Indianapolis Journal, Volume 48, Number 246, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 September 1898 — Page 1

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SAW M’KINLEY THE MARINES ACCIDENTALLY • REVIEWED BY THE PRESIDENT. 4 The President's Carriage Falla in Behind a Soldier’s Funeral Procession In New York. 4 ■ OFF FOR MONTAUK POINT 4 CAMP WIKOFF WILL HAVE DISTINGUISHED VISITORS TO-DAY. ~ + Secretary Alger and Several Cabinet Members Joined the Presidential Party Last Night. ■ GEN. SH AFTER IS NOT TALKING REFUSES TO BE DRAWN INTO CONTROVERSY WITH DR. SENN. - ■ Lively Times In the Long Island Camp, Cleaning Up and Preparing for To-Day’s Visit. NEW YORK, Sept. 2.—President McKinley and his party left the city at 10:15 o’clock to-night for Camp Wikoff. With the President were Vice President Hobart, Col. Myron T. Herrick, of Cleveland; Maj. Webb C. Hayes, J. Addison Porter, secretary to the President; Assistant Secretary Cortelyou and William McKinley Barber, the President’s nephew. After dinner was served at the Manhattan Hotel the President went up stairs to the Transportation Club rooms, which occupy the upper floor of the hotel, and for an hour he held an Informal reception. Chauncey M. Depew Introduced the callers to the President. The President will spend Sunday with Vice President Hobart. Mrs. McKinley and Mrs. Hobart, who did not go to Camp Wikoff, will leave for Paterson to-morrow. The President's party arrived at Jersey City over the Pennsylvania Raflroad at noon to-day. He was met at the Pennsylvania Railroad station by Vice President and Mrs. Hobart. The party was driven to the Manhattan Hotel, where they occupied the state apartments. While on Its way to the Fifth-avenue Hotel this afternoon the carriage containing President McKin'ey, Vice President Hobart and Private Secretary Porter met a detail of the Seventyfirst New York Regiment escorting ihe remains of Corporals Sheld and Immen, who were killed In the charge of San Juan hill, to the cemetery. With reverential respect the President and his party removed their hats. The President’s head was lowered and he seemed to be deeply affected by the spectacle. The President’s carriage followed the funeral cortege a couple of blocks down Fifth avenue, beloW Twentythird street, and then returned to the hotel. President McKinley was on the balcony of the Fifth-avenue Hotel fanning himself with his hat when the naval reserves from the Yankee passed. He jumped to his feet and clapped his hands, and when the tars presented arms bowed In answer to their salute. The sailors were surprised and delighted at being reviewed by the President. Alger Leaves to Meet the President. WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.—Secretary Alger, accompanied by Mrs. Alger, Commissary General Egan and Senator Proctor, left Washington this afternoon at 4 o'clock on the congressional limited of the Pennsylvania Railroad for Jersey City. At that point the party will take the government ferry boat General Meigs t.nd be transported to the Dong Island Rai’road' terminus in Brooklyn. A special train will be in waiting there with accommodations for President and Mrs. McKinley and Secretary Alger’s party, and this train will start at the proper hour during the night to arrive t Camp Wikoff early to-morrow morning. Secretary Gage was to be of Secretary Alger's party, but decided at the last moment to remain in Washington until the 20th, when he will go on a vacation of several weeks to Colorado and other Western States. Senator Proctor after his return from the camp will make a trip to Europe, returning in season to be In Vermont when the elections occur. Secretary Alger expects to return to Washington Sunday evening. . NEW YORK, Sept. 2.—Secretary of War Alger, accompanied by Generals Corbin and Enger. arrived in Jersey City to-night on the Congressional limited. They were met by Attorney General Griggs and several others. The party walked to the Adams Express pier, where they boarded the steamer General Meigs for Long Island City. SHAFTER INDISPOSED. Vain Attempt to Drag Hliu Into Controversy with Dr. Senn. CAMP WIKOFF. Montauk Point, Sept. 2. —General Shatter declines to enter into a controversy, he says, with Dr. Senn in regard to yellow fever among the soldiers at Santiago, and as ho waa slightly indisposed to-day denied himself to Interviewers. General Shafter is familiarizing himself with the condition of affairs In Camp Wikoff. He has held consultations with Generals Wheeler, Young and Ames. The last named has been carefully looking into the Affairs of the camp at General Wheeler's suggestion, aud advised General Shafter as to tbe condit on of the hospitals, the methods of caring for the sick and the sanitary condition of the camp. To-day the camp is being cleaned