The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-21

tened could not help being enchanted.
One never knows the extent of ''Utah's
best CROP until some event calls them
to perform a part and then the be-
holder is surprised.
1t was at reveille when the tents
were struck at Camp Kent This done
the men had their breakfast and began
packing up. By 1880 this was done and
at 1850 first calf was sounded. Ten
minutes after the stirring notes of 'as-
sembly' were heard and the commands
fall in resounded through the camp
Five minutes afterward the column was
in motion.
THE VETERANS SALUTE.
AS the head of the column turned
into Main street at IL 80, the Old Sow
doomed forth a note, followed a second
lated by a greeting from the mountain
howitzer manned by the veteran artil-
lerymen. The firing was kept up at in
tervals until the boys reached the de-
pot. The old fellows took great chances
and crammed the guns to the muZZles
and when they spoke it was audible all
over the city. The salute was fired I'M
der the command of Captain Andrew ].
Taysum and the pieces were manned by
the following members of the associa-
ton.
George Tall, o. R. Ostler, George F.
Brooks, H. c. Burrell, George T. Luff,
William Parkes, Richard w. McAllis-
ter, Dan Weggeland, William Long
more, Adam Paul, John Balm, James
Evans, Samuel Skidmore, James Solo
mon, Joseph Matthews, Henry Walters,
George Little and W. ]. Hooper
The members of the volunteers ap-
preciate this courtesy and viii salute
the old boys when they return with the
guns they took away with them yes
terday.
At the close of the ceremony a meet
ing of the veterans was held and it was
decided Il similar honor should be paid
the cavalry troop when they depart, if
it is possible to get supply of powder,
but as the stores ship the kind needed
in but once each week, it may be the
good intentions of the old fellows will
so for naught.
y meeting will be held at the armory
this morning.
DOWN AT THE DEPOT.
A surging crowd followed the boys
to the depot. 1t was with difficulty that
anyone, even the volunteers, could get
near the station or the cars. Everyone
wanted to see their friends and rela-
tiveS, and all efforts on the part of the
officers detailed TO assist in keeping the
crowds back were unavailing. Informa-
ton that the troops would not leave for
two or three hours had no effect what
ever. 1t was a surging seething mass
of humanity. with its blood at fever
heat and they would not be quiet.
A DENSE MASS OF PEOPLE.
Before the rat-a-tat of the Salvation
Army drum and the resounding music
Of the militia band had reached the
r. g. w. depot, there was a crowd on
hand, waving flags and wildly cheering
the oncoming volunteers. When the |
Utah stalwarts reached the station the /
crowd had become a throng. They /
pushed and crushed and filled the ali ]
with VCciferouS shouts. The volunteers |
disbanded at the station, and in doing 4
so became a part of the jostling as
sembly. Fond mammaS and sisters. !
with tear-stained cheeks, searched in
vain for the stalwart, sirewy boy who /
was the pride of their hearts. The i'm /
mense confusion lasted for about half
an hour, and then the ladies came to
the rescue by giving out the informa-
ton that refreshments We're ready for
the recruits. Then the blue-coated SOL
dierS again became a mass by them
selves. and reassumed their warlike
identity.
THE CROWD GROWS LARGER.
The crowd had swelled in the mean
time. Small boys covered the tops of
the box cars, and the crowd covering
the tracks and surrounding the cars
was so dense that the hungry volunteer
had to engage in an amateur stampede
to reach the lunch counter. The vol
unteers had first entered the cars and
deposited most of their war parapher-
MALTA.
A long wait ensued, so long that the