four submarines. Boats of this kind were in 1908 comparatively new to
many in the company, and when Ensign Hogan found an opportunity to make
a descent in a submarine he embraced it.
Back in Hartford the men grew busy in preparing for the Bridge
Dedication, the most important festivity which the city has ever
conducted, to which the command voted to invite its old nautical guest,
H Company of Springfield, down.
The dedication opened October 6 with the firing of a salute, by the
division, of course. In the evening the division paraded in a historical
pageant, the men representing men-o’-wars men of the conflict of 1812.
The battalion paraded in the giant military procession of October 8 as a
landing party, marching in white hats, and being among the warmest
favorites in the long column. In the afternoon it banqueted in the Y. M.
C. A. with H Company men, for whom the division’s poet laureate had
evolved a lyric, of which the following is a specimen verse:
“When dinner’s o’er, we then will go, then will go, then will go,
When dinner’s o’er, we then will go, to East Hartford’s sandy shore.”
While the company was beating up Pearl Street, an automobilist rammed
the hospital apprentice, an incident which developed an aftermath in the
superior court when with a former Philippine soldier, Sergeant Benedict
Holden, as attorney and counselor and proctor in admiralty, McIntyre got
a verdict. In his argument Sergeant Holden commended the division as a
patriotic command in which the city might well take pride.
ANOTHER CHRISTMAS TREE
Jan’y 4, 1909—Fourth Day Out.
Lat. 41° 49′ N. Long. 71° 36′ W. Bar., rising; Wind, E. S. E.;
Atmos., Smoky. All hands happy. Thus ends this Day.—[Extract from
the Division’s Log.]
At eight bells in the second dog watch all hands were piped to the
fo’c’sle. On the forecastle-head two screen cloths were rigged on a
sliding gunther brace. Being drawn, these disclosed Master-at-Arms
Perkins in the capacity of Neptune disguised as Santa Claus. By the heel
of the bowsprit were the crosstrees, which had been sent down and rigged
with rope yarns and stores from the canteen. Around the tree and along
both rails packages were stowed facing inboard, made fast with marlin
and manila. Pipes, matches and tobacco were served out and the smoking
lamp was lighted. Then gifts were passed out. Dr. Beach received a box
of pills, Coxswain Burns a masthead light, Master-at-Arms Perkins twin
dolls, one young Benedict a toy baby carriage, and Watertender Lewis a
slice bar. Gifts wise and otherwise were passed till the supply was
exhausted.
Skylarking such as this varied the serious work of the drill season.
Although the membership of the command from time to time changed to some
extent, the majority of the men had been in the division for years and
were fairly proficient in seamanship as well as in the ordinary armory
routine, and it must not be imagined that their fun interfered with
their nautical work.
The diversity of the fun is proved when allusion is made to a game
between the division’s new basketball team and the Boston Bloomer
Girls’. It was chronicled that not a member of the girls’ team lost a
backcomb or displaced a “rat,” although their hair was coiled like the
flemished-down end of the Elfrida’s topping lift.
The indoor meet was the last held in the old armory. It was as
creditable as any in the long and popular series and went as smoothly as
desired.
June 13 was observed as Memorial Sunday, the first which the division
formally kept. The company reported at the armory to act as escort to
the veteran company in a parade to Spring Grove Cemetery.
❦
COURSE FOURTEEN
❦
THE MACHIAS
So near is the history drawing to the present that merely a bare outline
is given here of the next two years. The cruise of the summer of 1909
was on the Machias and took the division to quaint old Provincetown. The
Pilgrims’ Tower and the swimming linger in the men’s memory.
[Illustration:
ENSIGN FRANK H. BURNS
]
Members of the company enjoyed three days’ duty at the Hudson-Fulton
celebration in New York City. In December the company transferred to the
new state armory and the indoor meet drew nearly three thousand
spectators.
COURSE FIFTEEN
❦
THE LOUISIANA
The cruise of 1910 was on the battleship Louisiana and it carried the
division around the Island of Bermuda. April 29 the division’s
crackerjack wall-scaling team won the world’s championship, in the
Twenty-third Regiment Armory in Brooklyn, N. Y., over three competing
teams.
THE FOURTH DIVISION
NAVAL MILITIA CONNECTICUT NATIONAL GUARD
Soon after the forming of the First Division an engineer force was
outlined and then established and this in time became known as an
engineer division. The organizing of the Second Division had its
influence on the so-called engineer division. In time the branch as a
separate organization seemed to lapse, although its importance was
increasing.
