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GUIDE TO THE BROOKLYN NAVY YARD.

The Brooklyn Navy Yard was established in 1801, when the first land was bought from John Jackson for $40,000. The Yard comprises 213 acres, situated on a little bay in the East River known as Wallabout channel, the conformation of the shore giving it a water front of nearly two miles. The main entrance, at Sands and Navy sts., is reached by the Flushing av, cars, and was opened in the Summer of 1896. The new official entrance is more imposing than the old one at York st., and in addition to two towers, a gatekeeper's lodge and a guard house stands on each side of the entrance.

Lieut. Jonathan Thorne was the first commandant and inclosed the Yard with a fence in 1827. The frigate John Adams was the first vessel built in this Yard, and the Maine. which was blown up in Havana harbor, was the last vessel constructed here. In 1815 the Fulton, the first steam war vessel, was built at the Yard after plans prepared by Robert Fulton. The first dry dock was begun in 1841 and completed ten years later at a cost of about $2,000,000. It is estimated that the government has spent over one billion dollars in this Yard and the property now there is valued at over $500,000,000.

The Navy Yard is open daily, except Sundays and holidays, from 8 A. M. to 5 P. M., when anyone may enter and inspect the place. Passes to visit the Yard must be obtained by letters addressed to the "Captain of the Yard." They must be used on date indicated and do not include permission to visit ships in commission. Permission to visit vessels must be obtained from their commanding officers. A "Special" pass is necessary to visit the Yard on Sunday, but is seldom issued.

The western half of the yard, where the principal offices, docks, storehouses and foundries are located, is laid off in well paved streets at right angles to each other. Main st. extends from the main gate to the water front. Passing the guardhouse the first building at the left is the Commandant's residence. Visitors are not admitted within this enclosure. The Lyceum, Or Commandant's office, is a three-story structure. In the ground floor are the offices of the Captain of the Yard, and on the second floor, offices of the Commandant and his Aides, and on the third floor, the examination and court martial room. Here the records of the Yard are preserved, including such as pertain to ships, lists of officers, and rosters of all clerks and the employes.

Trophy Park, a triangular green plot adjoining the Commandant's office, is filled with relics. Here is located the marble column commemorating twelve American seamen who fell at the capture of the Barrier Forts, on Canton River, China, in 1856. It is a marble shaft and was erected by their shipmates on the San Jacinto, Portsmouth and Levante. About the monument are guns captured from the British frigate Macedonian and the iron prow of the Confederate ram Mississippi.

In front of the Commandant's office are two 5%inch rifled guns on the carriages which they occupied when they were taken from the two vessels of Admiral Cervera's fleet, destroyed off Santiago. Harbor by Admiral Sampson's fleet during the Spanish-American war. The one gun-shield shows where a shell from one of the American warships passed through it, tearing the mechanism of the gun behind it to pieces, and killing the Spanish gunners who happened to be there at the time. At the left of these guns are several Spanish contact mines, taken from the waters about Cuba.

A small octagonal building, west of Trophy Park, is the office of the Naval Surgeon, and beyond that is a building for provisions and clothing. In the latter is cut out by machinery all the clothing used in the Navy, except that worn

by officers. These garments are then sent out to be finished. In this building and adjoining it are stored clothing, canned goods, and marine supplies-usually amounting to over a million dollars in value. It is in one of these buildings that all the coffee used by the Navy is roasted. ground, put up in tins, and all canned goods, hard tack and condensed goods are received here from the wholesale houses.

The work-shops, machine-shops and foundries are on Chauncey, Warrington and Morris avs. On Chauncey av. are the cooper shops, mould shop. | ordnance building, tank shed, a building for an

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Building No. 7, on Warrington av.. contains
various departments. In it are the Civil Er-
gineer's room, and flag loft, where all flags ani
bunting used by our Navy, as well as flags of
other nations, are made by women. Most of these
women are the widows of men who lost their
lives in the service of their country. Other bui!i-
ings on
this avenue are the blacksmiths' shop.
paint shop, yard and docks, construction depart-
ment and steam engineering department. The
avenue ends in a park.

