The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-01
Utah Cavalrymen Are Busy Men
Just Now.
ONLY TWELVE FOR DRILL
BUT FEW OF TROOP NOT ON
SPECIAL DUTY.
Health of the Men Is Good, But They
Would Like to Come Home-In
Practically Deserted Quarters
Captain Game Very Busy Man
Pen Sketches Of the Officers.
1snecial correspondence.l

Especial Correspondence
Preside, Nov. 29.-The only soldiers
here now are three companies OF Call
fornia volunteers, M and B troops of
the Fourth regulars, and the First
troop Utah U. S. volunteer cavalry. To
make our garrison burdens heavier and
our loneliness more impressive, one of
the California companies has been
quarantined, on account OF measles,
and the other two cavalry troops are
short on enlisted men. Recently they
have had to grant a great many dis
charges, and are having difficulty In
recruiting their ranks. Desirable men,
willing to become regular cavalry
men, are just now wonderfully few
hereaboutS.
The day of our return hither, Private
Peterson was discharged from the serv-
ice on a certificate of disability.
Lieutenant Smith reported for duty
on the (to hirn) unlucky 18th.
On the 18th, Privates Conklin and
Esse were relieved from special duty
as teamsters, and placed on the regu-
lar duty roster on the 14th. That same
day Private Freed, whose wrist was
broken the day before the troop left
WaWona, returned from the hospital to
camp.
Private Glenn V. Porter was, on the
18th, appointed operator in the post
telegraph Office.
On the End, DR.. F. B. Robinson and
Steward Myer Josephson, who had at
tended to the health of the troop dur
ing the outing at Yosemite, were taken
away and attached to the division field
hospital.
Next day Private Weller was dis
ol,o of f1,0 otoY of
war, and Sergeant Price and Private
Eldredge were granted furloughs until
Dec. 8.
Private Cobb, who had previously
been given a furlough, ending Nov. %,
was, on Nov. &C. allowed a twenty
days extension, by order Of Major
General Merriam.
On Sept. II Sergeant De Vigne was
given a furlough to attend the bedside
of his wife, dangerously i'll at ST.
Louis. His time expired on the 18th of
this month, and since that day he has
been carried on the books as Habsent
without leave. On the 18th, however,
the sergeant returned to his troop,
and, showing sufficient reason for his
failure to report on time, avoided the
trouble that might otherwise have re-
suited. Mrs. De Vigne is out of dan
ger, but now the sergeant himself is
anyInlnS DuC We'll, ana Will PROBABLY
be discharged shortly.
Day before yesterday Private Arthur
L. Miller was formally made stable or
derby, and Private Frank Hardness,
troop clerk.
ONLY A DOZEN FOR DRILL.
On the morning of Nov. 25 a. mounted
drill was ordered. There are 80 en-
listed men in the troop, and it might be
supposed that they could turn out sew
eral very fair platoons, but when Lieu
tenant KimbaH arrived to take charge,
he found just twelve men ready. An
investigation showed the whereabouts
OF the remainder, as follows:
Excused, Il; on mounted patrol, s.;
old guard fatigue, 6; main guard 6;
new guard, G.; special fatigue, 6; po-
lice, 5; stables, 5; kitchen, 4; sick, g.;
on furlough, 3; post prison guard, g.;
absent without leave, 2; trumpeters, 9;
farriers, 2; quartecmaster sergeant, l.;
mounted orderly, /; in hospital, /; or
derby, l; clerk, l; wagner, 1; sadler, l.;
total, so.
Added to this eighty, the dozen men
for drill gave us ninety-two and the
remaining eight of our original 100 are
Privates Adams, Brandt, Brattain, Es-
ties, LoVeless, Peterson and Weller, all
discharged, and Private Luff, deceased.
GAME A BUSY MAN.
But the onerous honors of garrison
life have not fallen upon the enlisted
men alone. Repeatedly Captain Game
has served as officer of the day for
the entire post, this requiring his pres
ence at guard mount, when he must
stand in patent feathers, white gloves,
folded arms and slung sword, review
ing the magnificent post band, mounted,
and the hordes of sentries, prepared for
tWenty-four hours hiking at the
treat, when the evening guns startie
the visiting ladies and the flag droops
to the ground TO the tune of the Star
spangled Banner" and at reveille,
when the darkness of early dawn and
the omnipresent fogs from the bay al
most conceal Old Glory, hoisted to the
masthead, and make weird toned the
voices of the first sergeants, who APP
pear in the gloom from all quarters, sa-
lutte the officer of the day, and report
all present or accounted for" But
Captain Caine will do officer of the day
no more, for now he is acting major.
commanding the first squadron of cav
airy at Preside. The troop is proud OF
its commanders new title, and really
Major Game doesn't sound so bad.
Lieutenant Smith has been busy. too.
AT present he is officer Of the garrison
courtmartial, and has charge of the so
nicknamed casualty brigade" COM
posed of stragglers from various troops
left here sick when their Commands
went to Manila or Honolulu, or recruits
who have never been able to join their
several commands.
And If anyone should imagine that
Lieutenant Kimball has been idle he
should note the number of times that
officer has had charge of the main
guard, and should see him flying about
on his charger, directing the labor of
big fatigue details, for he is now police
officer of the entire post Besides this
Lieutenant Kimball will be acting ad-
jutant in the mounted cavalry parades
that are to be inaugurated this week
Henceforth these parades, a new wrin-
kle to the Utah troop, will occur on
Tuesday and Thursday mornings of
each week.
HEALTH GENERALLY GOOD.
During the last residence here the
health of the Utah soldiers has been
exceptionally good. Privates Freed
Hyde and David are the only ones vino
have been confined in the hospital. The
first two are out now, and Dowd will
be back with the crowd in a day OF
two.
The troopers are still in comfortable
tents, and when they will be placed in
barracks is one of the many uncertain
ties. Already they have prepared for
Immigration one set of barracks assign
ed to them, but later they were taken
away. 1t seems likely now that we will
live in frame barracks near the stables