Washington High School Cadets - Adjutant Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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VJ. W. EVERETT Member of Company D, 1887, now Vice-Presiclenl and Manager of XVoodward and Lolhrop Slore

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Business E Business High High School CUHIPMW Battalion SI:RkiI5AN'I'S Harris, Theron Kneas. Iidwarll Blacltistone. .Iohn Kellner. Nathan CORI'ORAI.S Berger. Harry IIIRSI I.II U'I'I5Nt'XNT CAIIIAIN SVCONI? I,II'U'III'Nl'XN'I' 'ISIIOKIAS CaARRISON RAI.I,II COI.I2 AIIBI-R'I' SCIIINIUIZIAR Ifox. Gabriel Chance, Merritt Kappler, Vklilliam Sanders. Reuben Massey. Raymond Curley, John Kurland. Max Saul. Clyde Robey. Allan Donaldson. Ernest I.ynn. George Saunders. Ben y Ifisher, George Mastromarino. Anthony Saunders. Vv'arren IRIWTFS Catton, Melvin May. Milton Sinclair. Richard Babcock. Richard lannucci. Raymond Okun, Sol Taylor. Ifrederick Blum. Samuel Ingram. Orville Reeves. Howard Taylor. XVayne Bowen. Andrew Jones, Oliver Russell. Robert Upperman. George Wesley', Paul I37I SABER CLUB. BUSINESS HIGH SCHOOL

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ln the Early Days By H. H. Burroughs, C, H. S. Hli social life of the Washington High School, which later was designated Central High School, was in the early eighties connned al- most entirely to the military organization. There were. it is true, a pedestrian club of about a dozen members. and a few other groups even less consequential, but the cadets were the big attraction, and not to be a cadet was to lack the social contacts. thought the most desireable. From a beginning with two companies or- ganized and instructed by George Israel, the very popular teacher of chemistry, the incoming class entering in the fall of 1884 was so numer- ous that four companies were formed and Cap- tain Burtian R. Ross, famous as a drill master in the Washington Light Infantry, was em- ployed to whip the organization into a fine bat- talion of which all Washington was proud. In February of l885 the cadets took part in'the parade incident to the completion of the Wash- ington Monument and a few weeks later in the inaugural of President Cleveland, receiving high commendation from the press on both occasions. Major Sohon was the cadet commander. By l886 the command was further strength- ened and in l887 it appeared in exhibition drill on the field of the National Drill within an in- closure on the monument lot where the best military organizations from all parts of the country were in competition for valuable prizes. Our battalion was not entered in competition because all competitors had to camp during the whole week which was deemed impossible for us. Our exhibition was, however, acclaimed throughout the country. At this time we were oflicered as follows: Major Andrew Stewart, Cassell Severance, Adjutant, and Eugene Davis, Quartermaster, These are numbered 10, 13, and l4 respectively in the group of officers herewith. The company officers were Com- pany B, Captain Horace Reeve, No. 9, and Lieutenants Henderson and Fenwick, Nos. 3 and 4: Company C, Captain M. D. Sohon, No. l l and Lieutenants Knight and Blackford, Nos. 5 and 15: Company A, Captain Burden, No. 12, and Lieutenants Randolph and Marble, Nos. 6 and 7: Company D, Captain H. H. Bur- roughs, No. 8, and Lieutenants Arthur Barton and Clement Dietrich, Nos. l and 2. Of these the writer recalls that Fenwick, Severance Cde- ceasedb, Marble, Knight. Blackford and Ran- dolph all became patent attorneys, Henderson became a realtor and builder, Dietrich became the school clerk to Principal Paul and died with- in two years after graduation: Burton also died while at college. Reeve and Barton both entered the Army, Reeve through West Point and Barton, after graduating in engineering at Cor- nell, from civil life. Reeve died after a few vears of service and Barton just after the Wcrld War at which time he was professor of Military Science and Tactics at Cornell. Major Stewart went to Germany where he became a l 1 5 XVASHINGTON HIGH SCHOOI. CADET OFFICERS OF 1887 l80l