The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-16
SOLDIERS ARE
NEARING HOME
Fifteenth Infantry Is Expected
to Arrive at II O'clock
Today.
TROOPS ARE TRAVELLING
IN SPECIAL TRAINS
arrangements Made at Fort
Douglas to Serve Dinner
at | o'clock.

In three full battalions, each of
which requires one special train, the
Fifteenth regiment of United States
infantry will arrive in Salt Lake be-
tween II and | clock this afternoon.
According to information given out by
railroad officials last night, the vete-
ran regiment was nearing 81 home, -
and was due to arrive IN Ogden be-
tween 10 and IL o'clock this morning,
The troops were routed over the Union
Pacific and Oregon Short Line roads,
and the chief dispatcher s Office an.
nounced that it would probably be l
clock before the last section pulled
into Salt Lake depot.
At Fort Douglas, where Lieutenant
Santschi and his seven men have been
holding the fort preparations have
been made TO serve the returning sol
diers with dinner ut o'clock
So far as Lieutenant Santschi knows,
the return Of the troops will not be
attended by any definitely drawn pro
gramme. AS soon as the third section
arrives at the station, the soldiers will
form into the customary columns, and
will march up South Temple street to
their familiar quarters at the still more
familiar post.
Will Be Given Reception,
It is expected that the street will be
is expected that the street will be
lined with no small number of cheer
ing people, including sweethearts
wives and hosts of friends left behind
at the time the regiment was ordered
to Join the maneuver movements on
tho Mexican border.
After being away two months, tho
of rfial Grains thp gDlpndld
military array and the sight of the
old familiar faces are bound to cause
some stir of enthusiasm and excite
ment, just as though the soldiers were
returning from victory. When the
regiment was ordered to the division
mobilization on the Mexican frontier
near Fort Sam Houston. there were
few people here who did not nurse
either secretly or expressed an idea
that the troops were destined to gel
into mix up or two, and mix-ups OF
sadly for some one. So there will have
been good reason for giving the re
turning defenders of Uncle Sam and
the men who were sent to preserve the
dignity of the nation 4 royal welcome
| H home'
Destined for Philippines.
W INC VI IhOVps
at Fort Sam Houston, the Fifteenth
regiment was under orders to go to tho
Philippines to relieve the Twentieth
regiment. The departure of the sol
diers for the far distant islands wa:
to have taken place in May. The mob
| ilization move, however, included the
Fifteenth, and the Twentieth regiment
will not leave the Philippines unit
later in the fall, it is said In thi.
case, the members Of the Fifteenth
will still have chance to keep ole
trysts and rendezvous interrupted by
the sudden call to the Mexican line
during the insurrection, and their hosts
of Salt Lake friends will have another
opportunity Of renewing acquaintance
and "getting together once again be
| fore the fulflment Of the long com
mission begins.
With all the attractions and fascin
alton of camp life or military activi
ties such as they have Just undergone
the soldiers of the Fifteenth will un
doubtedly find. that "there is no plac,
| like home" Since their departure {
great deal of improvement work hat
been going on at Fort Douglas, whicl
has already added considerably to tn,
already beautiful surroundings Of tht
popular military post.