*** Source: Record of Eighty-sixth Company California Military Reserve; San Francisco?: unknown, 1920?, 37 pgs. Notice: This data is donated to the Public Domain by TAG, 2004, and may be copied freely by anyone to anywhere. *** ---page 8--- bayonet exercise prescribed in the Infantry Drill Regulations. To increase efficiency an effort was made to inaugurate target shooting. On September 9, 1918, a detachment of twenty men under command of Lieutenant Chipman met at the range at Shellmound Park and fired two hundred and forty rounds. The practice demonstrated that the rifles were in no condition for target shooting, and that no proficiency could be attained with them. As soon as the company had been licensed the subject of procuring uniforms for the members was agitated. Due to the energy of Lieutenant Taylor uniform hats (campaign) were procured by the members in time for the Fourth of July parade, but no progress was made toward obtaining anything else until the early part of September 1918 when a committee composed of Lieutenants Chipman and Taylor, Sergeant Teller and Privates Partridge and Kirkpatrick volunteered to raise the necessary funds. Their efforts were instantly successful. In a two days' canvass the required sum was secured. Following is a list of the contributors: American National Bank, Anglo California Trust Company, Anglo, London and Paris National Bank, Bank of California, Bank of Italy, Crocker National Bank, First National Bank, French Savings Bank, Fugazi Popolare Bank, Hibernia Savings and Loan Society, Humboldt Bank, Italian American Bank, Mercantile National Bank, Merchants National Bank, Savings Union Bank and Trust Company, Seaboard National Bank, Union Trust Company, Wells Fargo Nevada National Bank, Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Company, W. R. Grace and Company, Welch and Company, O'Connor, Moffatt and Company, Roos Brothers, White House, Frank C. Drew, *** end ***