The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-17
! FORT DOUGLAS NOTES.
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Affairs at Fort Douglas have bee,
rather quiet during the past week, tbs
only events transpiring TO enliven tn,
post were payday. the organ recita
and the officers hop.
Yesterday the residents Of the pos
were fairly showed in. The street cars
ran very irregularly and at long inter
walls and it was exceedingly hard tc
reach the city and harder still to get
pack Nevertheless. a great many
braVed the storm in order TO visit the
city for their Saturday shopping and
TO attend the matinee.
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Some of the soldiers who have been
born and raised in the south say that
/ they have never seen so much snow
at one time.
The recital given in the post chapel
! last Tuesday evening was a very
pleasant affair. It was given by
Chaplain AllensWorth in honor of the
opening of the large and handsome
organ which has lately arrived from
the south. 1t belongs TO the Twenty
( fourth infantry and is a very hand
some one. At GAS the programme be-
gan and was greatly enjoyed by those
who We're in attendance. The hall was
completely filed with the officers. their
families and great many of the en-
listed men.
Prof. Radcliffe was present and
played upon the organ and several en-
Joyable vocal selections were given by
Mrs. Girard and Lieutenant jerks.
Altogether, the evening was very
pleasantly spent
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On Friday evening the officers gave
delightful informal hop in Recrea-
ton hall. The regimental orchestra
furnished the music and the dancing
was greatly enjoyed by the partici-
pants.
Payday was on Wednesday. and
though it, Of course, had no effect on
the officers yet it enlivened the post
for the enlisted men.
There are a great many citizens who
90 not realize what payday is in a
post OF course, they know
that the soldiers get paid then. and as
d consequence the post is usually over /
run with peddlers, 'tinhorns' and a /
great many other people who are after |
the soldiers money. Payment of SOL |
1lers, at the present time, is done in a
signify different way from what it |
used to be. Instead of a paymaster
ioing IT, the money is sent TO the COM
handing officer, who appoints some
officer to receive it and pay the SOL
1lers. The troops are marched TO the
oay-room, one company at a time ac-
;ording TO rank. The rank of the COM
)any IS determined by the rank of it's
'aptaln- The company arriving at the
stand outside in ranks and
'ach man steps III when his name is
,alled and receives his pay
when the company is all paid thew
farch back TO their quarters and ranks
re broken. Another company takes
is place and so on. If a man is sick.
r Tor any reason cannot attend the
aptain usually holds his pay and the
nan can get 1t from him. If a man
Eishes 10 deposit his money he may do
o with the paying officer and the gov
rnmert pays the man interest on it. /
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Officers, that is commissioned officers.
re not paid in that way Instead t
hey Ill cut their pay vouchers about I
ae first of each month and have them |
ashed ct United States depository. ;
The pay (monthly) of the s0lGiers in !
ne infantry is: +
Private. $13, increasing to SIC on !
ne NTH year Of service and 81 extra Y
pom his first re-enlistment; corporal f
o increasing to SIS in the fifth wear I
nj y extra on re-enlistment; ser L
cant, SIT increasing to so in the fifth :
ear and - extra on re-enlistment: {
rst sergeant S22, increasing to S25, >
18th s. extra on re-enlistment. The II
7y of commissioned officers OF infan- h
y is; Colonel, 1921 81; Iieutenant-coI- v
lel, $3.50: major $20S.33; captain, $3.50; G
st Lieutenant, $125; second lieutenant,
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All officers get an increase of 10 per -
mt Tor every five years up to 20 D
'ars service. So an officer of over 20
'ars service gets 10 per cent increase
-er the above figures. A colonel -
erefore gets 1913 a month instead of "
jl.6l as there are no colonies that |.
we not over 20 years service ~ ~
Private Scott, of r company, will be :.
today. IL
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Corporal Jines, of II company, re- ac
listed yesterday. a. a.
)ne recruit was enlisted yesterday 10
the Seventh cavalry and another to
piled for enlistment but fell below ne
required weight and was denied SO
istment.
sergeant Green, Of A company, has
urned to duty from furlough. NJ
aforementioned J. f Randlett,
O has served so long at Fort Du-
asne and who is we'll known in Salt O.
ke, Will make, it is stated, his home in
San Diego, Cal, he being now upon tri
retired list an
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