Show MAJI MAJ GEN KENT IS 1 fRt I Popular Army Officer Formerly Stationed at Fort Douglas PAID PAI VISIT TO THE POST JIo J I ho h tue United Should lies e n it I r Army Anti Mm 11 Not ol Too J I 1 P Kent formerly colonel of ut time the Infantry try t regiment when It t Wil stationed tl nt at II Tort lorl Douglas Is I at nt time the ho lit Ul tl today tOray cit el route from flOI toni the time Pacific Palto const coast to hilts bin hil homo home hOna lt sit t Troy Tray N Y The TIme general was WIK ono one of ot tho the 10 t popular commanding ever stationed at this pout io Ilo the tho use of ot the word lie ho toted loved Is in II not mint nt at lt all al forces forced In connection toms tion Oi with tie the estimation with wih which ho lie was WIS held heist by the time Stilt Salt Lake public Gets Gen Oel Kent ent did not lint hold himself aloof from rein them tho th nitHe Juhl as IH j some lomo commanding om em cell sire air wont hut but he hue was a ti man of ut the though he lie was scia mt tho thu cons com commanding COl manding and took n it personal pcr olli Interest In tho lie troops entrusted to his charge e When hei reminded this noon nt sit lt tile tho hotel by a I representative of ot the time News that he hud had left lpt a I host hosl of ad nIl admiring admiring miring friends In Its II Hull Suit Lake Inke Gen 1051 Gel o Kent Kont replied Unit that Stilt Halt Hal Luke Lake people always limit had n mt I warm null place In II I ii tilts bin hi heart he would ever ocr them thel with wih feeling of ut affection General Generl Kent Kelt arrives arrived this and wont up to visit his old post pest Im Immediately 11 mediately after at breakfast On Oa return tag lug Ilg at ft stools nuon he remarked to u ii I News representative n that ho hail had not nol been In Salt Halt Lake boIse since he lie left at the tho heat head of ot hits his regiment on out tho the breaking out of oC the tho Spanish war WU Wit he Into had hai found there were so eo many mal fiats changes In Inthe II Inthe the city elt that he ito felt tel really r It lost At t Fort Douglas he iso was pleased rl with wih time the new IW barracks but the tho obliteration of ot certain landscape features that tint hud had tended II so 80 to O make lak the tie post a 0 beautiful by hy reason of the physical altera lon going on up there seemed to 10 ii him The Tho To general found n U number of ot old army am friends Ht at Fort Kori or Douglan who were glad to see seo him anti made his short stay atit 81 there u a welcome one ems ont General Kent lent greatly regretted not being able to lo remain over longer He wanted to stay here h r at al least two weeks but hu bu t business matters required his lila attention In the east cast est and Ind he lie felt t ll obliged to leave lea 10 In tIm II the course of at con conversation ton the time general remarked his hl be he h lief let that the tIu United States should have haven haveit n it I larger regular arm one of about 1000 men len for tor alt all ni brunches of ot the ser ncr service vice sice He lIe did not riot think that too tou large lue by ii h any nn ass means lenns and hell held that lint there thore ought to 10 be no rio complaint trout from trl critics un an al army time the th militia or 01 vol volunteer 01 r service of o the th country could very von vona er erel well a el oil be le hI grouped roupe and Ild association with such mich a n body hOdy hOd of ot regular soldiers would seoul have use the best liest results In the tho training of or o militia soldiery oller It will still wi be remembered tint that leti en Kent l enl was commander of or a ii t division of or h JI Seventh army corps that went to Cults Cuba and It I was wait WIK to 10 bl command that time tho Ih Note New Nel York regiment WaR sins assigned The action of ot that regiment In its lying down In iii tIme the face of the lie III II lt enemy while ii the time Sixteenth regulars actually walked over them In is h a it I matter of ot his history hl hii tory lorr and when brought out In hum Ion Gen GenI KentH I ell report to 10 the time war Wil department created tilt nil In intonate Intense Int nse sensation In New Nets NewYork Ol York rity it where the newspapers new hal baa beers been printers printer Ink to lo time the winds II I In Its II writing up U the exploits of or the tue gallant were score put to the time blush When the lie matter mater wa wn was refer referred reer referred red rec to this tilts noon loon the general remarked that while It II wax was till all 11 Co no o the regiment hardly deserved tb Ihl limo odium 1111 that had bust been heaped h al upon It I nUll and that limit ono one on real really realI ly I gallant gallt o tec Hafferty of o K company rallied with wih his isIs company to the Use front In ins II time the thE fate face of ot thin tho enemy and asahi amid this the lyIng flying bullets General Kent said salt that at ut the Iho first bat battle bit lie tle III of ot Hull Bul Hun he tie noticed more 1010 than one 01 regiment In II fart fact pretty pret much all 11 of or the time volunteers tied fled Ilet before the Con Confederates Confederates federates unit and tint that It I was the regulars who held lucId up UI the lie line lne of or hattie battle hatle for tor tho time Union enlon forces H Ind saved laed tho the volunteers utter ulel rout raul General Kent had sympathy s thy tIm for tor the all called at nt attention tenton to 10 the time fact that troops who lint had acted d In lii thus this way wn sea at al the outset outset shortly shorty afterwards often oten believed behaved with wih great gloat At bravery brer in iii the time firing line lne General Kent was WB u I brave br officer sisal And pervert hits his country with wih distinction both bolh bothIn In iii the lie Civil Ind ant the time Spanish h wars Ho Ito graduated from rom West We est t Point In 1161 antI wOnt went to 10 the front ns as a n second s on lieuten lieutenant louten loutenant ant In the Third regular re Infantry He lie 10 was made n a captain In 1064 a major of or ortho tho the Fourth regulars g In lieutenant ot of the Eighteenth I Infantry and amsil became colonel colon of ot tIme tho Infantry In him 11 15 I General Kent lent was seas made mal a 1 brigadier In ISIS 18 S and shortly short thereafter a of ot volun volunteers teen He lie was Wil retired In October of or ortho the tho same year In lii II IS while captain of or regulars he lie was isle mado 1 lo a 1 brevet colo colonel colonel cob nel nd of ot volunteers ton for gallant conduct Many Inn Stilt Salt I lAke ike friends ure ore shaking shakinG haunts hands with the time old ol veteran today |