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Show pi TIMES AT j PORT DOUGLAS b Troops Rapidly ! Getting Settled. t j I Officers Highly Pleased With j the Post and the Improvo-i Improvo-i j ments Planned. ' i , .. flfnfantrj- Band to Bo Strengthened jV6y Good Musicinns From Other e!v Military Organizations. JU'HG PEARL OF THE WEST" 10 $ 1 ls th0 description given to the S army post at Fort Douglas by 11 ', one of the officers of the I j?(nty-nlnth infantry, now at the S Jpoit. This is the view generally taken i ,ir the officers. Anions' tho mem the i past is not so popular, and there are ; ;my few enlistments. 'i ! "When the Improvements are all com- 'jHted this will compare favorably with (U most rr.odern post in the East." ii the opinion of the commanding of-UtT, of-UtT, Col. E. F. Lockwood. "At present pres-ent it is a long: way behind in the mat-,W mat-,W of convenience. From the manner U whic-h the construction is being 'jttfcen in hand the prospects arc good Icr a modern and picturesque post." 'i The new barracks for the men are ilmost completed now and the other 4 ,'jmprovemcnts are to be taken in hand If iiiouly The foundations have been j lUld for the bachelor quarters of the :J .'takers, and the grading of the bou-: bou-: fevanl has alao been started. Fresh I jfeflal has been laid along the road to I fJ' considerable distance from the tort, 'l I'tsd half tho stretch between this and J, iihe cltj limits has been covered. All Is still more or less confusion up i ,'fit the fort so far. The men are lo-'l lo-'l ffraled in their quarters and are putting 't.hin?s Into shape, but the officers' : "jlcoses are all in a turmoil. A dance to the newcomers will" be given by the TMn-commtssioned officers and men of ' Tihe battery nxt Thursday. Khaki uniforms arc still the only r 'tlnd to be sfen among the infantry. iSInny Men. Drop Out. From the rate at which the men of the Twcnt -ninth are being discharged, 1 Itbrc will soon be very few of the rank K ftid file left In the regiment. From it&ht to ten privates are being released ftvery day, and unless the new drafts Rhat are expected from the East ar-rivc ar-rivc very soon the whole battalion will frenslst of officers. The band is in itrtat need of reinforcement. At pres-Jtat pres-Jtat there are only fourteen musicians 'composing this. This, however, will :in be raised to forty first-class musicians. mu-sicians. The Boston Musical organiza- .Vtlon will furnish twenty-two new ln-JltninipntH ln-JltninipntH Thf Iwder now la Prof. SlC- itaielcher. Three of the men wore dis-tcharged dis-tcharged in San Francisco and six Lcasuals dropped out- Tho regiment is '.hoping to make Its band one of the btst in the serice. Prof. Herrlck of )the Thirteenth cavalry is coming out (from Michigan and he will bring about fi dozen first-class musicians with him. r'jiThe band under the leadership of Prof. . Sjebenc-lrher will lead the G. A. R. ' parade tomorrow. When the regiment '.iVas in Manila it had eight Filipinos f(la the band, and very handy they were, 4too. Although their ear for music wa3 trifle shaky, they are very apt to vjlearn and respond readily to the baton. J1 Better Than. Fort Douglas. During its service in the islands tho , Regiment was most of the time in quar-I quar-I iters in Gulmaras. All the buildings .' ',lhpre they constructed for themselves, ; ";tnd. in the opinion of the men, they had ; 'j"a hotter post than Fort Douglas." 'i il From Camp Jossman, where they ' ijrc on active service, they have uev-; uev-; ra souvenirs. Amohg these are a ',' 'ctuple of "cannon," now in front of Atth? commanding of (leer's residence, fjHch. were captured from tho natives, JTfiey are so ancient that the brass has Jill gone green. The pattern ls muz-We-loadlng. of a date somewhere an-jrtlerior an-jrtlerior to tho battle of Waterloo. If -jcted with serious Intent, they would ! create liavoc among tnose who at-.' at-.' jtmpt to fire them, but those aimed at icould smoke thtdr pipes in comfort. h The new regulation caps to bo worn I 'ifith undress uniform nre not meet-,4 meet-,4 Jlr.c with the- approval of tho rank and j'fllc. "Everj'hody'll think wo belong to withe Salvation Army," is the complaint. '! There are not many polo players ?&mong the officers of the new regiment, ilTtanU ig the great game among them. -Uarly evory officer In the rglment is & tcnnlB player, fihd as soon as they iKet settled down they intend to havo , toe courts up at the fort repaired and to continue the tournaments which were . & feature of every Saturday afternoon : Millie they were in the Philippines, So 1 far from tho climate there being too ' cot for tlds pastime, those who know ijljy that it gets hotter in Salt Lake in fyuie summer than in tho islands. |