The herald., 1898-12-15
TELLS A PITIfUL TALE
OF HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT AT
MANILA
SOLDIERS DYING OF HUNGER
While Incompetent Attendants Squab-
BILE Among Themselves Over
Trifles-News From Hawaii
Associated Press Special Wire

| Associated Press Special Wire
HONOLULU, Dec. I, via San Francisco,
Dec l4.-The United States transport Scan
dia has arrived here from Manilt, which
place she left November Is. She brings a
number of officers, 81 discharged and fur
loughed men and two Red Cross nurses. She
brings the largest mail that ever left Ma.
Mia, 2l3 sacks for san Francisco and one
for Honolulu"
The vessel will resume her voyage on or
about the 10th inst.
Miss Schaefer, Red Cross nurse, who
went from Honolulu to Manila, arriving
there September 26, returned on the Sean
dia. She makes startling charges as to the
way United States soldiers are taken care
| OF in Manila. Miss Schaefer made the fol-
lowing statement for publication:
Scores of the soldier boys were dying
in the hospitals in Manila, just for want OF
proper nourshment. They say the gov
crnment allows GO cents day for each pa
tient. l could save dozens OF lives on five
cents day.
"Oh, the utter woe of the hospitals the
helplsssness of them Men as bright and
noble as God ever made, giving up to death,
hoping for it, seeking it, taking poison,
doing anything that will end the despair
that comes upon them
Seeing nothing before them but days of
pain and nights of wretchcdness, without
proper care, without proper TODD, alone
with no one to give them sympathy or
cheer, to write to friends, to soothe aching
brows or moisten parched lips. Ii by sheer
"a, Of, ttt,.n nhsf pfI tu L..
ty they do get better, there Is before them
nothing but the still more cherries period
OF convalescence with the probability OF re-
lapse and the old weariness OF despair to
be suffered again No wonder there are
six or seven funerals a day No wonder
the deadhouse is never empty.
And outside the hospital, and even in it.
such indifference. Petty consideration OF
rank in positions, squabbles about prece
dence, lack OF consideration in prescribing
and preparing food, while men are dying,
not merely OF heart hunger, but tor want OF
nourishment | have gone through the
wards day after day, and as | spoke to this
one and that one, and they poured out
their sorrows, men who do not wear their
agony of their loneliness and despair, made
poignant and vivid by their own telling
OF it.
Il got so l just couldn't go through the
wards What could | do? / saw the need
of care, of proper nourishment, of the most
ordinary hospital treatment, ard was ut
teriy helpless to do anything; Just one cog
in the great remorseless grinding machine,
whose material was noble men and whose
grst was death.
Il do not mean that all in the hospitals
are careless or Indifferent. Many are trying
to do their best. There is lot OF worthiness
and unseltishness among the attendqnts at
the hospitals. But there is SO much mex
perience and so many clogs to those who
would do much. To think Of an attendant
going through a ward with a pail of beef
broth, ladhng out to the fifty or sixty pa
tients Unfortunately, tin cup full OF it.
In the whole pail full there was not enough
nourishment for one, even if it were made
OF the best material. But what it really was
imagine. In whole ward there is not more
than one nurse with experience. and for
helpers only one or two awkward boys, who
perhaps never saw sickroom before
Colonel George W. McFarlane returned
by the Coptic and brings word that the
to Perry s. Heath, First Assistant Pay
masterGeneral, and his associates, that he
will issue the charter for the new bank in
which James Campbell and himself are in
terested. as soon as Congress extends the
territorial laws to Hawaii. That will prob
ably be very soon.
Meanwhile the Comptroller has agreed to
receive money to be deposited to secure cir
cuation and to receive deposits of the bonds
for circulation and Government deposits
and to receipt for them in the name OF the
new bank.
1t is intended that majority of the stock
will be held in Hawaii, but the New York
and san Francisco fnanciers stand ready to
take any Of the Honolulu allotment of the
stock uQt subscribed here
Conn c. L. F and G, First New York, !
in command of Major Emmett. sailed by !
tie Alameda tonight for San Francisco.
Arrangements have been made for Com
panies *, NJ, and II to sail on the Scandal
next Sunday Although there are a number
of siol, men aboard the transport none OF
their ailments are contagious and the sur
geons say there will be no danger in ship
ping the troops by her. As many GONZALES
cents as are able to travel will be gotten off |
on the Scandia.
The Scandals detachment will finish up
the New York regiment and the hospital
nurses surgeons, patients in the hospital. |
travel
Colonel Rheulan, Major Purdy and Cap
tain Lydip, with the quartermaster's, pay,
and commissionary departments, will re-
main in Honolulu. 1t is expected that
another regiment. perhaps regulars, will |
soon he ordered to the islands. In fact it ia |
given out that about 1000 men will be kept /
here all the time: 1t has been decided to |
send no more soldiers bodies home until
the regiment gets there to receive them All
will be then sent together and will be re-
ceived and buried by the regiment with ap-
proprjate military honors.
Private John Y. Sprngsteen, Company
&, i.lrst New lork, died at the military hos |
pltal OF pneumonia on the 9Th
ANXIOUS TO STAY