On Morris av. are a joiners' shop, offices, boathouse and plating shops.

The water front of the Navy Yard is protected by a substantial sea wall of granite about miles in length. The Cob Dock is an artificial island, separated from the main Navy Yard by Wallabout channel, and contains 64 acres. This territory was reclaimed from the East River by filling in with earth, and is now used for storage purposes. New barracks are to be built on this tract to accommodate several thousand marines. The ordnance dock is also here and comprises 124 acres. Moored to the Cob Dock is the receiving ship "Verment," with a regular crew, and a detail of officers who live on board. AL enlistments to the Navy are made on board, both for seamen and for apprentices. The Cob Dock

is reached by means of a chain ferry from the main part of the Yard.

There are three dry docks along the Wallabout channel, known as Stone Dry Dock No. 1, Timber Dry Dock No. 2 and Timber Dry Dock No. 3. The first is the oldest as well as the smallest and best. The next in size is No. 2, while No. 3 is said to be the largest dry dock in America. Around these dry docks are eighteen-foot railway tracks, on which two fifty-ton lifting cranes travel. They are designed for lifting armor plate weighing from twenty to forty tons, stepping steel masts, hoisting machinery and boilers, and lowering them into place on the ships while they are in the docks.

The spacious marine barracks and drill yard are located along Flushing av., the main entrance being on Flushing av. Here all marines for the Navy are received from the recruiting stations throughout the country, drilled, uniformed and equipped for service, wherever they may be needed. The long two-story building in the barracks is occupied by the marines while in the Navy Yard. Flushing av., while some of them live in private Most of the senior officers are quartered

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controlled by the Commandant of the Navy Yard, The only department outside the enclosure, but the Naval Hospital on Flushing av.. separated from the Yard by Wallabout Market. A high wall also surrounds this department. In the hospital enclosure is the Naval Cemetery, where

marines are buried.

Among the improvements contemplated for 1900 and 1901 are two stone dry docks, a stone ani iron bridge across Wallabout channel, two piers in Whitney Basin, many railroad tracks about the Yard, new buildings, among which will be 3 mammoth machine shop, to take the place of the one destroyed by fire early in 1899.

OFFICERS AND HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS.
Commandant-Rear Admiral John W. Philip:
Senior Aid to Commandant, Commander Clifford
H. West.

Captain of the Yard's Office-Capt. Frank Wildes,
Nickels, Assistant.
Captain of the Yard; Lieut. Commander J. A. H.

Equipment Office-Commander H. N. Manney,
Equipment Officer: Lieut. Commander L. C. Hell-

ner: Lieut. John T. Newton, Assistant.

Ordnance Office-Commander Wm. Swift, Inspector of Ordnance; Lieut. Commander John Hubbard, Assist.; Chief Gunner C. Dugan, Powder Depot. Dover, N. J.

Inspection Board--Commander W. C. Gibson in charge; Lieut. F. H. Sherman, Assist.

Laber Board-Commander A. B. Speyers.
Surgeon of the Yard-Medical Inspector J. A.
Hawke, Surgeon of the Yard; P. A. Surgeon A. R.
Alfred. Assist.; Pharmacist Samuel Englander.
Naval Hospital-Medical Director G. W. Woods
in charge; P. A. Surgeon R. K. Smith, P. 1.

GUIDE TO THE BROOKLYN NAVY YARD-Continued. Surgeon C. F. Stokes, Assistant Surgeon W. M. Wheeler,

Naval Laboratory and Dept. of InstructionMedical Director T. C. Walton in charge; P. A. Surgeon G. T. Smith, Pharmacist G. H. Klcck.

General Storekeeper's Office-Pay Director Edwin Putnam, General Storekeeper; John A. Mudd, Assistant Paymaster.

Tay Office-Pay Inspector Н. Т. Wright in charge; Chief Carpenter P. T. Ward.

Smith in charge; Lieut. R. T. Hall, Lieut. G. E.
Burd.
Chaplain-Chaplain R. E. Steele.