In January, 1908, an artificer division was called for, in an order from
the adjutant-general’s office, to have a maximum enlisted strength of
forty, and Chief Engineer William G. Hinckley was placed in command.
Commander Cornwell directed Mr. Hinckley and Assistant Engineer Osborne
A. Day to enlist and organize the division. Warrant Machinists Noble,
Rathgeber and Larkin of the staff were to report to Mr. Hinckley for
duty. Mr. Noble was a Second Division alumnus. February 4 Mr. Hinckley
submitted the rates. Corinth L. LaRock of Hartford was early appointed a
chief machinist’s mate.
[Illustration:
LIEUTENANT WILLIAM G. HINCKLEY
]
A. J. German and Walter B. Gordon of Hartford have also served in the
artificer or engineer division, the former becoming a warrant machinist
and the latter a chief machinist’s mate.
❦
APPENDIX A
❦
NECROLOGY
Lieutenant FELTON PARKER
Charter member. First commander.
Spanish War Veteran. Annapolis,
1882. Member first Greeley relief
expedition on the “Yantic.”
Died December 22, 1900, of fall
from his horse. Buried in South
Lancaster, Mass.
Quartermaster (Second Class) THOMAS S. CHENEY
Charter member.
Died February 8, 1898, of
appendicitis. Buried in South
Manchester, Conn.
Coxswain PHILIP D. BURNHAM
Charter member.
Died May 19, 1903, of tuberculosis.
Buried in Spring Grove Cemetery,
Hartford, Conn.
Seaman GEORGE BISCHOFF
Athlete.
Died 1904. Buried in Woodlawn
Cemetery, New York City.
Seaman GEORGE F. COLBY
Spanish War Veteran.
Died May 17, 1903, of pneumonia.
Buried in Mt. Pocono, Pa.
Seaman EDWARD J. DORAN
Spanish War Veteran.
Died July 3, 1910, of appendicitis.
Buried in New Britain, Conn.
Seaman WILLIAM A. GEER
Spanish War Veteran.
Died 1910. Buried in
Middlefield, Conn.
Seaman JAMES HAWLEY
Spanish War Veteran. Assistant
sculptor of Corning fountain.
Died December 11, 1899. Buried in
New York.
Seaman WILLIAM M. HURD
Spanish War Veteran.
Died 1909 of tropical fever. Buried
in Middle Haddam, Conn.
Seaman ROMIE B. KUEHNS
Died April 7, 1911, of pneumonia.
Buried in New York.
Seaman ALFRED H. SAUNDERS
Buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery,
Hartford, Conn.
Seaman LOUIE P. STRONG
Died May 30, 1911, of tuberculosis.
Buried in Old North Cemetery,
Hartford, Conn.
❦
APPENDIX B
❦
LIST OF MEMBERS SINCE ORGANIZATION
The following is a list of members since the organization of the
division, compiled from rosters and roll books and various records, and
is believed to be substantially accurate:
A
Alden, H. W. 1896
Allen, C. D. 1900
Alexander, L. P. 1900
Appley, 1900
Abbe, R. L. 1901
Adams, L. W. 1902
Arnold, F. W. 1903
Alling, M. D. 1904
