The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-10-19

sell, VIII please the most pronounced connoiS-
seur. These concerts are free to all, and (if the
weather permits) are regular fixture. Those
insereSted IN the army should visit US on Sun
DAY afternoons when all is quiet and the soldier
at home" can be seen to good advantage.
The Kansas City Times has a large list of
names almost daily OF soldiers who have taken
advantage OF general orders No. so and who will
try their hand in civil life. Whilst the opportu-
mites to be discharged are row more numerous
ana within easy reach of the soldier, the reten-
ton of "a per month for first year from each re
cr11tS pay is not much OF an incentive to enlist.
cake recruit now, his pay in two months is
S25 70; 50 for that time is retained, his laundry
and barber bill is 81 leaving his Sl3.75, or &c. 81
per month, out of which he pays his tailor, and
II he smokes or chews, he has little or none left
This 81 per month he gets when properly dis
discharged.
From the Ogden department of THE HERALD
Yof date 1lth inst, we note an error. The cor
respondent says CAPTAIN B. A. Byrnes Six
teenth artillery passed throug the junction city
with twenty nine men of the Fifth artillery
from Columbus Barracks, Ohio, enroute to San
artillery in the army, the Fifth being stationed
IN California, where it relieved the First last
May. The men were recruits from
recruiting rendezvous of Columbus, Ohio
and were under command of First
Lieutenant B. A Byrnes Sixth infantry
and designed for the Fifth artilley at the pre-
sido of San Francisco. Lieutenant Byrnes was
with the Sixth infantry at Fort Douglas and
is well known in Salt Lake.
Whilst in conversation with an old timer in
the service, who has seen twenty years in one
regiment and company, we heard an amusing
incident IN re the hanging of Captain Jack. of
Modoc fame, at Fort Klamath in the spring OF
1872. 1t seems that the old post chaplain had
been offering Jack spiritual consolation and the
DAY prior to the hanging the man of God
told JACK that he was going to a better place
where all the comforts of this life would be but
heeting shadow, ETC.. when Jack with that
characteristic astuteneSs for which he was
noted, replied, You say, me so, good place, bet
ter place than this, well me give you two hun
ored ponies you go, me stay This logical mode
of reply caused the good man to suddenly rea
llze that Jacks business proclivities were to
follow him to the Stygian shores, so he left the
stole savage to ponder and reflect in solitude.
General orders No. 100, current series, A G.
o., tell US that 60 men compose company of
infantry, companies, non commissioned staff
and reg1mental non-commiSSioned officers, s.
ass men to regiment. Sixty men to troop of
cavalry 10 troopS-non-co com miSSioned staff and
regimental non-commissioned officers, 5-605
men to regiment. Twelve batteries to regiment
of artlIery-ten heavy and two light-heavy
batteries 90 men each and with non-commiS-
stoned staff etc., five more; light battery 65
men each. Total regiment, 735. Recapitulat-
ing, we find 25 regiments of infantry IL l; 10 of
cavalry, $3.50; Of artillery, $685. making total
for line OF the army q, $50. Engineer battalion,
500; ordnance department. z5); West Point
detachment and Military academy band, 234 :;
prison guard at Fort Leavenworth ITO: ord
nance sergeants, 90; commissary sergeants,
100; post quarter-maSter sergeants, 81: depot
detachments. 315; Indian scouts, 476; recruits
and depots, 7S5. Grand total, 25.ol0: authorized
enlistment, 25. 900 men. We doubt il the num-
Der in line will reach 10 600, yet ii the companies
be full the number would be 2, $50. The com
panies OF the Sixteenth, as rule, are recruited
to their full strength, but not so with many
regiments in the service.
Oct. 10. FRITZ