New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-09-13
PREPARATIONS AT SANDY HOOK.
ACCOMMODATIONS FOR !. 600 PER-ONs WILL DE


ACCOMMODATIONS FOR 600 PER-ONS WILL BE
F:YIsHFD sHoRTLy-A SUPPLY OF
FRESH WATER ASSURED.
The days Of the war recalled TO people VINO
passed Sandy Hook yesterday. Rows OK wm'e 'eht
were on the shore. Camp fires were sparkling III
the early evening" and detachments OF marines ana
artillerymen were tenng on the old camp ground
mass OF furniture, bedding, crockery, steam pipes
and material OF every kind piled in the sheds
and scattered about the wharves. An apothecary
shop complete even to the sign. had been rgged
up in a little shed by -Smrgeon-General Hamilton,
and IS ready TO furnish medicines OF every kind 10
the people on the cholera ships or anywhere else
In the neghborhood. The revenue cutter Chandler
came down In the afternoon with lot OF cooHihs
ranges which completed the kitchen onttt, ana the
workmerl end soldiers can be supplied with meals
cooked on the premises Instead OF having them seh'
over all the way from Manhattan Beach, Inere
are rows upon lows OF shelves filled With crockery
neatly stacked up. waiting TO be used
The old railroad shed on the end OF the dock mas
been renovated to such degree that the SANDY hooh
passenger OF the olden days would never recosn"o
It, II makes q comfortable dining hall. Inc narrower
sheds running back nom the dock are all BOARDED
in and a large part Of them Is ready for occupancy
The framework Of two-sory hospital building STANDS
ON the beach to the north OF the dock, LOOKING ike
n gigantic bird cage. In twentI-four hours more
Il will be boarded In and hoored redny TOT occupnoy
The electro light plant not In good working oroer
vet and Lieutenant Herring. OF the cutter Chandiet'
left all his lamps down there for use by DIT. HaInii
tons
The wells sunk on Sunday were too near the shore
line and the water proved be bracsh Other wells
were sunk yesterday back upon the ridge that ioiis
the boundary between the open beach ana the uhder-
brush and the water obtained there was FOUND 10 De
satisfactory Pipes win be laid from these webs
down to the sheds. The pure water stratum Is ABOUT
twelve feet deep II the wells are driven fir'her 'he
water becomes bracklsh again.
Camp Low as this little mushroom town IS caleu'
will be In charge OF Captain Mercer, OF the receiving
shin Vermont He will be assisted by Lieutenant
Dover and Lieutenant Newman, OF tie Marine bar
racks and BY surgeon lie Motto The strict guard line
has not vet been established but people were not ad.
mittad unless they could state their business rny
marines duty and an addltlonai lorce "ns en-
nnctnd A detachment Of artillerymen were also on
The ground About 200 carpenters and aborers auaea
TO these made the place populous The revenue cuI.e,
Grant lay OH the wharf al day The deserted souh1
steamer stonlngton swing at her anchor ABOUT HILL
n mile up the channel. -, ,., ,var.
DR. Hamilton and his assistant, DR.. Rauch, were
busy overseeing the unloading and Lspositlon y. th
goods received Dr. Hamilton said that he couu NOT
tell Just when the preparation would be conPetea pu
II IL had been definitely settled whether immief1lns
or cabin passengers mere 10 BE- landed there ne sau
that he did not know. There will be accorIinodhtioI1
Tor about 500 people altogether In the budihes hho
The 400 tents stcam-heatlng apparatus Will De put
In and supplied from "A locomotive boiler