Show LIME LIFE OF A VOLUNTEER and 15 a month were the chief factors in moving me to enlist with wirth the utah recruits for captain youngs battery bacon and rice coffee and hard tack have thus far furnished the fhe momentum for my daily hip hip hip halt right about face and my love of fair columbia and a few other american girls has made the blanket I 1 sleep on and my hammer sack pillow soft enough to keep me from regretting but od blew bless the red crow for having done more than anything else to render the volunteers un life endurable uncle sam ia I 1 s generous with his soldiers but man many 7 of his stewards ore are absolutely without when they see that by furnishing a poor quality of and elo clothing thing to their oot rys defenders they will be enabled to aft add to theli their private bank account more r than it if they lived up to the full ae lette of their contracts much has beer been sai and written regarding the shoddy una forms and equipments furnished th volunteers by contractors here in sea francisco but the story has not be fully told the facts reveal 8 a condl tion of affairs that is simply dis hag race ful fill but as they affect only the private the poor devil who has nothing but id life to offer his country they contina unchanged volun volunteers don dont t ee expect luxuries or many comforts but tike would appreciate the necessities which wholesome food and warm cloth ing constitute the whole but for th red cross and other christian aado elation clation sp our stay in this warm bearta city would be to say the least dju cou raging san francisco is a military calu soldiers are thicker in this L ity lity ts grass widows in seattle it would I 1 a difficult feat to throw a rock d do market street nowadays now a days without W ting a raw recruit volunteers a adlers everywhere and in all sta staged maturity from the rawest of the m en ran to the overdone and brainless who considers the particular parti his hair and the particular swagger his off duty gait as being the oa proper way of doing things there tt eft tt two such with the utah cavel cavalry va at camp merritt Merrl tt little thick calved fellows with small eua heads on bull n necks ec ks to see th era their best fighting gew gear and sally fari of evenings to capture the hearts button garls is more heartrending ejbl to have cold rice tor for breakfast taking them all in all ail uncles hoi in blue are a pretty fine set betas quite capable of holding thel their r 01 TM the profession they at present presen it follon f discipline grinds hard on them they cant seem to unde the necessity of every man mail beang ats at post at proper or stated times azad their obeying the comman commands ds of superiors who in citizen life were bereis so I 1 am proud to say that the os boys with one or two excel exceptions 2 fully awake to the demands of B hour and that there seems seeing to b keen competition among them for fors future promotions they drill ami four hours every day and are fast fasold ing the marks that distinguish chaa cault from the regular and indal them show much aptitude in cardl on to n new az drills we have one me tea though in our company who dom doer seem to know his bis right from atol his 11 in fact he seems to have left his 1 at home he claims to be drill sergeant says he should havela left no doubt he wt wishes a he haahs had he was exercising on the e wood pau illets morning our esteemed lieutenant lieutenan at wall wood Is confined in ih his bed at IM hospital with quite a aasi attack of typhoid fever we an for his speedy recovery and as sin a man of great will power and deti mi nation no doubt he will pul pui chrt our battery re recruits c kultos are aarre e te in charge of diega of the fornia volon teera equipments have not yet been tart to all of our battery recruits and aim dissatisfaction is shown and jut too by the majority of those who ho received uniforms because of ta miserable quality and the tact fact fib many of them are second hand and unfit tor for americans americana to wear condition will be remedied however h wt the near future and no dou doubt the V gunteer recruits will be tre treated atad uncle sam intends they should I 1 bs soldiers and champions of tru trutha I 1 liberty today Is ia one long to be re by the utah battery boy morning drill we warda s d and marched over to t th the e 0 SDI Is abw afternoon there are just sore K left arms in our encampment we all lost our first mood blood in our count rys i tivice tf vice we were all vaccinated vaccina ted ouch lookout there my sore arm 1 is heard on all sides and some in drin drill this morning who ref i member which was their left side S could coad m not forget it this afternoon NOOD NOD camp presidio san francisco july U WL 1898 |