The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-11
Privates $33 to $500 a Month,
COrporals 5000.
Increase All Pay 20 Per Cent
for Foreign Service.
MORE FOR SKILLED LABOR
Sergeants Draw From $51.2O to
500, According to Rank.
Specially Qualified Also Get
Bonuses of So to SO a Mo.

Washington, Sept. 11.-All pay in
the United States army is raised 20
per cent automatically, when the man
goes into foreign service. Following
is the dom pay received by regu-
lar army, national guard and reserve
officers and men now in service and
to be received by the personnel of the
conscript armies being raised:
Buglers and second class privates,
$40 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 wag-
oners, $4,000 a month.
Engineer, ordnance, signal corps,
quartermaster's corps and medical de-
partment corporals, coast artillery
mechanics, field artillery chief me-
chanics, third class musicians of the
infantry, cavalry, artillery and engi-
neers, $4,000 a month.
Artillery, cavalry and infantry SER
geants; field artillery. cavalry and in
| fantry stable sergeants; artillery, cav
airy and infantry supply sergeants;
artillery, cavalry and infantry mess
| sergeants, cooks, horseshoers, radio
sergeants; firemen, band corporals,
second class musicians Of the cavalry,
artillery. infantry and engineers and
third class musicians of the military
academy, $44 a month.
| Engineer. ordnance, signal corps,
quartermaster's corps and medical de-
| partment SergeantS, stable SerReantS
| of the engineers, supply SergeantS of
| the engineers, mess SergeantS of the
engineers, all color Sergeants. electric
| ian SergeantS of the second class, band
| sergeantS, first class musicians of the
| infantry, cavalry, artillery and engi-
neers and second class musicians of
| the military academy, $500 a month.
| Battalion sergeants majors of the
| field artillery and infantry, squadron
| sergeant majors, sergeant majors of
| the junior grade, master gunners, SER
| geant buglers, assistant band leaders,
| $56 a month.
Regimenta1 sergeant majors, regi-
mental supply sergeants, sergeant
majors of the senior grade, quarter
masters sergeants of the quarter
masters corps, ordnance sergeants,
first sergeants, battalion sergeant ma
jors of the engineers, 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 a month.
First class sergeants of the medical
of the military academy, $66. Hospital
sergeants, master engineers of the
junior grade and engineers, sS4
Quartermaster sergeants of the
senior grade of the quartermaster's
| corps, band leaders, master signal
electricians, master electricians, mas
ter engineers of the senior grade, mas
ter hospital sergeants, band sergeants
and assistant band leaders of the mil
itary academy, $50 a month.
This pay is for first enlistnents. Il
| increases with each enlistment in the
regular army. Because of specia
qualifications and service, certain mer
draw pay, or bonuses, beyond the reg
ular enlistment pay, as follows:
Mess sergeants, Sc; casemate cleo.
tricians, chief leaders, second class OBJ
servers, gun commanders and CUR
I pointers, 81 each, surgical assistants
expert first class gunners F. A, and
expert riflemen, SIS each; private
first class nurses, sharpshooters and
first class gunners, SO each; second
class gunners, marksmen, dispenser,
assistants and holders of the certifi
cate of merit, 50 each.
Enlisted men get all clothing ant
equipment free.
Officers, in addition to fixed allow
anceS for quarters, heat and light
i receive the following sums yearly, will
provision for increase every five year
for all ranks below brigadier genera
4 in the regular army.
Second lieutenants, $1,700; frs
A lieutenants. $4,000; captains, $4,000
4 majors, $4,000; lieutenant colonies
a $500; colonies, $4,000; brigadier gen
I erals. $4,000; major generals, $4,000
and lieutenant generals 81 900