The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-11-20
LOVELY WOMAN CONES
Before the War Board With a
Hot, Hot Roast.
DR.. .HUBBARD'S CRUELTY
Teddy and His Rough Riders
to Have Their Innings.

New York. Nov. I9-When the war in
vestigating commission met today Cen
eral Dodge. the chairman, announced that
the sessions in the city would probably
continue ten days. General Dodge de-
clined 10 give in advance the names of
those he expected 10 examine, but 1t was
said that invitations had been sent 10
Colonel Roosevelt and other members of
the Rough Riders.
Mrs. Edwin c. Allis Of New York who
went TO Camp Wikon September to help
nurse the sick was the first witness called.
She told of the conditions prevailing there
and said that some of the hospital wards
were overcrowded and other were empty.
Mrs. AIlis' statement referred principally
to the annex hospital and TO the sick of
the Twelfth infantry. She complained that
the food was poor and badly cooked, that
the sanitary conditions were bad and that
as \ consequence the sick and the weA
suffered from a plague Of flies.
Cross-examined by Ex-Governor Wood
bury. Mrs. AHis told of the carelessness
Of the hospital nurses and orderlies il at
tending to complaints of the sick.
Summing up her conclusions. Mrs Allis
thought there were not enough attendants
in the hospital and that no care was
taken 70 separate the dying, the delirious
and he convalescent patients.
DIR. HUBBARD NEEDED KILLING.
Major Lorigan, Ninth New York, said
he served as a private in the Eighth New
York in the civil war.
He said the supplies served to the
Ninth were fairly good and sufficient.
How about the medical treatment"
There were many complaints about
DR.. Hubbard. He treated the officers
pleasantly, but he was rough to the men,
The only case know of was when a ser
geant broke his leg getting off the train
at Chattanooga Instead of taking the
man to hospital in the city, Dr. Hub
bard insisted that the men be taken to
camp, twelve miles farther away. The
man died on the way.
STORY OF A VOLUNTEER NURSE.
Miss Margaret Garrard of Norristown,
y. J., a volunteer worker among the sick
at Camp WiI1off, was the first witness at
the afternoon session. She visited the
camp for the first time after the arrival
Of troops on September IS. Before then
she had visited the trains carrying sol
iiers from Montauk Point and found
many evidences Of neglect. Men too weak
to help themselves were found lying IN
conscious on the streets of Long Island
City, and in every instance where she
made inquiry she learned that there were
neither doctors nor nurses on the trains
for convalescents. Medical attention and
nursing, Miss GarTard said, were very
good during the ten days she was at Camp
Wfcoff. She found considerable fault with
the treatment of convalescents and COM
planned bitterly of the lack of considera-
ton shown to the friends and relations OF
sick soldiers who visited them in the hos
pitfalls.
''Was the nursing edequate2s" asked
DR.. Conner.
II think there were plenty of good
nurses after September Is. but the man
ner in which the sick. convaIescent and
dying were moved about, apparently in
discriminatory. was responsible for much
loss of life When man was to be moved
from one ward to another he was careless
ly handed
The lac kof proper clerical records at
the hospital, Miss Garrard thought. was
due 10 the inefficiency Of the men in
charge of affairs.
Lieutenant Charles Edwards. OF the
Seventyfirst New York regiment and
professional nurse. in reply to questions
by General Dodge, said:
IF YOU EAT, YOU DIE"
Il was technically starved for four
weeks after / recovered from yellow fe-
Yer in Cuba, but that was the best treat
ment for the disease Many of the deaths
in Cuba. were due TO the ignorance OF the
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II you eat, You die and still they ate"