up all Around, so as to have everything, in the best possible shape to-morrow when President McKinley and party arrive. The special train having on board the presidential party will arrive during the forenoon. There will be no formal parade or review of the troops. When the President arrives a salute will be tired in his honor, and Gen. Shafter and staff and Generals Wheeler and Young will receive the distinguished visitors, ■who will enter carriages and be escorted into camp by a detachment of cavalrymen. In accordance with the President’s desire not much display will be made over his arrival in camp. Secretary Alger, who became well acquainted with the camp during bis Visit, will personally conduct the President through the camp. Mrs. M. E. Bell, of Aldlne Square, Chicago, found her son Dylvin to-day. He is a sergeant in Company C, First Illinois Regiment, and she had had no trace of him for five weeks. For two weeks she has been East interrogating tbe War Department, cabling to Santiago and searching the hospitals here. This morning she heard that feur transports had arrived during the

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night. They were the Orizaba, the Berkshire, the City of Washington and the Neuces. The Neuces, six days from Santiago, brought 355 men of the Twenty-ninth regular infantry and a detachment of the First Illinois. Among the twenty-six sick men on board was Sergeant Dylvin Bell. The Berkshire brought 348 convalescents from various commands, chiefly of the regular army, though the names have not yet become a matter of camp record. Three died on the six days’ voyage from Santiago. They were; Sergeant Johnson, Company K, First Artillery; Private Murphy, Company E, Twenty-fourth Infantry, and male nurse McMahon. One hundred and seventy-five of the convalscents are still quite sick, but no contagious cases are among them. The dead were burled at sea. The Orizaba brought paymasters and clerks, twenty-four altogether, and 21.000,000 cash in the treasury chest. The City of Washington brought Colonel Humphrey, quartermaster, U. S. A., and a clerk, two servants and three horses. None was sick. The deaths in the general hospital to-day were: Edwin Eugene Casey, troop clerk, Rough Riders; Abraham Robertson, Company D, Fourth Regiment Infantry; Frank Hagerman, Company F. Eighth Ohio; Hubbard White, Company A, Seventy-first New York; Daniel F. Conover, Company E, Ninth Massachusetts; Ira Leebold, Company F, Twelfth Infantry: William A. Shake, Company D, First Illinois; Clarke Frazier, Company D, Eighth Regiment; H. C. Eaton, Company F, First Illinois; Hottle, Company D, Seventh Infantry. In the Detention Hospital—Charles Genske, Company D, Thirty-third Michigan; Morris Dolan, teamster, Third Regiment Infantry; Carleton Day, Company H, Thirty-third Michigan; Albert Bennke, Company C, Thirty-fourth Michigan; A. B. Clay, Company D, Eighth Ohio; Ray Pardee, Company E, Thirty-fourth Michigan; William B. Ryan, Company A, First Illinois; John L. Shields, teamster, Twentieth Regiment Infantry. At the general hospital there are 1,276 sick; at the detention hospital, 250. One hundred men were furloughed to-day. GOVERNORS’ OWN FAULT, Intimates Senator Hanna When Asked About Sickness in Military Camps. CLEVEIA.ND, Sept. 2.—Senator M. A. Hanna has returned to Cleveland after a month’s outing In the Yellowstone Park and the Northwest. In the course of an interview concerning the reported sufferings In army camps, Mr. Hanna said: “I do not care to place the blame for the conditions upon any one. I will say, however, that the Governors of the different States appointed the volunteer officers, and we find that the illness among the troops comes from the volunteer ranks. The places for ‘he location of the camps were selected because of their availability and the general climatic conditions. “Regular troops have been camped by the side of the volunteers, and no sickness ameng them. I do not wonder that the death rate has been high in some instances. Several times I visited Camp Alger and looked carefully over the place. At the edge of the camp I found banana stands and places where beer and pop and such stuff were sold to the troops. This kind of stuff never helped the volunteers. “Look at the task which has been performed by the administration. At the outbreak of the war there was provision for but twenty-five thousand men. I am acquainted personally with the heads of the War Department and I am positive they worked from sixteen to eighteen hours each day to equip and arm this great army of between 275,000 and 300,000 men. The. whole affair seems marvelous to me and could not have been accomplished by any other nation in the world. The War Department had a most stupendous task before it and it was equal to the emergency.”