Naval Constructor's Office-Naval Constructor F.
T. Bowles, in charge; ist. Naval Constructor
H. G. Smith, Assist. Naval Constructor R. M.
Watt, Assist. Naval Constructor D. H. Cox.
Civil Engineer's Office-Civil Engineer P. C.
Asserson, in charge; Commander A. B. H. Lillie.
Civil Engr. E. P. Goodrich, Civil Engr. L. M. Cox.
Marine Barracks-Capt. J. E. Mahoney, com-

Purchasing Paymaster-Pay Director H. M. Den-manding. niston, Stewart Building. New York.

Clothing Factory-Paymaster H. E. Drury, in charge.

Chief Engineer's Office-Commander J. A. B.

Medical Examining Board-Medical Director H. J. Babin, Surgeon N. H. Drake.

U. S. R. S. Vermont-Capt. Merrill Miller, commanding.

THE DEWEY CELEBRATION.

Discussion of plans for a proper reception to Admiral Dewey upon his return to this country began in the summer. Early in August, 1899, the Municipal Assembly passed a joint resolution authorizing Mayor Van Wyck to appoint a committee of one thousand representative citizens as a general committee to arrange for and carry into effect the details for the welcome to Admiral Dewey. This committee was appointed, and, in addition, an executive committee was appointed, the chairman of which was Gen. Daniel Butterfield. This executive committee appointed the subcommittees, and the chairmen of the sub-committees were ex-officio members of the committee on plan and scope. These sub-committees, with their enairmen, were: Reception committee, William C. Whitney; committee to confer with national and State authorities, Admiral John W. Philip: committee on land parade and decorations, MajorGeneral Charles F. Roe; committee on shipping. harbor decorations and water parade, General Howard Carroll; committee to arrange railroad and steamboat rates. John H. Starin; committee on printing and badges, George C. Clausen; committee on press, Herbert F. Gunnison; committee on erection of stands, John P. Kane; committee on refreshments, Randolph Guggenheimer; auditing committee, Bird S. Coler.

The Committee on Plan and Scope immediately began to plan the details for the reception of the Admiral. Arrangements were made for a mammoth land parade, for a water parade, for the presentation to the Admiral of a loving cup on behalf of the City of New York, while fifty of the leading sculptors of the world volunteered their time and labor for the erection of a Dewey triumphal arch, which should be a masterpiece and a fitting memorial to the Navy of the United States.

The programme as prepared by the Committee on Plan and Scope embraced part of Thursday, September 28, when it was expected that the Admiral would arrive, all of Friday and all of Saturday, September 29 and 30. The naval parade was set for Friday and the land parade for Saturday. The Admiral somewhat disarranged the plans of the committee so far as his formal reception by the Mayor was concerned by arriving on Tuesday, September 26. Early in the morning of that day the Olympia was sighted off Sandy Hook and was soon at anchor in the lower bay. On Friday at 9 o'clock Mayor Van Wyck, Gen. Batterfield and the members of the Plan and Scope Committee paid an official visit to the Admiral aboard the Olympia.

THE NAVAL PARADE.

At 1 o'clock Friday the naval parade started. The Olympia, leading, started up the North River to the accompaniment of whistles, bells, salutes, and wild cheering upon the shores. Following the Olympia were the armored cruiser New York, the armored cruiser Brooklyn, the battleships Indiana, Massachusetts, Kearsarge and Texas: the gunboats Marietta, Annapolis and Nashville; the torpedo boats Gwin. Mackenzie, Talbot; the training ship Constellation, the coast defense ship Amphitrite. the dispatch boat Dolphin, the converted yachts Penacook. Eagle, Yankton, the transport Resolute and the naval tug Uncas. Following the ships of the navy were representatives froin the United States Army transport service and all the revenue cutters on duty in New York harbor and nearby ports on the Atlantic coast. Abreast of the Olympia were the Sandy Hook, bearing the Mayor and the official guests, the Glen Island and

the General Slocum with the municipal committees, the Mount Hope with the municipal assem bly, the Warwick with the heads of the city departments and guests, and the Matteawan with visiting officials and representatives of the press. Following the revenue cutters were, in two columns, nearly two hundred yachts, headed by Sir Thomas Lipton's Erin. At 3 o'clock the Olympia anchored off Grant's tomb. As she came to anchor salutes were fired from the land and the Olympia answered. The rest of the procession countermarched around the Olympia and proceeded down stream, disbanding at the Battery. THE FIREWORKS DISPLAY.

