The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-15
AWAIT ARRIVAL
Of F|F 7EENTH
Soldiers Expected to Reach
Fort Douglas Not Later Than
Sunday Morning. II
REPORTS OF MOVEMENTS
NOT ALTOGETHER Glen !
Tangle in Transportation
rangements at Denver Re-
spOnsible for Delay.

The Fifteenth regiment of Unite
States infantry is expected back in Sal
Lake tonight or tomorrow morning. q
Advices received yesterday were TO the
effect that the soldiers would arrive
here last evening as the regiment had
reached Denver Thursday at noon How. :
ever, some delay in making connections /.
Mt that city postponed the departure
of the troops, it is said The latest aut
thentic reports are to the effect that
the regiment will reach this city not
later than Sunday morning
On July ) Lieutenant Santschi, tenn
porarlly commandant at Fort Douglas.
gave out the information that the vet
eran regiment had been released from
maneuver duty at Fort Sam Houston,
Texas, where an entire division of the
United States army was mobolizedl
early IN the spring, and that the martial a
strains of the familiar "old Fifteenth
infantry band would soon again beY
heard on the streets of Salt Lake, re-
calling the excitement and enthusiasm
that attended the regiment IS departure 4
Probably none of the regiments that
have garrisoned Fort Douglas has cap
tivated tho hearts of both the fairer
and sterner sexes here than the cold
Fifteenth Since the stationing of
the regiment at the post on the east
bench. an unusually large number of
military weddings have taken place,
figuring therein Many of the newly
welded young women remained In Salt 4
Lake when the regiment was ordered tqt
the. frontier, taking with it the happE,
young bridegrooms- Since the aE A
nouncement that the regiment waSt
looming home' wide interest has ce1s
tered upon the movements of the soi5
diers. anticipation increasing AS thfL
homeward journey progressed "
Over Union Pacific. y
Word came from Denver YESTERDAY I.
that the soldiers had reached that cit 4
the preceding day at noon, and the re'
port became current that the familiai.
faces would again be seen here som(
time last evening. At the railroad q
fees. however. dispatchels declared tk
the regiments special train would II
arrive as reported. according to tho
reports.
Early in the evening Union Pacik 7
officials made it known that the SpeS
cial had been routed over the IlriUl N
Pacific and Oregon Short Line roads,
which is a twenty-four hours trip to
this city from Denver. At 4 clock
ceived no advices to the effect that
the soldiers had been transferred from
the Colorado Southern. the line over
which they arrived in Denver This be
ing true, il was said, the regiment could
not be expected TO arrive in Salt Lake s
sooner than tonight or tomorrow morn
ing. In order to learn definitely as to
when the Fifteenth regiment would ar.
rive here. The Tribune sent n telegram
20 4, Pho fpr
According to the answer. the officers ut
Denver were unable TO learn the exact
plans but detailed information is ex-
pectcd this morning.
Before the mobilization movement,
the soldiers of the Fifteenth had been
ordered to the Philippines. They were
10 embark last May, When the maneu
Yer plan was carried out, however, the
Fifteenth was included among those
bodies of the army that went to make Il
up the division centered near the Mexi.
can frontier Later 1t was announced II
that the Twentieth regiment. now IN
the Philippines, would not leave for
America, to occupy Fort Douglas IN
place of the Fifteenth, until the return
of the veteran regiment from Fort SaY
Houston. 1t has been announced that
the Fifteenth regiment will not take u
final farewell from the post until No
vember, which will give the familia
soldiers and their host of Salt Laks
friends an opportunity of ''getting toA
gethcr" for the sake of old times.
Preparations for Reception. Ill
At Fort Douglas, Lieutenant Santschlt|
and his garrison of seven enlisted men
have received no more definite inforna
tion regarding the arrival of the Fiji
teenth than here bullentined, but prep1
arations are being made to meet the rel
turning troops Sunday morning, allowt
ances being made for the receipt of adj
vices announcing an earlier arrival lY
With the news of the coming arrival
of the troops has been received worH
of promotions among the officers Of the
Fifteenth recently made effective. Ma
ior Willis T. May has been made Al
lieutenant colonel with an assignment
TO the army war college. Capt Willis
Uline has been made a major and as.
signed to the second battalion of the
Fifteenth First Lieutenant Robert H.
Sillman is now q captain, likewise
Lieutenants L. w. Caffey and Wilbur
a. Mcdaniel Captains Thomas r.
Harker and Alexander j. McNab have
each received four years detail with
the auartermaster department. 9th
er changes may be learned after the
regiment arrives. Major j. NJ. ARA
smith, so far as known, is still IN com
mand