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Show BRIGADE INSPECTIOM TO BE HELD TODAY ; v Post Commander and Staff to Review Troops on Parade Pa-rade Grounds, j j FIRST OF ITS KIND HERE j Soldiers at Fort Douglas Receive Their Pay for Month of August. . j Fornuil order culling for a brigade tn- , speclion and review of tho Infantry troops . at Fort DouRlas was issued yesterday morning hy Colonel Alfred Hashrouck, commandint; the post. The review will be held on the parad field just north of the Forty-third cantonments canton-ments at S:30 o'clock this morning. The three regiments, the Twentieth, Forty-' -N, second and Forty-third, with bands, machine-gun companies and all units except transportation, will turn out In mass?Vn, formation for the Inspection and review, fcw The Inspection Is being held In preparation prepara-tion for a brigade Inspection and review which it Is anticipated will be called for by Major General Arthur Murray, com- h . mandlng general of the western depart- ij ment, upon his visit to the local post probably next week. The three regiments will be formed in brigade organization first and inspected by Colonel Hasbrouck. Then, headed hy their : respective bands, the regiments will pass t in review before the commanding officer -Si and his staff. " First Brigade Inspection. ,This Is the first time that tbe troops at the post will have been turned out in brigade formation, and the event will be a military spectacle oi much interest. IT. will be the first time In the history of the post that a brigade inspection and review has been held. About 5000 troops will be r seen in tbe review. Yesterday was pay day at Fort Douglas, Doug-las, and during the day the government distributed ?1 4 1 .565.4S to the enlisted men of the three infantry regiments. Today about S40,000 more will be paid to the enlisted men of tbe Utah artillery, also encamped on the reservation. Tbe Twentieth infantry organizations were paid at the post quartermaster's of- fiee. The other two regiments were paid by their quartermaster officers at their own quartermaster offices. The officers of all the organizations have been paid previously for the month of August. On account of the fact that there will-be will-be a big parade in the city Monday morning morn-ing by all the troops at Fort Douglas, target practice will not be commenced on r that day by the Twentieth infantry, as previously planned. It Is scheduled to start Tuesday morning, however. All Salute Flag. An order received at the post yesterday yester-day promoted First Lieutenant O. A. Straub to the rank of captain and assigns . him to the Twentieth infantry instead or . the Forty-third, to which he was previ- ously assigned. wliy Captain Straub thinks that his assign-ment assign-ment to the Twentieth was made through 4 an error and lias applied to "Washington to be assigned again to the Forty-third Infantry, with which organization he has been since the regiment was formed. The anniversary of the writing of the American national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Star-Spangled Banner," by Francis fcott Key, - was fittingly observed at Fort Douglas yesterday morning at reveille.- Every soldier sol-dier in the post stood at attention and saluted the flag while the baud played the national anthem. This same ceremony w'as performed by every American soldier in the country and In France at reveille yesterday morning, pursuant to orders of the secretary of war. |