At 7 o'clock there was a fireworks display on land at Mount Morris Park, Union square, City Hall, intersection of Southern Boulevard and Concourse, and in Brooklyn at the Brooklyn Borough Hall. There were also displays at the Court House in Long Island City and on Barron Hill, Staten Island. On the water a fleet of lighters was started simultaneously from Grant's Tomb in the North River and from Ward's Island in the East River. On their way to the Battery they sent up rockets and golden fire. At the Battery they united with a fleet of ten lighters and the displays were repeated on a larger scale. Admiral Dewey spent the night at the Waldorf-Astoria.

THE MILITARY PARADE. At 8.30 on Saturday Admiral Dewey, escorted by Troop A, was driven to the City Hall Park. Here Mayor Van Wyek presented to him a loving cup on behalf of the City of New York. The cup was of solid gold and was made by Tiffany; it cost $5,000. From the City Hall Park the Admiral was driven to Claremont, where the military procession was forming. At 12 o'clock the procession started, ed by the Admiral and Mayor Van Wyck and the members of the Reception Committee and the Plan and Scope Committee in carriages. This parade was one of the most remarkable military displays ever seen in the City of New York. Over 100,000 Guard of the State of New York, regiments from men were in line. Practically all of the National all of the Eastern States and from Western States as far as Ohio were in line. In addition, for the first time since the Civil War, were to be seen troops from South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia and Texas. There were also in the parade Governors parade swung into 5th av. at 59th st. and marched of over thirty of the States of the Union. The down 5th av. to Washington sq., where it was disbanded. Admiral Dewey at the "Dewey" Arch took his position in the reviewing stand and reviewed the parade.

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THE DEWEY TRIUMPHAL ARCH. The Dewey Arch, at 24th st. and 5th av., through which the parade passed, was a masterpiece. was constructed on the lines of the Arch of Titus, with four piers, bearing symbolic figures, personating Patriotism, War. the Return and Peace. Portrait figures of eight of the nation's naval heroes before the war with Spain surmounted the allegorical groups. The names of the heroes represented were John Paul Jones, Stephen Decatur, Isaac Howe, Oliver Hazard Perry, McDonough, Farragut, Porter and Cushing. The arch was reinforced by a line of columns extending on either side of the avenue from 23d st. north and beyond the arch to 25th st.

At 8 P. M. there was a smoker at the WaldorfAstoria for the sailors of the Olympia. On Monday Admiral Dewey went to Washington.

THE PARIS INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION.

The dawn of the twentieth century will be fittingly celebrated by the Great International Exposition to be held in Paris, France, from April 15 to November 5, inclusive. The site will comprise the public grounds on both sides of the Seine from the Place de la Concorde, the great monumental square in the very center of the city, to a point beyond the Pont d' Iena, embracing the Champ de Mars, the Trocadero Palace and Park (site of the exposition of 1889). the Esplanade des Invalides, the Quai d'Orsay, the Quai de la Conference, the Cours la Reine, and

government, and 20,000,000 francs by the city of Paris, while 60,000,000 francs represent the net proceeds of the emission of 3,250,000 bonds of 20 francs each. The bonds bear no interest, but each one is redeemable in tickets of admission to the Exposition Grounds and entities the holder to 20 tickets. In lieu of interest the holder participates in 29 drawings, comprising 4,313 prizes, aggregating 6,000,000 francs. Six drawings occurred in 1896, six in 1897, six in 188 and six in 1899, and there will be six monthly drawings during the exposition.

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a large section of the Champs Elysees, including the site of the Palais de l'Industrie, the great building erected for the Exposition of 1855.

The palace of the Trocadero erected for the exposition of 1878 and used a second time in 1889 will be utilized with modifications in 1900. The Eiffel Tower with new features will be preserved. The Fine Arts and the Liberal Arts Halls will be permanent structures.