Amos, W. H. 1905
Ashwell, H. B. 1906
Andrews, D. H. 1907
Austin, H. E. 1911
B
Bosworth, F. E. 1896
Burnett, A. E. 1896
Bissell, H. G. 1896
Burnham, P. D. 1896
Bailey, C. L. 1896
Baxter, G. S. 1896
Beal, G. W. 1896
Bevins, V. L. 1896
Bigelow, H. W. 1896
Berry, H. 1898
Baldwin, H. S. 1898
Beamish, J. F. 1898
Brewer, A. L. 1897
Brewer, A. R. 1897
Brewer, E. J. 1897
Bletcher, F. O. 1897
Brinley, G. 1897
Brinley, J. G. W. 1897
Blakeslee, F. G. 1897
Buck, H. R. 1897
Beers, R. C. 1897
Burke, J. F. 1897
Barber, A. W. 1898
Buck, J. S. 1899
Burnett, H. E. 1899
Brooks, H. D. 1899
Bragg, F. L. 1899
Bidwell, D. D. 1899
Bonner, J. A. 1900
Brooks, C. M. 1900
Burke, C. E. 1900
Bannon, J. E. 1900
Barlow, F. J. 1900
Bland, A. L. 1900
Bush, J. S. 1900
Beach, Carroll C. 1901
Barnes, C. S., Jr. 1902
Bischoff, G. 1903
Blair, G. E. 1902
Barnes, H. E. 1902
Bassett, E. E. 1902
Beckley, H. C. 1904
Bryant, H. C. 1904
Beach, O. L. 1905
Bourn, K. C. 1905
Bloomer, H. J. 1905
Burns, F. H. 1905
Burns, W. F., Jr. 1906
Burr, H. R. 1906
Brown, H. E. 1907
Banning, B. J. 1908
Barnes, E. L. 1910
Brennan, A. J. 1910
Burke, T. F. 1910
C
Cochran, L. B. 1896
Crowell, E. H. 1896
Cheney, T. S. 1896
Caswell, L. S. 1896
Chapman, J. W. 1896
Case, A. L. 1896
Cuntz, H. F. 1896
Chapin, R. D. 1897
Caswell, C. H. 1897
Case, H. B. 1898
Cutting, A. S. 1898
Coggeshall, M. H. 1898
Colby, G. F. 1898
Case, H. A. 1899
Chaffee, D. G. 1899
Clinch, E. E. 1899
Cadman, G. B. 1900
Carney, J. B. 1900
Coe, C. S. 1900
Crowley, A. J. 1900
Camp, H. P. 1900
Cotter, W. J. 1900
Currier, H. D. 1900
Cunningham, J. W. M. 1901
Cooney, F. J. 1901
Connors, J. J. A. 1902
Carroll, L. J. 1902
Caverly, H. T. 1902
Cooley, J. W. 1902
Cadman, R. M. 1904
Calder, W. P. 1904
Chappell, F. N. 1904
Casey, E. J. 1904
Cotter, W. B. 1905
Carter, J. S. 1906
Case, R. W. 1906
Comstock, J. C. 1906
Case, H. E. 1907
Case, R. U. 1907
Coburn, F. A. 1908
Craig, J. 1908
Covel, R. F. 1910
D
Duff, R. R. 1896
Doran, E. J. 1896
Dimock, S. K. 1897
Drury, H. W. 1898
Dimock, I. 1898
Dix, L. R. 1899
De Lucco, J. 1900
Dickenson, L. R. 1900
Driver, J. F. 1900
Devine, W. W. 1901
Doebler, T. J. 1901
Downes, W. G. 1901
Dermont, W. 1902
Dungan, L. E. 1902
Dickerman, C. W. 1902
Dalton, H. A. 1903
Day, H. A. 1903
Diamond, J. E. 1903
Diehl, G. 1904
Duffy, F. L. 1904
Dunn, L. G. 1904
Devine, L. H. 1905
Duane, W. J. 1906
Duffin, J. B. 1908
Devine, A. H. 1910
Dagle, H., Jr. 1911
E
Evans, H. M. 1901
Entress, W. W. 1904
Evans, J. A. 1904
Eichelman, W. 1907
Elsdon, P. 1909
F
Field, E. B. 1896
Field, F. E. 1896
Filley, W. J. 1896
Franke, P. 1898
Freeman, S. G. 1898
Forest, G. C.