Gen. Yonng Break* an Arm. CAMP WIKOFF, Montauk Point, N. Y., Sept. 2.—General Young, while walking along the road near the railroad depot this afternoon, tripped on a piece of wire and fell, breaking his right arm. During the civil war a bullet broke some of the bones in this arm, and since then he has been unable to raise his hand to his shoulder. When he fell this afternoon this arm was underneath and the bone was broken. There was a conference of the surgeons to-day with General Wheeler and a general discussion of affairs, including the danger of an outbreak of typhoid fever. General Wheeler announced afterward that on Monday he would issue a set of orders that would regulate many things which needed regulating in relation to the hospitals and the general health of the camp. On the Pence Commission. WASHINGTON, Sept. 2. Secretary Day, of the State Department, who is now at his home in Canton, 0., will return to this city next Tuesday for the purpose of Conferring with the President regarding the final instructions to the United States members of the peace commission, which is to meet in Paris on the Ist of October. The United States commissioners will leave for Europe on the steamer sailing from New l r ork on the 17th Inst., and It is necessary for them to have all their preliminary arrangements in this country completed before that date. WINNIE DAVIS IS WORSE. Reported from Narragansett Pier that Her Condition !■ Serious. NARRAGANSETT PIER. R. 1., Sept. 2. Miss Winnie Davis, the daughter of Jefferson Davis, who is 111 with gastritis here, experienced a change for the worse to-day. Her condition is now considered critical. Varlna Anne Jefferson-Davis, as she has signed her name of recent years, is the daughter of the late Jefferson Davis by his second wife, who was a Miss Howell, of Natchez, Miss., and is still living. By his first wife, a daughter of President Zachary Taylor, the Confederate President had no children. Miss “Winnie” Davis, as she is generally called, was born about thirtyfive years ago, while the war of the rebellion was still In progress. Os delicate health all her life, she has naturally become more soberly inclined than most young women, and this tendency was Increased by her long and close companionship with her father. About 1876 she was sent to a seminary, In Carlsruhe, the capital of the Grand Duchy of Bp.den, where she spent several years, acquiring a thorough and finished education, with all the accomplishments implied by that term as used in Germany. After her return and up to the time of her father’s death, In 1889, she was the companion of her parents and the ornament of their beautiful, though quiet and secluded, home at Beauvoir, Miss., varying the occupations and enjoyments of domestic life by occasional visits to friends in New Orleans, in the society of which city she was always a distinguished and honored guest. Since her father’s death she has passed much of her time with her mother in the North, and made several visits to Europe. In 1890 her engagement was announced to Mr. Alfred Wilkinson, of Syracuse, N. Y., but the contemplated marriage never took place. Miss Davis has achieved some distinction as an authoress, and has given the public two novels, “The Veiled Doctor” and “A Romance of Summer Seas,” both of them works of considerable force and originality. The last was published about * month ago.

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I BAD GRACE -■ 4 WILD CRITICISM OF SOLDIER CAMPS CAUSING GREAT ANGUISH. - ■■ 4 - Anxious Parents Pnt to Expense of Hunting Up Supposedly Suffering Boys Who Are All Right. ■■■■ ' - -4 ' - GEN. JOE WHEELER’S PROTEST - SOLDIERS KNEW WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN THEY ENLISTED. Both Officers and Men Considered It a Great Privilege to Be In the Cuban Campaign. SITUATION IN THE CAMPS • -'4 GEN. BRECKINRIDGE ORDERS INVESTIGATION AT CAMP THOMAS. Secretary Alger Directs All States to Look Alter Returning Convalescents and Send In tbe Bill. CAMP WIKOFF, Montauk Point, L. 1., Sept. 2.—Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler gave the following to the Associated Press to-day: “Headquarters United States Forces, “Camp Wikoff, L. 1., Sept. 1, 1898. “The following is a sample of the letters we are constantly receiving regarding the soldiers in the camp: “ ‘ln regard to my stepson, we feel very uneasy about him on account of the newspaper reports of the privation and suffering Inflicted on the private soldiers. Although he has never uttered a complaint since he has been in the army, we hear from other sources of the cruel and horrible treatment inflicted on our soldiers under the pretense of humanity, for our neighbors and the whole country is in a state of terrible excitement. I should not be surprised if the feeling should lead to a revolution of some kind, for I assure you I hear on all sides the most violent and bitter denunciations of the War Department and the administration. It is indeed a great pity that the glory of our triumphs should be dimmed by such a shameful thing as the ill treatment and starvation of our own brave soldiers while the Spanish prisoners have the best treatment that the country can afford.’ “It will be seen that this letter says that not a word of complaint has been received from this soldier, and, so far.as my investigation goes, no complaint has been made by any of the brave soldiers that have added glory to our arms in the Cuban campaign. A great many anxious fathers, mothers, brothers or sfsters arrive here from all parts of the United States to look after their relatives, whom they say the papers tell them are suffering, and many of them have heard that their relatives are in a condition of starvation. Most of these people are little able to expend the money for such a journey, and they are surprised when they come here to find their relatives surrounded with everything to eat which can be procured by money, and if sick in the hospital they are gratified and surprised to find that they are given every possible care. A BLESSED PRIVILEGE. “In reply to a direct request that I will give the exact facts as I see them, I will state: Every officer and soldier who went to Cuba regarded it as a great and special privilege in that he was permitted to engage in that campaign. They knew they were to encounter yellow fever and other diseases, as well as the torrid heat of the country, and they were proud and glad to do so. They knew that it was impossible for them to have the advantage of wagon transportation which usually accompanies armies, and yet officers and men were glad to go, to carry their blankets and their rations on their backs and to be subjected without any shelter to the sun and rains by day and the heavy dews by night. They certainly knew r that the Spaniards had spent years in erecting defenses, and it was their pleasure to assault and their duty to capture the Spanish works. “They were more glad to incur the hardships and these dangers. They went there and did their duty; each man seeming to feel that American honor and prestige was to he measured by his conduct. The brave men who won the victories did not complain of the neglect of the government, lut on the contrary they seemed grateful to the President and secretary of war for giving them the opportunity to incur Inese dangers and hardships. They realized that in the hurried organization of an expedition by a government which had no one with any experience in such matters it was impossible to have everything arranged to perfection, and they will testify that under the circumstances the conditions were muen more perfect than any one would have reason to expect and that the President and secretary of war and others who planned and dispatched these expeditions desjr.e high commendation. “One reason why our army was lacking in some respects in equipage was that a telegram was received from Admiral Sampson stating that if the army reached there immediately they could take the city at once, but if there should be delay the fortifications of the Spaniards would be perfected, tha’ there might be great difficulty in taking it. On receiving this dispatch from Admiral Sampson the War Department directed the army to move at once, and as all connected with the army will recall, the orders were received after dark, and the army was in motion, had traveled nine miles and was on the ships at daylight. When the expedition sailed for Cuba it went there escorted by a large fleet of war ships. At the time it was regarded as impossible for a merchant ship to sail on the ocean safely from any American port to Santiago, but as soon as the Spanish fleet was destroyed, so that it was possible for unarmed ships to sail safely to Santiago, the generous people of the United States subscribed money without limit and dispatched ship after ship loaded with luxuries and delicacies for the Santiago army, and everything that could be accomplished for their comfort was done by the President and secretary of war. PROTECTION FROM FEVER. “After the surrender had been completed and arrangements perfected for the transporting of the Spanish army to Spain, the President and secretary of war sent shipping to Santiago and transported our army to one of the most healthful localities in the United States. The point selected by iha secretary oX war was so situated that

thorough protection was given the people of the United States from the danger of yellow fever contagion. The soldiers upon their arrival at this place received every care and bounty which could be procured by money. The President and secretary of war directed that their health and comfort should be cared for without reference to expense, and in addition the people within a circle of one hundred miles vied with each other In shipping to them carloads and steamboat loads of luxuries of all kinds. “I have just finished my daily inspection of the hospitals. With rare exceptions the sick are cheerful and Improving. I have nurses and doctors to care for them, and in all my many tours I have not found a single patient who made the slightest complaint. It is true there has been suffering, and great suffering. The climate of Cuba was very severe upon all our soldiers, but instead of complaining the hearts of those brave men are filled with gratitude to the people for the bounteous generosity which has been extended to them. “There is no d>ubt that there have been individual cases of suffering and possibly neglect among the soldiers, not only in Cuba, but since their arrival at this place. Nearly 20,000,men were brought from a yellow fever district to the United Slates. It would have been criminal to have landed them and allowed them to go promiscuously among the people, it has been stated by physicians that if It had been done yellow fever would have spread through many of our States. To avoid such a catastrophe, a point which is more thoroughly Isolated from the people than any other locality which could be found was selected. By these wise means the country has been saved from a scourge of this fearful disease. Every one will realize that to land 18 000 men and put them on bare fields without any buildings whatever could not be done without some hardships. Over 5,000 very sick men have been received in the general hospital and as many more sick have been cared for In the camps, and yet only about sixty deaths have occurred in these hospitals. “Tents had to be erected and hospitals constructed and preparations to supply those 18.000 men with wholesome water, food, medicines, physicians, nurses, cooks, hospital furniture, wagons, ambulances and the other needs essential to caring for W,OOO men, fully half of whom are very sick or in a feeble physical condition. In addition to this, most of the bedding and much of the clothing was left in Santiago to prevent yellow fever infection. All of these deficiencies have had to be supplied. We had but one line of railroad to bring these supplies, and sometimes there have been delays.” 