The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-20

Rig that tackle and dump that hogs
head over the SIDE" ordered Schley.
The sailors, who knew the bottles
were empty, grinned, but in jiffy they
had the hogshead over the side and at
I the bottom. The Sunday school teach
ers looked on approvingly. and when
the hogshead had disappeared they
f1ocked around Schley and told him
what a fine, noble example he was set
ting. Schley took it all with becoming
modesty. For the fun he had out of it
paid couple of dollars into the ward
room mess for the loss of empty bot
ties, which should have been returned
to the bother
Major General Shafter, second in
command of the troops assembled in
Florida, was, until about year ago,
colonel of the First infantry, stationed
at Angel Island, in the harbor of San
Francisco. He was, as a regimental
commander, a somewhat stern officer,
and the enlisted men took pains not to
cross him. Shafter can't weigh much
less than 300 pounds. One afternoon a
couple Of years ago the soldiers of one
of the F'irstS companies were playing
football on the parade ground. They
were playing the old fashioned kicking
game. One of the men got the ball
Squarely on the toe of his government
straight shoe and hoisted it about half
a block through a window of Colonel
Skaters parlor, which fronted upon
the parade ground. The players were
knocked endwise by the accident They
stood mute, with their hands down, for
a minute.
It's all up with the mob of us, all
right" they said. Summary court
month in the clink and a blind for
every one of u.s.
A blind is military fine. They stood
waiting to see what was going to hap
pen, for they knew the colonel was in
his quarters.
In half a minute or so the colossal
form of Colonel Shafter appeared in
the doorway of his quarters. He had
the football under his arm. The man
who had kicked the ball through the
commanding officers parlor window was
just about to race over. 20 Shafter and
tell him that he alone was responsible,
when the colonel raised the ball before
him with both hands. He made a swipe
at ii with his foot and missed it by
about a yard. If he had caught it with
his toe the soldiers might have been
looking for the football yet, for the
huge colonel spun around a couple of
times on the landing of the steps, so
freely did he kick at the leather
sphere. Failing to kick it he walked
down the steps, picked up the ball,
went to the landing again and tried
again Another izzle. He didn't come
ANYWHERE NEAR KICKING THE
BALL.
Five times he repeated this perform
ance, the soldiers out on the parade
ground smothering the bowls they
wanted to give vent to. The sixth time
Colonel Shafter caught the ball square
ly and it went sailing through the air.
The colonel himself went sailing down
to the foot of the steps. He landed in a
heap, and, considering his immense
weight, it is q wonder that he did not
break a leg. He didn't, however. and
when he got up his sides were shaking
with laughter. The First infantry did
not stand in quite so much fear of
Shafter and liked him better after
this.
General William Montrose Graham
was colonel of the Fifth artillery, with |
headquarters at the Preside of San !
Francisco until about a year ago, hav-
ing been made a brigadier shortly |
after Shafter attained that rank. |
Graham is one of the sturdiest soldiers |
in the American army. He has a !
strong sense of justice. The way he |
brought one of his young officers to a
realization of the meaning of regula,-
tons showed this. This young of
icer had recently arrived at the
L A~SlOlO O1l Ills lIISI 0Glddl from w est
Point. He fell into the habit of dis
regarding the salutes of the enlisted
men around the post. The men noticed
this and talked about it among them
selves. Perhaps Colonel Graham
heard of it. At any rate, one after
noon the colonel was walking from
his Office to his quarters, followed at
a distance of 80 feet or so by his
orderly The young officer from West
Point came down the gravel path from
the opposite direction. He saluted his
colonel, and of course, the salute was
returned. But he was apparently too
to notice the salute of
the trailing orderly, and did not re-
turn it. He did not know that the
colonel had wheeled about after he
passed him and was looking after
him. He had no sooner passed the
orderly without returning the latters
salute than his colonel hailed him.
Lieutenant" called out Graham,
"a word with you
The young lieutenant walked up to
the colonel.
fcers in this army" said Graham, lis
that they shall return salute for
salute. Orderly, salute the lieutenant,
lieutenant, salute the orderly"
The young officer turned red, but re-
turned the salute of the grinning
orderly.
Now, lieutenant" continued the
colonel. you and my orderly may
pace back and forth, in opposite direc-
tons, for a while, both of you observ-
ng regulations as you come within
;aluting distance of each other"
Then Colonel Graham sat down on
'ustic bench alongside the gravel path,
pulled out a cigar, lit it, and smoked
comfortably for 10 minutes or SO,
he while ne watched the officer and
nan pass in front of him, exchanging
big four" salutes. The young lieuten-
int of artillery has probably not dis
the salute of an enlisted man