The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-24
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three meals day and stand guard
once a week. The mosquitoes, the ants
the lizards, the cockroaches appease the
belligerent desires of the recruits, and
are ever willing to give battle.
The poor rockies What q time
they are having. They always do the
wrong thing at the right time, and suf-
fer q terrible penalty at the hands of
the vets The unkindest cut of all
was given them at the last inspection.
The inspecting officer noticed the two
distinct tribes in the ranks, and re-
marked something about the green
ness" of one tribe ''They are our.
recruits answered the lieutenant.
Recruits? Well, where did you get
them? Are they some you picked up
here on the island?"
Since then the recruits have said very
little and sawed lots of wood. They
will make soldiers yet
Ha Of the barracks We're turned over
to battery G, Third United States ar
tillery (serving as infantry last Mon
day. This overcrOwds everything but
our knapsacks and trunks. This bat
terry did not fight alongside Utah at
Malate, and consequently looks upon
the boys in the same light as the reg
ular usually regards the volunteer The
Utah boys are considered easy prey
for them and they ''SWipe" everything
not under lock and key.
Captains Young and Grant are ex-
| pected back from Hongkong in about a
week.
Nearly all the other commands are
flooded with congratulatory resolutions
from their native states and cities, but
all that has appeared so far among us
is letter from Governor Wells, con-
graduating Captain Grant for his grit
in lighting mid raging typhoonS.
The government seems to be pursuing
course calculated to make her SOL
diers as disgusted with the army as
/ possible, and to induce them to avoid it
! In the future, just as a burnt child
| SHES from the fire.
The reports hold no hopes out to us
for an immediate departure from this
/ pesthole of disease and filth. The bows
| did not bargain to become permanent
garrison force, and the idea of being
held down to such duty is repugnant
! to them. The life is continual misery to
the large majority, and if Utah can
work some sort of pull to get her bat
teries among the first to depart the
boys will be forever grateful
! There are so many petty officers here.
with just enough authority to sustain
! them in their pettyness. AS everyone
/ knows, the men are tied down hand
and feet to officers. The latter have
| acted thoroughly un-American on
many occasions. They have had the
| swell hotels and clubs closed to the
men, and, in fact, barred them from all
the places decent enough. to attract the
officers eyes. The men are given no
privileges whatever in the line of al
lowing them to study the country here.
! Wherever one goes one finds a guard
with orders. Commissioned officers
/ only NAV pass this noint Tyhue +bo
men are barred from the forts, the
arsenal, the old wall and the neighbor-
ing villages.
Baseball enthusiasm is as rampant
as the heat will permit. Utah has the
| largest number of points to her credit
in the race for a fine silver cup, and the
boys intend to take it back to Utah
with them.
The men are dying off like rats in
4 many regiments.
! Private Varian and Sergeant Fisher
are seriously i'll, while a large number
of men are suffering from dysentery.
RUSSELL.