The first international exposition in Paris was held in 1855, second in 1867, third in 1878 and fourth in 1889. In July, 1892, the official initiative was taken toward the establishment of the 1900 exposition in a formal communication from M. Roche, minister of commerce and industry, to President Carnot. Over 100,000,000 francs ($20.000,000) was provided as a guaranty fund, of which 20,000,000 francs was appropriated by the

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To the contemporary exposition will be joined retrospective centennial exposition reviewing the progress accomplished since 1800 in various branches of production.

A series of International Congresses will also take place in Paris during the Exposition, where all prominent men in letters, sciences and arts of world renown will be invited to meet.

The space to be occupied by the exposition is about 360 acres. Of this amount the French government has allotted about 60 per cent. for all other nations, reserving about 40 per cent. for themselves. The space secured for the United States is about 222,000 square feet.

The main entrance to the exposition will be located at the extreme northeast corner of the grounds, at the place where the Quai de la Conference adjoins the Place de la Concord. This

THE PARIS INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION-Continued.

monumental entrance to the exposition takes the form of a triumphal arch, surmounted with a frontal bearing the arms of the City of Paris, which serves as a pedestal for a colossal statue of Liberty. The two friezes on either side of the arch represent workmen carrying the produce of their labor to the exposition. By an ingenious device the ticket office to this main entrance is arranged to admit 60,000 persons per hour.

On the Quai which extends along the north bank of the Seine are two art palaces, which are known as the Great and the Little Palaces of Fine Arts. They cost about $4,500,000 and will remain as permanent embellishments to the City of Paris. The Grand Palace will be utilized during the exposition as the Palace of Fine Arts. The masterpieces of fine arts of the century and the productions of the last decade will be housed in this palace. In the smaller building will be displayed the retrospective exhibition of art. Across the Seine, joined by the new Alexander III bridge, lies the Esplanade des Invalides. This tract extends from the Seine to the Hotel des Invalides, and here is located the great building of General Manufactures. This building is the largest at the exposition and in architectural design most elaborate.

Near the Manufactures Building is the Education Building and numerous minor structures. On the south bank of the Seine is the Quai de Orsay, in which are the pavilions of all foreign nations. also the Army and Navy Building. On the north bank of the Seine are located the building of Horticulture, also of Agriculture. In the Trocadero grounds are the colonial exhibits, both of France and other nations. The building devoted to electrical industries is located across the River Seine from the Trocadero Parl. In this building is the huge central generating plant with thousands of motors distributed all over the exposition in every department, and the exhibit of electrical machinery and the thousand and one inventions to which electricity has been utilized.

To the west of the court on which stands the Palace of Electricity are the buildings devoted to Chemical Industries, Transportation and Civil Engineering, Liberal Arts and Instruments, Letters, Arts and Forestry.

On the east side of this same court is the Machinery Building, the buildings of Mines and Mining, of Navigation, and the Textile Building.

American electricians will be much in evidence at the Exposition and it is estimated that the manufacturers of American electrical machinery will expend over one million dollars in their exhibit. American artists, too, will be well represented, and the products of the earth, agricultural, horticultural, forestry, fisheries, food stuffs, textile fabrics, placer mining and metallurgy will all receive complete attention from American exhibitors. The United States will also have an immense department of hygiene and one of public and organized charities.

Two and a half acres of ground have been made along the banks of the Seine. The gardens and terraces on both sides of the river will be utilized for exhibits. The United States will have the largest and most important display of any foreign nation.

All along the River Seine will be one of the most interesting features of the Exposition, the "City of All Nations." Situated on the Quai d'Orsay, close by the National Pavilions of Austria and Turkey, rising with dome-like effect almost two hundred feet above the Seine, will be the National Pavilion of the United States. Work on this superb structure was done under the supervision of Assistant Commissioner General to the United States Commission E. D. Woodward. and the architects, Charles A. Coolidge of Boston and Morin Goustiaux of Paris. On the ground floor, facing the River Seine, is an immense porch, something like an Arch of Triumph, adorned with Corinthian columns crowned with the Goddess of Liberty on the Chariot of Progress. An equestrian statue of George Washington surmounts a pedestal upon the level of the Corinthian columns and a bust of President McKinley occupies a niche

over the door. Every visitor who walks to the other National Pavilions in this City of All Nations will have to pass under this large main entrance to the United States Pavilion. In the center of the building is a great hall, about 160 feet, covered by the great dome, the interior of which is decorated with historic paintings.

