The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-18
Compliment Paid The Gallant Twen-
ty-fourth.
BY WHITE ROSE MISSION
CEREMONIES WITNESSED BY A
NUMBER OF CITIZENS.
Followed By a Grand Review, the En-
tire Garrison Turning out-The
Presentation Made By Chaplain
Allensworth-Banner Received By
Captain Ducat-The Speeches.


the flag presented to the regiment by
the White Rose mission. in compliance
with the following regimental general
order:
Headquarters Twenty fourth United
States Infantry.
Fort Douglas, Utah, March l6, 1893.
General Orders No. 3:
The battalion of the regiment serving
at this post win be paraded tomorrow,
the 18th instant, at 1880 a M, for the
purpose of receiving the flag lately pre-
scented to the Twenty fourth infantry
by the White Rose society of New York
City.
The First battalion, consisting of
companies A, G, II and L, viii be
formed in line on west side of parade
ground. facing west. The Second bat
talon, consisting Of companies B, d and
Nj, viii be formed in line ON west side
of parade ground, facing east. Major
j. NJ. Thompson, Twenty-fourth infan-
try, will command the First battalion,
and Captain Henry Wygant, Twenty
fourth infantry, will command the Sec
ond battalion. The points Of rest for
each battalion will be indicated by the
regimental adiutant. The flag will be
presented by Chaplain Allen Aliens
worth, and Captain A. c. Ducat, Twen-
ty-fourth infantry, will receive it in
the name of the regiment. The regimen
tai color sergeant viii then bear the
flag to company L, Twenty fourth in
fantry, which is hereby designated the
color company.
BY order of Colonel Freeman.
(Signed) ]. D. LEITCH,
First Lieutenant and Adjutant Twenty
fourth Infantry.
A large number of citizens from the
city, Notwithstanding the cool March
wind that was sweeping through Emil
grafton canyon, were present. and
though chilled through and through,
patiently awaited the end of the ceTe-
mony which was concluded by a, grand
review. The regiment was paraded in
an original formation for the reception
of colors. Captain Ducat took position
in the center of the parade ground, with
the color sergeant and guard in his rear.
Chaplain AllenSworth, with an orderly
bearing the colors, advanced from the
flagstaff, halted, about faced, and re-
ceived the flag from the orderly AT the
command, backward, march, the or
derby stepped back five feet, the chap
lain lowered the flag and the casing
was removed by the orderly, the chap
lain again about faced, unfurled the
flag and presented it to Captain Ducat,
who uncovered and presented his guard.
THE PRESENTATION.
The following presentation address
was then made by the chaplain:
'Oficers and Members of the Twenty
fourth Infantry-In compliance with
general orders No. s. headquarters
Twenty-fou1th infantry, you have been
paladesl to receive a standard, the ma
tional colors of our beloved country.
The invention of standards is atuibut-
ed, by ancient authors, to the Egyp-
tians, as they had the earliest organlze':
military force of which we had any
knowledge; we may, therefore, feel GER
tain that the Hebrews had the idea of
at least the use of ensigns from the
Egyptians. for it is not at adj likely that
the small body Of men who originally
went down into Egypt had any such
articles, or any occasion for them Do
durus informs us that the Egyptian
standards consisted of the figure of an
animal at the end of a. spear. Among
the Egyptian sculptures and paintings
there also appear other standards,
which either resemble at top a round
headed table knife or AN expanded
eeni-circular fan.
These latter are attributed to the
eco-Egyptians; but we are unable
to find any satisfactory data to show
that they were other than varieties OF
most ancient Egyptian standards. The
a piece of arnor at the end of a spear;
but Homer makes Agamemnon use a
purple veil with which to rally his men.
the Athenians afterwards, in the nat
ural progress which we observe in the
history of ensigns, adopted the olive
and the owl, and the other Greek ma
tions also displayed the effigies of their
tutelary gods, or their particular sym
bols at the end of a spear Some of
them had simply the initial letter of
their national name. The ancient Per
sian standard is Variously described.
One kind consists of a staff terminated
in a divided ring, and having below a
transverse bar from which two enor-
nous taSSels are suspended. The other
consists of five globular forms on a
crossbar. They are doubtless Of metal,
and probably had some reference to the
heavenly bodies, which were the an
cient objects of worship in Persia. The
proper royal standard OF that country,
however, for many centuries, until the
AIohammedan conquest. was a black
smiths leathern apron, around which
they had at one time been rallied to a
successful opposition against the odious
tyranny Of Zohauk. Many national
standards have arisen from similar
emergencies. when that which was next
at hand being seized and lifted up as
a rallying point for the people, was
afterWard, out of a sort of supersutious
gratitude adopted either as a common
ensign or the sacred banner. Thus also
originated the horeStails of the mod
ern turks, and the bundles of hay at
the top of pole which formed the most
ancient Roman standard, as mentioned
by DR.. Meyrick in his splendid work on
ancient armor, says in that work, that
each century, or at least each maniDle
OF troops had its proper standard and
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merely bundle of hay at the top Of
a pole: afterwards a spear, with cross
piece of wood at the top, sometimes
with the figure of a hand above, prob
ably an alluSion TO the word Manipu-
lus, and below a small round or oval
shield, generally of silver or of gold.
on this metal plate were usually rep
resented the warlike deities Mars and
Minerva; but, after the extinction of
the commonwealth, the effigies of the
emperors and their favoriteS; it was on
this account that the standards were
called humina legionum, and held in
religious generation. The standards Of
different divisions had certain letters
inscribed on them to distinguish the one
from the other.
THE standard of a legion, according
to Dio, was a silver eagle with expand
ed wings. on the top of a spear, some
times holding a thunderbOit in its
claws: hence the Aquila was used to
signify legion. The place for this
standard was near the general, almost
in the center. Before the time of Ma
RUS, figures Of ether animals were used
and the vexillen, or flag of cavalry, was,
according to Livy, a square piece of
cloth, fixed to a crossbar at the end
of a spear. These flags had sometimes
fringes and ribands. and were used less
restrietedly than Dr. Meyrick seems to
stale