The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-06
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DELAYS AND TROUBLES MARK
BEGINNING OF ENCAMPMENT.
Special to The Herald)
kA4NTI. Sept. with Colonel II. NJ. II.
IN Lund, n. c. L.. and Captain Ely OF
the Twenty ninth infantry, sitting on
the lid, Camp Taft began its career OF
one week this morning. The lid-sittns
process is no difficult one for the first
day as the national guard boys arrived
here at $50 d H., sleepy and hungry,
and generally mcapacitated for any very
strenuous stunts Not until two hours
later did the first of the guard. the Birs,
regiment band in the lead, arrive al the
| camping site. which is in the Danish
| Hayfields, three miles northwest 81
Manti. In the camping field. which ln
the middle Of the afternoon began 10 take
on the aspect OF ii tented city, there are
10 acres. II IS perfect level and lies
about mile and half west Of the san
Pedro tracks.
Guards Water Problem.
Colonel G. NJ. Benedict of the medical
| SldIi WIS among the IlfSL arrivals ana
at once examined the water supply of
the camp and investigated sanitary cUndl-
tons generally. A chemical test revealed
the presence TO a slight degree of ntTites
OF vegetable matter and DR. Benedict adj
vised Colonel Lund that it would be nee
/ essary 10 boil all water intended for
drinking and cooking purposes.
However, 10 many Of the guardsmen
nitrites in water meant nothing As they
could see nothing wiggling and as they
had a thirst that nothing short of polly
wogs, alive and kicking, could curtail,
they had recourse to the aqua nutritious,
None of them have noticed any ill re
suits TO date and many record DR.. Bene-
diets catgut joke a month ago and are
determined To drink cold unbOIled water.
regardless OF living or dead occupants
Dr. Benedict took a sample of water 10
Salt Lake for a complete analysis
The water testing process was inter
estlng. DIT Benedict was assisted by Ser
geant Gus Engler. After the former had
shaken some white dope into the sus-
pected water and it had turned pink, re
Vealing ''nitrites," it fell to Sergeant
Engler's lot to sample the Danish Hay
field beverage. This process made the
test simple; if the faster survived the
water was fit to drink The natives
| hereabouts claim the water is perfectly
good.
Train With Equipment Delayed.
The hardness with which Camp Taft
comes into being is due to the fact that
tents did not arrive until noon. The
heavy train was split at Nephl, the
guardsmen going on ahead. There We're
no tents pitched until the middle OF the
afternoon. although once camp equipment
arrived work progressed rapidly, the
ground having been staked out in ad-
vance.
1t is likely that all history in the flI-
| ture, far as the camping guardsmen
and Manti~ are concerned, viii date from
the time that Camp Taft was pitched.
4tnFf inv the of the 4tr1-mfla ride
down from Salt Lake will iinger while
Long Night of Discomforts.
1t was a night of contortions-aud
morning OF yaWns and stir neGks. From
the noisy front car, where the band held
forth, back TO the last car, which was
reserved for cooks and officers, every
coach told the same tale-a mass OF hU-
man jackknives sandWiched in and about
other human jackkniVes, each intent on
getting what sleep he could before reach
ing the scene OF war They had good
long time in which 10 accomplish their
purpose, but baggy eyes and tOwsed
heads needed no explanation as TO how
signally all had failed.
There was one exception. There is a
member of the hospital corps, Sergeant
JOrgensen By name, whom nature made
able 10 reDOse IN a chair car as though
in a Pullman. The sergeant'S legs are
long. aiding him TO a considerable extent
in measuring something like six feet two
inches. His was a simple task. While
his body slept on plush seat his feet
slept overhead in the hat rack. By the
| time Provo was reached many of the
guard were willing to agree with sue
cinct three-WOrd definition Of war use Of
some time back
Nephi Guardsmen Join.
At Nephi the guard was joined by about
| forty members of company E. The run
from this point TO Manti forty-seven
miles, was over the stiff grade into San
pete valley and took considerably over
three and a half hours.
! Between NeDhi and Mant a lively
! quartette of coyotes which escaped
Jones ct al. during the bounty raid OF
J 1904, furnished diversion. Several of the
| officers took shots at the animals at
short range. The coyotes smelt the pow
( der and were thus apDrised of danger.
/ The shOts-well. nobody seemed to notice
where the bullets landed.
/ Upon arriving here the various bodies
were lined I'D. There were present at
! the depot Captain Eby, Lieutenant lie
| Roy c. Bourne of the troop. Lieutenant
Adams, Captain Lund and other officers
of the \. G. L. The majority of the Of
ficers proceeded at once to the futile
House, where they breakfasted. Sergeant
Adams of Nephi. a brother of Lieutenant
Adams of Salt Lake, had charge Of the
ments to the hungry members OF the
guard body.
Pretty Girls in Evidence.
Brass buttons on khaki suits. regular,
volunteer or militia, 'sOjeTs is sojeTs,
and already Venus is making OvertuTes
/ TO Mars. The Manti visitors to Camp
/ Taft promise TO include not few girls.
and the fair element was not lacking
I when the train pulled in this morning
| Girls of all sizes and descriptions, each
| with a mister. gimme a button look
on her face, and on pretty faces, at that,
were lined up at the Salt Lake route de-
/ pot.
| Special buses are 10 make the three
mile trips at frequent intervals during
/ the week encampment
Rain and Lightning.
Tired and damp, but in perfectly good
spirits Camp Taft settled down 10 rest
| tonight and on the morrow will awaken
| to the first actual day Of army encamp-
ment life. Night brought the camping
| guardsmen another water problem in the
| shape of a drenching rainstOrm. The
| shower began shortly after I o'clock,
| while the work OF putting up the Off
| GERS camp was still in progress. The
| big field presented an odd appearance as
! the hundred or more tents with men
| stirring here and there was revealed at
| intervals by brilliant lightning flashes.
1 The heavy part of the shower was over
J in fifteen minutes, but in that time the
field had been thoroughly Wetted down
ana much OF the starch had been taken
| out of the formal 'alls welP with which
| the sentineis greeted each other at in
| tervals.
The one diversion of the first night in
| camp came in the tumble which Major