The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-18
Battery A'S Luxurious Quarters On
the Steamship Colon.
TRAVEL LIKE NABOBS
OUR VOLUNTEERS ARE RIGHT
IN THE SWIM.
Only Troops Permitted to Take Their
Mascot On Board-People Cheered
For the Regulars" AS They
Marched to the Ships-Shoddy
Uniforms Supplied By Uncle Sam.
fspecial Correspondence.l


On Board the Steamship Colon, San
Francisco Harbor, June 15.-At last
the goal has been reached The
long month of anxious waiting and I'M
expected delays IS now at an end, and
ere the sun shall have kissed the hills
and wales of their native state, Utah S
volunteers will be far out on their way
to the seat of war. They have been
just as anxious to get away and just
as disappointed by the delays as has
been the public, and when the orders
came for them to embark they were
so delighted that they double timed
their heavy guns out of the sand hill
where they were camped, onto the ma
cadamiZed road, where wagons were
waiting to haul them TO the depot. I'm
der ordinary circumstances they would
hardly be able to move them in the
loose sand.
Their march to the sea was one long
to be remembered. Every house was
decorated with old glory and in every
window was seen a picture of Dewey.
The crowd cheered long and loud for
them, but they didn't cheer for Utah.
AS Pennsylvania troops passed they
cried, Three cheers for Pennsylvania"
as Colorado's troops passed they cried,
three cheers for Colorado" bat as
Utah's troops passed they cried, Three
cheers for the regulars"
That unchanging cadence that all the
command has accustomed itself to,
keeps the line so straight that a gun
could be fired six inches in front of the
guide and not hit a single man. Hence
they were mistaken for seasoned regu-
lars.
Not man of them is i'll, but there
is a secret about their wonderful health.
They Gisdain sickness more than does
the Indian. To get sick is considered
cowardly and ''womanish." And their
health is often a victory of will power
over physical. There was a runnor cir
culated once to the effect that sick men
were well fed and that morning the
whole command reported on the sick
list, but they were informed that sick
ness got starved till they We're well.
Then all but one was well again. This
one continued to be sick until noon.
AT that hour his companions took him
out and tossed him up in a blanket
for some minutes. Then they tin canned
him up the battery street and down
again. He, too, was we'll after that, and
he will stay well.
QUARTERS ON SHIP.
In the matter CT quarters, battery A
is exceptionally favored. Artillery is
as the highest branch of the
service and in the allotment of quarters
class cabins. They are the same as
are occupied by the officers and are |
fitted up.
Far different, however, are the apart |
nents of the other troops. They are !
n inprovised hunks placed in tiers Of i
our. and two soldiers occupy each |
punk. This is the one thing the gov
eminent has given them, at which they
Ire not kicking. The food has been |
1ai nod Of inn MI
SHODDY UNIFORMS.
The new uniforms are neither things
# beauty nor joys forever. They show
he effect of government rush orders,
S they vary in color from yellow to
carlet, and are of the cheapest shod-
y. They are SO poorly sewed that they
ip whenever one Stops over Then
he boys say words which wouldn't look
GOD in print, at the clothes and the
overnment and repair to auarters,
here they wish they had their moth
rs along to sew them up.
The pass word of the boys recently
as been Look out for my arm. The ,
accinationS have made the arms very
pre- and it is a penal offense to brush {
p against anotheT's pet arIn How {
YER, this will all be over in a few DAYS ! !
hen the boys will have nothing to do !.
ut stand at the railing and throw up
verything except their job
BATTERY RIVALRY.
It is too bad that the batteries were :
aced on different ships, for ii was a :
1irited hut healthful rivalry which .
as springing UP between them 1t G
sed to be battery AS ambition to out S
ass ba ttery B, and it was also battery q
s ambition to outclass battery A.
hen the signal to fall in was given
lch battery strained every effort to S
It in line before the other. and the f
lards shared this spirit. The guards v
battery B tried their best TO jug h
embers of battery L. With the bat |,
ry A guards it was vice versa. The v
licers made use of this feeling by a
acing B guards on beat near AS camp T.
I'd AS guards near BIS camp, thereby t
occurring the strictest watches When o
e time for reckoning UP came it was il