The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-07-06

shares 1t with a comrade. 1t contains two
wooden chairs, wooden wash-stand,
common wooden table, a plain clothes
press, two iron bedsteads, and two tin wa
ter buckets. He gets no water, and is
compelled to drink from a gourd with a
wooden handle. No pictures nor adorn-
ments are allowed upon the walls. An iron
beadstead and a hard mattress without
springs serve as his couch. Only the bare
necessaries of life are furnished him. But
Rip Van Wrinkle never slept sounder than
West Point cadet. Frederick the Great
seldom worked harder, and this will appear
from days work of cadet in the senior
class.
Take what is known among the cadets
as scratch day. The cadet rises at
reveille. He washes, dresses and goes to
mis- company parade ground, where he
must appear at D :45 IN. He is hardly in
line before he hears the roll-call. 1t lasts
only minute. He answers to his name,
is dismissed and returns to his room. I'M
mediately afterwards he makes up his bed,
sweeps the bare floor and dusts the maDtel-
piece, clothes press, table, chairs and
washstand. At six o'clock he hears the
sick call. If i'll he goes 10 the hospital,
where the cadet surgeon attends to his
wants. If well, after cleaning his room,
he improves the ten minutes remaining be-
fore breakfast in study. If subdivision
inspector, he inspects the seven rooms in
his bailiwick at police call at five minutes
after six. 1t is his duty to note all visible
violations of police regulations and record
them in his police certificate. He fills it
out on his return to his room. He must
then place the certificate in the box allotted
TO his company in the cadet guard-house.
At 6:10 he again hears the beat of the
drum 1t is the first call for breakfast. Be
tween this and the last call at 6:l5 he COM
pletes his toilette. The corps forms in
S1ront of the barracks and marches to Grant
hall for breakfast after the last call.
Thirty minutes are allowed for the meal.
Upon the return of the cadets TO the bar
racks he is released from quarters. This
release lasts until o'clock. If he has any
business with the cadet commisSary now
is the time to transact it. A cadet in the
senior class rarely avails himself OF the re
lease He repairs at once to his room and
cons his Spanish. The lesson comprises
about four pages OF grammar, two OF read.
ing and three Of verb -conjugatlon. AtS:15
he drops Spanish and taxes up his en-
cheering lesson. The task given him
usually comprises about twenty pages il
the art of War;" or some kindred sub
5ect
At $50 the cadet marches with the othel
nine men in his section TO the engineer
class room. The recitation lasts until 1885
He then has five minutes intermission
Within this time he returns to the bar
racks, exchanges his books on engineering
for his Spanish and marches to the Span
ish section room. Here he remains unit
noon. The next hour is spent in the pre-
paration of his lesson in law.
A. ] O'Clock sharp the corps forms at TIL
tap of the drum in front of the barr2ck
and marches to the hall for dinner Eaci
table accommodates ten persons. AS tbs
cadets march in, they arrange themselve
behind their chairs and await orders
Company A, be seated" shouts tin
orderly sergeant of that company. Fac
cadet hangs his hat upon hook in tn
back of his chair and takes his seat Of tn
table. The other companies are seated i
like manner. There arc three courses
The best of soup is served, and plenty @
1t. Then come roast meats, and they ar
roasted to turn. After that dessert
placed upon the table. Sometimes it i
pudding and at others it is strawberrie:
pine apples or other delicacies in thei
seasons.
The cadet al the head of the table serve
the soup, the meat and the desert. All ar
treated as gentlemen, and each treats tn
other as gentleman. Each cadet is Nj
So and-So. whether addressed by his con
rade or by his professor.
Dinner is over at twenty minutes of tw
For the next twenty minutes the cadet
are again released from quarters. Tt
r6clIaJlOnS. however, are IcSuA4Su d1
o'clock. The cadet usually uses thes
twenty minutes in preparing for them. Tt
lesson in law comprises about twenty pag'
of constitutional Jurisprudence, and i
recitation takes the time between and
o'clock From 3 o'clock to 4:i0 the cad
studies his ordnance lesson for the ensr
ing day.
At4:10 the rattle of the drum again fal
upon his ears. 1t is the call for drill. I
| hastily puts on what he calls his dog
\ war''-in other words, his sword, sash, h
u and gloves. AT 4:l5 he is in line awaitir
the order to march. The drill lasts Z
500 and is very thorough and tryin
Then he has fifteen minutes respite.
this time he must change his uniform al
prepare for dress parade The dress pa
ade lasts thirty -Iive minutes on an ayerae
At its close the cadet is double-quick'
from the ground.
Ittakes five minutes to remove his "dog
ret into his fatigue suit and repair to Z
company parade ground, preparatory
marching 10 supper. This meal lasts +
half an hour After it is over the cad
has another half hour release from qua
ters 1t may be used for recreation. but
! wise-and in ninety-nine cases out OF
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