The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-19

he has been turned inside out and all
of his personal secrets placed on record
But such an examination is not a clfcu ll.
stance to that TO which those aInplIoqS
to serve IN the army must submit ~
these examinations were merely nom
tnal, they would not be worthy OF conl-
ment, but they are as rig-d as veteran
soldiers and ScienCaCal medical men can
make them. When the applicant goes
up for examination he is welShed, meas
ured and described by d sergeant, anu q
blank filed out which; when eonpIeie.
reveals every possible thing ABOUT the
APPLICANTS physical structure ana cor
dition. He is scruunized by the recruit
ing officer. and then the applicant goes
before the surgeon and is stripped Indl
the medical man may verify the pre-
VlOuS examination. This is done IN tnt
most minute may and cert1hcate tnal
is as exact as may be is given. II ne
be accented the recruit is sworn into
the service by the recruiting oIncer, anu
if the enlistment be in New YORK ne IS
sent to David's Island and from there
to the command with which he is 10
serve.
Men are not enlisted specially for the
artillery, but the most intelligent OF
those who go into the mounted forces
are selected for this arm OF the service
when there are vacancies in 1t. The ar
| tillery. therefore, is composed OF pick
! ed men, and this accounts for the strl-
| kingly manly bearing of these soldiers
/ whenever they are seen on parade. me
most recent instances Of the erect OF
| discipline in good men was offered by
/ the artillery in Chicago. A caisson blew
/ up during the railroad riots but there
| was no confusion save that caused i'm
| mediately by the explosion which killed
| several men and horses; little later. in
| the same regiment there was another
eXplosion-but the men just after this
/ emptied the caissons of ammunition as
! gaiy as though the cartridges had been
! stuffed with harmless sawdust.
! one OF the questions asked OF an ap-
! plicant is: Have you given true
name and not an assumed one?" a young
| fellow little disgruntled with life on
| ness or in love is as likely as not TO
! conclude to bury himself in the army
| Such one is pretty sure to apply under
| an assumed name, thinking, poor devil
! that service in the ranks would bring
reproach upon his family name This is
| not generally encouraged by the officers
! Of the army, but sometimes when there
are really good reasons why man should
! desire to serve incognito his desire is
| respected. There was a story in the old
| army of a well-set up Irlshman who
rose to be a corporal under the name of
| Philip Sidney When his term was out
! his captain said to him:
| Sidney, it is none of my business, but
lust out of curiosity [ should like to
! know what your real name is| All
| captain" the corporal answered - was
| afraid you would penetrate me disguise.
| | did not like to use me full name Whlie
serving in the ranks. so 1 dropped me
family name. Me Iull name, Cdpld1Il II
Philip Sidney de Montmorency."
TERM OF SERVICE AND RE-EN-
ENLISTMENT.
The term of service in the army is
! now three years, and the number of men
| about 10000; and, therefore. 1t IS neces-
sary to secure each year by enllstments
| and re-enlStmentS something like seven
| thousand men. About one thousand OF
! these are re-enlistments Of men who be-
/ come attached to the service or who &C
| quire what might be called the army
/ habit The examination Of a man who
! has served one enlistment or more and
| has a good record is naturally less Sc
we're than that given to new recruit.
! for the man of experience may nave &C
! uuired blemishes as incidents of his ser
| vice and these unless facilitating, are
! quite properly not counted against him
! The man Of experience. too. is consid-
cred a much more valuable soldier than
the novice.
But the schme of the statute under
which recruiting is done, while it en-
| courages re-enliStmentS, also PROVIDES
| for the probable return of discharged sol
! diers to civil life. Now, when man is
DISCHARGED he is not re-enlisted until
three months after that time if he care
for such furlough, so that he can. have
a taste of civil life, and this perlod is
! counted as a part of his service. Inc
idea of this is twofold. A trained and
experienced soldier is thought 20 be at
once a better citizen in time of peace
and a more valuable one in time ( emer
eency when the available men of the
country might have to be called to arms
But man who serves more than two
enlistments is very apt to stay in the
army until disabled or retired. Provision
is made for the retirement of soldiers
after thirty years service on three
fourths pay and three-fourths commu-
tation for clothing and subsistence. the
allowance to be made on the basis OF
the pay that was received when the re-