Foster, G. 1898
Ferguson, H. D. 1899
Foley, T. W. 1901
Flanigan, G. W. 1902
Ferris, M. A. 1903
Flanigan, W. H. 1903
Flynn, R. J. 1904
Fletcher, A. R. 1905
Flynn, H. T. 1905
Flynn, W. J. 1906
Fagan, J. M. 1907
Fournier, O. J. 1907
Fagan, F. C. 1909
Flynn, G. T. 1911
G
Gaines, D. A. 1896
Gilbert, E. R. 1896
Goodrich, R. M. 1896
Gabrielle, B. L. 1897
Gallup, C. M. 1898
Geer, W. A. 1898
Grundshaw, E. J. 1896
Goodridge, T. W. 1897
Gordon, F. G. 1897
Gillette, F. W. 1898
Goulet, W. 1898
Gragan, H. T. 1902
Gilmore, A. B. 1902
Gillmore, G. P. 1902
Goltra, W. J. 1902
Griswold, H. S. 1902
Gesner, C. M. 1903
Grant. A. A. 1903
Grover, O. F. 1903
Geckler, G. C. 1904
Grover, C. D. 1904
Geissler, C. G. 1905
Gilligan, W. 1906
Gleason, C. A. 1906
Gilde, A. E. 1907
Gilbert, A. L. 1909
Garrity, F. E. 1911
Gormeley, W. E. 1911
Gustafson, E. 1911
H
Harlow, M. P. 1896
Hascall, S. H. 1896
Havens, S. H. 1896
Hawley, J. J. 1898
Heymann, H. B. 1896
Hinckley, W. G. 1898
Holmes, R. J. 1896
Holcombe, G. A. 1898
Hunt, B. A. 1898
Huntley, S. A. 1898
Hurd, W. N. 1898
Huntington, C. A. 1898
Hale, C. F. 1899
Hart, C. W. 1899
Heimer, E. Paul 1899
Hogan, C. L. 1899
Hawkins, W. E. 1900
Harding, A. W. 1900
Higbie, W. W. 1900
Hollister, R. 1902
Hedlund, E. V. 1903
Hynes, D. N. 1903
Hill, G. 1904
House, W. E. 1904
Humphreys, J. F. 1904
Harrington, R. J. 1906
Hunter, D. C. 1906
Halloway, H. H. 1906
Hinckley, G. W. 1907
Horn, A. A. 1907
Howden, G. A. 1907
Hart, F. S. 1909
Hepburn, J. E. 1910
Howard, L. A. 1910
Hunter, W. 1910
I
Ingalls, F. C. 1896
Ingraham, E. R. 1903
Ingraham, C. H. 1909
J
Jackson, E. Q. 1898
Judson, D. R. 1900
Joslyn, L. J. 1908
Jamieson, H. H. 1908
K
Kelton, R. H. C. 1896
Keys, F. R. 1896
Kohn, E. J. 1897
Kenyon, L. W. 1897
Kowalsky, F. E. 1898
Kenyon, I. R. 1900
Kelley, M. F. 1902
Kress, L. 1903
Kane, T. R. 1903
Koenig, O., Jr. 1904
Kirbell, E. 1905
Kimberly, R. A. 1907
Kuehns, R. B. 1908
Kavanaugh, T. J. 1910
L
Larkum, H. H. 1896
Larkum, W. N. 1896
Le Fever, A. P. 1898
Long, M. C. 1898
Lockwood, N. L. 1900
Langrish, E. J., Jr. 1900
Liebert, E. T. 1900
Lycett, F. W. 1901
Leclair, M. J. 1902
Lawler, E. R. 1903
Lewis, H. M. 1904
Livingston, W. R. 1904
Lesnick, F. G. 1904
Lewis, W. S. 1905
Lewis, F. C. 1906
Lewis, W. D. 1906
Lathrop, B. S. 1906
Loveland, F., Jr. 1907
Lilley, F. S. 1908
Lambe, G. M. 1909
Lyman, J. E. 1909
Lampson, H. E. 1910
Lange, W. A. 1910
Lutolf, H. W. 1910
M
Middlebrook, L. F. 1896
Meek, W. L. 1896
Morrell, D. J. 1896
Malm, O. W. 1896
Maxim, H. P. 1896
McCreary, R. M. 1896
McManus, J. W. 1896
Miller, G. P. 1896
Miller, H. I. 1896
Morgan, J. H. 1896
Morris, S. 1898
Martin, G. R. 1898
Mather, F. M. 1897
Morgan, V. F. 1897
Moses, L. K. 1898
Magnel, A. E. 1899
Mohr, F. L. 1899
Miller, F. B. 1900
Maslen, G. S. 1901
McClunie, F. B. 1904
Mandigo, W. G. 1900
Murphy, M. J. 1901
McDonald, C. H. 1902
Merriman, H. E. 1902
Marsden, F. L. 1903
Meyrs, C. E. 1903
Marcy, M. H. 1903
McCaw, J. O. 1903
Morris, R. 1905
Moss, A. 1905
Meyer, W. H. 1904
Malloy, E. J. 1904
McIntyre, J. 1905
Marley, J. W. 1905
Mahoney, J. J. 1905
