The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-27

who called him MY darling boy
| There was moisture in the big fellows
/ eyes as he looked down at his mother,
along whose cheeks tears of happiness
were streaming unchecked. More than
one such greeting occurred. Sometimes
it was a wife who met her husband, a
who met her father.
The Regimental Mascot.
| And through it all the "recruities'
| cracked jokes and had all kinds of fun,
! scraping acquaintance with admiring
young women who had a weakness for
uniforms. One person who gathered
more amusement than anybody was the
diminutive and intensely black regi-
mental mascot, one Andrew White. An
drew isn't colored; he's just black, as
black as the blackest black that was
ever made. A chunk of darkness out
of a mine at midnight would make a
white streak on the mascots counte-
nance.
He is 10 years old and has had cx-
perience enough for ten times ten. This
is not Andrews first shy at being a
mascot He was born ira Louisiana and
drifted over to Key West in time to be
picked up by the Tenth cavalry and go
to Cuba Through that campaign Andy
went. Not long ago he dropped into
ST Louis and out to Jefferson Barracks.
where the Sixteenths third battalion
gobbled him. Now he's going to the
Philippines.
"Yas, suh," said Andy, yesterday.
Use heah'd dem Mowsah bullets so
DOM zoom an de shrapnel squall. At
fus' / jeS' squat down wen head EN-,
/ was dot skeered. Now, huh. dab aim
no bullet wat kin skeer Andy. oh,
no, mani Filipino? Dey tells me dey
shoots bown arrers. Yah, YAH" and
Andy's face expanded into a broad grin.
II ketch all de arrerS in One han and
trow 'em back wild turrer." Yesterday
Andy was wearing a tattered uniform
that had once belonged to lieutenant.
1t was much too big for him, but he
had cut off the trousers and padded out
the coat so that he presented very
"chesty" appearance.
After wait of more than an hour.
the assembly was sounded and the first
section, after many lingering goodbyes,
pulled out at 4:45. Three minutes ear
lier, the second section had arrived. 1t
carried companies j and G, with los
men each. Lieutenant Ridenour was in
command. being the only commissioned
officer with the detachment.
Makeup of Second Section.
Inc train WIS llldQt VI tlSiil
man sleepers of an early vintage, with
two baggage, two freight cars and
caboose. One of the cars bore this in
scription, in letters big enough to be
read a mile: 1--WE don't want Boston
literature; we're after Aguinaldo." BY
way of explanation, scholarly-looking
recruit said that at one of the towns
maiden lady had insisted on passing
around some Ibsen plays and Browning
poems. The inscription was posted then
in self-defense.
The second section remained only
few minutes 1t left the depot at 5:15.
and left so suddenly that fifteen or
twenty of the men failed to get aboard.
They caught the first section of the sec
ond battalion early this morning. how
ever, and are now well along the road
to the coast.
A number of Lieutenant Guy Palmer's
friends were much disappointed because
he wasn't with the third battalion.
They turned out in force to meet him.
and were informed that he was with
the last section, and would not be along
until about O'Clock this morning.
Fifty or seventy-five Salt Lakers
went to Ogden with the first section of
the third battalion. They returned |
early last night and reported most |
,S,o,,.so,,ad n, raya