The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-09-12
ARMY PAY IS RAISED
when IN FOREIGN SERVICE

All pay in the United States army is
raised 20 per cent automatically, when
the man goes into foreign service Fol
lowing is the domestic pay received by
regular army, national guard and re-
serve officers and men now in service
and to be received by the personnel of
the conscript armies being raised:
Buglers and second class privates
$33 a month; first class privates
$3.50 a month; artillery, cavalry and
infantry cOrporals, saddlers, infantry
cavalry, field artillery and medical de-
partment, mechanics, farriers and
wagOners, $4,000 a month.
Engineer, ordnance, signal corps,
quartermaster's corps and medical
department corporals, coast artillery
mechanics, field artillery chief me-
chanics, third class musicians OF the
infantry, cavalry, artillery and engin-
GERS, $4,000 a month.
Artillery, cavalry and infantry SER
geants; field artillery, cavalry and in
fantry supply sergeants; artillery,
cavalry and infantry mess sergeants,
cooks, hOresshoers, radio sergeants,
firemen, band corpOrals, second class
musicians Of the military academy, $44
a month.
Engineer, ordance, signal corps,
and medical department sergeants,
stable sergeants Of the engineers, sup
ply sergeants of the engineers, mess
sergeants Of the engineers, all color
sergeants, electrician sergeants of
the second class, band sergeants, first
class musicians Of the infantry, caval-
ry, artillery and engineers and second
class musicians of the military aca-
deny, $51.20 month.
Battalion sergeant majors of the
field artillery and infantry, squadron
sergeant majors, sergeant majors of
the junior grade, master gunners,
sergeant buglers, assistant band lead
ers, $50 month.
Regimental sergeant majors, regi-
mental supply sergeants, sergeant ma
jors Of the junior grade, quartermast-
er's sergeants of the quartermaster's
corps, ordnance sergeants, first ser
geants, battalion majors of the engin-
GERS, battalion supply -sergeants of the
engineers, electrician sergeants Of the
first class, first class sergeants of the
quartermaster's corps, engineers and
signal corps, assistant engineers and
first class musicians of the military
academy, $50 month
First class sergeants of the medical
department, field musician sergeants
of the military academy, $66.
Hospital sergeants, master engin-
GERS of the junior grade and engin-
GERS, $84.
Quartermaster sergeants Of the SEN
ior grade of the quartermaster' corps,
band leaders, master signal electric
ians, master electricians, master en-
gineers of the senior grade, master
hospital sergeants, band sergeants and
assistant band leaders of the military
academy, 500 a month
This pay is for first enlistments. 1t
increases with each enlistment in the
regular army. Because of special quail
ifications and service, certain men
draw pay, or bonuses, beyond the reg
ular enlistmnt pay, as follows:
Mess sergeants, Sc; casemate cleo
tricians, 50; first class observers, SO;
plotters, So; coxswains, SO; chief
planters, chief leaders, second class
observers, gun commanders and gun
pointers, 81 each; surgical assistants,
expert first class gunners, field artil-
lery, and expert ritlemen, SIS each;
private first class nurses, sharpshoot-
ers and first class gunners, So each;
second class gunners, marksmen, dis
pensary assistants and holders of the
certificate of merit, 50 each.
Enlisted men get all clothing and
equipment free.
Officers, in addition to fixed yearly
allowances for quarters, heat and
light, receive the following sums year
ly, with provision for increase every
five years for all ranks below brigadier
general in the regular army.
Second lieutenants, $17OO; first lieu
tenants, $2OOO captains, s24OO; ma
jors, $4,000; lieutenant colonies, $500;
colonies, $4,000; brigadier generals,
$4,000; major generals, $4,000 and lieu
tenant generals, $1,000.