1 — ORDER FOR SICK SOLDIERS. Government Will Pay for All Attention Given the Needy Ones. WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.—Senator Allen, of Nebraska, was at the War Department to-day looking after the interests of sick soldiers of the Second Nebraska. He had received a telegram from Omaha saying that these soldiers were arriving there without provision having been made for their care. Secretary Alger at once directed that the adjutant general of Nebraska take charge of these sick soldiers and place them in hospitals, the expense to'be borne by the United States. Subsequently a general order was issued to the adjutant generals of different States directing them to take charge of sick soldiers on the same basis. The instruction as sent in full by telegraph to commanding officers of all camps, departments and general hospitals is as follows: “It having been reported to the War Department that many convalescent soldiers, who have received fit*loughs and started for their homes, have been taken ill on the way, and to avoid further occurrences of this kind it is suggested in the strongest possible terms that all soldiers traveling homeward on furloughs will exercise their best judgment in caring for themselves, especially those who have been ill in hospitals with fevers. Their appetites are very keen, and unless they deny themselves everything except the necessary food of the simplest character they are in great danger of a relapse. This instruction is sent out hoping that it may catch the eye of those men en route, and also for the instruction of surgeons at hospitals. It is ordered that no men shall receive a furlough whom the surgeon in charge believes to be unable to travel alone, and that no furloughed soldier shall leave a hospital without receiving full instructions as to his diet while en route to his home from his surgeon.” 4~ HOSPITAL SCANDAL. Surgeon of Nlntli New York Under n Serious Charge. CHICKAMAUGA FARK, Ga., Sept. 2. There has been a constant downpour of rain at Chickamauga Park to-day. Precautions were taken yesterday afternoon to protect the hospital tents against any possible overflow. The wind was very high at times and many regimental tents were blown over. All camp exercises were omitted. General Frank and staff and all headquarters supplies moved to-day to Anniston, and will be followed to-morrow by the Fourteenth New Y’ork. The four Ohio battalions will begin leaving Monday, and the Twenty-eighth Indiana Battery will go Tuesday. Dr. G. A. Baxter and five other prominent Chattanooga ns, four of them leading physicians, have preferred charges against Major Hubbard, surgeon general of the Ninth New York. They charge him with being responsible for the death of Sergeant Frank, who was struck by a train a few days ago, and with conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. The specifications are that Dr. Hubbard “cursed and swore” at Dr. Baxter and other Chattanooga physicians, who had been called to attend Sergeant Frank, of the Ninth New York, who was recently injured under the wheels of a moving train; that Dr. Hubbard had removed Frank, who was in a state of profound shock from his injuries, against the protest of Dr. Baxter and other physicians, and that “as a conseauencc Frank died on his way to the division hospital, losing the only chance he had of recovery by being improperly handled.” The charges were filed with General Breckinridge to-day, and an investigation and trial will be ordered. General Breckinridge has determined to learn the full truth about the hospital situation at Camp Thomas, and has begun a vigorous investigation. Soldiers who have been in this hospital and others who have had an insight into its workings are being examined. Discussing the investigation. General Breckinridge said he intends to have every point thoroughly aired, and if It is proven that any person or persons are guilty of neglect or mismanagement the blame will be placed upon their shoulders and they will be punished accordingly. Twelve patients were released from the camp hospitals to-day, and four deaths were reported up to 5 o’clock. OHIO’S HOSPITAL ON WHEELS. Fully Equipped Train, with Cots, Sent to the South. CINCINNATI. 0., Sept. 2.-The Ohio nospltal train from Columbus arrived at 11:26 to-day, and was immediately transferred from the Pennsylvania to the Q. & C. road, en route for Florida. It will stop at Chickamauga. Knoxville, Lexington and other camps on the return, picking up all Ohioans In the hospitals that can be moved. Many physicians and nurses were ready here to (Continued on Filth Page.j

HOME TO THEM 1 CAMP MOUNT RECEIVES MEN OF THE IS7TH REGIMENT AGAIN. —4 They Are Glad to Get Qack, and the Old Fainlltar Scenes Delight Them. JOY AND SORROW MINGLED 4, . IN’ THE HOME COMING OF THE REGIMENT YESTERDAY MORNING. Sad Death of Corporal Robert Darling, a Fever Sufferer, at the Union Station. * PATHETIC SCENES AT CAMP NO EFFORTS SPARED BY PHYSICIAN'S TO CARE FOR THE SICK. March of the Soldier* Through the City Greeted with Cheers— List of Sufferers. It was nearly 1 o’clock when the One-hundred-and-flfty-seventh Regiment left the train east of the fair grounds, yesterday, and marched into camp. The sun was at a sweltering heat and there was little shade for the protection of the soldiers, many of whom lay in the glare unmindful of everything and perfectly content in the knowledge that they were reclining on Hoosier soil again. The sixty-two sick men in the hospital cars were conveyed in the I. N. G. ambulances that were waiting to the camp hospital tents, where they were soon made comfortable. After a good refreshing bath they were clothed in fresh night shirts and put to bed on comfortable cots between clean white sheets, and were soon dozing more peacefully than at any time since they left their mothers’ tender