The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-30
They Departed for the Philippines
Yesterday.
CROWDS CHEERED TROOPS
THE SOLDIERS MAINTAINED A
CHEERFUL AIR.
misunderstanding as to Orders
Caused Delay of More Than an
Hour, But the Special Finally Got
Away Amid a Chorus of Parting
Yells From All Sides.

Company a, Twenty-fourth infantry
left last evening for San Francisco ant
the Philippines. The company left her,
lis strong and was under command o.
Captain B. w. Leavell. together witt
First Lieutenant C. S. Lincoln anC
Second Lieutenant Herring FRS
Lieutenant A. a. Laws, regimenta
quartermaster. and Quartermaster Ser
geant Newlands, who have been at the
post clearing up the affairs of the quar-
! termaster's department, accompanied
/ company a and will join headquarters
/ at the Preside. Five members Of the
! hospital corps likewise went with the
company.
Crowd at Depot.
Quite good-sized crowd gathered at
the Rio Grande Western depot to speed
the troops on their way. The four
street car loads of soldier boys had
7 come through town shouting and sing
ing as merrily as though they were on
pleasure jaunt, instead of d long,
weary journey toward a tropical land
whence many of them will never re-
turn Arrived at the station, they
were quickly marched to their train,
which waited on a siding, three tourist
sleepers, a Pullman ("Waterloo" was
its somewhat ominous name) and four
and other impedimenta.
When their knapsacks, Krag-Jor-
sensons and other paraphernalia had
been distributed through the cars, the
soldiers were free to circulate among
the waiting crowd and say their fare
wells to their wives, sWeethearts and
friends. They SWarmed around the
platforms at will, some of them with
couple of swapping little picka-
ninnies in their arms, and a wife at Ell
bow trying to look cheerful and talk
ing of all else but the coming parting.
Others strolled away from the crowd,
with strapping, kinky-haired colored
lass at either hand, talking soberly of
the future, when they should return
from the far-away Philippines.
Nearly All Cheerful.
But the greater number took it
cheerfully enough. and joked and
laughed and played pranks on one
another. A big, strapping bugler,
whose sad-eyed wife stood beside him
with a little urchin in her arms,
grinned cheerily when a bystander
asked him if he wasn't afraid a Fill
pino bullet might pick him out as d
soft place to light.
Il dunno whuthuh dey'H git me or
not he said, but l guess hit doan
make a heap o. difference, nohow. Guv-
Hltul II tex httT man VIE NNllt L -
gone, anyhow, and 1 guess hitll TEX
keer o. her ef dey gifts me-"
The little wife did not say anything,
but she looked as though it made a
heap o diffunce" To her, whatever her
soldier husband might think about it.
The special was scheduled to leave at
6 o'clock, but owing TO a misunder-
of orders, Corporal Dorsey
and detail OF six men who had been
loading the cars had returned by
wagon to the fort after so doing. ard
the train had TO wait until Captain
Leavell telephoned to the fort for the
absent men. They came down on the
first available car, and then shortly
after o'clock the train pulled out The
soldiers spared not their lungs in say
ing that last farewell
Double rows of round wOolly heads
hung from each window, and the roar
ing of the hundred and twenty voices
which belonged to those heads sound
ed well nigh to Main street. The crowd
fingered on the platform until the last
ear had swung out of sight around the !
curve; then they boarded the uptown /
cars and the last of the famous Twen- !
-y-fourth was gone from Salt Lake.