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Show MAGAZINE SECTION'. THE J Li ii die r til HERALD-REPUBLICA- til Border till TT A of JLJl i Boys at Nogales, Many of Them, Have Seen Service in Many i Climes and Under j Uncle Samuel's Men Who Have Seen Service i i ! ... ! "With "Utah's J national guards- - ! ing ionuinons ami smv men in service on the Mexican !I rr iance: How Salt Lake, m!tvnpr!. rtffa1' a. flf Common With Other Rc- - shows "the Fighting Eighth" ! wi -- crafting Centers, Became fic Rendezvous for Adven- ! v ! forj Jtiats i or xne W M ! utan A a 4 JV fx Sun-parche- i - .... - - t, .j- . ,4 1 V Set, Ready for a Fight or the able event; lower left, j lews' the guardsmen " Play f Frolic, but Staunch-hearteand True as Steel to Flag d el-- J makinsj of the militiamen. Vaudeville artists, pianists, vocalists and artists of every description are found among the thousands of men from all over the j canary. Xognlcs. Ariz., Aug. 10- Salt Lake and other Utah cities have contribut- ed their quota of adventurers to t lie great army of national guardsmen mobilize. on the Mexican bonier protecting the I'liiteil States from further invasion !y Villa's bandit-- Men who have traveled the world around, ticking adventure in the Philippines, the Hawaiian inlands. C inn, Alaska, and on European battlefields are to be found in the Utah militia com - n in even.- other company of 1 . - ardmen or t!e border. re-ul- on duty alonp ars war with Mexico seemed imminent and President Wibon ti e order for the mobilization of the national pnard, men in every' offices were city where recruiting opened flocked in to enlist. Today arms around tl.ey are resting on tlieir the campfire of No?sUest El Vo and Wls'-- is-su- ed other mobilization points impatient to wait they pet into action. While they hours recounting pa?s the evening nt ranker taks of travel and adve-nturand more interwtin? than fiction. search for trold with a search for adventure in the mining camps of Gold-fielDawson, Juneau and the Klondike. U.sed to "rouhin" it, it was not strange that no word of cora- plaint was heard from them as to the quality of the food they were beincr served in the cobilization camp or in recrard to the climatic conditions they had to contend with on the border. To a man they asree that camping out in Nosrales is not "roucrhinJT it" at all condition are better here than in any mining camp in the country, they say. Men have been drawn from every walk of life to make up the personnel of the Utah contribution to the guardsmen on the border. It is safe to say that nine out of every ten men who enlisted in tho puard after it was called out by the President enlisted because of the promise of adventure they saw in a call to service d, j ! Men who have een service in the. armii of Germany and Fro nee. some boundary who "did their bit" for England in alons the international were peacefully the ireent European conflict, and line. Whether they in shop or office when the Fcores who fought with the United employed mopolitc does not exist. That statement mut have been made by some one who had failed to look for the cosmopolite in the Nopal es mobilization camp. Here are to be found men who are as much at home in Paris, London and Shanghai. China, a in New York or Salt Lake men who have circled the plobe, not once, but many times, and who can speak not only the languages of Fraree, Gerain and the old United many, States, but a smattering of the ioly-pltongues of the Indies and the African Gold Coast thrown in for good measure. ot Probably the most common type of adventurer to be found in the mobilization camp is the veteran of one or the other arm of the service the old soldier or failor, old not in years but in experience. Taking for example, field hospital 20 of Salt Lake, smaller by far than the detachments of cavalry imd batterymen from Utah, one finds men who have fought in the bloodiest battles of the Philippines, Cuba and the waters of the West In- call came, or whether they had just on the bumpers tions, the Philippines and the islands rolled into Salt Lake dies. v of the South seas are numbered arson of a freight train and were tcmporari-lSergeant Davis Turk, field hospital lodpinp at the Salvation Array the militiamen encamped in the low man with the second squadron of foothills surTOundinc the town of headquarters, they were moved by from Salt Lake, was one of the same impulse the spirit of ad- cavalry the first men to be wounded in batSalt Lake beircr the center of tho venture and obeying the impulse are tle in the Philippines. Accompanying intcrmonntain country- - of the pre at here today wondering what the moras hospital corjs man, a detachment wct. it was an ideal recruiting spot row will bring forth. of regulars ho were charging upon for hardy adventurers who had been It is true that there are younp feldrawn froin overy corner of the clobe lows in tho national puard for whom an ambuscade, Turk fell with a bullet through the thigh. In order to by the tales of Forty-Ninroperity the expedition to the border is a in the mininc li'trict!: resultincr from new experience their first save his life he had to fend off the with the unprecedented lemanl for met- real trip away from home, but there attacks of a native head-huntals brought abut by the war aero-- - are others hundreds of thm who his hospital corps knife, coming out States regulars in the Cuban insurrec- Xo-jrale- Mexican Frontier; They're, a Happy-go-luck- y 1 hospital corps! snapped in the midst of a delect- - J of t ! f - f pui friends with a Rocky mountain BY VINCENT SEXTON. 4 roi- - i 1 4 "5 J- ft I J rd in ary, j inspection: lower rieht. "Ready ler3" o tta of I i turous Youth Ready to Risk Their Necks to Gratify Their Love for the Out-of-thc-- in South Africa, the Philippines and Elsewhere Under the Flags of Many Nations Are Now Awaiting Eventualities as Soldiers of the d Republic Along the i Vary-- ; . MAGAZINE SECTION. