The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-06-23
THE ROMANCE HAS FLED
Third Texas Is Doing Hard Work a
Fort Clark.
West-Ail Anxious to Sec service
ana the PaymaSter.

Especial Correspondence of The Post)
Fort Clark, Texas June 2O.--Nearly
thousand men in barracks al one time is
more than Fort Clark has seen for yeas,
If ever before During the last thirty
odd years Of pace the regular army
was never recruited to what the Third
regiment of Texas now is. Recruits arr
still arriving daily. Yesterday brought
thirty and today as many or more came
from North Texas AS fast as Surgeon
Taylor and Assistants Sims and Davidson
tan make the required examinations this
new men will be assigned TO companies
and sworn into the service. On top OF the
examination comes the vaccination of the
new and the revacclnation of old members
upon whose blood the first application Of
virus had no effect, Ordinarily two fail
ures of the vaccine TO be effective the
subject is regarded as a smallpox i'm
mune. The immunity is Of six months du-
ration, at the expiration OF which lime
there is another application Of the knife
and vaccine.
The Old fear and terror OF this opera
tion has happily passed away. Surgeons
regard a healthy man with no sus-
picion whatever when the poison ges
into his system. With subj ct whose
blood is impure the effect is often ser-
Gus, but under the improved system,
rarely ever If at all. Not over half
dozen cases in the Third regiment can be
classed as having been anyways serious.
Garrison duty for the Third regiment Is
something the men did not dream of two
months since. Their only idea was that
hurried departure would be ordered
after the muster, a probable week, in the
Golden Gate city, thence a sail to the
Philippines In reckoning the probable
desires of the government proficiency in
drill. lessons in discipline, assignment OF
equippage were not given consideration.
Whsn the trains left Camp Mabry 1t was
announced that the regiment would re
main at Fort Clark for the present for IN
struction. Censure was heaped upon The
head of the war department, notwithstand-
ing the existence of the articles of war,
for preference having ben given to the
rtgulars-profcient well drilled, magnih-
Gently disciplined soldiers--over the raw
volunteers.
are equal TO the present occasion. how
ever Six battalion drills, two practice
marches and one inspection, with an al
lowancc of regimental drills IL he weekly
work. Saturday aft6rnoon is the half hol-
iday. Then the soldier does his laundry
work. Sunday Is rest day Sunday night
The Bracketvile churches command the
attention of the most of the vcluntce g.,
and after a refreshing nights slse9, h ,
soldier Is again ready for his weeks work.
The practice marches tougher the body.
Colonel Smyth gives battalion command
ers authority 10 select their own routeF.
These usually mean a tenmle tramp.
Should the Third he sent 10 the philippines
( or Cuba, their practices at Fort Clark may
serve them we'll.
| It IS diffcult for the average volunteer
! to realize that romance no longer figures In
/ this business. but that II is the siernest
reality ever existing This applies to COM
missioncd officers as well as enlisted men.
Net long ago an enlisted man was daing
guard duty at Camp Mabry. Night cam
on and his eyes grew heavy ANA in sho
| time he was backed up against a tree
sleeping in the cool breezes from aero s
the Colorado In an hour or 80 the officer
of the guard aroused the slumberer, e
ligved HIM from duty and placed him UNI