Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-12-11

about the same number OF men as are
al Fort Douglas. Everybody seems
glad to have chaplain. and while our
services have TO be held in q hail with
but few convenienoes the attendance
at everything is splendid. or course
took hold OF the matter OF good music
al once, and we have brass quartet
to lead the singing, cornet, alto and two
trombones. The principal musician,
Sergt. Galyean, transposes the gospel
hymns and brings out splendid effect.
We have good Sunday school-not
large, but full of ginger. VIII probably
have a string quartet to lead the chill
dren. Parts OF the post are modern.
and some new buildings are being con-
strueted. We were fortunate IN getting
one Of the new houses. with steam
heat and all the modern appliances.
II found that Miss Helen Gould had
taken scme interest in the men and
had given money for the loose equip
ment of Y. NJ. C. A., (by loose equip
ment | mean the portable part, books.
games. graphaphone, etc) We are
three miles from Cheyenne and 1t is
not easy to go back and forth. There
ls @ legend, however that there was
once car line out here, but the wind
blew II away Some of the oldest set
tiers in Cheyenne remember that there
was once an army chaplain at d. a.
Russel-perhaps the wind blew him
away, for he never came back. The
wind do blow. II cuts across from the
northwest, over the reservation to-
wards Cheyenne, and the postmaster
says that before the fences were so
ba. n
themselves by painting empty barrels
their favorlte colors, setting them out
on the parade ground, and then bet
ting whose barrel would land In the
court house square first have not
been out to verify IT, but they say that
the fence near our guard house is most
beautifully succeed with pebbles
driven into the wood by the wind.
Never mind II the wind does blow,
this is a mighty pleasant place, and
from the colonel down to the humblest
servant In the post we have been ac-
corded the finest treatment. lived for
10 days at the Mess. and they don't
make any finer people than our bachel-
or officers. They are q high minded,
ctudlous body Of men ready TO help
in the promotion Of any good cause.
GeIndpS you UOtlCeu tnul lne flsU-
teenth Is slated for the Philippines in
the spring. | will be In salt Lake to
stralghten out some business matters
before | 20, that s II | can get leave
OF absence. and Salt Lake being In the
department., | imagine II will be grant
ed. ! viii take charge of the post
school tomorrow. There are about IS
men In attendance, and three men are
detailed as teachers. The children go
10 Cheyenne to school, being taken
down In the ambulance.
81 have attended church in Cheyenne
and was impressed with the earnestness
OF the people. The difflculty'of securing
transportation back and forth Is thu
only thing that has prevented them
from undertaking work at the post.
Military transportation would probably
have been furnished then, but they did
not understand that side OF II so that
only little spasms Of work have been
done In religious way. The officers
want we'll maintained religious services.
and my experience Is that they render
every reasonable assistance Give my
regards to any OF the "old guard, and
tell them that In my thoughts | often
make the rounds"