Show i NEW GARRISON AT FORT I Two Companies of the Twenty Third Arrive I HAVE WELL EARNED A REST EieutCol Eskridge and Capts Clag ctt and Dapray Reached Fort Douglas Yesterday With Corapanes I and L Gallant Service in the Philippines Has Entitled the Com panics to a Period of Recuperation Distinguished Service of the Officers 1 Fort Douglas has its new garrison companies I and L Twentythird Infantry In-fantry and Capt Pcnrose of the Eleventh Infantry handed over the command yesterday afternoon to i XileutCol Richard 1 Eskridgc of the Twentythird The new command left San Francisco I at 3 p m Monday on a special composed com-posed of one Pullman six tourist sleepers sleep-ers two baggage and two freight cars containing companies I K L and M composing the third battalion of the regiment ISO men under bieuuCol r Eskridge and Capts Clagett Allaire Dapray and Devore respectively The battalion divided at Ogden yesterday morning companies K and M Capts Allaire and Devore continuing on to Fort D A Russell near Cheyenne The other companies reached Salt Lake at noon over the Rio Grande Western and took cars over the city railway for Fort Douglas There is one Lieutenant with the Fort Douglas detachment First Lieut Celwyn E Hampton battalion adjutant and a distant relative of Gen Wade Hampton Hamp-ton Each < company numbers fortysix men and only six of the battalion were l left behind in the Philippines at Cebu as they were wounded and not able to travel The beltalion saw the Ninth pull out for China and reached San Francisco July 27th last I company brought with It a mascot in the shape of a thoroughbred Filipino youth of 18 named Fulgenlo Romero i called Philip for short from Panay He is a bright Intelligent lad has learned to speak English passably In two months and will be put to school here The men think a good deal of JllmThe The post was a scene of activity all the afternoon with wagonload after wagonlpad of movcables being brought up from the depot and unloaded 1 un-loaded at the officers quarters and at the barracks The battalion Included the Invalids and men who had seen the longest service but the sea voyage had done theni so much good that very few looked as though they had been sick All were pleased to return to the States for a change and rest Two I years Is about as long as they cared to soldier abroad The third battalion of 1 the Eighteenth Infantry came over with them and is garrisoning the Presidio I GALLANT OFFICERS1 RECORD The new ofllcers at Fort Douglas are very pleasant arid genial men and will prove welcome additions to Salt Lake society LientCol Eskridge is a Vet oran of the Civil Indian and Spanish wars He was born in Missouri and in 1SG1 served In the Second Iowa in I I fantry and later In the Second Missouri Mis-souri cavalry and after serving with credit In leading battles the war Including In-cluding Shiloh he was mustered out us Captain in 1865 In 1SG6 Capt Eskrldgc was appointed Second Lieu tenant of the Fourteenth Infantry but assigned a few months later to the ventythird He was brcvetlcd for f S S ve4 The Filipino Mascot of the Twenty Third and His Autograph conspicuous gallantry under Gen Crook at Infernal Caverns Cal In 1867 and was promoted to be Captain in the Twentythird being made Major of the Tenth Infantry In 1S97 at Oklahoma The Tenth was in MajGen lents division of the Fifth army corps at Santiago and was therefore part of the command that walked over the Seventyfirst New York Maj Eskridge commanded the firing line of Gen Pearsons brigade so highly complimented compli-mented by Gen Kent and was dangerously dan-gerously wounded July 2nd in a hot fight for the possession of Green Ridge before Santiago by a bullet from a bursting dynamite shrapenel fired from one of Cerveras Krupp cannon Maj Eskridge was subsequently cured for at the Fortress Monroe hospital and the Massachusetts general hospital at Boston going later to Hot Springs Ark where In March of last year he became LieutenantColonel of the Twentythird Infantry LieutCol Eskridge went to San Francisco last November after an unsuccessful attempt at-tempt with Xrays by army surgeons to flnd the bullet He expected to go to the Philippines but the surgeons told him to remain In this country Last February LieutCol Eskridge was appointed to the command