The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-03-04
THE SEVENTY-TWO YOUNG SOLDIERS
WHO End THEIR CADET DAYS

studious habits are believed to have
been all that saved him from the iS-
nominiOus disgrace of being dismissed
from the academy in his first class
year. The sentence imposed was an
nounced Friday.
Mueller was u years and IL months
old when admitted to the institution, in
June, 1897, and comes from an Illinois
district. He is very popular with his
classmates, many of whom worked in
his behalf through their influential
friends in Washington. He is .consid-
cred very fortunate in avoiding the
penalty of dismissal, which his class
mates thought would surely be his lot.
Altogether the career of this years
graduating class has been an eventful
one. It's members were largely instru-
mental in the framing of the resolu-
tions to abolish hazing recently pre-
scented to Colonel Miles, the Superin-
tendent, during the investigation by
the congressional committee.
The great graduat ton ball, which is
the browning social feature of the year
at the academy, will take place on next
Saturday evening, the 10Th. All Vas
sar will be present.
The 'hundredth night entertain
ment, which was to have been held on
the evening of the 23d, viii have to be
abandoned. The principal participants
in the entertainment are the members
of the first class, the name signifying
100 nights until June. the regular date
of the annual class graduation.
The graduating exercises will be held
on Monday morning, the 18th, at 10
O'Clock, and viii take place in the new
CullOm Memorial building. 1t is ex-
pected that Secretary Root will be in
attendance to deliver the sheepskinS to
the young officers.
After the graduating exercises the
class will leave the post immediately
and go to New York City where they
will have dinner at the Murray Hill no
tel, and visit the KnickerbOcker the
atre in the evening TO see Nat Good
win and Maxine Elliott. They will
then go to their respective homes on a
short leave of probably. two weeks,
after which they Will take the posts to
be assigned them. some in Cuba, others
| in Porto Rico, Guam and the Philip
pines, and still others on recruiting
duty at the various posts throughout
the country.
The first five men in the class will
be assigned to the engineer corps of
the army. the next ten to the cavalry,
fantry branch
Next summer promises to be rather
dull at the military academy. There
will be no graduation in June, and this
will keep many visitors away
The present third class will go on
furlough from June Is until the middle
of August, having but two classes in
camp, the then new third and the new
first. The "plebes" will report in June,
but it Will be August before they can
have become presentable in the bat
talon formation in camp.
The leave of the furlough class has
been curtailed two weeks this next
summer, and they must return in time
to go to the Pan-American exposition
in Buffalo with the corps in the latter
two weeks of August. Arrangements
have just been completed for the trans
pOrtatiOn of the whole battalion TO
Buffalo during this month, where they
will go into camp on the exposition
grounds. The cadets visited the eX-
position in Philadelphia in 1876 and the
one in Chicago in 1898, and ELECTED
much praise for their superb drilling