The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-15
PENNSYLVANIA AND utah MEN
GREAT FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN
ARTILLERY AND TENTH
A Jeering Cry That Took On Diff
ferent Meaning After Malate
Gave Way For the Battery"

H A. Crow Of Connellsville, Pa. captain
of company d. Tenth Pennsylvania infan-
try. [. s. V. sends The Herald q copy Of
the Conneilsvilie Courier, from which the
following is taken:
On the occasion of the Tenth regiment
reception at Pittsburg, President McKin-
ley read as a roll of honor the names OF
tire volunteer regiments in the philippines
The BOYS of the Tenth were ali attention
and would frequently applaud as some IA
yorite organization was read out tlbdiiN
The president ceased rearing, ana SJiue
thought he had ftnisned- ana Wei theS
knew he had not mentlone1 all. Ni1hoDl
waiting for him to proceed, some ONE III
the ranks asked about the tan arullerS,
and the cry was taken up by t0e Wf1J-e
regiment As soon as ne could De near "A,
me president proceeded. He soon redu oHt
the name of the favO1ile organization, ana
81 was then that pandemomlum bIoke
loose Every officer and man jumped 10
their feet and further Droceedlngs We're
stopped unril everybody had yelioi them
selves hOarSe. The cheers were aaso taken
uD by the vast concOurSe OF Spectators,
and ii is doubtful whether more noise Was
ever before raised among the nils OF
Schenley park. The scene was repeated
when the First Nebraska was caHeu out
and Colorado and Montana were NEIL
The friendship between Utah ana Penn
sylVania was cemented i'm the trenches ne
organizations received their first baptism
of fire Before that the relations between
the two had been rather strained. One
battery of the artilleTYmen went TO the
PhflipDines, on the same ship with the
keystone state soldiers. and throughout
mat long voyage there were open host1H-
ties between the men of the TWO organizar
lions. Coming from different sectlons OF
the country. separated by thousands OF
miles of territory, their habits ana GUS
toms were different. The men from Utah
.as..1r ar-f IF 81
lher PENNSYLVANIA occupied the remain
der. Whenever a Utah man was Compel
ed TO so through the quarters of the Aentn
the cry of ''Gauyway for the battery
Vould ring out in sarcastic tones from
one end Of the ship 10 She other, ana the
PennsylVanians would give way, no mat
ter how deeply they Were engrossed IN a
game of poker or equally absorbing pas
time. Some very uncomplimentary re
marks were often exchanged.
Thus affairs went until the memorable
3lst of July. Here both organizations.
though facing an enemy superior IN num-
bers little thought what was in store
WREN darkness stole over them. Iney
neither looked for nor expected an attack
that night and as a consequence. neither
were prepared for what followed Jtah
mad bur little ammunition. and PennsylNa
MIA was no better off. Both organizations
were aware of the plight of the other and
they worked in harmony. They tried 10
make every shot tell, and as the rounds
became fewer hush would follow every
shot from the artillery or Noley from the
infantry to see if il had been effective.
and before the nights work was hadf over
the Utah boys We're known as the Third
battalion of the Tenth. and "Gangway for
the battery was again revived, but this
time in Jest finally spreading until the
opening of hoStiii7ies with the insurgents,
when its use became general.
Amid the din and smoke of battle no
more welcome words were ever passed
along the line, for when that cry was rails
ed all knew that the artillery had sue
ceeded in overtaking the infantry and
that the work of routing the White
Mans Burden from the doubie-deck
trenches would be hasstened. The loyalty
OF the men of the two organizations 70 one
another could never. be questioned. This
was demonstrated on several occasions,
and those who steaned into the breach
can testify as to the truthfulness of this
statement
At La Iona. a battalion Of regulars
VINO boaSted that they were veterans of
the Cuban campaign, and that they had
no particular use for volunteer troops.
supported the Utah men while the Tenth
held The line to the left of the church.
one day young West Pointer stepped
M 10 the one of the western gunners and
asked what he would do in case of an at
tack and the support would have to re-
treat The man from Utah promptly re-
piled that in case Of the present support
retreating they would send for a COM
pany of the PennsylVanians and stand
bV their guns.