of the Presidio The bullet has never been removed but causes no particular trouble LleuU Col Eskridgo has a daughter Miss Virginia with him and Mrs Eskridge the daughter of Oliver Stevens a prominent Bostonian will be here shortly They have a son a Lieutenant Lieuten-ant in the Eighteenth infantry and another son at Dawson and there are two married daughters CAREERS OF CAPTAINS Capt J R Clagett of I companyls an old Indian fighter He was appointed to the army from the District of Columbia Co-lumbia in 1S75 and has been with the I Twentythird ever since becoming Captain In 1S02 and In the campaigns of the regiment was always noted for gallant conduct He married the daughter of Col l Henry M lilack formerly for-merly commandant at West Point and Mrs Clagett is now in Washington They have two children The Captain speaks highly of the Utah battery boys beside whom his regiment fought many a fight and he mentioned especially yesterday Maj Young and Lleuts I Gibbs Webb and Nay lor He said the regiment was at the Inking of Manila and afte a years service in Luzon was S distributed through the Sulu group The Moros there are the lowest l type of man he said They file their teeth paint them black and sport little or ho covering but arc roady wIth knife and speur Tho Captain was entirely noncommittal non-committal relative to conditions political I politi-cal or otherwise in the islands but said there was no longer any really organized opposition to the United States forces It was bushwhacking Capt John A Dapray was also appointed ap-pointed from the District of Columbia in IS50 always remaining with the Twentythird and becoming Captain in 180S He was Adjutant at the Worlds fair at Chicago and In JS9S was made AdjutantGeneral of the First division of the Third corps under Gen Carpenter at Chlckamauga Ho was also alddccamp on the staffs of Gcrv Hancock and Miles and aided in the capture of Geronlmp In Arizona Capt Dapray was appointed Adjutant j General District of Columbia in Sep tember 1S98 with the rang of Lieut Col but on his own application was sent to rejoin his regiment In July 1SD9 The Captain was subsequently made Governor of the Jolo archipelago and raiced the flag at Pongao in Tawl TawI He says there is as much difference differ-ence between the Philippine tribes as I between the Eskimo and the Indians In the United States they < are not a homogeneous people The lighting has been reduced to Intermittent conflicts I and there is need of all the troops now In hand Adjt Hampton Is an academy 96 j graduate and has always been with the Twentythird He is a brave officer offi-cer and during the assault on Manila crossed the field under a heavy cross fire with ardors Ills wife and child are with him I Mafll I MEN OF SEVENTH LEAVE Orders were received yesterday at Fort Douglas from headquarters at Denver for the Immediate return to Fort Logan of the detachmQnt of D company Seventh Infantry which has been garrisoning Fort Douglas since the departure of troop C Ninth cavalry caval-ry and this command leaves today for Denver The boys of D company have won good opinions for themselves while here by their gentlemanly demeanor S meanor a 10 One of the privates In the Seventh infantry leaving Fort Douglas today Is a very unique character He belonged be-longed to the English gentry and came to this country over fifteen years ago with 25000 He went through his fortune with a royal prodigality on weln weib gesang and when he would fain have filled his belly with I the husks that the swine did eat he enlisted In the Third cavalry to keep body and soul together and served out his term After reenlistment in the Tenth infantry for he could not keep money In his pocket his mother died and left the soldier 15000 Then the young man did celebrate He got a furlough and went on the biggest kind I of a celebration It did not take him long to scatter his second fortune and then he went back to the ranks again where he now Is The mans commanding com-manding officer says ho is a good soldier sol-dier notwithstanding his convivial tendencies and has performed excellent excel-lent service S S ooO oc > > OotQO < > OC7 r Oo 0 Q 0 0 0 0 0 1 00 0 ° 0 I v o9 S 0 j 0 I 0 1 I e 1 DC ifli T1ig 1 I 0 I iI 4 U 1 0 ci 1 r I g > I f o fdf ipt getttk S Jj JtcOtESkr7 Dapftj |