Evening star., 1914-08-23


the National Guard of the District of
Columbia for 1914. held at Virginia
Beach. Va. passed into history. For the
infantry, Signal Corps and field hospital
| the vacation from drills and exercises
begins Immediately and will continue un-
til October. The 1st Battery. now in
| camp at Tobyhanna, Penna.. will begin
its vacation soon after it returns and gets
| its property checked up.
The busiest department now in the Ma
uonal Guard Of the District of Columbia
Is the pay branch, of which Capt T.
Raymond Clark is the head. Various
organizations are now being paid off by
the guard as their pay rolls are approved.
number of the organizations have been
slow to send in their corrected rolls and
this has delayed the payment somewhat,
although Capt. Clark has been working
over time in his efforts to complete this
large detail of his duties
All during the week National Guard
headquarters in The Star building has
oeen besieged by telephone INQUIRIES as
to when the organizations would be paid
and the only answer that could be given
was that they would receive the COM
pensation for the camp instruction inst
as soon as the company officers turned in
the rolls.
After long delay at Norfolk the large
barge Mattapony bringing the camp
g6auipnent OF the National Guard of the
District Of Columbia finally arrived here
ana discharged her cargo During the
latter part of the week details of Officers
and men from the National Guard Of tho
ias.s District @ have been busy unloading the
.esse,. me same details which loaded
the vessel at Norfolk were engaged In
unload IT at Georgetown. The work was
In charge of Capt. E. NJ. Nevils, camn
quartermaster, and his assistant. Seryt
Bernard Shields. Capt. o. c. Terry
Signal Corps, n. G. D. C.. also was a.
| tailed to assist in the work of superin-
tending the loading at Norfolk and the
unloading in this city. The DELAY in the
| a~rrlNaI ~ OF the equipment at Washinet etou
was caused. 1t was explained by the lone
cart c.,re If; raheh TO discharge the barge s
cargo which she brought to Norfolk.
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Crack rifle shots of the National Guard
ington this morning at 1890 O'Clock in
special Pullman coach, bound for
seasirt, n. j.. where they will attempt
| 70 upho'd the reputation of the District
OF So,umoia in the rifle matches to. be
| heId there, beginning Tuesday. under the
| auspices of the National Rifle AssocIa-
Iion OF America ana the New Jersey
state Rifle Association. Teams from ali
parts of the country will participate in
I these matches
Four teams will represent the District
OF Columbia, brigade team, a regi-
mental team and two company teams
Lieut.. Col. Glendie b. Young. lst In.
fantry. will act as team captain; Mai
Thomas S. King, Inspector of small arms
practice. n. G. d. c., team coach. and
First Lieut.. Francis T. Martin. I'd In
| fantry, team spotter. The latter also will
act as team adjutant.
| The following compose the brigade
| team:
Lieut. Col. Glendie B. Young. 1st In.
fantry; Maj. Thomas s. King. /. S. A
p; First Lieut.. Francis T. Martin
Company H. I'd Infantry; Second Lieut.
Alfred G. Schmidt Company X, LIST In.
| fantry: Sergt. Joseph D. Schriver, Com.
pany X, LIST Infantry; Second Lieut. Ed.
gar II. Gerber. Company K 1st Infantry
Sergt. Charles E. Groome, Company f
I'd Infantry; Sergt George A. Jaynes
Company X. 1st Infantry: Sergt. Oliver
D. Knight, Company C.. I'd Infantry
Infantry; Sergt. David H. Blakelock
Company H. I'd Infantry: Sergt Jane.
Quade, Company h, list Infantry; Corp
Joseph D. Hood. Company c. I'd Infan
try; Corp. Percival d. Lowell Compan,
X, I'd Infantry; Corp. Henry F. Richard
son. Company X. I'd Infantry; Privat,
Frank A. Crawford. Company NJ, I'd In
fantry, and Private Clarence S. Shields
Company X. I'd Infantry.
The regimental and company team.
4 will be picked from the men ON tn.
brigade team. with the following addi
tions:
Sergt William H. Cook was selected
for the COMPANY X. list Infantry team
and Capt. II. W. Klotz, Sergt. A. +
I<lotZ. Corp. Allan B. Schall and Privat
p. L. Macomb were selected for tn
team of Company c, I'd Infantry.
| 4 !: I: X
Lieut.. Col. Almon L. Parmerter, T..