The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-05
square" by doing stunts with next
years crop of plebs.

years crop of piebs.
THE DAILY ROUTINE OF DUTY.
sReveille'' is at about a. m. When
it sounds all must arise and wash and
dress. Then the beds must be made
up in form, as above described, and
the plebs must hurry down for morning
inspection. Clothes must have been
brushed to immaculate neatness. Not
speck anywhere, mind you, or you'll
receive a demerit. Inspection over, you
amuse yourself as best you may, within
the narrow confines of your room, until
breakfast. Then the company of plebs,
following the four classes (companies)
of cadets, is marched to mess hail..
The same is done at dinner and supper
time, and, with an afternoon inspection,
the days duty of the pleb is ended.
The meals are Al and comprise every
delicacy in season.
The intervening hours are spent by
the pleb in studying UP for the mental
examination.
"Tap" sound at 9 O'Clock, and then
everybody must hurriedly slide into the
beds, which have previously been
spread, in anticipation of them. This
is imperf tive, for an officer makes the
rounds at that hour and bursts into
the rooms and
I "All imp
CAN in, sir!" we all shout.
Then he bursts out again.
OF course some of us have slid in
with our clothes on and slide out again
as soon as he has departed. Then we
enjoy ourselves as taste dictates, and
the clandestine cadets, always on the
lookout for sport at the expense of the
pleb, drop in and have more fun with
the ''menagerie."
! THE MENTAL EXAMINATION"
In our case we were incarcerated in
our room about ten days. We were
permitted to exercise or to leave the
room if we so desired, but in view of
the fact that cadets were always lying
in wait for us when we emerged, our
absences from the room were rev and
far between.
Finally, we were summoned to the
schoolroom to prove that we knew
about things in general. The examina-
ton is not a difficult one to master. 1t
is only in the rudinlents. In order not
to be found 'Lrejected-on must have
a general knowledge of addition, sub
traction, multiplication, division and
fractions, ditto of the history of the
United States and of the geographical
topography of our country-how to
bound states, give their capitals and
principal cities and their location and
how to proceed from one point to an
other by water; to read WELL to write
plainly and to be up in photography
and other phases of English grammar.
These satisfactorily accomplished, and
the pleb becomes at once a full-hedged
cadet at $500 a year salary, rationS and
am abiding place. The $500 must be
expended for clothes, uniforms, bed
ding, ETC.. and few dollars are
left over for such luxuries as
the fastidious may not find at
Mess Hail." He is entered in the
fourth class. He is advanced year by
year if his examinations are success
fully passed, until he reaches the first
class. From that he Is graduated to
the regular army, with the rank of
second lieutenant, at salary of 81, 500
per annum, and post on the plains or
of his pull" A second lieutenancy
carries with it quarters, rations and
servants. The enlisted men of the reg
ular army generally attend to the lat
ter phase of the game.
why didn't you remain there?" asks
the youthful reader, who is, perhaps,
a prospective applicant for military
academy honors.
81 would be let"
Twelve of us got tired ct one and
the same time. History relates how a
the academy according to his own way
of thinking and failed. 1 plead not
guilty of being an accessory to the
cause of his failure. Somebody struck
the poor fellow with a dipper and a
court martial was the result. OF
course twelve men couldn't strike a
man with one dipper. But there is al
ways close bond of friendship at
West Point.-New York Herald.