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SUNDAY, AUGUST 20, 1916. N, s. er won-derf- ha and Salt Lake. He didn't spend a cent for railroad fare on the entire trip, despite the fact that if he so desired he could have drawn on a bank account of several thousand dollars which he has in a Seattle bank.' Sam's fighting boats, visiting the' and much of the United States. He is ports of South America, Europe, a Swiss by birth and is an intrepid China and the Orient, and meeting mountain climber, having scoled with strange adventures in every cor- Mount Pilatus at Lucerne other less famous peaks of the Alps, ner of the globe. Sergeant lack Trelawney. when a and on one occasion made one sergeant in tlie United Stales marine of a party climbing Mount Blanc greatest of all the Alpine peaks. corps, cruised in strange waters and climbed Borchard Pike's visited interesting cities in both hemi- When spheres. James Mover, companj- coo? Peak near Colorado Springs a year in the field hospital, is another regu- ago, he established a record for the the great ser- ascent on foot, climbing lar, army veteran who saw vice in tho Spanish-America- n war peak in a little more than three hours. among Uncle Sam's present island The descent also was made in record possessions. There are other men like time. these, not only in the Utah contingent, There are numerous other members but in every company at the border. of the field hospital men like SerSergeant Otto Hartmann and Paul geant Ilufus D. Johnson, Privates P. Cornell are among the members of Willie Baxter, John Nusink, Fred the field hospital who served in the Flavell, and others, who have traveled German army before coming to the extensively in England France, HolUnited States, and William Rennie is land and other countries on the conone of the men who worked for the tinent and who, if they wished, could British government in the present Eu- tell more than one interesting tale of ropean conflict. novel adventure abroad and at home. World travelers at Nogales are not Among the Utah contingent at the confined to the class of men who have border are men who, for love of adseen service in the armv or navv. venture, have beat their way on There are numerous other young men freight and passenger trains all over in the detachment from Utah who the United States and Canada. One have seen much of travel and adven- young fellow who enlisted in the Utah ture as civilians. cavalry had just completed a circuit Fred Borchard, on detached service of cities comprising Seattle, San with' the second squadron of the Utah Francisco, Los Angeles, Kansas City, cavalry, has traveled all over Europe Chieafio New York, Washington, Oma -- There are men at Nogales who took part in the great engineering feat of building the Panama canal and others who, on rsceiving their discharges, to plan to hit the trail for Alaska work on the construction of the big government railroads in that land. Athletes in every field of sport are found by the hundreds at the border and the Utah delegation has its full share. There "are expert rifle shots like Maj. John E. Sharp of the field hospital, again using this small field unit for pxirpose of illustration. There are boxers, wrestlers and track athletes; and some of Utah's stars from Brigham Young university, the Uni versitj' of .Utah and the Agricultural college are now seeing border service. In auto truck companies 40 and 50, stationed near the Utah field hospital, are truck drivers who have seen service in the Boer war as "dough boys" in the British command, and there are others who have participated in some of the most famous of. the big automobile races in this country and in France, either as mechanics or pilots. There is talent galore in the ranks - - - , , -- w.. country who have assembled here. Many there are who can croon an Hawaiian melody or a Chinese love song with as much facility as they can sing "America, I Love You" or "Along the Arizona Border." In arranging a camp vaudeville show or an entertainment at the army Y. M. C. A., the easiest thing to do is to gather together the necessary talent. To say that there are men from every walk of life represented in the national guard encampment would be putting it mildly. There arc butchers, bakers, candlestick makers, and a hundred and one other kind of artisans and craftsmen, business and professional men in the guard. And the strange thing about it is that men who, prior to their enlistment in the guard, were receiving in some cases, $50 and $75 a week sometimes more are cheefully working from early morning until sundown for a mero fraction of the wages they formerly received. But there is a promise of adventure in the air no one knows at what moment something may occur which will unleash the dogs of war and send the Americans across the line. So the vast majority of the men, now that they have a few weeks in camp and grown accustomed to the routine of army life, are con-tewith their lot and are really enpa-sse- nt joying their service on the border. DELATED WISDOM. It is said now that the monarchs of Europe are deterred from making- peace through fear of the people. It's strange - they were not kept from making war by the same specter. Savannah News. VKgv - ul er victorious in the combat only after he Wheivthe c.dl to arms came. arn time's series of interesting Adven had rendered his assailant unconthe f irt to rtpnd were miners and tures. It i hard to say which man scious with a blow froin the heavy knife. Coming unscathed through muckers" who had braved the hard- - is enjoying the trip the more. si ips of the frontier, combining a It has been said that the true cos- - other battles with the Moros in which he saw some of his tcntmates literally cut to pieces by the savages, Turk finally returned to the states. When the mobilization order came a short time back he was one of the first men th' 5as. look upon the trip as one of a to respond and through his wide-knowledg- .r .,)(n.:i'''yL V f VS-- i J? s 4 - - - - v- e of the tactics of army hospital life, he was soon promoted to a sergeant cy. Kced E. Spooner of tho hospital ? A ' , ' i ' ' H; corps is a man who has seen service in a number of campaigns. As a member of the. crew of U. S. S. Oregon, Spooner took part in the siege oi Santiago in the Spanish-America- n war. He fought in the Philippines, smd has, served on a scure of Uncle lL.I: - V ,.!L..- - ik " J . - - |