The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-14

bids are to be in triplicate and be at the
A. G. S. Office at Fort Omaha at IL o'clock,
mountain time, October /, 1890. Prefer
ence will be given to home manufacture.
The subsistence stores wanted for dc livery
at Fort Douglas are $4,000 pounds of flour,
30, 400 pounds of onions, and 1850 pounds
of potatoes.
The veteran or ten year act is being
taken advantage of by some of our boys.
The act provides that all who have served
faithfully for ten years and over are en-
titled to discharge on their own applica-
tion.
We now have an ''open, commissary,
that IS, an enlisted man can purchase what
he wants for his own use without the old
time practice of having his order for sup
plies approved by his company and post
commander. The new departure meets
with much favor.
We are CAD to see our friend, George
Hollar, formerly color sergeant, wearing
| the chevrons OF regime ntal quarter
master sergeant He is worthy gentle
man and will nil the requirements of his
new station in Almost acceptable manner.
Private Thomas Whitmore of company
Z is quite i'll with typhoid fever. He is an
excellent young man and was acting as
company clerk when he was taken sick
We trust he will speedily recover.
| ACiO - Il pOSSlUIllty VI dl peultlOu Oe-
ing lifted out in the early spring Of 1891 to
eX plore our Alaskan territory. In the
event OF an appropriation ample for
| three years stay, it is designed by the pro-
Jectors OF the scheme that one hundred en-
listed men go along. The men are to be
selected from those volunteering, as to the
! special ability to cope with the chilly blasts
OF the far north and of course the physical
| examination TO determine their fitness will
be rigid one. Should the expedition
really 90, the enlisted men will be required
to Sign a three year contract. We presume
the men will be rendered extra inducements
in the way of pay, etc. We, for one, cont
want airy of the far north and are willing
to stay in civilization
! AS the battery is soon to go, one would
think that no heavy ordnance would be at
the post, but quite to the contrary. We
! have an ordnance Storehouse, in which
rests ever ready for action some extremely
dangerous mach mes of war. Througa the
courtesy of Ordinance Sergeant La.sse, we
were permitted 70 gaze on some OF tue i'm
PIGMENTS OF destruction and among which
were two eatling guns and one Hetch4iss
gun. The 'gatllng'' can be operated by
tie infantry and as olth dealing and ter
ror striking continuance is for close quart
ers, mile, the most feared OF all heavy or
dnance. 1t is more than prot able, when
the battery goes. that the heavy guns used
by them in their flying drill will be turned
in to the acting ordnance officer and will be
| here ever ready for use should occasion
require than to belch forth fire, smoke and
| solid shots.
In glancing over the semi an
ual statement, to June 30th, 1890, of the re-
ceipts and expenditures of the post canteeu
we tind that the net gain of that institution
since its birth at this post was &c, SOC, which
amount was duly distributed to the differ
ent companies and used by them in their
mess. Monthly, as well as semi annual
statements are regularly posted on the bull
letin board at the canteen and can be seen
by all who care to read them.
OPEN AIR CONCERT,
The following programme will be rem
dered by the Sixteenth infantry band at
Fort Douglas this afternoon at o'clock:
1-Quickstep, over the Rhine --- Stark
2-oslection from II Bravo Mercacante
| 3-Waltz, Queen OF Hearts, -Goetz
/ ballad ..-------.... -Neibig
5-Cavatina baritone solo) from '.Lucretia
/ Borgia," ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Donizetti
Choral.
These Sunday concerts, weather permit
ting, are regular fixture, as it were, and
it's worth the while of Salt Lakers as well
as visitors to Utah's capital, to pay the
post visit and enjoy the fine selections
The music used is new, or specially ar
ranged for the occasion by the band leader
Professor Feusseil, and his assistants.
Sept embe IA, 1890. FRITZ.
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