The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-09-02
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FIRST Goes OUT
Orders to Send New Jersey
Regiment Back to Civil
Life.
MILL PROCEED 10 SEA GIRT
mastering Out csl m MES to
Take Place in the
Home Camp.
FRESH WATER FOR MOETAUK
DistiIIing Ship Iris Ordered to
Sail For Camp Wickoff
at Once.
NEWS FROM OUR NEW LANDS
State of Affairs in Cuba, Porto Rico
and the Philippine
Islands.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2. 1S9S.-The fol-
lowing troops were ordered to be mustered
out of service today
First Pennsylvania Knoxville to Philadel-
phia.
Second Philadelphia. Mont chanin to
Philadelphia.
Third Pennsylvania, Huntsville to Phla-
delphia.
Eighteenth Pennsylvania, Camp Meade
to Pittsburg.
Fourth Wisconsin, Camp Douglass, Wis.
Seventy-first New York, Montauk to
Camp Black.
First New Jersey. Camp Alger to Sea
Girt. =
Thirty-second Michigan, chickamauga
to Camp Eaton, Mich.
First Ohio, Jacksonville to Armory Gin
cinnati.
Eighth Ohio. Montauk to Columbus,
Ohio.
15Sth Indiana, Knoxville to Indianapolis.
Third Ohio, Huntsville to Columbus,
s-qhio.
SECOND North Carolina, simonds Island,
Ga. to Raleigh.
First and Second Alabama, Jacksonville
to Mobile.
Third United States Volunteer Cavalry,
chickamauga to Old Fort Omaha.
Second Massachusetts, Montauk to
South birmingham
Acting Secretary Allen today sent or
ders to the Norfolk Navy Yard to have
the distilling steamer Iris sent imme-
diateiy to Camp Wikoff at Montauk
Point This was done after consultation
between Secretary Alger and Acting Sec
retary Allen. The purpose being to pro-
vide the soldiers at Camp Wikoff with
an abundant supply of absolutely pure
water for drinking and cooking purposes.
The Iris was fitted up by the Navy De-
partment with remarkable rapidity as a
distilling ship to supply the warships and
auxiliary craft and transports in sub
tropical waters. She Is able to turn out
sixty thousand gallons of the purest dis
titled water every day, and this quantity
would be ample for drinking purposes to
supply three times the number of SOL
diers likely to be gathered at Camp
Wikoff at any one time.
Inasmuch as typhoid fever, according
to the best medical information, is trans
mitted altogether through fluids so long
as the troops can be induced to drink this
distilled water alone--their milk being
daily inspected-it is believed that there
will be an end to the further spread of
%the fever. AS a measure of precaution
it is probable that the wells which have
been dug at Camp Wikoff will be closed
up on the arrival of the Iris.
Orders have been issued by the War
Department that all regular army regi-
ments now at Montauk which were sta
toned previously east of the Mississippi
River, shall return to those same sta
tions.
Having arranged for the release and
return to Spain of the Spanish sailors
captured after the destruction of Ger
vera's fleet, the Spanish Government is
now seeking to secure the release of. the
Spanish soldiers who are still held cap
tves in this country There are few
of these, confined at Fort Mcpherson
and our Government is entirely willing
to be rid of them. Our Government hav-
ing finally consented to release the sailors
upon the sole condition that the Spanish
Government would transport them home
M Thiebaut, acting in the interest of the
Spanish Government, has just made ap
piication to the State Department fol
similar treatment in the case of the
Spanish soldiers The request is now un.
der consideration and doubtless will be
granted.
Colonel Moore, ofs the Quartermaster'
Department, has returned to Washington
from Middlctown, where he has been in
charge of work at Camp Meade He has
made verbal report TO Secretary Alser
OF the conditions there He says that the
camp is on one of the finest farms in
Pennsylvania, on high rolling ground
from $50 to 400 feet above the Susque-
hanna River.
The water supply is abundant and is OBJ
tanned from such source that there can
be no possible danger of pollution. Three
artesian wells furnish the supply. They
are from 271 to 3S1 feet deep. bored
through solid granite for some distance
and through nearly $50 feet Of solid sand
stone before the water is reached. This
water is piped about the camps and te
tanks where the water carts are easily
suppsied.
Some regiments are supplied by by
s drant In front Of each company, other.
by water carts. Colonel Moore says tina
there is an abundant supply Of this water
which has been analysed and pronounced
absolutely pure The sanitary conditions
pf the camp are excellent Precautions