The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-12-27
ED REGIMENT
DISBANDED BY
GLYNN'S ORDER
Action Said to BE FOrerun-
ner of Reorganization
of Engineers.
COMES AS SURPRISE:
SPECULATION Is RIFE

An order signed by Governor Giynn
on the recommendation of Major General
John r. organ, head OF the New York
National Guard, disbanding the Twenty.
second Regiment OF Engineers has been
received At the regiments new armory,
Fort Washington avenue and lSsth street
II was not to have been made public. IL
r. understood. until the regimental stan
meets tomorrow night. but the news
leaked out last night and was confirmed
at The arrorv.
The order. IL is believed. docs not mean
the absolute disintegration Of Colonei
Walter y, lIotchl<iu's organization. II
was issued simply In line with General
Organs policy. carried out in other ways
through ihe state militia bodies. to make
the National Guard in New York state
conform TO the regular army standa rds
7, was said. therefore, that the new order,
which came as . surprise to the officers
and men Of the regiment. will bring about
\ reorganization OF the engineers into u
battalion Of four. companies doing away
entirely with the regimental stan
This was the Interpretation put on the
order last nsht In the regular army
there is only one battalion OF engineers "a
a division, and since the Twenty second
Regiment was organized as an engineering
ment--rumors have been spread fire.
auently that IL would he disbanded
The regiment now consists OF S.5
Officers and men In active service. This
would make battalion OF four war
strength companies Of 49, men each with
officers. SO the disbapding. II Is under
stood. will probably dispose only of the
regimental stan and iield officers Tho
newly organized battalion will have "A
Major in nd NJ
ing Of quartcrmaster and adjutant
Gen. George W. Wingate, a member
Of the Twenty second Regiment Veterans
Association. which numbers 500 mem
bsrs. explained last night that the
Twenty second Is not = regimen, as pro-
vidod by law. hut rather collection of
psratf companies crganized into three
hattalions, cntralized for administrative
purposes Tine War Department. he said.
has complained that many Of the mem
hers We're not engineers and that tho
standard of the organization was in that
measure lowered
Col Hotchkin. Gen. Wingatc added. has
done all in his power and the order does
not carry with It or imply any criticism
II him or his officers or Of the regiment
The Twenty second Regiment was or.
sanized in 1851 AZ a nome guard, It's
veterans were under fire manv times dur
ing the civil war when attached to the
Second Division of the Sixth Corps OF the
Army OF tho Potomac. They also were
called out for strike riot duty on many
occasions. notably in the Brooklyn trolley
strike in 1895.
The regiments armory for many years
was at seventh street and Hail place
where the regiment gathered on May 2s.
ms. FOR war service. Later II moved 20
SiXty-eiehth street and Broadway. In
Npril last year tho organization marched
up Broadway to the new building 2.
Washington avenue and i6Sth street
equipped with all the improvements and
n'cessdries OF an w 10 date armory.
The organization has no, been withou,
''s troubles despite many competent
engineers among its mon, notably Lieut..
Harold G. Woodward. recently appointed
TO Gov. Whtman's stan. In the summer
OF 1911 Company h was disbanded Nv
Col Hotchkin's order when the regimen,
returned from Pcekskil camp. II tina,
time much complaint was heard about the
condition OF the organization after Col
Hotchkiu took charge IN 1905. II was
said il had lost 500 members In that
period
col Hotchkin, who was a member OF
the brokerage firm % Stoppani & HotGh
KIN. which failed last May Is. was arrested
IN June with us partner. charged witt
tue larceny OF Sj,ot7.