The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-06-24
UNDER THE BLUE UNIFORMS
WHO MEN WERE BEFORE THEY
BUCKLED SWORDS.
Something About the Officers and the
Regiments from Pennsylvania, Ne.
braska and Utah-History Service.

Captain X. NJ. Young, in command
of Battery \, is a grandson of Brig
ham Young, was graduated from
West Point in 1852 and from the Co.
lumbia Law School in 1884, and was
until he retired from the regular ar
my, in 1889, Judge Advocate on Gen
eral llancock's staff. Later he was
business manager of the Salt Lake
Herald and most recently practicing
lawyer in Salt Lake and Brigadier
General of the National Guard of
Utah. He was also Democratic candi-
date for the supreme court iudgeship
of his state. Lieutenant Gibbs of the
same battery was. until this enlist
ment. major of the First battalion of
the National Guard of Utah. Second
Lieutenant Naylor was a lieutenant
colonel on the governors staff Ser
geant Wells is not only nephew of
Governor Wells of Utah, but he is a
graduate of Cornell, where he was
the bright particular orator and de
batter who helped defeat the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania. Corporals Rit-
en- and Brown are also Cornell gradu-
ateS and they and Wells are young
lawyers of Salt Lake. Quartermaste1'
Sergeant II. \. Young and Corporal
Smith are doctors of medicine and
gave up their practice to enlist. Ser
geant Fisher is a civil engineer and
Corporal Williams is a mining engin-
Ger. Corporal Narian is the son of
eN-Cnited States District Attorney
Narian of Utah. Private Nelson is a
son of Colonel Nelson. editor of the
Salt Lake Tribune. Private Thomas
is a son of Ex-Governor Thomas. The
cook of this battery was the chef of
the swell Alta club of Salt Lake.
THE fighting colonel of the Tenth"
y. /. Hawkins of Washington. Pa.
is soldier looking war veteran, a
politician and a man with whom cour-
tesy to women is a first principle. His
standing orders for the trip were
that womanhood must be reverenced
as at the mems own homes: that cit
izenship and property rights must be
respected
The Pennsylvania regiment con-
tains only eight companies, or about
GOO men. What it lacks in men. how
ever, is made up in appearance and
discipline. Colonel \. l.. Hawkins has
commanded the regiment for nine
teen years. and is the senior colonel
of Pennsylvania.
There are Clio officers and men in
the Pennsylvania regiment, which
comprises two 'battalions. and is prac-
tically a National Guard organization
young business men. with names and
officers unchanged, but each of its
eight companies increased by about
twenty recruits, most of them I'M
dergraduates from six colleges of the
State
OF young business men with names and
The regiment is to be recruited to
full strength. Lieutenant Colonel
Barnett and Battalion Adiutant. Lieu
tenant c. c. Crowell, with clerical
force of eight enlisted men. went
back to Pennsylvania before the reg
iment left San Francisco for the pur-
pose of recruiting the additional four
companies necessary.
In 1890 during the Morehead strike,
and in 1892, in the historic Homestead
strike, he led his men into active ser
vice. Since leaving home he has been
nominated for the state senate. Both
majors are civil and mining engineers
and in the hospital corps and in the
ranks are several physicians and den
lists. The quartermaster is prom
inent lawyer and prospective judge.
Adjutant Duncan is proprietor of one
of the largest glass factories in the
world. The lieutenant colonel is the
secretary of state of Pennsylvania.
In Company | are twenty young
lawyers of excellent families. Com
pany H is made up almost entirely of
students from old Washington and
Jefferson colleges, among. them being
most of the varsity athletes. There
are nearly 100 first class football play
ers in the regiment. Except for the
recruits the men are well equipped
with state uniforms and arms.
The Nebraska men art not without
their notables. Private DR.. Talbot of
Broken Bow enlisted as a member of
the Hospital Corps. and Private Liv-
ingston is a son of Brigadier General
Livingston. Captain Ouray of the Per-
shing Rifles is captain of Company Vt.
SiNty-eight members of the celebrated
Pershing Rifles of. the Nebraska State
University are in the regiment. and
the Thurston Rifles compose a whole
company. seventy-eight men and
three officers.
FOR USE LATER.