Show ATE OF BATTERY G pta Boys Wit g For Something to Turn Up I NO FIGHTING IN SIGHT QUITE WThLflG TO BE tttTSTER ED OUT S OU Have Not R eved Their Guns But Are Kept BUy By the Dris Feud Between 1ew York and Tennessee TroopsOpinions On the City and Its Balmy Climate Presidio Aug 2LNow that first impressions Im-pressions have worn way we can gIve an unprejudiced opinIon of San Francisco Wethe Utah boyshave always heard of the delightful climatic conditions of San Francisco People frim Salt Lake have often gone away for a few months to San Francisco and all have come back only to tell us the same old story The town is just beautiful beau-tiful far ahead of Salt Lake and it Is so warm there etc Out of all of the friends I have had vIsit this place there was not one who did not tel that story For us poOr believing men untutored In the wiles of this wIcket world It was cruelty itself to so basely deceive us While stationed at Frt Douglas we vIsited those of our friends who had been to San Francisco and from them we received the necessary directions as to our wearing apparel and such things They all gave us the same advice and as a consequence we started off with thelightest of flimsy summer clothing Going through Nevada we wished we wore no clothing at all and it was not until we reached the mountains that we felt cool enough to enjoy ourselves Then we reached Port Costa and got aboard the large ferry and the night air was a little brisk but rememberIng remember-Ing what our friends had said we thought it was all right Next morning morn-ing we were rousted out of bed and the balmy spring days which prevail in San Francisco broke upon our startled senses We thought It was cold but when we saw ever one in overcoats we knew we were mistaken I was just balmy Some one mentioned Ana nias but hIs stories were tame In comparIson com-parIson with what we had heard Ve were all very anxious to leave Fort Dougln for a change as we thought fighting firEs was a lItth too much and besides we were not properly prop-erly quartered there Well w were younger then and didnt believe In the I fish story of out from the frying pan into the firs Ve are wiser now I We are constantly asked When wIll you boys sal That question now kind of makes the bristles raise We I hate to be teased about such things and the question nettles us It is my happy lot tQ be a war cor respol dent and the only privileged character who carries a kodak to take the pictures of the battles we fight il this war I have several scenes already al-ready of bloody encounters which have occurred between battery C and the dons and In future years our descendants descend-ants can look with pride upon them and say Just see how my illustrious ancestor an-cestor licked the Spaniards A GREAT TOW But to come back to San Francisco I is a great townbaring the weather and his satanic majesty would not accept cept a slice of I for hades But what strikes us as strange 1s the deception which is praCticed here 10 fool the poor stranger The first of these deceptions after the weather is the streets One would naturally thinl thathe could get some place by walkIng down a street in San Francisco but this is a mistake He starts out from Market street and walks up some branch street and before be-fore he knows it he is back In Market He trIes again and Invariably gets back to where he started The other day I tried to get lost but I always came back to the starting poInt It Is like a mystic maze and every turn you make rings you back to he centre The streets are superb They are narrow and paved with cobble stones thrown together wlthout regard to smoothness or regularity The women t > < > < f that Is most 01 them have the rosiest checks and complexion but even that is false as a close inspection will show AT TH PARK The other day I vIsited Golden Gate park and the same state of affairs existed ex-isted there They have a Jaleewhlch Is artificialbuilt high up on a hill In the centre of the lake Is a large island rising like a mound Down the side of this drops a very pretty waterfall But on a large rock at the sIde of the fall appears this sign So and So Falls I cannot remember the name Presented Pre-sented by So and So But It Is a pretty walk along the drIve around the base of this Island Large rugged boulders line the road and jut out here and there from the dense growth of trees and flowering shrubs But strange to say th rocks are but the handiwork of man painted to represent the real article And so it goes But take it all in all we are pretty well pleased with the city so far but Zion beats it all hclIow Frisco Is avery a-very lIvely place now probably on account ac-count of there beIng so may soldiers here whIch makes business pretty good There are 10 cent shows free shows and all kInds of amusements in the I city The Alcazar Is a very nice place but not large It being on the style of the New Grand in Salt Lake I is running to well filed houses to see Lewis Morrison The FrwJey company with the only Clarke and Maud Winters Win-ters of the old stock company Is playing play-Ing at the Columbia A large