Show WITH CAINES TROOPERS Incidents of Camp Life at San Francisco Fran-cisco Special Correspondence San Francisco May 30 Decoration day has been a memorable one at Camp > Merritt and will not soon be forgotten by the Utah representatives For the i i elaborate demonstration at the great i i I i I + 1 t t A J + 1 rr r 1 k i I at i i fr C Itl tf MAJOR R W YOUNG Who Received His Promotion Yesterday cemetery near the canvas city the Utah artillery had the distinguished honor of firing the salutes and to the Utah cavalry cav-alry troop fell the good fortune to furnish fur-nish General Otis three orderlies Two of these are Salt Lake boys Arthur Conklin and Elliot Kimball the third orderly being Perry Cotner the ex landlordof Price After the memorial exercises at the cemetery the enormous crowds of San Francisco people and visitors from other California towns flocked into j I camp some of them succeeding in i passing the numerous sentries and invading i In-vading the tents of the boys in blue Here the scenes are much similar to those at Fort Douglas before the volunteers vol-unteers departure Pretty girls and Etately dames from the 400 and by the 400 flutter from tent to tent catching the soldiers at all sorts of duty and pastime pas-time and in all sorts of shapes lending lend-ing them a butterfly life One difference differ-ence between this and ZIons fort Is in the absence of fruits and nicknacks i i here but that Is not the fault of San Francisco people whose hearts are as big as their purses Because of the danger of poisoned food being passed into camp it has been ordered that nothing in the shape of lunches or sweetmeats shall henceforth be received re-ceived by soldiers from philanthropic friends This rule has interfered seriously ser-iously with the active benevolence of i the Red Cross society I In this connection an amusing contrast con-trast was offered recently A Red Cross lady stood at the troop camp entrance parleying with a guard who refused flatly to allow her to dispense victuals inside After she had given up the project pro-Ject as a bad Job there appeared an agent with Durham Bull tobacco to I give away to the troopers The soldiers went after the gift like killing snakes and before the formality of a permit was possible each had a sack of the tobacco which is recognized as an absolute ab-solute necessity In camp I I AN ACCIDENT Since the arrival hither the only accident ac-cident to the cavalry boys happened Charlie Neughebauer of Price yesterday yester-day The soldiers had mounted and were formed in column on an asphalt street near camp Without warning Neughebauer fainted and started to fall from his horse which Is one of the most fiery chargers in the band of 80 George Morrison a Richfield recruit happened to see the plight of his fellow horseman and by wonderful skill and presence of mind he caught Neughe bauer then unconscious at the same time holding both horses until other succor came Had it not been for Mor rison Neughebauer would have fallen prone on the hard paving and might have been killed Today he Is entirely recovered BENEFIT FUND The Salt Lake contingent today met to discuss the disposition of the 260 raised for them by the ladies of Utahs metropolis but failed to agree upon any plan The money is In the hands of Captain Caine who also holds the Alto club donation How the cash will be appropriated is not determined but the captain Insists that it shall not be dealt out for the men to blow in he I deeming It the more advisable course to reserve it as a general troop fund I Once since the pitching of tents hereabout I here-about half the horses escaped from j c I their pickets and roamed along the range by the seashore near the picturesque I pic-turesque Sutro heights Every available avail-able man was detailed to ride out in search of the runaways and vhlle I some failed to return with more than their own mounts all worked hard and of course took no time to view the grandeur of the scenery of ocean and beach Much spare time has been spent in cleaning up the muddy tents and rusty arms with which the boys left Salt I I Lake and as a result all the appurtenances appurte-nances look faultlessly spick The bog are getting well on in mounted work Strangers to them invariably mistake them for regulars and It is often remarked re-marked that the men in the Utah troop I and batteries are the finest looking fel I lows on the ground Homesickness has bothered some a j trifle but the soreness Is passing off I ENTERTAIN THE LADIES I In all Merritt there are no officers more popular with the ladies than Captain I Cap-tain Caine and Lieutenants Smith and Kimball Every day their quarters are besieged by ladies and gentlemen of I the Golden Gates creme de la creme Your correspondent has steadfastly I clung to his ideal of bachelor life and Iso I I-so saws woods while the society sergeants I ser-geants Porter Cobb Fortescue Price and Richards SJe that the troop is lackIng I lack-Ing in no essential of army gallantry I The people here have learned that I Sergeant de Vigue was Imprisoned by i Spain In Morro castle a few years ago that he Is a brave soldier and withal I a Jolly good fellow and they are lionizing lion-izing him accordingly ll ta i Sergeant Merrill is kept out of mischief mis-chief by drill instructions ch6 I Corporal Wilfred Young carries the j guidon In all mounted maneuvers I The one regret of all the fellows is that Corporal Walt Clawson was left I behind They ask The Herald to remember I remem-ber them all sympathetically > to him Woodford whose shoulder was hurt the day the troop left Utah Is all right I I JOHN METEER |