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Show Belated by Wreck, Soldier Contingent Has Moonlight Frolic Songs and Merrymaking Pass Time Away When Train Is Halted. AN incident that illustrates the manner man-ner in which the American soldier can adapt himself to all conditions and circumstances when the occasion occa-sion requires, is related by G. M. Wrisley, Y. M. C. A. camp secretary at Fort Douglas, who returned yesterday after accompanying the 215 draft boys from Salt Lake last Tuesday as far as Le Grand, Ore. Tuesday night the troop train was halted near Malad, Idaho, by a freight wreck. Though the hour was midnight, the drafted men piled out of the train upon the sand and sagebrush of the Idaho Ida-ho plains, and in the brilliant light of the moon proceeded to make merry. One of the men had a melodeon with him and immediately struck up one of the new soldier march songs. All of the boys joined in and sang the song with vim. Kalph Kloninger, the popular Salt Lake actor, who was among the soldier detach-, ment, read to the assembled crowd, with dramatic effect, the poem "The Service Flag." A quartet organized among some of the best singers of the crowd then sang a number of patriotic melodies and everybody joined in singing "America." j In this manner the time was put in while the wreck was being cleared. |