The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-08-03
MOTORCYCLE SCOUTS
FOR FIRST REGIMEN
Signal Corps Planning EIaboratI
Weekend Hike With Full
Apparatus,
MUST ORGANIZE NEW coMpAN
Hovitzcrs Hope to Take 100 Men oil
"Trip to Mt. TObyllanna-Will Sci
Service Conditions and Fire Red
Shots.

Plans are being laid by Major Law
renee T. Price. commandment of II 4
richmond Grays' Battalion. First VI
gihia Infantry. to organize motor
cycle squad or mounted scouts to scr,y
III connection with the regiment in III
heid. 1t is expected that thirty d
more cyclists Will DO enlisted in It'd
battalion for this service alone.
The suggestion that such squad
nc organized originated with Colon(
william j. Perry, the commanding OIL
Ger OF the First Infantry, who saw III
need OF these fast flying scouts In I'D
manocuvres at Gordon3villc last weed
lie proposed the matter TO Major Pric
ana steps will be taken at once to card
out the suggestion.
1t is not thought trat there will n
much difficulty In getting sufiicici}
number or men together 10 make I'D
plan feasible. There are now a nuuN
Der OF men In the, four companies viii
own motorcycles. and as there are seJ
eral score enthusiasts In the city, til
TASK should he an easy one. The me |
would furnish their own machines, AM
would not be subject TO regular drill
lar line.
Such squad has already beeI
small one. and the motorcyclistf
would not be available for regimenti|
Work, az they are needed to DO QuicU
duty with the!r own organization. l.
SIGNAL CORPS IS PLANNING;
WEEK LEND HIKt
The Signal Corps, which was unab
To attend the Joint camp OF instrutI
ton at Gordonsville last week on atI
count of not having it's equipment,
planning to take "a week end hike o
some nearby battlefield. where ncl
manoeuvrcs Will he attempted. TIL
organization will probably spend third
days on the trip Adjutnnt- General N
w. Sale has been asked to authoriiy
the expenditure of the necessary fund.-
and the members OF the company al
eagerly looking forward 20 the trip.
wireless outfit. equal TO any prJ
Nate one In the State. was purchase
last week. and Is being installed TIL
machine was fully tested. and mel
sages were picked up from vesse
several hundred miles at sea. as wei
as from wireless stations along I'll
whole Atlantic seaboard.
Adjutant- General Sale has been not /
fed that the field equipment for III
signal Corps. part OF which Is tw{
pack wireless outfits. have beeI
shipped. and viii be here within fe !
th SeN equ at ,ne 4os IN, The nnl"mee
also been shipped, and will be availabl
before the organization takes id
mounted hike in September
MUST ORGANIZE A
NEW CoMPAN
The disbandmcnt Of the company u
i-ccsburg puts the First Infantry
an awkward situation. as II Is nod
below the government requirement 4
twelve full companies. Efforts hay1
already been made to organize q conf
pany at CovinGton, and. with CliftoI
Norge to draw upon for recruits, IT
probable that enough can be securef
to make /, a success. Tho town Il
Scottsville is also anxious to have
militia company there, and tho reg
mental officers are confident that TIL
full quota Will be secured within
few weeks at the most. If neither al
these towns can raise n company,
Is more than probable that anotheI
one Will be formed here, with quarter
in the Richmond Grays' Armory.
Plans are now being made by thI
Richmond Howitzers to take more tina
100 enlisted men and five officers to TIL
camp OF instructions for the Virginil
Field Artillery at Mt. Tobyhanna, Pal
the latter part of this month. Eacl
battery is required to take eighty-fivI
men. but Captain William NJ. Myers II
confident that his command will oxI
coed this number by at least twent
men. The Norfolk and Portsmouth
batteries are also working hard to puI
n large force of men In the field. a
the present trip will be one of TN /
most instructive ever taken by tn !
Virginia artillery. The three batterie
win be assigned to one or the reruJ
lar army outfits. and will use It's gun}
and horses. There is ii splendid rang
for gun practice. and the majority oil
the men will fire their first real shoI
from one of the big guns in this camrI