*** 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 9--- J. M. Mannon, Jr., Garrett McEnerney, Morrison, Dunne and Brobeck, Henry Rosenfeld, Major C. L. Tilden, John S. Partridge, A. Spreckels, Albers Brothers Milling Company, San Francisco Savings and Loan Society, The Mission Bank. Contracts were made with Roos Brothers for a uniform consisting of coat, breeches and leggins, and with O'Connor, Moffatt & Company for O. D. shirts, which were furnished in time for the Fourth Liberty Loan parade, which occurred on the evening of September 28, 1918, on which occasion thirty-six members paraded. The Eighty-sixth Company was the only company in San Francisco that was uniformed. FIELD EXERCISES. Although the company at the time of its organization was composed almost entirely of men beyond the draft age who would not be accepted for service in the army, a conviction formed in the minds of the officers that an excellent opportunity was presented to give instruction to men within the draft age who might be called into service. A special effort was, therefore, made to enlist such men in the company. The result of the effort was most gratifying. The recruits under the instruction of the officers and non-commissioned officers of the company soon became so proficient in the drill given in the limited space of the drill yard that it was decided to find a large tract of ground convenient to the street car lines on which instruction in extended order and bayonet exercise could be given. Through the courtesy of Mr. Behan, Manager of the Spring Valley Water Company, Lake Merced tract was allotted to the company, and on Sunday August 25, September 22 and October 6, 1918, the company *** end ***