Show THE MILITARY CITYa The Heliograph Corps Doing Most Excellent Work I I I i WAR DEPARTMENT RUING I I I General Orders No 12iField MusicTheto I I Minstrels The OpenAir Concert Today I To-day General News Notes I Charming weather just now Trust it I Will continue contnue I The delegation paid Crystal Slipper pad I us a visit on Friday V Subscribe for the HERALD and read the atest news of the flay 4 1 The door of the post printing office still remains closed A good jot man is needed Captain Guy L Edie assistantsurpeon United States army is absent on sickleavo Owing to the parading of the troops on Friday no parade on yesterday troubled the boys in blue Remember just prior to general guard mounting on this morning at 9 oclock the band will render two sacred airs Daniel OConnell company H Twenty first infantry expects t sever his connection connec-tion with all uffaias military by the 5th insL insLLieutenant Lieutenant W H Johnston jr has taken advantage of the eight months leave yesterday granted him and departed for St Louis on Sergeant Watkins company E Sixteenth infantry has returned from Provo much improved in health and spirits from his short outing General Penrose lieutenantcolonel Six t4t nth infantry our present commanding olllcer leaves for the east about the middle of the month te Joseph Senfert company H Twenty first infantry has put the necessary coin and expect to dissolve his relations with tt e army at an early date Payday on Monday The coin dispenser for Uncle Sam in this region Major Creary will begin his monthly official labor about 1 oclock p m of that day James L Crawford company H Twen tyfirst infantry went on a two months furlough on yesterday He will reside in L Salt Lake during his leave t When tee curtain was rung down on the lastact at the minstrel performance tripping trip-ping the light fantastic was in order and I continued until the wee sma hours Sergeant Caldwell late of company K Sixteenth infantry has been assigned tc company F of the same regiment and will I join his new company at Fort Duchesne this week Corporal M Algier company F Twenty first infantry has effected a transfer to company H of the same regiment He voluntarily resigned his chevrons t make the change t The boys of skeleton company K Twentyfirst infantry now assigned to the various companies of that regiment at this post were vaccinated on yesterday Lookout Look-out for limping now The question is whether we will or will not have the bal masque on Thanksgiving evening Maybe the Unique Club wil I take the matter up Agitate the affair now for the sooner the better to accomplish good I results J H McLaughlin Company H Twenty first Infantry was discharged from the service on the 31st inst having purchased I the parchment under the provisions o f paragraph 1 G O No SO C S A G O Luck to him Every company has a tailor and from the amount of work on hand must be doing a rushing business A good suit of nat form which the soldier draws from the quartermaster department costs from 5350 to 5 t have made to fit I The trumpeters are now required t remain i re-main at the guard house after the new guard has reached that point and march I off with the old guard The boys arc improving im-proving very much and their rendition o f field music is proving their efficiency Wo have just examined a candidate for army patronage in The General Service Kec ord a little quarterly publication devotee d to the interests of the United States army and navy and published at Philadelphia i It should meet with the success the venture merits From the number of amateur telegraph crs now wearing out the tips of their fingers fing-ers on the senders and stretching their ears t < call words from the sounders it is evident that a decided interest is being taken in military telegraphy by the enlistee d men of Fort Douglas The details from each company to atteni d school have been made Lad on Monday tb 3d inst Professors Spidell and Currie will classify their pupils with a view immediate im-mediate work The term will last six months and the hours of attendance from 2 to 4 oclock each afternoon Adolph Buerck formerly adjutants clerk at the post from recent development seems t be playing the part of The Ga y Deceiver to perfection We dont belies in any mans guilt until he is so proven sour our pen rests regarding him with a conil dence in the courts of justice The heliograph corps now flash old Sols rays from the 1000 yard target butt SolL L adjutants office The progress made in receiving re-ceiving and transmitting messages is ox tremely satisfactory t the acting signal of fleer Lieutenant Gregg who takes much interest in instructing his class One of the attaches of the adjutants o 1 fice was receiving a telephone message the other day from the Continental hotel When ho put it on paper it read as from the Sentimental hotel A careful and thorough inspection of the Salt Lake city directory has as yet failed to locate the Hotel de Sentimental Corporal M Flood company H Seventeenth Seven-teenth infantry who absented himself last summer from Fort Bridger Wyoming and who was recently apprehended in Salt Lake city has strong hopes of clearing his skirts of any criminality which may be attached at-tached to his absence ivben a general court martial is convened to try him The command was paraded and reviewed by General Penroso lieutenantcolone Sixteenth infantry on Friday morning at 9 oclock Following the review came the Inspection and muster of the battalion of the Twentyfirst infantry by Major J N Andrews whilst Malor Parke duly looked 7 over and mustered the companies of the Sixteenth dress uniform The ceremony was in full A recent ruling of the war department makes the reenlisted men eligible t discharge dis-charge at the expiration of eight years of service He cannot purchase his discharge though otherwise is governed precisely as the recruit as set forth in G O No SO A G O current series and explanitory circulars cir-culars more fully deliniog the same Several Sev-eral reenlisted men havo made application for discharge under this now applcaton We are told by the captain of the nine composed of the pick of the Sixteenth and Twentyfirst infantry that lrst he has been ex pectingra match game with a Salt Lake club with whom ho has been conferring on the subject and that the city boys evidently evidenty have no desire to test their prowess on the green diamond a nothing has been heard as to their intentions up t date Whats the matter Lets have at least one game playing before Jaack Frost calls a halt on bal The party of hunters of Company D Six teenth infantry returned on too afternoon of the 80th ultimo They were absent