The morning Astorian., January 19, 1908, Page 3, Image 3

SUNDAY, JANUARY 19, 190S,
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Military Organizations Known
the World Over.
ri unite muni turpi1" wti dr in London whn
rflMIII 1.1 lillMrA liril ar ai-my wM on th. Continent
iiiiivvu vwusa iMiuw The egd Ceurg III frmUntly reviewed
; . v 1 1 corps. 1HI0 and ltflU the company
f i i wm active in quelling the trouble arl
lug from the high taxf resulting from
I (lie warn ihHTi the "Little Corporal,"
I LaUnrly the company luu been called
;iiHm to uphold tli military glory of
the nation by effective parade whenever
a foreign )U'iitat visited London. Io
tin lWrr War, out of n available
trough of 00U men, 000 member vol
untccred. Such i the record of the old
! et organisation of Hi kind In existence,
'cutendlng over nearly four centuries,
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dlrjr-The Old Guard of Mew York ttmi n(lttrIy rambling the Honourable
''Composed Entirely of Distinguished Artillery Company of London are the
1 ,Old Guard of the City of New York, and
the Anhnit and Honorable Artillery
ONE ENGLISH, TWO AMERICAN
Curious Beginning! of Our Mllltla 6ol-
Company of MasMchueHts, or a It It
more familiarly known, of Boston.
NEW YORK, .Jan. JB.-On many of 'jiil the latter le much older it U not
lite parchment rolls in archive of the so typically American New York'
Honourable ArtllUry Company of Lon- Old Guard. t
dun, there atande among the llet of Organised In 1038 the original charter
Member of tht moat ancient orianlxa-s of the llaasaohunott organisation waa
tin of He kind the single name tgned by Governor Jo'.m Wlnthrop and
"George." Yet for all the quaint aim J Jteputy Thotn Dudley and la till pre
tlMty of the name, "George" waa nerved. It empowered certain specified
the Captain General of the company! peraona to constitute themselves "the
afterward King George II of Kngland.' Military Company of 5fahuetl.'
It waa indeed largely through the nilii- Thir uniform of buff ooata, leather
tary training whichhe received at the Jacketa protected with steel plates, and
Artillery Garden that "George" waa en a helmet with a scarlet plum was
bled to win the war of the Auatrian
JSuecenJon.
I But "George" waa not the only king
or hLtory maker enrolled in thle an-
elnt artillery company. Then, aa now,
Independent companies maintained by
their members and apart from. the reg
ular army though nerving with It when
opportunity offered played an Important
part in tha military organization. Cor
repomllng to what in tlil country is
now the national guard, or organisation
of veterans, tha annals of history ehow
brighter than would naturally be ex
peeled in a Puritan community,
The years of apeoial prosperity for
the company began with the ateenslon
of King William, and at that time if a
town meeting ohanced to be appointed
for a drill day it could not be legally
held. Three of tb'JuU of the Su
preme Court were artillery men and
Chief Justice Seall mentions that the
Court adjourned n account of the Ar
tillery. From the members of this or
ganization came nine of the "Mohawk
from trie Old Guard of Napoleon which
"died but never surrendered," It la the
oldest veteran organization of it kind
in the atate if not in the country.
Th genesis ofXbe organization is In
tomtting. pWiou to IS2S the only
publle military spectacles in New York,
already giving promise of becoming the
metropolis of tlie New World, were the
annual drills of irregular militia or the
parade of an oorasional legiment. But
in the whole city there was not a well
drilled and disciplined battalion or com
pany, mere were, to be sure, one or
two brigades of uniformed troop, but
New Yorkers had not yet begun to take
pride in tliis branch of military activity.
It was in the summer of 1826 that
there arrived in New York from Boston
a sailing vessel bearing a company, fully
uniformed ana nttea out with camp
equipage. After landing and pitching
their tent they gave an exhibition drill
In City Hall park by word of command
and by bugle. This drill immediately
attracted tha attention and aroused the
enthusiasm of not only the city officials
but the public in general, and in it was
found iha Inception of the present day
Old Guard; For years He development
waa identified with that of various or
jranizationa, such for- example a tha
Tompkins Blues, tha City Guard, and
tha Light Guard, until in 1808 it waa
Anally incorporated under the name by
which it i known today, tha Old Guard
of the City 0 New York.
While tha history of the Honourable
Artillery Company of London ia largely
concerned with war liiory records
comparatively few in which the Boston
organization or the Old Guard had
chance to participate aa organization
though tha ranks of the latter are re
cruited from veterans of many wars.
Hirt whenever in the fourscore years of
it history war did eome,the Old Guard
of New York, like tha Old Guard of
Napoleon, and in this country the An
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Garden, II s attendance ran as high as
17,000-u etujwndoua military epcctacle.
But the growing cosmopolitan of New
York has neucusitaUd a change, and this
year the ball instead of being held in
the Madison Square Garden will be given
In the Waldorf Astoria, and the invita
tions instead of reaching almoet 20,000
will be absolutely limited to 1500 and
thoee carefully distributed. like every
thing eiae nowadays this greatest of
unililary balls is becoming mora and
more exclusive.
