The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-08
ARMY AND NAVY GOSSIP.

The depot quartermaster at Phila-
delphia has been authorized to pur-
chase 100000 yards of kersey, $50, 600
yards flannel. $4,000 yards cloth, 1000
Sibley stoves and $4,000 joints Sibley
stove pipe.
General ''Joe" Wheeler accepted an
invitation to deliver an address before
an Atlanta audience for the benefit OF
the Atlanta Pelief association, whose
good work Il the sick and wounded
has achieved widespread recognition.
Secretary Long has authorized the
purchase of two plants of making
machinery for the Boston navy yard.
Extensive purchases of machinery for
the Norfolk navy yard will be made by
the paymaster general of the navy.
Private ]. F. Finley of the First Cali
fornia, who carried ammunition to the
Tenth Pennsylvania during the battle
of Malate. making several trips over a
field swept by the Spanish fire, is half
Spanish and is "A years old.
General Miles has recommended that
the troops to be retained in the ser
vice be sent to military posts instead of
camps in the south. 1t is held that the
troops can be better accommodated.
with a greater degree of comfort and
assurance of health, than in southern
points.
Prescott, Ariz, claims that it fur
nished the first volunteer in the pres
ent war, and that from that place the
first company started to the front The
volunteer was Captain O'Neill of the
rough riders. and a monument to his
memory Is to be erected on the court
house plaza of Prescott.
Randolph H. Waters, an inmate OF
the Soldiers Home at Leavenworth.
Kan, recently visited a cemetery at
Elmwood, Kan, and read an epitaph
over a grave supposed to be his. His
sister had placed the headstone over
the grave two years ago. Waters ran
away from home at the beginning Of
the civil war. and after il was over he
went west.
The quartermaster's department has
sent the transport Mobile to a shipyard
to be transformed into a modern troop
ship. Reports received show that this
work is progressing very slowly. and
if greater progress is not made it will
be impossible to have these ships
transformed in time for the Cuban ex-
petition. Colonel Hecker is making
every effort possible to facilitate the
work.
Estimates for work at various navy
yards are being prepared by the bureau
chiefs. Those at New York will
amount to more than 81 100000. and
provide for quay wall. buildings, etc;
those for the Boston navy yard aggre-
gate $500. 600, and provide for electric
plant, extension of piers, etc, and
those of League Island amount to
100000, and provide for work on the
basin, extension of walls, etc.
Miss Resale Porter. daughter of
Lieutenant Theodore Porter. United
States navy, is at Notre Dame college.
near Baltimore, Md. Notre Dame is a
favorite college for the daughters of
number of pupils enrolled this year:
Miss Caroline Marmion, daughter of
Medical Inspector R. A. Marmion,
United States navy, and the Misses
Wilson. daughters of Captain James
Wilson. United States army. The
daughters of the late Admiral Meade
were educated at Notre Dame.
A writer in an English periodical. af-
ter recounting General Brooke's exper- !
fences as a sOldier-and many Of them
were thrilling-says: THE general has !
been twice married. 1t will thus be
seen that his war record is a distin- |
guished one" We have no wish to be !
but it does seem as if the |
sentences quoted ought to have been
kept a little farther apart.-Cleveland |
Leader.