Show OF i GUARD G IS r COMMENCED t Captain J Wedgwood Says Utah Should SHave Have a Organization ti as Good as the Best What the Records Show r taken recently to Ibe tie tan tP the guard of 01 Utah by the tho thea tate ath posed a appointment of ot Captain Ed Edar A WedgWood as adjutant general ar 4 in with warm approval on the tha EL of the men now remaining In m the theIn t O ert in all L There m Is tl i among anong I JUnior officers more of a feeling of o JW for tor or the future of ot the guard has haJ existed In the past two years han an dug of ot the prospects of the Captain Wedgwood who has hasen ard ten en adjutant for the past 1 two ho holve kS kl lve l S There Thre re Is 10 B no DO apparent reason reaBOn why wb TUb shO not have hate a guard proportionate to t the size of or Its population IJo as od as 53 the e best elsewhere The good t BS lIS 3 department Is making more and were war var ore of the tha organized militia afford It added facilities every eV ry year and hi tn n i to help ii hel the Ss 1 all in ts power I and the members of or the th guard euard te B state In 10 the standard to td t a S where ither If lr called on It would be bean beT ari an T organized force torce Immediately avan In the atti aU attitude ble for tor duty fluty Tb The change tude tutie of ot the government from that of marked and former fonner yara Y is very hould be and Is Ia a great cat encourage enc urage ment nent With the small smaIl regular Three force of the aM States an organized militia force ore seem II to be regarded as aa a practical practical Ucal necessity Tb bo service la Is I an hon lion lionts ts one on and the training Incident thereto is of ot great value In all an the th U i aM of life The different branches bran of the Berries eenice call for differ dUter different service of offee ent rt t and the fee be II corps Is la a practical education In In Itself J elt and in a lives live e active organ 1 tatton th there re is i a social side as M well W ell as asiat that of ot duty Within the past pant two years year the th state te tiu bu provided the die existing organizations kith th more comfortable armories and for instruction and tY 1 Company for Logan Logan Is Js of sufficient size and that Character of city which should and will doubt maintain and support s a that will rival ny In the Hate Many of ot Its residents rM have been of ot the Agricultural I college pho ho have had efficient military train trainIng S1 Ing I ng g and a company there from the th start gould be a 3 credit to the city Ogden has hs h s Introduced military in In its High school and the tate has under lease an armory armOr built by David Eccles under contract with PIP Iu armory board designed for two s comfortable and commo and the outlook at this place for forro fro ro good companies with proper en is Year Vear after r year under the efficient of Captain W C Webb the tho of o this city eSt Is I turning out and w sol solIers many of or whom thorn tap take great In and pride In this work and with encouragement Salt Lake should jave Ut av a I signal Ignal corps two full companies If af f infantry ilni ni rH a battery Active Support Needed Need To 11 accomplish these results it is ne tp rv that the guard at the points and at Nephi lit Mt It Pleasant Ird Marti where the other companies re rs located should have hae the active sup crt rt of ot the people of ot their cities and If the public The guard should be re as a tate state institution and hould be the concern of those outside Is ts ranks as well as those within The of ot excellence of the he organizations lons constituting the guard rests with wIthie She he ie officers and men composing these The aim of the adjutant generals office will be to furnish every Lid Bd and assistance within its Us province hid id to 10 it promptly that the highest egre of efficiency em enc be obtained The of or the guard Is a matter mt of concern and the active support n If th the public ImbUe will be a potent factor in Ine pc e attainment of good results Five Companies Left There are at present live five companies p f the First regiment left lett companies E II H having been ordered mustered tIt nit Troop A of the cavalry ca alry has hs h s also ken leen en ordered mustered out only one officer nicer remaining in at the time of pub of ir the last roster Nov 30 SO One of f t ld artillery Is still left and ign an nfl I In corpse corps while de are still in service Major W TV t I Williams is now the senior officer I bead head of ot the fled field and staff ofil I tars ra of whom there are five Major has been with the tho guard for forC P h C past six yelL years ears Sixteen officers con the he commissioned force fl ce of the jIous arlous companies Th Thi most important matter before pe ie e remaining officers with thorn at present rests the future of tt f the is the of ot a g colonel to take the place of Colonel H M H Lund retired It Is the desire of ot these officers to elect to the position 1 a man who wh Vb will be especially fitted for the th leadership of ot young oung men such sieli s ch as com corn compose comPOS pose POS the guard gird rd Dr Charles G Plum Plummer Plummer Plummer mer Is the one most talked of for col colonel colonel colonel onel and while the men In the south southern southern ern em part Dart of the state suite are