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.
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.
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.
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 |
DIVISION PIN