ten days having struck camp in East canon about twentyeight miles from the postS They brought home about two hundred grouse and sage hens whilst they killed about twice that number They saw only seven deer but owing to the surroundings could not got within a mile of them On the whole the boys enjoyed the trip and look far better from a standpoint of health than when they left Camping out and roughing it is healthy itself Central orders No 124 relates t the signal service Section 6 of this bill provides pro-vides in addition t the chief signal office the corps shall consist of ono major ofcer captains mounted and four first lieutenants lieuten-ants mounted These officers will receive re-ceive the same pay and allowances of like Jke rades in the ladCI army The corps now con C I J t sists of one brigadiergeneral and fourteen brigdier teethe second liutenants General Greely tee-the chief served two years of the late war a ad enlisted man whilst each of the lieutenants lieu-tenants rose from the ranks This move wil relegate to civil life Jive of these worthy signal officers whose shoulder straps were most meritoriously earned by bard work they beginning as recruits and beginning climbing the signal ladder rung after rung runE Every Saturday is the day set apart for inspection and usually the company quarters are treated to a bath of pure water In this connection we overheard the following fol-lowing duett between two noncommissioned noncommis-sioned officers Sergeant Corporal when are you going to mop out the quarters Corporal Immediately after we sweep Sergeant Well when are you going to weep 1 swC Corporal Just before we mop We have just examined Palmers Infantry Equipment a contrivance recently gotten up by Captain George H Palmer Six tenth infantry The equipment consists of carrying two braces and two bags the bags being joined together by one piece of Canvass which forms their backs The equipment weighs three pounds and six ounces I is a decid ° d improvement over ho pack known as the Merriam Pack and was recently tried as to its adaptability bV its command on their outing last summer Captain Palmer is to be congratulated tng on his invention as it is superior to anything of its kind in existence The Merriam Pack rests on the spine and hips and is no doubt injurious and exceedingly cumbersome cumber-some to the soldier when marching whilst his l contrivance rests entirely on the ihoulder and is easier to unsung than thee on the-e now in use We trust Captain Palms er Palm-s Equipment will meet with the endorsement en-dorsement it deserves from the entire infantry antry arm of the service and that it will be formally adopted by the secretary of war The equipment tilled for field ser ice only weighs thirty pounds A recent decision of the war department relative to war service dates the commencement com-mencement of the struggle a April 15 1S61 and the close May 11SC5 As we read this article we remembered a decision of the Supreme court of the United States relative to the same matter Circular 2 A G 0 March 16 18S3 among other things has this to say concerning the war of the rebellion April 1 1861 is usually held to be the date on which the war was opened The supreme court of the United States has decided that the war of the rebellion re-bellion closed on August 20166 the date on which the President issued his procla proca mation declaring the insurrection at an end It rather savors of injustice to those veterans desiring to complete their thirty years service for the war department to i ignore this decision of the highest court of our land I is not fair The volunteers were not mustered out until the latter part of 1866 yet it is now held the war closed Slay 11S65 The men who saw the south dur ing its fever scourges and Ku Klux raids at that time feel sore to think that their L war service is being cut off It is highly I probable that war service will count double end the loss of even one year to a man of long service amounts t a great deal Here at the post are many who i their war service counts double have aver a-ver and quite a few within two years of thirty years service The agony is over The minstrels were an immense success The ample hall used 1 for exhibitions was filled to overflowing No standing roora We were there and now acknowledge a fair gag at our expense by that excellent burnt cork artist Mr Loury The orchestra under the leadership leader-ship of Prof Wolper rendered choice arias I and the curtain rose promptly at Slii on Friday evening giving the audience their first opportunity to see the choice collection of songster and gal artists The sings were good tiely and excellent y rendered whist Messrs Late Kennedy Klumpp I Scheffuer Leery Driscoll Greenman Knauss Capon and rant deserve especial espe-cial mention The first part was concluded with an exact imitation of the Sixteenth infantry band on dress parade This brought down the house Lynott in his artistic clop was immense whilst the great and only Weitzell the veteran comedian I tragedian and stump orator took his text from paragraph I page 2002 army regulations regula-tions and delivered an elegant discourse continually interrupted by applause on the history of the lono widow and her morel more-l mesome dog that is more familiarly known as Mother Hubbard Next in order came Sergeant Evans of company G Sixteenth infantry in his lightning gun drill and club swinging Mr Evans has appeared on the vaudeville stage before and is a professional To say that he has no superior cannot bo gainsaid Scotch Melodies a duet on violin and guitar was a reminder of the days of Auld Lang Sync Scheffner and Klumpp with their collection of string instruments acted wel i their part whilst J H McLaughlin in his Irish song and dance character was up to 1 our expectation Joe Scheffner as the Dutch comedian proved himself a winning card and added more laurels to his well earned wreath as an allround comedian equal to the best in the profession The performance concluded with a laughable farce entitled Two Gay Deceivers by Messrs Weitzell Kern and Hunter Too much credit cannot be given Sergeant Evans and Mr Driscoll for their collecting together such good material and in presenting pre-senting a performance which ran smoothly from beginning to end OlE AIR CONCERT At430 oclock sharp this afternoon the regiment band under the leadership of Professor A Fenssell and ably seconded by Principal Musician Michael Keating wi render the following programme March Chevalier 00 uLewls 2Oerture Bronze Horse Auber 3lntsia La Mexicana uHozel c Waltzes Viola 0 Waltenfel 5 Gavotte from Tne Pirates Daughter iii Audran Choral November 2 iStlO FRITZ |