Marsden, L. E. 1907
McIntyre, F. E. 1907
McAlpine, K. J. 1907
McDonald, R. H. 1907
Maude, G. H. 1908
Moriarty, J. J. 1908
Madden, E. F. 1909
McGee, J. F. 1909
Mulligan, A. J. 1910
Morgan, S. N. 1911
N
Northam, R. C. 1896
Newell, J. H. 1896
Nutter, H. Y. 1896
Northam, E. T. 1898
Noble, E. J. 1898
Neilson, C. C. 1898
Norton, F. C. 1899
Nooney, E. DeW. 1903
Nuttall, W. H. 1903
Nichols, G. A. 1908
O
Osgood, W. J. 1896
Oaks, E. A., Jr. 1897
Owens, T. S. J. 1900
O’Brien, T. 1904
O’Laughlin, H. 1909
P
Parker, F. 1896
Perkins, L. B. 1896
Peltier, F. H. 1896
Phillips, T. V. C. 1897
Pierce, F. A. 1897
Pychon, L. F. L. 1898
Pierson, W. W. 1900
Palmer, R. C. 1900
Perkins, A. L. 1902
Perkins, F. A. 1904
Pitney, L. A. 1905
Pairman, J. R., Jr. 1908
Pollock, J. F. 1909
Pitney, J. H. 1910
R
Rice, C. D. 1896
Root, L. 1896
Relyea, C. A. 1897
Ripley, W. C. 1898
Root, J. B. 1898
Reed, G. R. 1898
Roberts, E. L. 1900
Roberts, W. C. 1903
Reed, E. F. 1902
Relyea, C. F. 1904
Roberts, J. J. 1905
Rathburn, C. E., Jr. 1905
Root, E. J. 1903
Ring, F. E. 1904
Reisel, G L. 1904
Ritchie, J. H. 1905
Rancor, R. S. 1906
Reeves, W. A. 1907
Ramagge, A. H. 1908
Roberts, K. E. 1910
Richard, J. S. 1910
S
Schriviner, W. H.
Seymour, F. P.
Stevens, H.
Saunders, C. C. 1898
Seaver, F. A.
Schwerdtfeger, O. M. 1898
Scoville, A. W. 1897
Scoville, L. H. 1897
Storrs, H. E. 1897
Sheperd, F. F. 1898
Sanford, H. 1898
Schwirz, M. H. 1899
Sparks, L. W. 1900
Scoville, P. D. 1900
Saunders, A. H. 1899
Sparks, C. H. 1899
Scanlon, E. M.
Sweeney, F.
Steele, C. W. 1900
Standish, H. A. 1900
Standish, F. A. 1900
Smith, F. E. 1901
Strong, L. P. 1901
Shea, C. D. 1902
Squires, G. T. 1903
Schneider, H. 1904
Storrs, H. H. 1904
Scofield, H. M. 1905
Sadler, L. 1907
Southergill, C. R. 1906
Smythe, A. F. 1906
Stitt, D. F. 1906
Sargeant, E. L. 1907
Smith, T. H. 1907
Shea, E. F. 1909
Slate, H. C. 1909
Smith, H. 1908
Storey, A. N., Jr. 1909
Smith, W. G. 1911
Smith, F. H. 1911
T
Tyler, C. M. 1901
Tucker, P. E. 1902
Thompson, C. W. 1902
Trude, A. T. 1902
Trimble, J. F. 1903
Talcott, M. C. 1898
Tregoning, W. C. 1897
Twardoks, J. F. 1898
Tinkham, G. H. 1898
Tobey, E. C. 1900
Tolhurst, W. C. 1904
Thurber, L. A. 1904
Tefft, L. W. 1905
Treat, H. L. 1905
Tansey, J. J. 1906
Thompson, P. G. 1907
Tobin, M. 1909
Thompson, H. A. 1909
Tuverson, H. S. 1910
U
Uhler, J. K. 1898
V
Vaile, E. B. 1902
Vanas, A. 1907
Victor, G. 1909
Vosburgh, R. D. 1910
W
Wilson, L. B. 1896
Walsh, J. G. 1896
Wightman, A. H. 1896
Williams, C. C. 1896
Winslow, F. G. 1896
Woodward, C. S. 1896
Woodbridge, H. K. 1897
Wilcox, G. E. 1897
Welles, T. D. 1898
Welles, R. B. 1898
Willard, W. L., Jr. 1900
Watson, J. 1900
Wilson, W. W. 1899
Williams, R. H. 1899
Way, H. P. 1899
Warner, E. W. 1899
Woodford, B. C. 1901
Wiley, H. A. 1901
Wyllie, R. B. 1904
Wakeman, W. M., Jr. 1905
Watson, A. B. 1906
Woodward, B. P. 1906
Walters, A. C. 1906
Wells, H. L. 1907
Whiting, C. H. 1910
Warner, B. C. 1909
Welles, J. D. 1898
W——, R. B. 1897
Y
Young. F. L. 1898
Yorgensen, P. L. L. 1899
Young, J. B., Jr. 1899
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