number of soldier boys go to these places At the chutes the soldier boys are admitted admit-ted free Golden Gate park Is certainly a beautiful beau-tiful place and would require two or three days to see it thoroughly The museum built durIng the MIdwInter fall Is still running and is fined with beautiful works of art and interesting things of an descriptions The grounds are beautifully laid out and flowers of aU kinds are growing throughout Its whole extent Army life itself with the volunteers Is pretty hard but It is a great experience expe-rience for the boys A few days ago the Utah cavalry troop left here and I as they were encamped In front of us we are now enabled to get a good vIew of the bay The troop left about 1030 In the morning and were sent off by three rousln chedis from our battery bat-tery SICK LIST SIQ We have been vent fortunate so far In the number of cases of sickness but in the last few days the sIck list has been greatly enlarged The sickness is the result of Impure water too much fruit and such things We have only one or two cases In the hOspital and they are not serious S Private John L Smith who was injured in-jured in the leg by an exploding cartridge ridge is much better now and he oc casionaUv visits the camp The spirits of the boys are good although al-though they are very much disappointed disappoint-ed at not getting a chance to fight for their country Now that the fighting is over most of the boys wish to be mustered mus-tered out but what course will be pursued I pur-sued has not yet been learned We now have our uniforms but no guns or equipments Our duties occupy the greater part of the day the time of calls being as follows fol-lows Reveille 545 a m Drill settngup exercIses 60 a m Recall 620 a m Breakfast 630 a m SIck cal 70 a m I Fatigue cal 730 a m1 Drill cal 820 a m Recall from drl 1015 a m Inspection of quarters 1045 a m Guard mounting 1050 a m Noncommissioned officers school 1100 a m Recall from fatigue1140 a m Mess cal dinner 1210 p m Fatigue cal 100 p m Drill call 120 P m Recall from drill 330 p m Extra drill 40 p m Recall from drill 445 p m J Recall from fatigue 510 p m Mess call supper 54 p m Tattoo 900 p m Call to quarters 1015 p m raps 1100 p m TEE DRILLS A word of explanatioa of these calls would probably be Interesting The I settingup drill In the morning is conducted con-ducted by sections the sergeants drilling drill-ing their respective sections The regular reg-ular morning drill is usually under one or more of the commissioned officers The battery Is formed on the battery parade ground and is marched to the top of a hill about a mile distant This is a fairly level place and we are drill ed In foot movements until recall when we are marched back to cap The guard consisting of one section of about 24 men is then mounted and four sentinels posted around the camp two being taken off at night The afternoon drill is the same as the morning but is longer The extra drIll of about 45 minutes Is for Junlsh ment and instruction Any man who is found to be Inattentive at drill is placed in the extra drill or awkward squad also aU of those who cannot execute the commands properly proper-ly are placed In this squad At 1 oclock the noncommissioned officer report to the captain and the tactics are reviewed studied and explained Here all questions of tactics are discussed dis-cussed and the captain listens to all suggestions from the noncommissioned suggestons te ed officers as to the care and management manage-ment of the men WAR IN CAMP The Utah boys have often been com plmented upon their good behavior and our battery has had no trouble so far with any of the other organizations or in our own ranks But some of the other volunteers are constantly mixing mix-Ing up There seems to be war de cared between the New York outfit and the Tennessee crowd Every day we can hear from our camp shouts and cries coming from the direction of their camps and we know a row is on Several Sev-eral times the two regiments have had tmes reglpents serious fights and IndIvidual members of both regiments are constantly meeting meet-ing In fistc encounters But the climax was reached the other day when the Tennessee boys attempted attempt-ed to lynch a negro A few days ago we head a racket going on toward Camp Miller and learned that It was the usual row But this time they had gone to a bathing resort near the camp and raised such a row that two troops of cavalry were ordered out to stop i A good joke Is told on one of the Tennessee Ten-nessee boys and it is said to be the truth I Is customary for a sentinel at the guard house to call out upon the approach of the officer pf the d3 Turn out the guard for the officer of the day One of the Tennessee boys was on guard when he saw the officer of the guard approaching Turn out the push here comes the main guy gy It is needless to say he Was punIshed for It We are quietly waiting for something to turn up to settle our fate I we are not to fight we wish tobe mustered out but If there is fighting to be done we want a hand 1n ItA A C ALLEN Sergeant Battery C U S V |