Annexes for the United States exhibits in

agriculture. forestry, liberal arts and navigation have been erected. The Fourth of July, 1900, will be "United States Day" at the Paris Exposition. On that day the United States will unveil its gift to France from the school children of this country, a statue to the memory of General Lafayette. The children of the public schools of the United States have contributed in pennies and nickels for this monument $50,000 and by a law passed by Congress the United States mint is now coining fifty thousand silver souvenir dollars to be known as the "La Fayette Dollar,' which will be used in erecting this tribute to the great French patriot.

The members of the United States Commission are: Ferdinand W. Peck, Commissioner General; B. D. Woodward, Asst. Commissioner General; Frederick Brackett, Sec.; F. J. V. Skiff, Director in Chief of Exhibit Departments and Director of Mines and Metallurgy; Francis E. Drake, Director of Machinery and Electricity; Willard A. Smith, Director of Transportation and Civil Engineering: Charles Richards Dodge, Director of Agriculture; John B. Cauldwell, Director of Fine Arts; Howard J. Rogers, Director of Education and Social Economy; A. S. Capehart, Director of Liberal Arts and Chemical Industries; Dr. Tarleton H. Bean, Director of Forestry and Fisheries; M. H. Hulbert, Director of Varied Industries; .Louis M. Howland, Director of Customs; Paul Blackmar, Director of Affairs: John H. McGibbons, Director of Exploitation: Charles H. Simms, Assistant Director of Liberal Arts and Chemical Industries; Lieut.Com. A. C. Baker, U. S. N.. Assistant Director of Transportation and Civil Engineering; Dr. W. S. Ward, Assistant Director of Mines and Metallurgy: James S. Anthony, Assistant Director of Machinery and Electricity; Henry G. Kittredge, Assistant Director of Textiles: Henry B. Snell, Assistant Director of Fine Arts: J. M. Allen. Assistant Director of Affairs; A. H. Mattox, Press Representative: Robert J. Thompson, Sec., Lafayette Monument Commission. The headquarters of the Commission are the Auditorium Hotel. Chicago. and the N. Y. office 120 Broadway. NEW YORK STATE AT THE PARIS EXPOSITION.

In December, 1898, Gov. Frank S. Black appointed the following honorary commission to represent New York State at the Paris Exposition of 1900. This commission was authorized by a law passed by the Legislature of 1898. The commission is as follows: Emil Twyeffort, New York City; Mrs. Marie Etienne Burns, New York City; Lud wig Nissen, Brooklyn: Norton P. Otis, Yonkers; Urban Weldon, Cohoes; Albert E. Bonesteel, Troy; Dr. Clarkson C. Schuyler, Plattsburgh; Mrs. Mary Harrison McKee, Saratoga Springs; Henry A. Phillips, Lowville; Thomas R. Proctor, Utica; Mrs. N. W. Metcalfe, West New Brighton; Edward G. Wyckoff, Ithaca; Lamotte H. Blakely, Lyons; Horace C. Brewster, Rochester; William L. Marcy, Buffalo; G. E. Spring, Franklinville. The officers are Norton P. Otis, Pres.; Wm. M. Griffith, Sec.; Ludwig Nissen, Treas. The commission, with offices in the Bowling Green Building. Manhattan, N. Y. City, serves without compensation, and its duties are to encourage and promote exhibits of the artistic, commercial, industrial, agricultural and other interests in the State at the Exposition, and provide for comfort and convenience of citizens of the State.

The Legislature of 1899 appropriated $40,000 toward defraying the expenses of the commission and $10,000 for the representation of the educational interests of the State. The further sum of $10,000 was also appropriated as a contribution on the part of the State of New York to the Lafayette memorial monument.

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THE MILITARY OF THE STATE.

