The record-union., 1898-09-05
WILL DISSOLVE.
By October First Camp W1koH
VIII be a Small One.

camp will dissolve during the three
coming weeks, and by OCTOBER ISL II
will have shrunk to slender proportions
The we'll men, according to the ar De-
partment's set designs, Will leave the
camp as fast as transportation can De
conveniently provided, probably at the
rate of 3. 600 or 900 a week. The con-
yalescents from the hospitals, instead OF
being again sent into camp, will go to
their homes.
The Rresident, Secretary Alger ana
Gene1W Wheeler had talk about 1t
yesterday and although General Wheel-
er thought the men would do well In
camp until October 1st, it was deter
mined to continue sending them away
The regulars taken from the posts east
of the Mississippi will, according to the
pres MT directions, be sent where they
were ssefarsAhe war The War Depart
ment has not transmitted the order to
General Shafter yet, but it will no doubt
be received by Tuesday. The Eighth
Ohio and First Illinois will break camp
Tuesday The Rough Riders will mus
ter out toward the end of the week,
probably, and will not parade. the
Rough Riders had religious services in
InelG camp lO-udS. 1OAoIAci iNOO1S'~A
after Chaplain Goane had concluded,
made a little speech, a sort of fare
we'll. some of the men took it to be.
He commended the daring of the men,
their use Of arms and management OF
their horses.
When the regiment was forming he
said many men had offered themselves
who announced they We're ready to
storm MORO, or fight hell but would
not take kindly to camp routine and
drill All such men had been rejected.
| The Rough Riders had all the forces
Of individual strength and in battle
were as coherent and effective as
projectile.
General Wheeler said that Lieutenant
! Colonel Smart of the medical staff of
| the army had come to examine the
water supplied to the camp. He was
/ at the top of his profession and would
! in about three days be able to give an
! absolutely authoritative decision as to
| the purity Of the water.
| Some women who visited the camps
seeing no floor in the tents fancied the
men must sleep on the ground.
| They were wrong in supposing that.
In tents without floors We're wooden
! hunks of thick straw AS for himself,
! General Wheeler said he liked the camp
| better every day and would like to live
in it until October 1st.
The season of September gales is ap-
preaching and the War Department
| foresee that the Long Island Railway
may not be able to move conveniently
more than LOCO men a day. Plans
| have been partially made to transport
troops to New York by water if it
| should be advisable.
| The troopship Roumania, five days
| from Santiago, came in to-day with
/ Companies K and two of the Ninth
Massachusetts, and convalescents from
| various commands, in all about 600
men. Seven died on the voyage and
| We're buried at sea.
The Unionist also arrived from San
| tiago with 800 men. Fifty-three We're
| of Company E, First Illinois Infantry.
The rest We're teamsters and carpen-
ters. All on board are well. There
We're eight deaths in the general hos
pital to-day.
Number of patients in general hos
| pital 1,040. No one died at the deten-
tion hospital to-day. It has 275 pa
| tients.
Arthur Fieble. private in Company
F, Second United States Infantry. kill
ed himself in his tent to-day by shoot
ing himself with Krag- -Jorgensen
rife. He was recruited in Tampa.
went to Cuba, fought, caught the fever
and was out of his mind for some time.