The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-10

A. G. c. M.-Drunkards in the serv,ce-F,n.
ohooting-Drill, Concert aud Other Things.
The troops were all paid last Monday fo,
the month of March,
GENERAL coURT MARTIAL,
mas been in session nearly every day the
past week trying military offenders.
DRUNKARDs DOOMED.
Active measures will be taken against
those drunken foul-mouthed soldiers
who lnfest the "owln street cars for For,
Douglas at night il the names of the
Offenders and the witnesses are reported IN
the post commander. The military author.
tues would soon get them out of the SER
vice which they disgrace The conductors
can stop this II they choose by either turn
Ing Inc Offenders over to the city police or
reporting the cases at the fort. We are
glad to state that most of the soldiers of
the Sixteenth regiment are q credit IN anv
service, men of intelligence and well be-
naVed. and when a low-tongued foul
moutned nuisance and a drunkard ia found
out, we soon rid the regiment and the ser
vice OF his presence. This kind of material
cannot long remain in the United States
army these days.
The day is past when such cases are toll
NJ TARGET PRACTICE AND OTHER DRILL.
inns Is the month for eating target
practice, aiming and pointing drills. also
open order drills. May and June are the
Target practice months, and on June 30 of
each year the army of the United States
oeats the world in fine shooting. Uncle
oam Is very generous in supplying q req
sonapIe amount OF ammunition for tha prac-
Ilce OF MS soldiers and to make them marks
men ana sharpsnooters. Each soldier saves
every smell after firing and reloads all the
ammunition he uses during the firing GOO
son. S9@7
FIRE DRILL.
Some three weeks ago the chief of the
salt Lake fire department visited Fort
douglas to show the soldiers how to handle
mat OLD tub or hand fire engine that Uncle
gam purchased from the city The chief
remarked that we were going to have more
snow Luis spring and more snowstorms than
we mad during the winter We then looked
upon the chief as being little off, in his
CALCULATIONS, but since then some of US he
leve That either he or his informant is q
prophet. We took sleighride last wear
and again this year in April on the hill and
II was not on April l, either
POST OF VETERANS.
Inc soldiers have started a rousinp post
OF veterans, and we expect to see hu6dreds
IN the city and territory join; it is an excel
lent order. The post is to be called "The
General Conner Post of Army and NAVY
Veterans" "'S
SUNDRIEs.
The post quartermaster is having the
quartermaster's Office fixed up.
During conference week many of the
visitors to the city took in Fort Douglas.
Inc weather has been so outragaous tho
past three weeks that we have had very
few parades; they have started up again
now, however.
Concert this afternoon at o'clock by the
sixteenth infantry band in the band stand,
Saturday morning parades and onarj
mount at $50. This is quite faYorite
time for the bellies of Salt Lake to come
out
Both of the electric roads to the fort are
giving us excellent service. The cars run
regularly ana have been doing a tbrivino
business; of course it will be a bonanze
when spring fully opens