The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-26


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The band concert tonight in the
post hall In honor of General Penrose.
promises to be a memorable occasion.
The general is to be presented with
a very beautiful silk flag by the band.
1t is to be the same starry banner
won by those so gallantly at the COM
petition at SaGtair last summer.
The invitations are out to the Grand
Orient ball in the post hall tomorrow
evening.
General Penrose returned to the post
Monday evening, having had a pleas
ant trip through the mining camps in
the Camp Floyd district.
Quartermaster w. K Wright has
been granted a two months leave OF
absence.
DR.. ]. NJ. Bannister. well known
army surgeon stationed at Fort Leav-
GnWOrth, is making reputation in
the successful treatment Of hernia by
means of a surgical operation. Up to
the present time hernia has BEEN a
sure cause for a soldiers discharge
for disability.
Privates OIdt and Stewart. Of COM
pany B, viii be discharged March.-9.
Stewart will re-enliSt after two months
at Vancouver barracks, Wash.
A letter received from Sergeant VIII
liam H Shell, of company A, now
under treatment at the Army and
Navy general hospital at Hot Springs.
says he is not improving as rapidly
as expected. and does not think the
waters effective in lumbago cases.
Private Weston Younkin, of CONF
pany H, will be discharged May 26.
A board of officers has been order
ed to convene at Fort LeaVenworrh to
consider the subject of regulations for
small arms practice. The board will
devise provisional firing regulations to
be followed in connection with the
new magazine rife until permanent
regulations are promulgated. There
seems to be a great amount of secrecy
observed about the matter, but this,
briefly, is what is to be done.
The idea of building a hose tower has
been abandoned
The connections with the new water
mains have been made.
There are twenty-one men in coms
pany 3 who can take advantage Of
the three year law during 1896.
Private John Marshick. of company
A, will be discharged ON May "a.
Private Moult0n, late Of company
G, has re-enlisted in the Thirteenth
infantry.
Private Burke, recently discharged
from company A. will re-enlist to-
day for company c.
Private McFaE, of company d, has
been appointed chief gardener.
1t was about the time the Sixteenth
arrived at Fort Douglas some eight
years ago that the first serious atten-
tion was given to the betterment Of
the enlisted force of the army, and the
salUtary laws and orders promulgated
In its behalf have elevated the stand
ard of the personnel, intellectually
and morally. lessened desertions. and
increased contentment and efficiency.
More rigid requirements governing en-
Hstments and re-enlistmentS were pre-
scribed, and recruits required to be
able to speak. read and write English
With the increased demands the poor
err element was gradually eliminated
from the service and a better class
of men found their way into the army,
Special regimentaI recruiting was in
Stituted, with very satisfactory re-
suits and enabled the war department.
to change the expensive system of re-
cruiting formerly in use. The three
recruiting depotS were discontinued
and garTiSoned by legftimately organ
lied troops, and the preliminary in
StructiOn formerly given the recruits
at these deDotS s now given them at
their permanent company, and they
are at once furnished with certain
necessaries conducive to personal COM
fort. For the benefit of those who
were dissatisfied with army life, pro-
visions were made permitting the pur-
chase of their discharge, and even
granting it by way of favor, and late
ly the term of enlistment was reduced
from five to three years. Provisions
were also made for Through after
serving an enlistment, and for redress
in the matter of unsatisfactory char
acter on discharges. The ration was
relieved from the purchase of table
ware and kitchen utensils. the bread
ration was increased, and one pound
of vegetables added to the daily "a
ton, and company cooks granted COM
pensation, thus securing the best SER
vice available for this important duty
and greater facilities were afforded
enlisted men in purchasing subsist-
ence stores, even on credit.
Then came the establishment of post
exchanges and in connection there
with, of amusement halls and gymna-
STA, the adjustment of post traders,
the prohibition of the sale Of ardent
spirits and wines, the adjustment of
Sunday inspections and tattoo roll call
and the introduction Of riding halls ait
the cavalry stations. Both officers
and men now reap the fruit of these
wise measures. Great advancement
was also made in the intellectual de-
of the soldier and the in
struction of enlisted mem was nade
a military duty. Line sergeants were
made more secure in their positions,
and warrants for the regimentaI men
commissioned staff are issued by the
secretary of war, and finally, war ser
vice was made to COURT double in en-
titling enlisted men to retirement.
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