The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-02-25
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part that is generally slIppered in
your juvenile days.
In 1852 a three decker man of-war /
was christened the Windsor Castle. An /
old lady there said that the vessel |
would not 90 off the stocks for four /
days. (The people there were rather !
supersutiOus. but anyhow the vessel |
did not go off for four days and it /
happened that the Duke Of Wellington !
died that day.) It was subsequently /
rechristened the Duke OF Wellington /
and is nov at Portsmouth. On the day |
the duke was buried L was one of a /
gun detachment that had to fire :
eighty-three rounds. one for each year
Of his age, being minute guns. We had
fired about ten rounds when the rain
came down in torrents. This was at
Pembroke, Wales.
I was about the first soldier to oc-
cupy AldeTShOt in 1854, about March.
When the CTImean war broke out l
was engaged lettering mems kits, cut
ting wood types, marking harness watts,
etc, 50 that the regiment could not
spare me to go with my battery, but 1t
was fearful to see my old comrades
coming home wounded. some minus
arms or legs. One poor fellow I well
remember. He had lost both arms,
and was in WOOlwich hospital; when
the queen came TO visit the wounded
her majesty asked him what he would
do now. His reply was 1 depend upon
your majesty and your government.
! She gave him private pension of half
a crown a day for life. 1 remember
I him when he was cOnYaleScent and
/ out Of hospital and have seen him at
/ the canteen take a pewter pint meas
! ure Of beer between his teeth and alb
| serb the contents.
| He drank very hard. Soon after he
/ was fOUnG on WOOlwich common by
| an officer partly undressed lying on
/ the ground. The poor fellow said he
| could not get up and could not button
| himself up so the government allowed
| him q for a boy TO look after him.
/ He was then discharged and received
| from the pension department Chelsea
! % cents for each arm. He then became
/ very steady but early in 1856 I saw him
I again as gate keeper at the arsenal, for
/ that he got five shillings day
On Recruiting Service.
1 When We march into a country town
/ Girls viii frolic and prudes viii frown
why that's absurd,
/ When we march away We leave behind,
| Pretty girls that have been vastly kind
! Pray take my word.
| OF, off we go, and say that we are on
duty
| On to another town and firt with some
| new beauty.
'SThe first thing I had to do at Cow
! entry, Warwickshire, in 1855, was to
| get acquainted with a few nice girls
ribbon Weavers. so that I could get
plenty Of ribbons for my recruits to
| wear in pretty rOsetteS and streamers
to attract other birds that would come
| to my net. / was successful in this
respect for 1 found that I could get all
! the girls. r0settes and ribbons I want
| ed The ladies were patriotic. 50 was
Every recruit I obtained meant
4 lis cd, 1915 in my pocket. My artillery
! standard height was feet 9 inches,
chest 90 inches, but if 1 got shorter
men I would hand them over to the
East India company or some infantry
/ regiment. OF course the Royal regiment
/ Of artillery was a crack corps. Re
cruits 1 handed over meant S1-25 for me.
| Of course some times I would have a
/ hard case. One young man 1 enlisted
was feet 9 and Il. He began to
| dwindle in height to grow dOwnwards.
| He did not want TO pass. l
had to exercise strategy. 1 had
to take my recruits once
| month 10 NoFthamtOn to be passed by
the recruiting officer there. I noticed
| that the recruit began to reduce his
| height Just before the officer came in
| to inspect. I measured the boy under
I the standard one-half inch short. Il
shall lose by this" thought I. The top
/ Of the measuring standard was very
/ heavy. Just before the officer came in
/ stood him under the standard and let
/ II fall with Plump. It raised a half
! inch bump on his Uranium: after that
he made a good artilleryman.
! Another incident at Coventry, the
town Of Peeping Tom, where officers
are sent if they misconduct themselves:
A -
me to get him a chum to enlist with
him as comrade. ] could not meet
/ with two Of the same kind often, so the
/ gunner that was in that town with me
equipped himself in citizens clothes and
/ talked about enlisting to him, inciden-
I tally
Il dropped into the resort and enlist
ed them both, TO get that promising re
/ cruit. He never regretted IL. He was
a good wheelwright. took his photo
/ in 1861, with fifteen others, and he told
me he was better off than ever he had
/ been before, for instance. he had 20
/ cents a day as sergeant and % cents
as artifcer, SO, after his ratiOns were
! paid for, he cleared 81 per day.
my citizen NJ. D. always gave me a
| discount. I was on the same service in
| Manchester in 1857. Every recruit that
I got was entitled to a billet chat is a
4 lodging for the night. These billets
I would be issued once a week by the
/ Inspector Of police 10 the sergeant for
/ the number Of recruits ne had Ny
friend, the inspector. would always give
me billets on first-rate hotels, whose
I landlords would always pay me in pref
| erence to lodging the recruits.
Then there was money in railroad
/ travelling. The war department always
| allowed cents a mile; the regular fare
/ from Manchester would be S425 1
/ would get return excursion tickets for
( $3.50, sell the return tickets in London
for $1.25. so I would make IS on each
recruit that way. That would give them
| some beer. As a general thing these
young men are not very religious I
remember asking one young fellow:
What religion shall I put you DOWN.
/ He remarked: Put ne down anything
] asked his chum: Oh says he, put
me down the same as Jack
Poking In Religion.
Sometimes in the different garrison
[ chapels I would be on duty as orderly,
with q walking cane. Ny duty was TO
I keep the soldiers awake By proddiug
f. them with a cane IL asleep. We used to
call this pOking religion into them with
/ a stick. In 1851 ! was in the island OF
/ Jersey and had squad Of gunners
/ mounting heavy guns at Mount Orguel
! In that detachment Of twenty-five men
there were eighteen Tipperary boys. The
balance were English and Scotch. On
that island there is no duty on spirits.
I tobacco or anything.
Every man has to belong to the mi
litla. Through exemption OF duty, spir-
its was very cheap. Brandy IS cents
per quart. The TfpperaTy boys would
be drunk and fighting every night. so
that I had 10 get the sober men to cap
size the drunken ones as they came in,