The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-08
AUTHORS FOR TIE ARMY.
Literary wss. rein.ers--cartain

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King, General Vintcn Grsere.
TIE Critic: Tire FIVE hes. Eeown grad
yates CT West Point snce the civil
war are Generals Francis VintoH
Greene. General Charles King. ColoEel
Richard Henry Sava~e and 3Isssrs.
Arthur skerbG-ne a-Gy and John
Brisben Wa ke-. None Ct the a9e has
Won q reputation &c c s,-i G., bu- each
has become noted IA connection with
literature and Journalism. NJ. walker
is TIE editor and pUbiiS..S- CT TIE Cos
ropolitan, and has expended IL es
tabliShiug it as ore cf the frst Decent
n2 gaines an amount # eCeTSy and
viii power that night nave made him
victoriCCS on dozen b1ttieAelds. lie
had long been III civil iife and had
made q fortune vixen he became n
magaziniSt.
Afr. Hardy. author Of "But Yet
Woman" and ether nove,s. was
friend Of Mr.. Walkers at the military
academy, and afterwards helped him
edit his magazine, bat he was fer
some years professor Of mathematics
at Amherst college. At present he is
American minister TO Persia. 1t would
not surprise Us 10 hear any day that he
has resigned his post ami started to
join General Merritt in the Philip
pines.
Colonel Savage. author Of Ills on
cial Wife and other wciics OF fiction,
as well as a volume Of poems, has re-
Gently returned to the service and viii
probably see active campaigning in the
present war.
General King, who has become 50
popular under the title CT Captain
King. retired from tfe army years
age, and has since held 6 professor
ship at TIE University of Wisconsin
/ On Thursday Of last week his appoint
ment as a brigadier gene, o. Of voiun-
teers was announced. and for tire pres
ent. at least, his many admirers viii
have to satisfy themselves By re-re6d-
ing his Stories Ct Army Life. Tine
Colonies Daughter" etc, or his vol
umes of historica! sketches and par-
sonal "reminiscences.
On the same Cay that Captain King
was restored TO the amy aud raised
TO 4 higher rank than CT Old. the lis
OF the presidents appointments OF
briGsdier gele-ais i1ciUSe5 the raTie
} of Colonel Greene Of tle Sc .e,ty-il-st
New York volunteers. General Greene
is a son Of General George Greene. the
( oldest living gradual f Fc7- I'olnJ.
who last month reached the & CT g.
years Re was born IN -S5l, ald - 1870
(. =
at the head CT his class. Surveying
orr Northwest boundary ard s';T9 c5-
ing the Illicit distilling &C w--.sNy oc-
cup;ed his tine for some years after he
/ received his CCnlniss On IS Heutea-
ant: and when the war between Rus
s.a and Turkey broke out IN 1873 tie
government sent him u l. IS in n
watch its pyCEi sss. re wGs D-e-cn: ut
the tatt1cs OF .';iTi-a -'cGs, PicfIl7. G.
and often under fire, and the cz,;r and
the king Of RcCTaaia more than chce
honored him with decorations far gal
Iantry. When the war closed, iie Dc-
! came its historian, LIS Vol On TIE
subject being now the STANDARD III ati
countries. except Tu,k key. Bes;sc5 this
history. he is the Guthcr Of ST., hes
of Army Life In Russia TIE Ms
sissippi'' in the Sc.ibreT's Ci7cp2ia.l'5
Of the Civil War, ard "Nc tEaniei
Greene" in App!eton's series OF great
commanders. lie resigned MS COM
mission as a captain III 1856. End for
some time past has been president CT
! the Barber Asphalt Paving corapa-ly.
post calling for executive ability of
high order. But mis- resignation from
the army did not indicate a loss of in
terest in military affairs and he soon
became identified with the national
guard. the outbreak of the war finding
him colonel of the Seventy-frst rsgi-
ment-one of the first organizations IN
the field 1t was just before his rcgi-
ment's assignment 10 duty il or near
Cuba that Colonel Greene was p-o-
NOTED and ordered to tie Philippines.
He is one of the general officers Of
whom most Will be expected, if the war
lasts long enough TO show what they
are good for.