care for the fortunes of war. By some mischance the cars containing the camp equipment were not on hand when the regiment reached Camp Mount, and it was not until late in the afternoon that the cars backed up on the track and eight wagons were pressed into service and began delivering great cases containing the rude camp cooking utensils and stoves, or great bales of wet canvas that formed the tents. The soldiers began pitching their tents and the camp city sprang into existence with great rapidity, indicating that in the months the boys have been away they have learned much about practical camp work. The camp wus broken up at Fernandina, Fla., after a driving rain that had staked the canvas of tents. They isad not dried yesterday, and the men found It difficult and nasty to handle the tents, but there were no complaints. The boys knew there would be nothing to do but rest after the camp was once established, and this put new life and zest Into the weary men. The tents are weather stained and brown from the rough climatic Influences of the South, and form a strong contrast to the snowy white tents of the camp hospital. The growth of the camp into fife went on like clockwork, the men showing an exact acquaintance with their work that made loud commands from officers unnecessary. Once a row of tents was set a little out of the street line, and these had to be shifted. Some of the boys who had pitched tneir small shelter tents had to take them down entirely to make them line up with ihe street, but the shelter tents are such little affairs that this was but a few moments’ work, and there was no grumbling. WORK FOR EVERYBODY. While some of the young soldiers were driving tent stakes, tightening guy roies and making things secure, others witlugreat canvas bags were off at a straw stack by filling up the bags, which are used for ticks. To the east of the grounds the codks were busy preparing for the evening meal, setting the iron frames that form the “stoves” in the ground, starting fires and bringing large cans of water to the boil. West of the main camp and between.it and the hospital quarters the regimental headquarters was being established, a detail of soldiers putting up the tents of Colonel Studebaker and Lieutenant Colonel May. as well as the other regimental officers. The work went on with a rapidity that was almost amazing to the novice, who had no idea of how rapidly a thousand men, each seeming to be In the way of the other, could perform so many duties without conflicting in any way. Those who looked on doubted whether the same men could have worked with so much precision four months ago. No sooner were the tents pitched and arranged for the night than the boys began making themselves as comfortable as possible. Knapsacks were unstrung and their contents carefully overhauled. Here a man was seen with a great lot of sea shells, picked up on the beach at Tampa as mementoes for friends; at another place a man had cotton bolls just bursting, which were brought home for friends as souvenirs from the cotton fields of the South. The thoughts of many of the boys turned to home and at the first moment of leisure they were at work “writing home to mother.” The arrangements for correspondence were rather crude. A board resting on the knee was the writing desk, in most cases, as the soldier sat on the ground bending over his letter, nibbling at a dull lead pencil and Indicting his message home with much difficulty. Where not thus engaged soldiers were polishing the locks of their guns, carefully removing the rust that had gathered after the arms had been wet in the rain at Ftrnandlna. But fevv were idle. Every man seemed to have something to occupy his time. Here and there men were reading newspapers, but the supply was not very large. Most of the men are “dead broke’’ and have no money to even buy papers. PATHETIC SCENES WITNESSED. There were many visitors. Some of the scenes were pathetic and others amusing. All the visitors, whether aged mothers, who pressed their Eons to them with tears In their eyes, or younger brothers, shaking hands awkwardly and abashed with the elder brothers who had gone to war and come home heroes, seemed perfectly happy to be reunited. Os course mothers and brothers and fathers all commented on the fact that the returned volunteers looked worn out and were thinner than when they went away, but a cheerful “I’ll be all right after a day or two’s rest” set them at ease again. Ail visitors noticed that there was a

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lack of vitality In the walk and gesture of the men. They went about with drooping shoulders Just as though they did not care whether school kept or not., “It’s the malaria In them.” said an officer. “A few W’eeks in the swamps of Florida would sap the life and vitality out of any man. I believe they will be all right after a few days’ rest.” Although it is dog days, the young Hoosier soldiers who at other times would not go near the water took to Fall creek like ducks and found much refreshment in a swimming pool near the camp ground. “This don’t come up to the surf,” said ono young fellow. “That's the only thing worth remembering about Florida—those plunges in the ocean.” “That’s what,” answered a companion. “The surf was fine, but I like Fall creek best after all. I would not go back to Florida for the surf.” “Nor I.” Ail the officers and men were glad to be back at Camp Mount, especially the sick, who are delighted at the arrangements that have been made for their comfort. The large hospital tents have pine floors, comfortable cots with soft mattresses and pillows and white linen. In the center of each tent is a washstand with toilet articles not usually found In camp hospitals. The hospital tents are looked after by several Indianapolis physicians and several trained nurses. The physicians under the direction of Dr. O. S. Runnels yesterday were