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Show BOYS OF UTAH, I IN GOOD SHAPE, .NOWINGAMP Salt Lake City, Oct 8. Mombora of tho f irat selective draft fiom Utah, who wiir.gsecn at American Lake by D. S. Spencer, general passenger passenger pas-senger agent of the Oregon Short line, with headquarters In Salt Lake,' are In splendid condition and aro In demand at American Lake, Washington, Washing-ton, whero their cantonment I located. Mr. Spencer left Wednesday night with 1 1 1 men Included In tho third call. The trip from Salt Lake City was one continuous ovation. Th attentions paid tho Utah train became be-came moio and moro marked as they approached their destination. "At American Lako there aro 2G,-000 2G,-000 men, tho ground occupied by their camp covering -10,000 acres. It is most beautifully located and the ' men aro housed In substantial wooden wood-en buildings, well constructed," said i Mr. Spencer. j "Tho tralnload of men which left Salt Lake City Wednesday night was made up of men from the all walks of llfo. Thero wero lawyers, doctors,. Judges, artisans from all trade, , university students, collego professors profes-sors nnd even ministers. Ited Cros workers nt Salt Lake had provided , fruit for tho boys, which was hand-, ed out to them en route I "Artists In tho deputation had de- corated tho cars. Thus It was easy to distinguish tho train, and the cltl- zens on route cheered nnd applauded ' tho young patriots. Sign writers from tho travelers had written som unique signs on tho sides of tho cars. Some of them were 'German Chas-'ors Chas-'ors from Utah,' 'Derlln nound,' j 'Utah's Best Crop, 'Liberty.' There 'were fourteen cars In tho train, all loadede, with Utah men. All tho men who started from hero reached tholr destination and all 'wero In good health upon arrival, hey were Jolly, bravo, young men and will mako good soldiers. They 'wero In good spirits and had deter-i deter-i mined to settlo down Into camp nnd mako good at tho profession of fighting fight-ing for liberty. |
