The herald., 1898-09-13
TROOPS Al MONTAUk
roo WEAK TO TAKE PART IN A
REVIEW
PARADE PLANS ABANDONED
f,eneral Miles Issues Orders, "No
p. Matter What Alger Says" to
Leave Camp Wikof
Associated Press Special Wire.

Associated Press Special Wire.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 12.-The president
has decided that 1t will be impracticapie lo'
tho ,roops at Montauk to take part IN the
nroiected parade in New York City. he
hos ,alked the matter over with General
Miles and with Acting Secretary Meikei-
.ohn. and It was finally determined 10 lei
the matter be decided by the physicai con-
dt,ion Of the men. TO ascertain this' meu-
cal officers at the camp were called upon
as was General Shafter. All SAID tha' 'he
men will not be able to stand the fatigue
of the parade before the first OF next month
M the earliest. AS the parade was TO &C.
cur next Saturday this renders the present
participation of the Montauk troops I'M
practicable. and the parade must be con-
seoueutly, If held a all, composed OF the
troops coming in from Porto hlco' mol eH-
ceeding 1000 In number.
General Miles, upon learning the oecislon
of the president, made an inquiry INTO the
strength of the Porto Rican roops now on
their way to New York under command OF
General Wilson and Garretson. He found
that they number about 1000 men. and he
has about concluded that there is not sur
ficient force to make a creditable showing,
and therefore will abandon the idea OF a
parade.
Miles New Orders
NEW YORK, Sept. ia dispatch to the
Press from Camp Wikoff says:
Under peremptory orders from General
Miles preparations are being made to break
up this camp at once by sending home all
the soldiers here. This is entirely contrary
to what has been the understanding of the
officers in command. General Shafter said
last week that 5000 or 1000 men would be kept
here at least until October, and this was
supposed to have been the order of Secretary
.Alger. An officer said today when General
Miles order came telegram was sent him
saving that such order was contrary TO that
of Secretary Alger. and Miles replied:
'Never mind what Alger says; I am in
command now"
That cf course settled 1t as far as the Of
ficers here are concerned, and unless Gen.
eral Miles orders are countermanded next
week will see the practical end of Camp
Wikoff General Bates said:
"My orders are to send the troops away as
fast as transportation can be arranged"
When asked If these orders)did not con-
'flict with those of Secretary Alger he simp~
.ly said:
"They are new orders.'
In pursuance of this plan the detention
hospital is being abandoned. All the men in
this hospital fit to travel are being sent to
New York and the others taken to the gen.
eral hospital. The general hospital is being
cleared out as fast as possible and there are
two or three hundred cases that cannot be
moved without danger.
Strong frame buildings are now being
erected for the use of these patients. These
buildings will be finished in two or three
days and the worst cases will be removed
into them. Nearly all of these are typhoid
fever cases, to move which would cause
frightful mortality.
Major Brown said he thought there would
be about fifty cases which could not be
moved for two or three weeks at least.
i .. Alger's Comment
DETROIT. Mich, Sept. 12.-Concerning
reports from Camp Wikoff THAI the camp
Is preparing to break up under peremptory
new orders from General Miles, Secretary
Alger said today:
''There Is nothing new in that. Camp
Wikoff from the first was mostly intended
as a detention camp. The purpose from
the first has been to get the soldiers away
from there as soon S possible
Relative to a statement attributed to
General Miles to ''never mind what Alger
Gays" etc., the Secretary positively re-
fused to speak.
Regiments Leaving
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.-Orders were
ussued from the War Departmen Mt today or
derng two regiments of ,he United States
regular troops away from Camp Wikoff,
Montauk Point. They are the Twelfth In
fantry, which is ordered to Jefferson Bar
racks, Mo-, and the Twenty-second Infan-
try, which goes to Fort Crook. Neb. 1t is
hoped that all the regular regiments will
be away from Montauk by the end Of the
week.
Transportation Lacking
CAMP WYKOFF, Montauk Point, Sept
i2-The entire attention of the 1850 soldiers
r.iil at Camp Wykoff Is now direc;ed tow
ard the latest developments in regard 10
the abandonment: Of the camp here and
their removal TO the barracks occupied by
them before the commencement of the war.
troops away from here as soon as possible
but according to statement made by him
today he Is not informed of themeans Of
transportation to be provided by the quar-
termaster's department. He Is unable
to. estimate the length of time that may
be necessary TO remove the troops.
Between three and four hundred sick
were sent TO New York and Brooklyn hos
pitfalls on Sunday on the steamer Shinne-
cock adm by rail. The army hospttal
boat Relief arrived here from New York
this morning and during the day she took
aboard $50 sick men. The Relief lief. wi; h
these patients tonight for Boston, and
they will be placed in hospitals in that
city. The steamer will return here from
Boston a. once, arriving by Wednesday.
and will then take perhaps 200 more pa
tiens to New York and Brooklyn hospitals.
The Shinnecock is expected to arrive here
tomorrow morning, and she will probably