The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-30

The United States regular army is
the most highly efficient little body of
troops this planet can boast at the
present day. Man for man and regi-
ment for regiment, it would waltz
through the cohorts of the bellicose
Kaiser exactly as it waItzed through
the veterans of Spain. in numbers it
is almost contemplate, but in efficien-
cy it is without a peer
This result is brought about partly
through the material out of which it is
made, partly through the method used
in the making and partly through the
calibre and training of it's officers. But
II follows that the United States army
is a hard school for one unaecustomed
to discipline.
That brings US to Willie Carhart-
William Montgomery Crimson Carhart,
to give him his due. Willie was the
pampered only son of a wealthy father,
so he started life with a ball and chain.
Private tutors of varied nationality
formed an unhealthy environment for
his early youth and to Harvard was
intrusted the discouraging task of
making a man of him.
No doubt Harvard was doing its
best, but along in the spring of sophO-
llOf6 year w 1llIe grew llIou. r lIdllN.
just before the term examinations,
physician was found who really knew
his business. A trip to Europe was
prescribed as the only remedy for Will
lies shattered health.
So he went to Europe and spent sew
eral years and many thousands trying
TO remove from his person the stigma
of having been born in America He
succeeded so we'll that his cOmpatriots
i
original nationality. He came home for
a month when his mother died, but was
unable to stand the degraded CONNER
Cialism to use his own term-Of his
native land, and returned to Paris at
the earliest possible moment At this
time he was a we'll set-up young man,
tall, brOad-shouldered, fairly good
looking, and with quite effeminate
manners. In a rough way it might be
said that So much of him as came by
blood was good, while so much of him
as came by training was almost hope
lessly bad.
l suppose there was not a more con-
ceited SnOb in the two hemispheres.
He seemed to feel himself in all sin
certify the Nadir of the universe. At
p his ideas were as brash and raw as
those of the average schOOIboy, and
were asserted with the steel-clad as
was as utterly worthless a parasite as
modern civilization in its most effete
mood has ever developed. But Will
liam Montgomery Crimson Carhart
never dreamed of such a thing.
What turned him toward the east
cannot be determined. Possibly he
yearned to place a still wider separa-
ton between himself and the land of
his nativity. Possibly the mood struck
him in moment of ennui. At any rate
and whatever the cause, he started for
the far east.
1t was at Yokohama that the blow
fell. His allowance failed and he wired
his father for funds Four DAYS went
by and then came a cable reading as
follows: "Carhart senior died eight
zenith May Estate involved. Letter
follows. Matthews, Yeoman e Mat
thews"
1t is distasteful to record that Will
liam's first thought was not of his de-
ceased parent. but of the involved es-
tate. Yet such is the fact. a signal
commentary upon Williams character.
The situation was desperate enough,
however, to warrant thought. William
spent bad afternoon, a painful even
ing and a sleepless night, and at the
end of it all sent this cable to the law
yers: Must have funds Immediately"
He even underscOred the last word on
the blank form, not realizing that all
words arrive with equal emphasis at
the end of the ten thousand miles of
wire.
THAT really ought to bring 'em to
time, you know" said William, conf
IDENTIFY. Therefore he was shocked ex-
ceedingly next day to get the laconic
reply, mo funds"
1t was a full month before the letter
came, and with its perusal William
Montgomery Crimson Carhart descend
ed into the depths.
Matthews, Yeoman & Matthews re-
GREETED exceedingly their inability to
cable draft. They also regretted the
necessity of informing him that his ia
Their had become involved in very I'M
fortunate speculations prior to his
death. William gathered hazily that
from present indications it seemed GER
tain the liabilities would more than
swallow all available assets. Under the
circumstances Matthews. YeOman &
Matthews found themselves so placed
as TO be unable to forward him any
thing at the present time, and begged
TO remain his most sincerely.
William struggled bravely through
the legal phraseolOgy and when the
truth came plunging home to his long,
coddled sensibilities broke down and
wept. One could find il in his heart to
pity even William. 1t was a situation
to shake nerve of firmer fiber than
his. Yokohama is not an encouraging
place to go broke" in. There are SO
many little Asiatic gentlemen ready to
do anything for next door to nothing
that a white man and his abilities are
at a discount.
BY the time William had parted with
his watch and most of his wardrobe
he had found this out, and, quickened
by imminent starvation, his mind
evolved a plan. He recalled that the
Philippines were now American He
would go to Manila. There no doubt
he could find some friend of his ia