But in the annals of war, and in the
annala of peace In which a prepared
ness for war is the greatest watchword,
the organizations apart from the regu
lar army are still a mighty forced What
the Honourable Artillery Company is to
Mtgland,' the 'Ancient and Honombles
of Boston and the Old Guard of tha City
of New York are to this country and
each in its sphere baa nerved aa am im
petus to tha maintenance of that great
army of peace which as our Spanish
war showed is still one of the staunch-
est bulwarks in war. Out of tfce profane
necr of General Blount in 1825 faaa come
the backbone of America's peace army
and war army too, the militia and the
national guard. Back of all historically
tamS prominently two otanizationat
the Ancient and Honorablcs of Boston,
and, in its coalescence of Nw York's
Unorganized militia at the beginning of
the hut century, the Old" Guard of the
City of New York, neither of which
from the American standpoint liae any
reason to blush when its rccorda are
compared with the older and similarly
constituted Honourable Artillery Corn
pany of London.
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From Historic Pi iut Showing Veteran of the Old Guard, of New York, Wearing the Bearskin Shako like Those of
Napoleon's Old Guard Escorting the Kentucky SUtemen'a Catafalque through the Street of the Metropolis.
connplcuously the part played by these
organizations.
"Of nil as they exit today the Hon
ourable A'ltillwy Company of London is
the oldest. By royal decree, sealed with
the "Grote Seal" of England, the Fra
ternity of Saint George, or the Artillery
Guild, now known a the Honourable
Artillery Company, waa duly inoorpor.
ated In 1537, or 870 yearn ngo, only a
third of a century after Columbue dis
covered America, The company served
in 'various engagements during the reign
of Queen Bess but during the first years
of the reign of James it seemed likely
to die out About 1015, however, it
became popular, as the record have it,
with "the bettor sort of citizens of the
best means and quality" who had to be
certified to as well to do and well affeot-
ed toward religion by his majesty and
(another domocratio touch in keeping
with "Gooige" by the, board of Alder,
men. Never since then ha the perman
ency of tle organization been in doubt.
At that time, when the company as
sembled to drill "after the modem and
best fashion" the Iprince of WMes, af
torward Charles I, waa a
tcmlant. . ' ' ,
Another Prince of Wales, who later
became Charles II, was formally en
rolled in the company in 1041, together
with two otner acion of tne royal lam
ily. Under-Cromwell the company w
active; under Charles II it was looked
upon with some ditrut at oourt, and
under James II it was still more frankly
in royal disrepute. Wfhen George I
made hi pubHo entry in 1714, however,
the company was restored to high ifavor,
receiving ;from "the new monarch 600
(wind as a mark of w approval.
Through the eighteenth century this
organization continued it drills, parades
and' banquets. Many famous profes
sional soldier graduated from its ranks.
During the Napoleonic war the Honour
able Artillery played an Important part
regular at-
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who In 1773 apilled the tea into Boston
harbor. It goes without aaying that the
company served through the War of
Independence. . -
When the first militia law wa framed
for tha United States, General Lincoln
went to Mbunt Vrnop to advocate it
to Washington. At a little meeting he
lreaentcd His point and instanced the
Anoiont and Honorable Artillery Com
pany of Boston aa the kind of Aseocia
tlon iwldih every city should have. Gen
eral Blount Of North Carolina ikH
with a sneer "Marry, who in hell coin
mand this Ancient and Honorable Ar
tlllery Company VI "Your very humble
seivanv waa Lincoln' reply. There
upon the introduction into the oanirti
tution of a provision for, militia wa
asmredv Since that time the activities
of the company have been Various and
honorable, features of its existence now
ling It annual feasts, parades. ! end
acting as escort to distinguished visit'
ors. Its relations with the Honourable
Artillery Company of London are cord
ial and close, thus linking together kin
dred organizations in the Old and New
Worlds. , . , ; . ,.
The Old Guard of the City of New
York, while of less ancient origin than
either of the other two companies, is
unique! iiiHhia particular -that it is
made tip entirely of veterans who have
seen aotive service. Democracy equally
with distinction is a waiohwonl in this
organization,' in whose rank dozens of
general and eld 'officer have, served
and are serving dally.
Although not fprmallyi incorporated
until 1808, the Old Guard in it com
ponent part date back to 1820, or well
on toward a century, , , Its formation
marked the first coalescence and final
permanency of varioue troops which
were identified with the early history
of the city. A it name implies it was
modelled afteir, and it uniforme, to
gether with the bearskin shako, copied
cient and Honorable Artillery Company
of Boton, has maintained an honorable
record.
Since the Spanish war, 'for which the
Old Guard recruited a iregiment of some
3000 members, its ways have run in the
paths of peace. But even in bygone de
cades its brightest . manoeuvres have
not always been in connection with war.
At every military pageant and celebra
tion it has been to the fore, ae for in
stance in the unveiling of the Sherman
monument when it acted a escort to
General Milca during the visit of Prin
cess Eutalie whose guard; of honor it
was, and in scores of eimllar cases. Its
veterans have acted, too, a escort in
some of the greatest funerals over
which New York has grieved, such for
instance as that of Henry Clay and that
of General Robert Anderson, the hero
of Fort Sumpter. Even in the long
stretches of peace its drills and prepara
tions in coses of need continue but its
greatest! events in ,the light of public
notice, like those of the Ancient and
Honorable of Boston, hpfve come to be
those of peaoe, .
Two well known annual happenings
of tha Old Guard since war last shook
the country are Its sad and impressive
memorial services, occuring on it an
niversary day in April each year, with
the memory-stirring call of the roll of
the Old Guard' dead, and, in contrast,
its annual ball. In the former there is
a glorious roll in memory of whom the
arum are muffled and tap blown every
year. In contrast the annual ball ha
come to be the greatest military event
of it kind in the country by reason of
the attendance of many of the foremost
men of distinction of the nation and by
a ' long array of prominent guests, in
cluding governors, foreign ambassadors
and prominent military organizations.
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tary balls wa held in the Metropolitan
Opera House or the Madison Square
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