The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-07-27

orders from the Acknowledgement Office.
The records of companies l and X will be
sent to the respective regimental headquar-
tiers for preservation in order that they
may be kept complete. In the execution of
this order, department commanders will
also order such movements of troops as will
result, so far as practicable in the with
drawal of garrisons from posts heretofore
ordered to be abandoned.
BY command of Major General Schofield.
(Signed.) SAMUEL BREcK,
Acting Adiutant-G General.
The above contemplates the disarmament
of two companies of the twenty-five regi-
ments of infantry, leaving only eight COM
panies to a regiment. The number of men
under this move in a company will prob
ably be about seventy. 1t is understood a
similar change will also affect the cavalry,
disbanding troops L and M of that branch
of the service.
Captain Whital, of K company, under the
new company commander of H company.
We congratulate ii.
The post hospital will soon be torn down
preparatory TO the erection of more com
modious one. The building will occupy the
same ground upon which tue present house
stands and will be erected with an aim
single to the care of the sick. 1t will be
heated by steam and furnished in the
latest modern style. One of the features
of the new edifice viii be the elegant room
to be aside for a pharmacy, whilst comfort
able as well as neatly designed rooms will
be fitted up for the stewards and hospital
corps. The hospital pro TEN will soon be
established in the vacant infantry quarters
between the post canteen and company q,
Sixteenth infantry. The surgeon is very
DESTROYS of having the old building torn
down as speedily as possible so as to have
the new editice ready for occupancy before
the winter months. Too much praise can
not be accorded our post surgeon, Major
Wolverton, and his efficient aide, Assis tant
Surgeon and Captain Edie, for their untir-
| ing efforts in this direction. The change
was necessary, as the old edifice, as ii
stands now, is inadequate in case of much
sickness N the command. We prophecy
that in less than decade Fort Douglas
will be one of the handsomest posts in
Uncle SANS jurisdiction.
The Army aud Nduy Journal of July l.
says editorially about the post canteens
THE canteen now appeals to its merits. II
is on trial. 1t will stand or fall, according
to the history it will make for itself. 1t has
deserved and will receive fair trial. II
will be judged by the effect it produces on
discipline and the good behavior of the men
Temporarily it must stand on the gooC
opinions OF Its friends. But the nnal test
will be in the daily guard house reports
courts, the deposits with paymasters, de
sertions, and other evidences of an i'm
proved moral condition of the army, for in
temperance confessedly affects all these
facts. If the oanteen is run primarily fol
revenue only 1t will tell its own story, an(
this will be told by posts. Soon the index
fingers will point to the posts where tn,
administration is in the interests of TEN
perate and reasonable supply of beer, an(
those where the saloon runs wide open fol
sall there is in it The army can now 'shov
its hand If it is for temperance, it cal
have it. If it is for intemperance, it ca,
have that. The public discussion of tn,
canteen has brought the subject of intern
perance in the army to public notice, ant
now the people will watch the effects of thu
experiment. The abolition of the pos
, trader was through no antagonism to tn
trader, but because it was believed that tn
army would be more temperate if the use o
the use of Intoxicating drinks was unde
the immediate control of pest administra
tions. If this proves mistake, the trade
will have his day again. Administrativ
officers should guard carefully the method
of the canteens. Cut off sales before tn
drunken stage has been entered by thos
, who cannot control their appetites
See that all who manage the can
teen are strictly sober men. Refus
beer to habitual drunkards. Cut off credi
in every form for beer. The canteen ca
be perpetuated, if its friends prove tru
I friends and work to make it a conservatC
: of sobriety, thrift in the soldier (which
! should be- and good discipline. FRITZ.
July 20, 1890.