The National Guard and Naval Militia of the State of New York numbered on January 1, 1900, nearly 14,500 officers and men. The National Guard, organized as a division of five brigades, comprises fifteen regiments, five battalions and a company of infantry, four batteries of artiilery, one squadron and one troop of cavalry and four signal corps. During the past year forty-two of the forty-three separate companies of the State (all except the 17th) were formed into these regiments and battalions:

First Regiment-3d, 4th, 5th, 10th, 11th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 20th, 23d, 24th and 33d.

Second Regiment-6th, 7th. 9th, 12th, 18th, 21st. 22d, 31st, 32d, 36th, 37th and 46th.

First Battalion-13th, 25th, 29th, 42d and 43d.
Second Battalion-1st, 8th, 34th and 47th.
Third Battalion-2d, 30th, 41st and 48th.
Fourth Battalion-27th, 28th, 39th, 40th and 44th.
The National Guard organizations are brigaded

as follows:

First Brigade-Brigadier-General McCoskry Butt, commanding; headquarters, Central Park West and 59th st., Manhattan, N. Y. City; 9th, 12th and 224 regiments of infantry and 1st battery of artillery.

Second Brigade-Brigadier-General James McLeer, commanding; headquarters, Hall of Records, Brooklyn, N. Y. City; 13th, 14th, 23d and 47th regiments of infantry, 3d battery of artillery. Troop C. 2d signal corps and 17th separate company of infantry, located at Flushing in Queens.

Third Brigade-Brigadier-General Robert Shaw Oliver, commanding; headquarters, Albany: 1st and 2d regiments and 4th and 10th battalions of infantry, 6th battery of artillery and 3d signal

corps.

Fourth Brigade-Brigadier-General Peter C. Doyle, commanding: headquarters, 474 Main st., Buffalo: 65th and 74th regiments and 1st. 2d and 3d battalions of infantry and 4th signal corps.

Fifth Brigade-Brigadier-General George Moore Smith, commanding; headquarters, 71st regiment armory. Manhattan, N. Y. City: 7th, 8th, 69th and 71st regiments of infantry and the 2d battery of artillery.

Το the headquarters of the National Guard, which is commanded by Major General Charles F. Roe, are attached Squadron A and the 1st signal corps. New York City headquarters are located at 280 Broadway, Manhattan.

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The Naval Militia of the State is included in a Naval Brigade which comprises the 1st and 2d naval battalions, five divisions each, located in Manhattan and Brooklyn, one separate division attached to brigade headquarters. and one separate division in Rochester. The 1st battalion is quartered on the New Hampshire at the foot of E. 28th st.. Manhattan, and the 2d the foot of 55th st.. Brooklyn. The Naval Militia headquarters are: Captain, Jacob W. Miller, commanding; headquarters, foot of E. 28th st. Manhattan, N. Y. City; Lieut.-Com., Samuel Dana Greene, Chief of Staff: Lieut.-Com. Alfred B. Fry. Engineer; Lieut.-Com. John G. Agar, Paymaster: Lieut. Aaron Vanderbilt, Gunnery Officer and Inspector of Gun Practice; Lieut. (J. G.) Gerard B. Townsend, Ald. 1st naval battalion, Commander. William B. Duncan, Jr.: 2d naval battalion, Commander. Robert P. Forshew; 2d separate naval division, Rochester. Lieut. Edward N. Walbridge.

The strength of the naval militia is about 850 officers and men.

Commander-in-Chief, Governor Theodore Roosevelt. Oyster Bay; headquarters, Capitol, Albany, N. Y.

Staff of the Governor: Brig.-Gen. Avery D. Andrews Adjt.-Gen. (resigned Dec. 18); Col. George Curtis Treadwell, Military Secretary; Aides-deCamp (appointed), Major Craig Wadsworth, Captain F. Norton Goddard. Captain William Littauer. Captain David S. Iglehart; (detailed from the National Guard), Lieut -Colonel William Henry Chapin, 65th regiment: Lieut.-Colonel Harry Hayden Treadwell, 22d regiment: Captain George Albert Wingate. 23d regiment; Captain James Madison Andrews, 36th separate company; First Lieut. William L. Flanagan, 2d Battery: Firat Lieut. Adrian W. Mather. 10th battalion: First Lieut. Robert K. Prentice, Squadron A: Second Lieut. James Wray Cleveland, 7th regiment:

(detailed from the Naval Militia), Lieut.-Commander Samuel Dana Greene.