Drs. E. Hadley, Jr., A. J. McCracken, E. E. Wlshard, G. C. Schaeffer, F. C. Stewart and W. T. S. Dodds. Dr. Lrayton took a lively interest yesterday. Miss Mary Scott, Mrs. S. J. Peake, Miss Hunt and Miss McConnell are the nurses. Attached to the hospital is a storehouse and kitchen. The storehouse is full of supplies of all kinds needed by the sick—fruits, jellies, ice, etc., with an abundance of sweet milk and buttermilk. In the kitchen there are facilities for preparing soups, broths and other food for 125 men, the present capacity of the hospital. It is not thought that this will have to be increased, as many of the men there yesterday were able to sit up and will be in their quarters again in a few days. The camp is well supplied with good water. By to-night, Col. Studebaker said, the camp will be in as smooth working order as if It had not moved a thousand miles this week. The regiment is well supplied with the regulation army .rations. In addition to this, Lieut. Crissman has arranged to furnish fresh meat, bread and such vegetables as may be required. Many of the stores were spoiled in transit. These will be condemned and burned. Governor Mount visited the camp yesterday afternoon. He talked to the regiment in an Informal way, commending the men for the spirit they had shown in the face of hardships. The Governor is anxious that everything possible shall be done by the State to assist the government in caring for the regiment. The Governor and Lieut. Waterman have co-operated in all arrangements. Both Col. Studebaker and Lieut. Col. May express satisfaction in being home again. Colonel Studebaker believes that the germs of fever which his regiment has suffered were contracted in Tampa, where the regiment camped on' a sandy soil. It was so full of water, the colonel says, that he could dig a well any time by thrusting his hand into the sand. It was necessary to make ditches down the center of the company streets to drain the water out of the tents. Colonel May says he only escaped sickness by keeping himself filled with medicine to ward it off all the time. The officers seem satisfied with the camp in every particular. They are particularly gratified at the hospital arrangements. “It looks so nice over In those tents,” said Col. Studebaker, “that I am going to sleep over there myself tonight.” The regimental surgeons, Drs. Garstang and the Barnett brothers, were so nearly worn out that the colonel Insisted they should stay down town after the sick were cared for by the local physicians. Dr. H. A. Moore, the hospital steward, was more fortunate. The Red Cross men are about as badly used up as the patients they have been nursing, and they were ordered to do nothing yesterday but rest. The nurses are eager to relieve them of all duties until they are fully rested. There will be more strictness to-day than yesterday with regard to the admission of strangers to th/b camp. Vehicles will not be permitted to drive through the camp. Rules for the admission of visitors had not been formulated last night. The officers are apprehensive lest friends shall bring too much food to the soldiers. Sickness from Improper eating is feared, and some restrictions have already been placed in the way of prohibiting peddlers from dispensing sandwiches, pies, etc., to the soldiers. THE REGIMENT ARRIVES. Corporal Darling’s Pathetic Death— March Through Town. Owing to the misunderstanding as to the lime of arrival and the tiresome delays upon the way, there was but comparatively few to usher the One-hundred-and-fifty-sev-enth back to its old camping grounds. Toots from the largest whistles in the city and the ringing of bells announced the soldiers’ approach, however, ard the windows and side streets near where the trains pulled in were filled with people anxious to get a glimpse of the soldiers who have suffered such hardships in the southern country. The first passenger lection arrived at the Union Station at about 8 o’clock in the morning, ana the two remaining followed at short intervals. Elaborate preparations had been made by Mayor Taggart and the Commercial Club to receive them, and the boys were treated in a way that was decidedly novel, after their method of living in Florida camps. Two thousand six hundred sandwiches had been prepared and 160 gallons of coffee were issued with the food. The quartermaster of each company obtained the quantity required for his men, and the substantial food proved a welcome change from ihe bieakfasts ihat the men have received since they left camp and embarked on the train for Indiana. Good water was also freely given by the citizens wherever the boys appeared, and altogether they were treated in a. manner highly satisfactory. Not only were the men anxious and able to eat provided for, but the sick had ihe first care. The section bearing the greatest number of the sick was first in order as they left Florida, but In the frequent changes since then this train was switched about until it arrived here yesterday morning behind all others. It was sent to the west side of the Union Station, where it was placed out of the way. Here the sick men were allowed to rest, and received a!! the attention possible, while the able soldiers took up their march through the city. Dr. O. S. Runnels, chief surgeon on the Governor's staff, was in charge of the arrangements fer the sick, and his preparations v.ere appreciated. Several doctors, in addition to the ones who have gone through with the soldiers, were on hand, ar. 1 three ambulances were ready to convey those in the worst condition to the hospital, where everything had been prepared for them. Under the direction of Dr. Harvey Moore, of the regiment, twenty-four very sick soldiers were sent to the City Hospital and St. Vincent’s in these wagons. There were altogether 117 on the sick list when the trains reached here. These were not taken from their sleepers, but weie sent direct to the camp at the fair grounds, where the (Continued on Second Page.)

