The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-25
Thousands of Blue Coats Pass
Through the City.
TRAIN FOLLOWS TRAIN
SOUTHERN VOLUNTEERS CAME
ALONG YESTERDAY.
All of the Thirty-eighth Infantry
and Part of Forty-sixth Passed
Through-Former Captain Crane,
Lieutenant Colonel of the Thirty
eighth.

There was a martial tinge to the local
coloring in the nelghborhood of the Rio
Grande Western station yesterday
afternoon. 1t looked like a recurrence
of war times as section after section Of
stiff jointel, and dust covered soldier
boys rolled into the yards. Some were
singing. and others were cheering and
circulating runners. but the majority
were occupied with wondering what
ON earth ever possessed them to cut
loose from the luxury of work and
short rations to take up with life
fraught with exposure, no work, and
ditto ratiOns.
Seven sections in all passed through
on the way to San Francisco and the
Philippines between 4 in the afternoon
and daylight this morning. The belated
last section of the Forty-sdXth infantry
reached the city just ahead of the first
section of the Thirty eighth infantry en-
route from Jefferson barracks, Mis-
souri,. TO the Presidio 1t was in charge
of Captain J. McClintock. late of the
Two Hundred and Third New York
volunteers, and in addition to the en-
listed men in the eight tourist cars, had
a Pullman sleeper attached in which
Captain McClintock, Captain r. j..
Reaney, Captain A Comniskey. Adju-
td4Al y. d. NcilS. N<StpNdiu anu Oui SSOll
II. II. Lee, First Lieutenant P. B.
Lukens, First Lieutenant c. B. Wood.
and Second Lieutenant S. B. West were
entertaining Live Stock Agent Cushing
of the Denver & Rio Grande.
Thirty-eighth Arrives.
The first two sections of the Thirty
eighth infantry arrived about 4:30 p.
m. but the men were not permitted to
h., Al f1ad
at $50 and two minutes later all three
of the military trains pulled out for
Ogden. with the soldier lads cheering
over the prospect of getting something
to eat a little later in the evening. Two
more sections of the Thirty-eighth ar
rived at 7:30 D. m. and waited long
enough to load a two days supply of
field rations sent to the station by
Lieutenant White Of the Ninth cavalry.
The fifth and sixth sections of the
Thirty-eislh went through early this
morning, the last one having extra
sleepers attached for the use of the field
and staff officers,
The regiment was recruited at JEFF
fersOn barracks, Missouri, and is COM
posed principally of men from the
southern states, though every state
and territory between the Atlantic and
Pacific is represented in the ranks The
roster shows a total of fifty officers and
1909 enlisted men, Three hundred and
fifty of the enlisted strength is COM
posed of men who have seen service in
other regiments during the Spanish
American. war.
The first two sections carried the
Second battalion under command of
Captain More of company H. The two
sections following. the First battalion
under command of Major Muir. and the
last two sections the Third battalion
under command of Major Goodyear.
Regimental Staff.
The regimentaI field and staff We're
also on the last train, they We're:
Colonel George S. Anderson, formerly
captain in the Sixth cavalry; Major
Muir. formerly of the Second infantry;
Major Holbrook, formerly of the
Seventh cavalry; Major Goodyear,
formerly of the Two Hundred and
Third New York volunteer infantry;
Major and Surge Glennin, formerly
surgeon of the medical department of
the United States army; CAPTAIN and
Assistant Surgeon Dewey. formerly an
army contract doctor; Lieutenant and
Assistant Surgeon Jones' formerly of
the Tenth Ohio volunteer infantry: Ad-
jutant and Captain Read. formerly of
the Texas volunteers; Battalion Ad-
jutant Thompson. formerly of the Third
Missouri infantry; Battalion Adjutant
Doane, formerly OF the Second Ne
braska infantry; Battalion Adjutant
Jacobs. formerly of the crack Philadel-
phia City troop; QuarteTmaster and
Captain Fleischhauer, formerly of the
1hirty-fifth Michigan infantry and
Ordnance Officer Lieutenant Pavey,
formerly of the Fourth Illinois infantry
The regiment is thoroughly equipped
with army paraphernalia. and armed
with the latest model of the Krag-
Jorgensen rife. 1t will remain in San
Francisco long enough to get whipped
into shape and will then be sent to the
Philippines by the first available trans
port.
Lieutenant Colonel c. J. Crane of the
Thirty eighth infantry was formerly a.
captain in the Twenty fourth infantry,
and was stationed at Fort Douglas for
some time. He will join his new regi-
ment on its arrival in the Philippines.