The San Francisco call., 1898-06-05

ceive a further increase of pay for the fourth and fifth years of service, and still further increase for each five years of continuous service. For soldiers who serve honestly and faithfully for twenty years or who are discharged for wounds received or disease incurred in service, comfortable home is maintained in the city of Washington. After thirty years service enlisted men are entitled to be retired and upon retirement they receive three-fourths of the monthly pay allowed by law to them in the grade they hold when retired and $9 50 per month as com mutation for clothing and subsistence.
 Furthermore, there is at nearly every post in the country library and reading. room in which is kept a good assortment of literature. There are also post schools, where every soldier can acquire. free of cost, fair English education, and there are facilities for gymnastic exercises anc proper games and other amusements,.
 The purchasing act, by which a soldier can buy his discharge at the end Of ms first years enlistment upon the payment of a stipulated sum, $120 being the maxi mum price, is void during the war. An enlistment at the present time therefore means for the war at least and three years at most. ..,
 A man to serve in the infantry or artll- lery must be not less than feet Inches high his weight not less than lZI nor more than 190 pounds; for caValry, not less than feet inches nor more thau feet 10 inches, weight not more than Ioo pounds.
 Lieutenant Fisk and Lieutenant Whlt- worth have opened recruiting 01nce TOT the Eighteenth Infantry in the examiner building, Market-street side; Lieutenant Franklin for the Twenty-third Infantry in rooms and 7 g Kearny street Lieu tenant Abernathy for the Third Artillery in room 229 Phelan building; and Captaln Keefer for the Hospital and Signal corps at room 219, Phelan building. Recruling offices have also been established m all the principal cities and towns or lie +h1 Of1i cations are being received, and as a rue the applicants are of a good class or earnest and determined men. Lieutenant Abernathy, in the Phelan pulIGlIhies +Gon- yv7 for the Third Artillery. LleutenanI Franklin at 23 Kearny street, who opened his office yesterday morning, recelVeu about a dozen applications for the Twenty third Infantry
 "The regular army has trained officers, and it therefore stands to reason tnat tile men will have the fullest conndence ..If III them,' said Lieutenant Abernathy II a man rises in the regular army ne se- cures something that he can depend upon. He is not thrown out at the end or the war The newspapers to the contrary notwithstanding, search of the army register shows that in the Civil War a greater proportion, although not greater in number, rose from the ranks III tne the regular army than rom the OAuhe0oA ranks. ,,,,or or,o,, .o,dier is better fed on the same IdtlOil IIIdil CiIO volunteer is another thing to De conSld- cred The regular army cooks make the most of the ration, although they may be no better cooks than those of the Yolun- teers. Private Fox. the cook of Battery l.. Third Artillery, to which l belong, haS been in the service fifteen years, and makes a ration go farther and somehow taste better than most cooks in civil life couId do. Owing to the superior training of his supply officer the regular army sol dier is more sure to get his full ration and all the clothing he is entitled to. Another thing that may have some weight IS that among the volunteers men become ofhcers more through their popularity than any thing else Of course there are exceptions to this In the regular army, however men must rise almost entirely on their merits
 "Aithough an applicant is not now re ouired to read and write English, but only to speak the language, said Lieu tenant Franklin, 'I found during a months recruiting in Texas only one mar who could not read and write, and he was an American born-
 Now. as to the pay of soldiers, l have a man in my office here who draws Szl 6t a month, and there are great many in my regiment who are receiving larger pay than that ao
 "In time of peace a private receives $46S for his three years of service, and if he is careful he can save nearly every cent of it. In time of war his pay will amount to much more. So you see man can. II he manages correctly, lay by neat sum of mOneV."