New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-13
TO MOVE TROOPS ATMONTAuk
TOO MANY TO BE TRANSFERRED
THIS CITY THIS WEEK BY RAll~if
THEY ARE TO COME TRANSPORTS
WILL HAVE TO RE PROVIDED
fpY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBuNE.l

Unless Colonel Kimball has some plan ny ""''"
the regiments a. Camp Wikof can he taken "
New-York otherwise than ny ran ~ VIII "e
,uto!y impossible TO have them all thsre w
Saturday even though the regiments 'ee''
starting tomorrow. There are now IN the ch'"p
the lst. ID 4th. 9th. TIN. Sth l0th I'm lo'"'
10th. 17th, 21st. 22d. oath and 2oth regiments
Of infantry the 1st I'd. I'd, 9th, ctn ana Nv"
regiments Of cavalry, batteries y ana H. o. t'e
lst Light Artillery: Batteries ana r. OF 'he
I'd Light Artillery Battery +. OF the 4'h h's"'
Artillery: Battery F. Of the 5ih Light Artilery'
Batteries A ana b. Of the lst Heavy AruleFE'
Batteries G and II. Of the 4th Heavy Ar,'e'9.
and six companies Of The "a Regiment Ihi'eu
States Volunteer Engineers
The Long Island Railroad people say that II
would take then. from twenty 10 thirty days 10
move all these troops. and that they could not
handle much more than one regiment Gay
The mere transportat ton might he easy enough
II all the cars were here and there were not
daily long freight trains coming into MontauK
loaded with supplies for the troops But 'he
trains for the transportation would have 70
he brought down here. also stock trains Tor cav
airy horses OF which there are several thousand
here. as we'll az frelghtcars for the baggage
and hatcars for the guns of the artillery anu
that would take considerable time.
II the troops are TO go 70 the city for a parade
on Saturday. they will have TO go by water.
and the quartermaster will have 10 furhlsh
transports for their removal. However. nothing
Official about the parade has been heard to-day
at General Bates's headquarters. possibly be-
cause General Miles had not included the camp
Wikef troops in his orders. hut the opinion
seemed to prevail among the officers at mead
quarters that It would be next to impossible to
A.. tba n n
less the Quartermaster's Department furnished
water transportation.
LACK OF TRANSPORTATION WILL KEEP
TROOPS IN CAMP
The same obstacle transportation, stands IN
the way of the abandonment Of the camp ny the
end OF the week II the War Department orders
II. 1t must provide transports TO New-lork, or
the troops will be here not only for the eaui-
noct,al. but for any storms and cold weather that
may follow It. The nights end mornings are al
ready beginning to be chilly This morning al
sunrise It was seven degrees colder than yester-
day the thermometer standing at ill Tonight
OF sunset II 80, three degrees coloNV imam
last night at the same hour
With this tempera ture there is steady
breeze, and the men so lately returned from
southern chimes feel it keenly. They conse-
ouently more than welcome the orders that VIII
send them back to barracks. which they are
now sure are not far Off and while they would
he glad to participate in parade in New YORK
they will not be greatly grieved II there rs no
interruption IN their Journey after they are once
started.
The Sd and Goth Infantry, which were not IN
ciuded in the list given above. are going home
tomorrow morning transportation having ar
rived to-day. and the 2lst only remaining be-
hind because there has been some hitch ABOUT
their transportation. The 9th Infantry has al
ready gone so that the exodus Of the troops has
already begun Even IN the even. Of the ahan-
donment Of the camp by Saturday. there VIII
still he a number OF sick in the hospital who
will have t, remain behind because their CON
dition is such that TO move them would only
endanger their lives. These men will be cared
for aud housed in the wooden ipclesed wards.
which ere now fast nearing completol
SENDING SICK AWAY RAPIDLY.
But the rest Of the sick are being sent away
by hundreds daily Three hundred sailed to-
night on the Relief for Boston. and the same
number will be taken 10 New-York tomorrow
night on the Shinnecock. In the desire 10 close
up and practically abandon the detention hos
pital Mrs Geraldine Bailey. director If the Ma
tional Relief League, ard Miss HGwley. caug n
ter Of General HdWley. who represents the sol
diers' Rest of Washington. thinE thdt sO1le
have been removed whom II would nave peer
wiser TO retain longer in the hospital here ms
they say is net the fault OF Major hteI,' ",
surgeon in charge III the detenuon hospital "n'
has been most attentive 10 the sick VINO nave
been in his charge. The detention hospital ma
now only eshtv-hve patients: anG in the cours
of a week they will be reduced TO twenty.hve 10
whom a wooden building is being cons,iucteu
The Rough Riders expect 10 he OUT OF the ser
tomorrow anc all POSSIBILITY o, 'he'
parading in New-fork has now Vahlshen' -,
ah hGS m.
horses have been appraised. which means ina
their control has practically been assumed oS
the Government. and the regiment could nov
turn out only on foot, and in the uniforms me
are allowed 10 keep. They feel there Woulo o
little glory in turning out I'm sucn style, ans
the officers say the regiment would not van
TO take part in any such sort or clam cnoNaei
affair
Tho various carteens in camp have com
under a new order which prohibits the sale O
pies Ice cream and cake The doctors hay
found that after they have cured men up in IN
hospitals. and turned them out well again, the;
promptly upset their stomachs by an oVer-lnau u
gence In these Iuxuries. which are not the hes
things to turn loose in weakened stomachs.
Colonel Roosevelt has finished his report. Thi
is to be sent 10 the President VINO 10 10 fsGe, n
a similar report from every general and eoiont
who served in the war. There will he nothin
given out here as 70 what these reports contain
They are official reports. and ~ given out at 8
will be made public at Washington. when
suits the Department. 70 do so
Colonel Forwood, who has had general super
VISION or tNe NOS.ltdiS lcic u W -pdiiHs W u
hack 10 his post Of duty In Washington. as hi
work here is finished. DR.. Brown may remain
charge Of the hospital here until il closes
The deaths reported from the general hospit;
to-day were follows:
WALTER ELLGER. COMPANY c. 81 Infantry; ey.en,.r
DAVID HocNALsER, Company J. sth Ohio: eshaus,io
louis BPAM Company n. e0th Infantry
PRANK rr.NHHAtS. Company r. let Illineis.
RI HARRISON. Company e Is; Illinois
GrOR0n GLEASON. COMPANY /. OH Massachusetts.
JOHN OHM. Company g. 10th Infantrs.
TRANSPORTS ORDERED TO MONTACF
WAR DEPARTMENT NOT pEpENpENr on tn
RAILROAD FOR MOVING TROOPS