not all fa Ca familiar familiar Camillar millar with the man m h personally they the feel teel that he will have the Interest of the guard at heart J rt In a great degree and will be able to enthuse the tha mem members members bers bets with the proper spirit Dr Plum Plummer Plummer Plummer mer has been most active in the ath athletic athletic letic lotte Interests of f the state and nd most disinterestedly helpful to the young men who compose the athletic bodies He Is IB a member of ot the athletic board of the state university The election of colonel will be or ordered ordered ordered dered by the senior officer Major Wil Williams hams liams as soon as ns the necessary clerical Steps are taken tak n Three appointive of offices offices flees will accompany this position those of adjutant quartermaster and assist assistant assistant ant nt Inspector tor of target practice offices now held by Captain 0 O H Hassing Captain S H Lund and Captain W V H Tobias These officers may ma of course be reappointed Work Will Be Arduous The business end of ot the management of ot the thc guard will naturally fall Call on the adjutant general generl who Is really a sort of military secretary to the governor Owing to the present disorganized state of at the militia this work will be most CHARLES S BURTON BU TON He Was Adjutant General during both terms of Governor Heber M Wells c arduous for the Io The business of maintaining a nation national al at guard is no small matter In itself Itsel It a amounts in the main to a regular military post the strength If brought up to regulations being a full fuU regiment of oC twelve telve companies The equipment alone of such an army anny is Immense and the routing routine work connected with Issuing Issuing Issuing ing and checking such equipment Is considerable Since 1903 when the guard was put on the same basis as to equipment and instruction as the regu regulars regulars lars lava this work has increased greatly and today it amounts to a heavy beavy busi business business business ness proposition Reports of the adjutant general pub published published published for the past ten years are all of ot otone one tone In regard to the need ot of bet better better better ter salary for the office and more am ample ampie m pie accommodation for the guard es especially especially especially for the companies of ot it located In Salt Lake which constitute by far the larger portion of it The fact that the armories so far rented rent l I have hae been en entirely inadequate and at the same ame time unattractive in n the extreme Is pointed out cut Ut again and again and In Inthe inthe the last report filed flied by Adjutant Ray Naylor the excessive rental paid fo for forthe forthe the armory on Pierpont street is shown to be a much greater cost COlt to the state than the erection of ot a suitable place would be beI Equipment la Is Large I A visit to the quartermasters quartermaster depart department department department ment In the armory on Pierpont rit street shows an amount of ot equipment amount amounting lug ing In to here In the neighborhood of This T includes blankets and clothing camp camj equipment har harness r ness and staple supplies ll besides the great items of and ammunition wagons Here are boxes of clothing of ofa ofa I a heavier bealer sort than Is needed by the local guard which have never yet been opened and here her too are many boxes I of clothing awaiting th tivi formality of condemnation as unfit for tor use The I segregation of ot all this and the placing of the regulation And nid field equipment In proper shape will wUl be a work worl of some som e months On Or the upper floor of the armory are arc the offices proper two for tor the adjutant a 1 general office for the headquarters of the regiment re ment a large room for bend band practice and Md a smaller one in which band uniforms and Instruments Instrument are kept Opening off the large hall ball which was iti formerly a dancing hall ball is the li Ii library librarY a small one containing cont some valuable military books and the reports of or the adjutants of all the surrounding s states Here too toot are the rooms of the lies hos hospital pital corns corps containing emergency and regular field equipment nt for fr hospital h service The costly instruments of the signal corps are stored in the th basement of the building where to two cr 1 three rooms are set l et apart for 01 them Place Badly Crowded The place Is badly crowded c on ac account account account count of lack of space spa e both for storage room oom r om and for tor actual practice Tile two long alleys provided for or target practice have been b en pressed Into service for fo stor storing storIng stOring ing supplies supplier and thus the men are de deprived derived rived of an Indoor practice place The courtesy courte Of f the range north of Fort Douglas has always been granted for shooting but that can be 00 used only fn In n a limited d way Another courtesy extended by the commanding officer at the ix post st Is the privilege of storing ammunition as the guard has no arsenaL arsenil One of orthe the show pieces pt es of the guard guardIs Is a Spanish gan g n made mad In Madrid in 1776 1716 and taken t kenat at the time of the hat hattie at attie tie of Manila by th the i Utah Uta batteries