Show THE MILITARY CITY LVIZERidSTPTG REVIEW OF HAPPENINGS HAP-PENINGS AT FORT DOUGLAS Promotions From the RivnUs Ser grant Douglas Good RecordThe Tfcrr lUlle Soldiers Will Be Pall Today The troops of the command will be paid at 10 a m today The ice harvest ended yesterday all three of the houses having been filled and a large amount packed on the outside out-side S C The ball at the post hall last night given under the auspices of the Army and Navy Union was well attended and a pleasant evening was spent by all Rugby Smalldon of football fame who Is said to wear rings on his feet has been granted a furlough of threemonths beginning tomorrow He will leave for Now York Saturday Corporal Turman of Company G Sixteenth I Six-teenth infantry now heads the list for a commission since the promotion on the 13th iust of Sergeant Synderham First infantry and Corporal Shaw Twenty first infantry MM Sergeant Ahern and Private Faulkner returned yesterday from California haying hay-ing safely delivered their prisoner Murphy Mur-phy to the authorities at Alcatraz Island San Francisco bay They report the spring weather of the coast most delightful delight-ful and the view from the green hills of Berkley surpasbingiv beautiful Private Fortenor clerk in the adjutants office has been apopinted clerk fn company com-pany F in the place of Boyce relieved Some people are still complainig about the new rifle but Private Wilkes of Company F one of the best sharpshooters In the regiment thinks the new gun an excellent weapon and that i will in time prove Its superiority over the Springfield Spring-field Detachments from Companies E and F have been assigned to quarters in the remodeled post traders store and the detachments of Companies Hand G that were occupying tents in the rear of their quarters now occupy the rooms in Company I quarters vacated by the former a a The canteen restaurant shows signs of Improvement with Messrs Wilson and Boyd at the helm The Exchange as a whole was never in a more flourishing condition Sergeant Hipp Corporal Clark exCorporal Ringholtz Privates Home Franz and Marsick complete the corps of assistants asistnt The street car ticket question Is at the fore again Tickets on the Rapid Transit line are for sale at the Exchange for cash and not for the currency of the Exchange Ex-change The arrangement is i made for obvious reasons The agency for the tickets is a private affair and the Exchange Ex-change desires no benefit from the sales I the tickets were sold for brass currency cur-rency the Exchange would derive the sole benefit therefrom and of course the agent would loose his percentage free passes etc I the tickets were sold for canteen currency at a small discount i e twenty tickets for one dollar and ten cents there would be a double percentage percent-age though this arrangement would probably prob-ably not be allowed Yet this would meet with the unanimous aproval of the troops who seem to have a fixed idea that anything any-thing for sale In the post Exchange should be purchased with the currency of the Exchagea a I S The citizen tailor of company F Mr Widdle is justly entitled to the name of the pioneer of Fort Douglas He has been working steadily at his trade in the pot for mere than twentythree years coming com-ing hero in the winter of 1872 He has seen regiment after regiment come and BO and soldiers good and bad rise for a moment upon the inconstant waves of military existence and then drop back again to civil haunts and leave no trace behind He thinks the Sixteenth is in every respect the best infantry regiment in the service and hopes it will remain at Fort Douglas several years longer a The Grand Orients will give the next dance to come off In the post hall at an early date A Companies D F and H have no read ins room as have the other companies on account of the crowded condition of the barracks This is doubly uncomfortable uncomfort-able considering the fact that the post library closes its doors promptly at 0 p m The companies that have reading rooms keep them open until 1 p m S CS I was anticipated that the act providing provid-ing for the promotion to the grade of commissioned officer of meritorious noncommissioned non-commissioned ottlcers found morally intellectually in-tellectually and physically qualified for promotion would incite the ambition of men in the ranks and attract to the military itary service young men of superior character and education whose presence in the ranks would greatly add to the disciDline and morals of the army There are now in the army one hundred and nine officers of the line who were promoted pro-moted from the ranks sinco the passage of the act of June 8 1S7S S S S The fact that a man who may have deserted during one enlistment and after having been tried and restored to duty is not eligible for reenlistment again does not appear to be at all understood by the average soldier but such however how-ever is the case I is held that a man who deserts once no matter whether he be afterward restored to duty or not has not given honest and faithful service ser-vice In his last enlistment and therefore there-fore cannot be reenlisted reenlsted a The Davidson minstrels will be the title ti-tle of the next burn cork aggregation to appear in tho post hal about Febru ary 1 C v S Sergeant A Douglas of company D was promoted first sergeant of his company com-pany on the 15th inst Sergeant Douglas has served almost twentysix years in the army and navy having to his credit one vears service in the Mississippi sauadron under Admiral D D Porter This service will count double upon his retirement three years hence I was at Jefferson barracks back in 1870 that he first entered the army and was immediately imme-diately ordered with a number of recruits re-cruits to join a trop of the Eighth cavalry cav-alry then stationed on the wild frontier fron-tier at Fort Bayard New Mexico His detachment marched over the plains more than eight hundred miles after leaving the railroad at Fort Leavenworth At that time the country they passed through was infested with bands of hostile indiana In-diana and the buffalos were as thick a cattle are today He has been stationed in the southwest most of the time since then and has been in several engagements along the Rio Grande The Eighth cav alrv was stat no in Texas and New Mexico for fifteen years during which time he remained a wielder of the saber and became noted as a crack shot with the carbine He was on several raids Into In-to Mexico after renegade Indians and on Thanksgiving day 1878 with seven troops of his regiment under Lieutenant Bul less known as the Thunderbolt of the Rio Grande encountered a large band of Indians at Le Pau pass The hostiles were defeated after a sharp engagement and all taken prisoners He was in the Indian territory In the troublous times of 18S5 and was with the Sixteenth in the Pine Ridge campaign of 1891 Sergeant Ser-geant Douglas is in appearance quite a young man for his age fifty years |