Major-General Roe's staff includes the following Colonel S. H. Olin and Lieut.-Col. Frederick Phisterer, Assistant Adjutants-General; Colonel Nelson H. Henry, Surgeon; Colonel Edward M. Hoffman and Lieut.-Col. William Cary Sanger. Inspectors; Lieut.-Col, Nathaniel B. Thurston abi Major William M. Kirby, Inspectors of Sma Arms and Ordnance Officers: Lieut.-Col. John Begart, Engineer; Lieut.-Col. William W. Ladd, Jr. Judge Advocate; Lieut.-Col. John L. Holly, Quartermaster: Lieut.-Col. G. Hurry, Commissary of Subsistence; Major Fred. T. Leigh, Signal Officer. Major L. M. Greer and Major J. B. Hollan). Aides-de-Camp.

The members of the several brigade staffs are: First Brigade-Lieut. Col. Henry S. Clark, Assistant Adjutant-General; Lieut.-Col. W. E. Lambert, Surgeon; Major Newbold Morris, Inspector. Major Schuyler Schliefflin Inspector of Small Arms Practice and Ordnance Officer; Major Frank B. Keech, Engineer; Major Herbert Parsons, Judge Advocate; Major R. T. Varnum, Commissary of Subsistence; Captain James W. Gerard, Jr.. and Captain Francis L. V. Hoppin, Aides-de-Camp.

Second Brigade-Lieut.-Col. John B. Frothing. ham, Assistant Adjutant-General; Lieut.-Col George R. Fowler, Surgeon: Major W. E. C Mayer, Inspector; Major J. W. Tumbridge, Engineer; Major E. M. Grout, Judge Advocate; Major Peter H. McNulty, Quartermaster; Major Charles W. Tracey, Commissary of Subsistence; Major T. H. Babcock, Inspector of Small Arms Practice and Ordnance Officer; Captain John H. Shults. Jr., and Ernestus Gulick, Aides-de-Camp; Major Francis D. Beard, Attached Officer.

Third Brigade-Lieut.-Col. Harry C. Cushman, Assistant Adjutant-General; Lieut.-Col. Herman Bendell, Surgeon; Major George P. Hilton. spector, and Captain John P. Treanor, Assistant Inspector; Major Alfred H. Renshaw, Engineer; Major Charles J. Buchanan, Judge Advocate. Major Charles H Gaus, Inspector of Small Arms Practice and Ordnance Officer; Major Horace G. Young, Quartermaster; Major Charles G. Cleminshaw, Commissary of Subsistence; Captain Guy E. Baker, Aide-de-Camp: Supernumerary Officer on duty, Major James H. Manning.

Fourth Brigade-Lieut-Col. Lauren W. Pettebone, Assistant Adjutant-General; Lieut.-Col. Floyd S. Crego, Surgeon; Major C. M. Ransom. Inspector; Major George J. Metzger, Engineer; Major Martin Carey, Judge Advocate; Major John H. Ball, Quartermaster; Major Henry C. Wadsworth, Commissary of Subsistence; Captain Theodore B. Sheldon, Aide-de-Camp.

Fifth Brigade-Lieut.-Col. Thomas J. O'Donohue, Assistant Adjutant-General; Major Putnam B. Strong, Inspector; Major Elmore F. Austin, Engineer; Major William Ives Washburn, Judge Advocate: Major Charles E. Warren, Inspector of Small Arms Practice and Ordnance Officer; Captain John R. Hegeman, Jr., Assistant Inspector of Small Arms Practice and Ordnance Officer: Major Harris B. Fisher, Quartermaster; Major David P. Arnold, Commissary of Subsistence: First Lieut. Alfred H. Abeel, assigned as Aidede-Camp.

The strength of the three New York City brigades, as indicated by the inspection return, is shown below:

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