IK PORTO RICO A BATTERY BOY RELATES AY IMW TERKSTISG STORY OP ARMY LIFE. Letter from a Member of the Twenty** Seventh Battery to His Parents , in This City. J GOOD IJEWS FOR INDIANIANS TW O MORE HOOSIER REGIMENTS TO BE BROUGHT HOME. — Order Received Concerning the Oneo Hundred-and-Flfty-Elghth and tho Oue-Huudreri-und-Fifly-Muth. J -♦ - KNOXVILLE SUIJS THE BOYS CHAPLAIN W EAVER. OP THE lSOTafc TELLS OP CAMP ALGER. Col. Gnndcr'i Men Dispirited ant Ready to Come Home—Details of the Soldier*’ Camp Life. ] ♦ - A letter has been recently received by Mrt and Mrs. W. H. Cooper from their son. W K. Cooper, who is a member of the Twentyseventh Battery. The letter Is dated Guayamo, Puerto Rico, Aug. 21. and Is as follows: “To-day Is Sunday and 1* one of the prettiest days we have had since we have been on the island. I am sitting in my tent writing and can hear the chimes in the Catholid Church ringing In the little town of Guayamo, which is about one mile from outs camp. Some of the boys have gone tot church this morning, but I went last Sunday and could not get away to-day. Georgs Carlon came Into camp one week ago to-day and was glad to be with the boys again. We have lots of the boys in the hospital, but I am glad to tell you that I have not been sick one day. and that is saying a good deal, because many a night I have slept in the rain all night and got up In the morning wet through. You know this Is tha rainy season here, and it is raining almost all the time. We went five nights without a tent. “I will try to tell you what we have been doing since I wrote to you last. We woka up at 4:30 a. m., on Aug. 3, to find that wa had run a coral reef, about 100 yards from the shore. You can guess how we felt. It was the first time that the captain of tha boat had been to this place, and all he had to go by was the map. That was the reason he ran the boat on the reef. He did not know the waters. The captain sent up rockets and then we knew we were in danger and were looking for the ship to go to pieces. As the waters are full of sharks, wa thought that little hope was left. W wera looking for the Spaniards to come over tha mountains. One shot could have made ua put up a white flag. We were In that situation until 5 p. m. Our rockets were heard at Ponce and they sent two transports and the cruiser Columbia to help us. After getting off we pulled to the harbor of Guaeela, which had been taken the day before. Hera we anchored until 4:04 a. m., Aug. 4. when we sailed forty miles to Ponce, where Gen. Miles was in camp. We arrived there at 1© a. m. and received orders to go to Arroyo to unload. On the way there we stopped four hours at Guayamo. Some of the natives came out in boats to sell us fruit and cigars—cigars at two for a cent. We at last reached our landing point at 4 p. m.. but stayed on the boat until 4 a. m., Aug, &. Then came the little tugs to help us unload. We were three-quarters of a mile from shore, and it took us all day to unload the horses. That was a job. The boys who were left at Newport News were already there, having arrived the day before. LEARNING TO TALK SPANISH. “I was oue of the first on shore. We put the first section horses on a flatboat and a tug pulled us to the shore, when we had about forty horses o(T the boat. We marched about one mile from Arroyo and put up a picket rope for the horses. The men that came with the horses had to stay with them while the men who remained on board tho boat did all the work. I went up row n about 1 o’clock and I tell you It is a sight to be with people you cannot talk to. They make all kinds of signs and I guess wo do the same trying to make them understand. But I am learning Spanish very fast and I think if we stay here a year I wiil be able to speak the language. Our tent* were put in the bottom of the boat, where wc could not get at them, and we had to sleep without them. Ed Brennan and I put our blankets together. Just think of us sleeping on the ground and hearing the Infantry boys shooting at the Spaniards not more than a mile away, and there we were without a round of ammunition. 1 think they wanted us to get killed, but by good luck they did not come our way. The only thing we could have done would have been to run. We woke up about 4 a. m. on Aug. 6 to tlnd it raining and our blankets wet through. The most of the men had to go and get the rest of the baggage, but no tents came. AU of our horu.es were in camp and tied to the picket rope about one squarg from the place we were sleeping. • • • AN ALARM IN THE NIGHT. “I thought how the Spaniards could ccrao and kill us and get all our horses when I fell asleep. 1 was awakened about 11 o’clock with someone calling, “Run for your lives.’’ 1 heard a dozen shots and was soon on my feet. I had a revolver but no cartridges. I heard a rumbling sound and saw what 1 thought was a cavalry charge coming through our camp. Then someone shouted that there was a stampede. Just as the animals got within fifty feet of our camp they changed their course and stopped not far from there. They were pulling the picket rope with them. Some of the mules broke away and went through an Infantry picket line. Then we heard some shooting, but none of the animals were killed. Ws worked about two hours putting up anew picket rope and thsi laid down to sleep. We woke up the next morning, Aug. 7. at 4 a. m., to find it raining and of course ws were wet through. Most of the baggage came from the boat and our tents came with them, but even in the tents we were wet through. "One of the Infantry boys was killed last night. We did cot do anything but iky around until the 9th. when we had our first target practice. Each battery fired ten shots at a target one and one-half miles distant. Aug. 10: Had target practice to-day. It lasted about five hours. We are doing out own cooking back of our tents. Herb Fulmer. Bookwalter, Stanton and I are messing together. Aug. U; We took the horses down