ries It was presented ent dt to the state by Major Richard W Young and was later placed in the t armory as 1 t suitable place In which to keep k it It If together with two mo galling guns which W were used A I 1 P I l ld d I LI j U CAPTAIN EDGAR A WEDGWOOD Acting Adjutant General of the Utah National Guard whose perna nent appointment a it t is expected will straighten out the military affairs of the te state I by the batteries s in the Philippines Philippine is kept in the drill hall ball more for purposes of ornament than for fo any other reason r son except perhaps lack of room In the basement where here the larger pieces are kept At the time of the organization of the Utah batteries a large percentage percenta e of ot the officers and men of ot those organizations lions was made up from the then exist existing existIng existIng ing guard but ut the were easily recruited to the full rull strength for the reason that enthusiasm ran high and it was as an an easy matter to get men to en enlist enlist enlist list for tor active service This did not however insure as aa high a state of effi efficiency elency clency as might be desired as only a percentage of the tho men were actually trained and those were not accustomed accustomed accustomed tomed to field service Made Up of Good Men However the fact that the batteries were nere made up of ot the ablest young oung men of the state men accustomed to all lines tines of ot service in office store or actual outdoor labor added greatly to the effi efficiency efficiency of the organizations if It it did not nott add t d to their military appearance The officers of these organizations were n ere men of ability in business lines as well as of ot some some military experience Major R B RW RW BW W Young Youns Captain Frank A Grant and Captain Joseph E Caine as heads of ot the two batteries and the troop t be being bein being ing in all alt West Point men tarn Later when v hen Major Young resigned to accept tIe the position on the bench of oe the supreme court of or Manila the batteries were placed under Major Grant and Captain Wedgwood and Captain John F Critchlow The record made by the batteries is too TV well ell known to need comment at this time Suffice it to say that there was no volunteer organization which received more cordial recognition from the regulars and from the heads of the war department The memory of Qt their triumphs Is still stUl fresh in the minds of citizens and also in the minds of those officers and an men mer who came in contact with them during the trying fifteen months they spent In the isI ards or ds Organized in 1894 1804 The national guard of or this state then t en a territory was formed in March 1894 1891 nearly two years cars prior I to the ad admission admission admission mission of ot the state Into the Union It was WR organized by Governor Caleb West and George eorge M 11 Ottinger was made ad adjutant adjutant adjutant general He was succeeded ear early early early ly In ir the history of the state by John Q Cannon who was appointed by the states state first governor Heber M Wells Early in 1898 when the first call came for tor volunteers Cannon resigned his of office office fice flee to take of ot a troop of cavalry and Charles S Burton was wal appointed to t the office before the mus mug ter t z was wall completed This official re remained remained remained in office during the two terms of ot Governor Welts Wells and till the appoint appointment appointment ment merit of J T M 1 Bowman In January 1905 The Th guard flourished in its early years ye rs sixteen companies pf of infantry three troops of or cavalry two batteries of or light artI O together with ith itha a sig signal signal nal nl and hospital corps being included in its Us strength Money on Hand The he equipment for thi large body ot or otmen ormen otmen men was made possible S bl by the fact lo quote Adjutant nt General G Button Burton that share of the congressional lonal ap appropriation a I Ion biennially made for the I support of the national guard of the country had been bp b l accumulating g as a credit on the hooks bo klof of the war depart devart department ment and It became be at once available upon up Jl the requisition of the th governor when the bill for the organization n of ot the militia of ot this then territory t had hadI become a alao law ft It t that thata I a sum approaching could be drawn in ordnance and quartermaster r supplies and tills was done permit permitting permitting ting the complete equipment of forces In arms and aud other ordnance nc and the is issue IsSue issue sue to them of the usual requisite por per portions portions of ot the fatigue or service uniform But Rat the guard had Iad entered only upon the experimental period of its existence e and great as was wa the th zeal meal and of both officers oi and men men these thelle were wr soon SOOT found to ht bG an n imperfect substitute for experience e c It became apparent that for tor the effective main maintenance maintenance of the tM organization something more marc m rc was needed ne ed than t lin guns nis and clothes from Wa From some roam source o means had to pc bc DC secured to pay the ther I r nt o of armories and drill halls hails to hire horses for tor the 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