The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-24
lsneciaI Corresnondence.l

Washington Oct. 2O-Many rumors
| have been current during the past
week with regard to the ultimate dis
position TO be made Of the regular
/ troops recently ordered to the west Re
/ ports have been in circulation 10 the
1 effect that all the regulars would ulti-
/ mately be sent TO Cuba before the winter
/ season was over, and that certain COM
mandS now in Cuba would be transferred
to Puerto Rico to give the men the benefit
OF a change in climate AdJutant General
/ Corbin made an authoritative statement
10 The Herald correspondent today, say
ing:
~The troops that have been ordered
to points west of the Mississippi VIII
probably be given a full tour of duty at
their stations before being sent elsewhere.
II IS not at all likely that any OF the
regulars recently detailed for service in
Colorado, Wyoming, Titan, Arizona,
etc, will have to be sent to Cuba We re-
gard il as necessary to keep a consider
able force of regulars in the country re-
ferred to. and in view of possible Indian
uprisings In various sections the stations
we have designated are likely TO prove
convenient from which to order troops In
any direction.
we have recently assigned the Sew
enth regiment 10 Forts Wayne and
Brady. in Michigan. but this command
will not remain permanently at these
stations. The object in sending the men
to Michigan was to give them an OPP
portunity 10 recuperate and 10 recruit TO
their fullest strength. The Seventh regi-
ment has had long period of hard
the Mississippi during the last quarter
OF century. We are glad TO send this
command to comfortable quarters in
Michigan. where we do not doubt the
officers and men will be IS popular as
they were at Fort Logan, Colo"
TORREYS ROUGH RIDERS.
The mastering out of Colonel Torrey's
regiment OF rough riders occasiOned much
Sraufcation to many of the western men
composing this celebrated command, but
there were also good many that re-
GREETED it, Colonel Terrey did his best
10 so arrange things that the men who
were needed at home could leave without
breaking up the command. and earnestly
recommended 10 Secretary Alger that
such of the men as desired to go should
be mustered out, and the regiment re-
cruited from others who desired TO JOIN
H. The tremendous popularity OF tbs
command brought hundreds of requests
to Colonel TOrrey from cavalrymen whose
regiments had been ordered to be mus
tered out for transfers to the famous
rough riders. 1t would have been an easy
thing TO nave mustered in several hun
cred men Secretary Alger, however.
thought that it would not be a good plan
TO permit transfers 10 be made. in view
Of the fact that applications were pend
ing from large number OF men whose
regiments IL was intended to hold In the
service. Dissatisfaction would result. he
Thought. and as so large a proportion of
the rough riders were men with import
ant business interests the secretary de-
cided to cut the Gordian knot BY mus
tering out the entire regiment
A FINE REGIMENT.
While in Washington Colonel Torrey
said to The Herald correspondent that
practically every western state had con-
tributed at least a few men to his regi-
ment, and that il was one of the most
harmonious aggreSations of able-bodied
and courageous men ever gathered to-
gether. "One great secret of the success
OF tho rough riders in taking care OF
themselves, said he was the fact that
almost every man was accustomed to
rustlinS. and could not only put in a.
comfortable night on the bare ground, but
could get uD in the morning and cook
himself a paiatable breakfast out of next
to nothing. The regular army ratiOnS
furnished an elaborate menu TO men who
were used to sitting in the saddle fO-
weeks at a time and eating Whatever they
could lay their hands on
Colonel Torrey was sincerely regretful
of the necessity for mastering out his
regiment, but his recommendations 20 the
department were actuateG by the sarH
spirit that animated his energetic wo-e
at all times for the best Interests = -
men, F. H HOSFORD.