Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-07-23
FATHERS COMP[A
T.
Says He Has Bad Treatment
at the Hospital.
HAD 4 DYING SON THERE
Michigan Woman's Long Journey TO see
Her Sou Wno WAS R-portea ,yound.a.
Conference at the Normal lnsti-
tute. Other Matters. .....

Among the arrivals at the Sherwood
Hotel at Old Point last week was I,
man we'll advanced in life whose face
bore evidences of Keen suffering. No
one who saw him doubted that his
journey TO Old Point was occasioned
by some sad event. He registered as
William +. Yoakley. of Bristol Tenn.
and before the ink on the paper be-
came dry explained that he had tr;.v-
eled from his home III the South to sec
his son. who had fallen at Santiago
and was then. he feared, in Il dying
condition. The old mans eyes grew
dim as he talked about his boy and
made Inquiries concerning the rroba-
blity of being permitted to pay him
an early visit. The soldiers wound
was a dangerous one. A bullet from
Il Spanish rifle had cut its way through
his neck and it Was certain that Il del
icate surgical operation would have to
be performed in order to save his life.
But even under the most skiilful treat
inent the surgeons felt that the chances
We're against recovery.
IT. was with sad heart that
Mr.. Eoakley bent his steps toward
the big brick building in which so many
of the sick and wounded brought here
by the City Of Washington and the
Ereakwater lay. He of course anticI-
pated some delay before being admit
ted to see his son, for the reader mus,
know that the regulations OF the Cir
cumlocutiun Office, even in this robust
republic of liberty and freedom. are as
Interchangeable as the laws of the Modes
and Pcrsians. But this Tennessee faith
err, burdened with sorrow, did not ex-
pect the treatment which he says he re-
ceived at the hospital. The old man
told the story himself upon returning
to the hotel-told it after his boys
lad w. =, 1,;.
of sorrow was filled to Overlooking. He
spoke kindly of Major De Witt. for
Major De Witt had spoken kindly to
him. But there came a fash Of South
ern fire to his eyes when he described
the manner in which others had re-
ceiNed him.
After many delays, MT. Yoakley says.
he was admitted to the ward in which
his son lay. The meeting was an af-
fecting one. The boy, with the death
dew standing on his brow, looked up at
the speachless old man bending over
him. and d faint smile crept over his
face. In that moment he doubtless
home in the far away South-tre
scenes of his youth and later those OF
his young manhood-but, brighter and
sweeter than al in the visions thaA
passed before him, The tear-dimmed
face of his mother. waiting to hear that
he was coming back to her open arms
and her loving heart from the bloody
arena of war. All he is there now and
that old mother will look today upon
his cold. dead face. Mr. Yoakley says
that he had not been with his son more
than fifteen minutes when one Of the
hospital officials approached and
roughly told him that he must get out
The official, he says, then threatened
him that if he again remained so long
in tht, yard he 'wOnl6 he mt ont and
kept out. Mr.. Yoakley mildly protest
ed that he did not know that he was
violating any of the rules of the place.
but his apology awaited him nothing
and he departed for the Sherwood.
Wednesday night Private u. M.
Yoakley. of Company a, Tenth United
States infantry, died. and on Thursday
the body. accompanied by the sorrow
ing father, was shipped to Bristol for
internlant 0