The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-07-15

tive one for the enlisted men of the
army. The salary is S34 per month
and extra allowances. In some sta
tons the rations are committed. When
a member has been two years in sta
ton he may, upon his own application,
be transferred, to another station,
which is usually a more desirable one
from a social point of view. Eventu-
ally he may be promoted and stationed
permanently at the national capital, IL
his service has been faithful.
Corporal Binkley's examination vas
a rather strict one, particularly In
mathematics, in which the exercises
were mixed up so as to make 1t diff
cult matter to reack a high percentage.
There was no examination in the varf-
Gus branches of signaling, in which ac-
complishment the company B corporal
is said to be very proficient
The rank of signal sergeant is only
one of the many desirable positions for
Whicht he enlisted men of the army
are almost daily making application.
When once attained, only death or
complete disability seems sufficient to
create vacancy. In this respect 1t is
good deal like the position of ord
nance sergeant, where some men are
known to have as long as forty years
service to their credit:
The new regimentaI recruiting sys-
tenn soon to be introduced throughout
the service may be the cause of tenn
porary depots being established sue
cessively at Ogden, Park City and
Provo.
1t is said there will be, after all,
Garry arms in the revised drill regu-
lations about which there has been so
much speculation and which will soon
make their appearance.
The "better class men who are now
entering the service compare very IA
vorably with the old time recruits, not
withstanding an evident desire on the
part of some to belittle them. The ma
jority of them are sober and have quite
enough ambition to start with.
Corporal Weir, company A, has been
promoted sergeant, vice Fennessy, dis
charged. Weir was a first sergeant in
the Eleventh infantry and has been in
the Sixteenth only few months. In
order to make him sergeant several
corporals of company A were necessar-
strange features of army life in the
far west.
The reservoir is getting along hand
somely and the boys are as busy as
lot of blue-coated bees. They work
four hours in the forenoon, from 6 to
10, and four in the afternoon, from
to s. Reveille and retreat as usual,
with check passes thrown in.
The band can play '"The Bohemian
Grip and Love Me Only" to perfec-
ton.
Building a reservoir with soldiers
labor fosters if it does not remunerate
home industry.
Privates are getting in eight or nine
nights" That is to say. there are
that number of nights and days be-
tween the dates of their respective de-
tails for guard duty.
Comnissary Sergeant Bond and
family will leave tomorrow for Fort
DuChesne.
At present there is d good deal of
hammering as we'll as ink-slinging
around the quartermaster's depart,
ment. A new office for the clothing de-
partment has just been completed and
the clothing allowance for the first
quarter of the new fiscal year will be
issued this week.
Nothing has been said about the
placing of a new floor on the guard
house porch, or the destination of the
awful jigereau.
It is said that soldiers are greater
in certain accomplishment than Mrs.
Grundy ever dared to be. Let little
rumor get under way about the arrival
of a paymaster, or a change of regi
ments and in a jiffy it has developed
into such enormous proportions, and
contains such positive statements from
HEADQUARTERS" that it is a very diff
cult matter to squash, and is looked
upon as a necessary evil-a sort of mil
itary safety valve.
The post exchange, that much criti-
cised and sometimes tabooed institu
ton, designed especially for the benefit
of the enlisted men, is weathering the
storm nobly during these unusually
cool summer days. That is the way
with anything that Is roundly and I'M
Justly abused. It is sure to prosper.
The business of the exchange has in
creased to such an extent lately that it
is thought there will have to be an
addition to the billiard hall in the way
of library andreading room. This is
being agitated on account of the lack of
accommodation in the reading rooms of
some of the companies, and the
cramped condition of the post library,
where the "glim" is sometimes
"doused' at an extremely early hour
in the evening. HOTSPUR.
MRS. sTEvENSON's ILLNESS.
Bloomington, Ill, July H.-Mrs. Steven
son had a relapse this evening and was
very i'll for some time. She is reported
much better tonight