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Show FIP.5IFE0EI PI! Boys ?.t Camp Lewis Share in Initial Distribution of $75,000. SOLDIERS SATISFIED Earned More in Civil Life, but Patriotically Pocket Less for Country's Sake. Special to The Tribune. CAMP . "LHWli-i, Tacoina, Xuv. Utah's troops hi the 91st division of tiic National army at Camp Louis havp just received their first pay, a total of 0m.ct;hing ike $75,000. In civil life vo-cations vo-cations the men probably would have received more like $200,000. Nevertheless, Neverthe-less, when the ghost walked at the cantonment can-tonment there was joy in camp, for the men were paid in cash and the clinking clink-ing coin in their pockets was as sweet music to them. The privates were paid at the rate of $30 a month and non-commissioned officers, and" there are so many in some of the Utah units that one wonders won-ders whom they command, a few dollars dol-lars more, the increase depending on their rank. America's soldiers arii better bet-ter paid than those of any outlier nation, the privates getting more than a "Russian "Rus-sian colonel and the non-coms more than an Italian lieutenant. Then the men get their food, lodging, clothing and medical and dental attention. "Jt certainly could be worse' said one Utah .youth, who pocketed $33.40 in cash for his first pay. The camp paymaster pay-master has a very exact wav of doling out thi,s coin. In paying oft' this man for instance lie passed out one $20, one $J0, one $o bill, three silver dollars dol-lars and a quarter, a dime and. a nickel. The paymaster wouldn't think of giving giv-ing the man three tens, a five and some change. It is not done that way in the army. Just why no one seems to know. Privates and" non-coms at the camp were paid a total of approximately $1,-000,000. $1,-000,000. This amount will be increased next month. Tiie officers ' pay this month is running nearly $800,000. It is estimated that the men and officers at 1'amp Lewis will receive approximately approxi-mately $20,000,000 in a year. Huge Commissary Purchases. Commissary department purchases run . $.5,000,000 a vear and quartermaster supplies more "than $10,000,000. It is w conservatively estimated that tl)e camp quartermaster's business at the largest cantonment will total between $45,000,-000 $45,000,-000 and $50,000,000 annually. The man who has charge of this gigantic gi-gantic business is Major James H. Como, the camp quartermaster, aud who recently was" promoted from captain. He is one of tho very few regular army olficers at the camp, the others being National army ;md reserve officers. Major Como is an example of what a .man enlisting as a private in the army can do and his record is interesting to all the National army men at the camj. Major Como enlisted as private in Chi- j cago in the early '90 's. He was soon made a non-commissioned officer and in 1899 a second lieutenant. The quartermaster corps is one of the most important in the United States army, for it is the very life of the fighting fight-ing units. Its activities include the fi' nance department, commissary department, depart-ment, quartermaster department, transportation, trans-portation, bakery and utilities. If the camp quartermaster should fail in his tasks Major General Greene would, have to close up shop and 0 home. The 347th field artillery, which has many Utah men in its ranks, has just been on a practice march. The men packed their shelter tents, mesa kits and other equipment and conformed to all military details. They made a wide swing, "somewhere on the cantonment.' canton-ment.' ' throwing out advance guards. the main body being followed by the rear guard. As They Do In France. The men marrhed in route step. Some were playing mouth organs and others singing and whistling. The soldiers 'do this in France, so they were told, so they followed suit to get in practice and to pave the way for maintaining their morale when they actually get to the front. Practically every Utah infantryman and artilleryman at Camp Lewis has taken a hand at the trench digging. The men go out in companies and work just as the soldiers do in Europe. The men are divided into sections. One section uses picks, another spades, still j another axes and another saws. They clean out the underbrush, cut trees and clear out other obstructions there may be. Tho Utah miners shine at trench digging. Athletic contests, smokers and other entertainments which the soldiers stage at Cam) Uewis are as much a part of their intensive training to fit themselves for service against the Bodies on the I'Vench front as their work in bayonet lighting and trench digging and Utah and Mdaho men with talent along these lines are much in demand. The officers at Camp Lewis believe that football, boxing, vaudeville and singing should have their places in the order of the day's events and encourage their men to take up these activities. Capt. T. G. Cook, a coach and physical phys-ical director of more than twenty years' exjericnce, is the camp athletic director, aud has general supervision of all athletic ath-letic events. The camp boxers have a famous instructor in Willie Ritchie, former for-mer lightweight boxing champion of the world. Kestyn Davies, well-known "Ta-coma "Ta-coma musician, direr I a the musical activities ac-tivities at the camp. Must Learn to Box. Ritchie and Davies share an office at division headquarters and also the knowledge in their special lines. Kitehie is teaching v Davies to box and Davies is teaching Ritchie to sing. Both are i said to be apt pupils. Kverv man at the camp must, learn how to box. The men are taking this instruct ion in squads as they would anv oilier branch of training in the army. Numerous amateurs and professionals profes-sionals famed for their prowess with the gloves, assist Ritchie in this work. The "French olhVrrs at the camp who are act ins as instructors in Uurnpean warfare, have been interested specm-toi" specm-toi" at several recent smokers. They out huso over the boxing, but ennnot mi-1 mi-1 dersiand whv the referees allow close- Sin lighting. They nre usd to Marquis i of Qucensberry rub's. " I" admire the spirit of yon American soldiers, ' ' said Screen nt Bonn eg, one of the' French officers at smoker. "Kven if the Germans aren't licked j now thev soon will be." ! So large are the crowds which nr-I nr-I tend tne smokers and other nrtrtain-ueuts nrtrtain-ueuts at the camp that the affairs are i Staged in the largest buildings avail-' avail-' -ible. The reghuentnl nssemhlv hall? iii;ie a cn'.'acitv of about 1 L'rt men, but ' the V M. C. A. auditorium will seat j vu)0 'Two big theaters ar now un; icr construction at the camp. |