The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-25
UTAH'S ARTILLERY.
San Francisco Takes Great Interest
In Our Volunteers.

san Francisco Chronicle: AS the
boys from the mines and mountains OF
Idaho were leaving the foot of Market
street on their way to camp the Utah
1 troops were landing to take their places
abeut the tables generously supplied
by the ladies of the Red Cross society
/ with sandwiches, hot coffee, fruit and
/ flowers. They started up Market street
! at = O'clock With officers mounted on
| fine horses, with all of the 242 men OF
/ the two batteries in bright new uni
/ forms, with a flaming red distinctive
! ~ artillery flag flying over each body
/ of heavily accoutered men, the soldiers
/ from Utah presented a striking appear
ance on the march.
They are we'll equipped and are
! picked men from Salt Lake City itself.
The first light artillery men ordered
! to Manila they are proud in the pos
session OF eight of the finest possible
neld rifles and are eager for the fray.
These guns are the very latest model
81 inch breech-lOading rifles. SO care
ful are the two batteries of these beau
tiful modern war implements that they
set their tents in two rows at opposite
ends Of the square, leaving space
within where the most cautious watch
can be kept upon the field pieces placed
close TO the mems quarters.
The non-commisSionet officers of
these Utah artillerymen wear heavy
side arms. and the sentries on duty
pacing their beat with drawn sw"r"S
present a striking contrast to their
neighbors of the infantry, with JAvlt
ld-fashioned Springfield rifles.
Tomorrow forty-eight horses from
Salt Lake will arrive here to complete
the equipment of the Utah batteries.
The First Troop Utah United States
tomorrow, and again Utah Will be the
initial representative of another branch
OF the volunteer service added to the
troops in San Francisco.
Great Interest was occasioned by the
coming of the light artillery, partly be-
cause of their red STRIPES and red cape
Uniform, and partly because of the
word Utah. There are many fine-look-
ing young men among them, and visit
C"s TO camp stood about and wondered
and admired. \ Utah man is authority
for the statement that fully 20 per cent
of them are MormOas.
Captain r. W. Young, III command of
battery a, is a grandson of Brigham
Young, was graduated from West
Point in 1852, and from the Columbia
Law schoo. in 1884, and was, until he
retired from the regular army, in 1889,
judge advocate on General Hancock's
staff Later he was business manager
of the Salt Lake Herald. and, most re-
Gently, a practicing lawyer in Salt Lake
and brigadier general of the national
guard Of Utah. He was also Demo-
cratic candidate for the supreme court
judge o. his state. Lieutenant Gibbs
Of the same battery was, until this en-
listment, major of the First battalion
of the national guard OF Utah. Second
Lieutenant EaylOr was a lieutenant
colonel on the governors staff. Ser
Geant Wells is not only the nephew of
Governor Wells Of Utah, but he is
graduate OF Cornell, where he was the
bright particular orator and debater
who helped TO defeat the University of
Pennsylvania. Corporals Brown and
Ritter are also Cornell graduates, and
they and Wells are young lawyers of
Salt Lake. QuaTtermaSter Sergeant II.
\. Young and Corporal Smith are doc
tors Of medicine, and gave up their
practice to enlist. Sergeant Fisher is 4
civil engineer, and Corporal Williams
is mining engineer. Corpora ) a. IN
is the son Of eX-United States District
Attorney Narian of Utah Private Mel
son is the son of Colonel Nelson, editor
of the Salt Lake Tribune. Private
Thomas IS Il son OF Ex-Governor
Thomas. The cook for this battery was
the chef of the swell Alta club of Salt
Lake
lSetttIiS ID II dlSo from SAT- Lake lily.
Captain Grant, in command, was, in
civil life, prominent mining man and
insurance agent. He was also colonel
of the First infantry, Utah national
guard. First Lieutenant O. r. Grow, |
an electrician, was a major of the Utah !
national guard Private Grant is the |
son of the commander of the battery. |
First Lieutenant Wedgwood is a law
yer Sergeant Center is a mining ex-
merit Second | Lieutenant Cri+obIoy was 1
a practicing physician of Salt Lake. |
Corporal John Donnellan, leader of Salt |
Lakes SWEETEST cotillions, is the son of |
the cashier Of the Commercial National |
bank. Sergeant Hines was an instructor |
at the Utah Agricultural college. Com !
Sergeant Young is doctor of
medicine. First Sergeant Ethan Allen