San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-06-24

has gone to Sherman on a Ave days
leave to visit friends and relatives.
Calisthenic drill has been ordered for
$50 o'clock by all,troops on the upper
parade tomorrow morning, by Lieut..
Col. Whitside.
The grass was being cut by the pris-
oners from the yards of the officers
residences on the south side of the
new post yesterday.
Quite an amount of sickness Is re-
ported among the men at the garrison.
| The battery appears to be the most un-
fortunate in this line.
The band boys are in receipt of sew
eral new silver instruments. 1t is now
one Of the best equipped musical or
CARNATIONS in. the army.
Private j. Bauer, company A, Eight
zenith infantry, will be discharged by
way of favor today on special orders
from the War department. sf
The parade by the infantry last even
| ing at o'clock was witnessed by
large concourse of people from the
city in carriages and on foot.
Private Read, late Of the hospital
| corps, whose term Of enlistment has
| Just expired. re-enlisted yesterday for.
company A, Eighteenth infantry. this
post. 1i
The Fort Sam Houston baseball club
| returned from Fort Mcintosh last eve
| ming under the = command Of Lieut..
| Wade. The boys were royalty received
| by the GARRISON upon their arrival.
| Private Bennett, of the band, has
| taken one of Private SnelPs boys to
/ raise AS will be remembered by the
readers of the Light, Mrs. Smell died
Friday of last week, leaving her hus-
band and two little boys. Mr.. Smell
will no longer keep house.
| Brigadier General Graham, the new
| department commander, accompanied
| by his adjutant, Col. Macarthur and 1t.
/ Col. Whitside, the post commander.
| paid visit to the mess hall during
dinner hour yesterday and gave the
place a thorough inspection.
| There Is a vacancy in the band at
| present and a good clarionet player
can find an easy entrance to the Fifth
cavalry band. The manipulation of this
musical instrument took French leave
i
his compliments back to the boys.
/ Morris, Of the band, is known as the
"old maid" Of the organization. He
can do any kind of woman's work,
4 from darning a sock to making "pic-
turesquely pretty pictures" on velvet
4 as the boys say. The boys never doubt
his veracity when he tells them sto-
ry.
Fishing and hunting parties from the
garrison are few and far between Of
late owing to the Intensely hot wealth
| err. There is to be party organized
| to go out and celebrate July 4. how
| ever, it is said. OF course there will
be plenty of refreshments-in a liquid
form.
| Private Bell, of company, Is an
| xiously awaiting the arrival of a new
/ wheel which he has ordered, when he
will join the ranks of the silent steed
riders. This addition will make ten Of
the machines in this company. 1t is
known as the wheeling organization
of the garrison.
i Chief Signal Officer First Lieutenant
Reber of the signal corps, Department
of Texas, stationed at this post, has
been ordered to take temporary charge
| OF the office of chief engineer Of the
| department, relieving Second Lieuten-
ant VIM. ]. Glasgow, First cavalry,
now in charge. 81
Schneider, the trumpeter-everybody
knows him-says one Of the BARRIERS in
| the garrison had better look out for
| trouble. Schneider says when he be-
| gins to cloud up 1t usually rains and
| that in no small quantity. He says
he's already beginning to cloud UP and
| pretty soon it will rain and somebody
will get wet
Chief Hospital Steward Wolf Assem-
mann, of this post has been ordered to
] Fort Ringgold to take charge of the
hospital at that post. Private Charles
Smith, also of the hospital corps, ac-
companies him and Private VIM. Hy-
mes has been ordered to report for du-
| ty at the Fort Sam Houston hospital
| from Fort Bliss.
Private Happy, of the battery, was
| suddenly taken i'll yesterday and an
ambulance was called to take him to
| the hospital. He had just returned to
| duty after having spent two months
in the hospital nursing an injured foot
| and leg, sustained from being caught
in a wheel of one of the pieces. The
boys sympathize with him, having as
he does to return to the hospital so
shortly after leaving it, and hope to
see him out again soon.
Since General Wade has been reliev-
ed from command, there has been quite
| a change noticeable about the admins
tration of the most Enlisted mon are
no longer permitted to wear any uni
hos hut o. To