Installed before the stores can be
moved These will be put In the quar-
termasters rooms az poon as pormisston
Is given. In them will be stored spare
uhl1crms, guns and other company
property, together with camp and field
equipni, Until this work is finished
the battalion will continue TO occupy
I It's present quarters
WIN tho opening of the new armorv
looming up, all four of the companies
are beginning TO take more interest IN
recruiting, and II is expected that they
VIII easily reach the maximum strength
oelofc the summer manoeuvres
MAYOR Lawrence L. Price. commander
or the battalion. is Keeping q strict
watch on the new men, and has in
struc tea the captains to use the utmost
| c"dtion IN regard to the material taken
INTO Their companies from now on.
/ New Officers Elected.
| Conn any recently held an electio,
ana Cartain Coulbourne Will certify ITS
seiectio-. TO Adjutant- General w w
Sdie to- day. The new officers arc VIII
liam p. Norfolk, who has had twelve
years III the militia service, first lieu-
tenant; and Dan Coulbourne a vIr-
sinia military Institute graduate, and
a brother to Captain Coulbourne soc
ona lieutenant. These men have six-v
GAYS Ia which to take examinations
ana qualify for the positions Roth
rS ACTIVE workers, and are expected
70 o. OF great assistance in bringing
the coinrany up to its standard.
Major Frice went through the now
a.hoty yesterday and found that the
progress is satisfactory. Sixty men
/ arc now at work and il il thou,,bt
mat The contractor Will be ready TO
! turn the property over to the city
! within week at least
one OF the latest pieces OF work 10
ne done Is the installation of a wire
| Tess mast on the cast end of the build
,ns, mo aerial is twenty-five feet
| hlSh, and is on 4 level with the taIlest
tower. The cross piece to the unricht
| VIII bear eight wires, which will DO
connected directly with the receivInr
room or the signal corps on tho sec
ond floor of the building.
To Issue Signal Equipment
Inc signal corps officers have turn
ed In to Adjutant General Sale the eli
istment papers OF forty men, prac-
tica lily all Of whom are experts either
IN telegraphy, telephone work or cleo
| trical work. These men will form tn
nucleus OF the corps, and nontechnical
recruits VIII be taught by them AS
soon rs the new armory is occupied.
| the equipment for the command will
De issued. and It's real work will then
begin. Ii Is expected that the CORPS
| VIII take I'm active part in the summer
! manoeuVrcs, rs the defending troops. to
which Virginia will be assigned, will
cover Very wide territory, and the
slEnalmen VIII bear large part in
transmitting orders from one command
| 10 another The formal opening Of
/ the building will he marked by n bis,
military demonstration in April