Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-07-22

"a santiago Celebration.
CAMP THOMAS,
July lG lS9S.
The week has been one Of misery for the
ones sick, as rain has fallen nearly all the
time fol three or four days.
Those out Of our company IN that Condt-
ton are doing well. | went over TO diyi-
sion hospital last evening 10 see the lads
and they have an excellent place.
The hrst thing was to find ont the ward
they were in, That was not easy, As the
government furnishes no eirand boys, the
clerk looking over the books aud seeing
Company BOYS were in good health, told
me to hunt them up. 1t The books read
the other way, | should have been kept
our of the line.
There are a great many tents and none
numbered, with each tent having eight
cots and al. filled in most cases with SICK
boys.
/ had to give up the job OF trying to find
them and running across DR., jackson,
that genial officer kindly showed me TO
ward |. where | found Brock ready 10
yell out "Say Teddy bring me over
four handkerchiefs will you and tell
Granger Ware to come over tomorrow and
cut NY whisk,rs." There wa, another lad
who will be out before Brocking,on IN the
same tent from Company l.
] then went to hunt up Robinson and
found him sitting on a log with a "cIg IN
his mouth and ready TO tell me just what
Secretary Alger and all the rest were going
TO do in the next siN months.
The cots are good with snow white
sheets and nice blankets and night
shirt that make us of the trough and rcaoy'
think of home and mother
The boys have an excellent nurse and
are sure of the best Of care.
Those in the company street are al. fine
as fddles. All should be more than care
full what they eat, but a few can't let
cart 90 by without going ont to buy a
piece of melon, glass OF milk, peaches,
and the rest. Four or five put the whole
course into themselves and wonder why
there is not more sympathy shown them
when laid out for day or two.
Very little attention is paid to such
cases of sickness now, any more than
there will be in the future.
The little brothers at home would show
more sense than some of you fellows
| Quit it.
Few drills have been held this week on
account of the continuous rains. Some Of
| the time it has more than rained, too
/ Col. Mimms gave orders to have the boys
on guard called in wheni it rained too hard.
| The work Of equipping the regiments
| here goes on by express, you might say,
| as a very large part Of it comes that way.
| Few can realize the amount OF stuff
/ handled in a week at the different com
missary buildings.
Capt Mccarthy Of the discussing de-
| partment has given out since the encamp-
ment began over - 100000 worth OF quar-
/ termaster's supplies alone.
This does not include the enormous
amount of clothing and other equipage is
sued by Capt Ialinski.
There has been over 100000 put into
stock for the army commanded by Gen.
Brooke and the heavy purchase OF horses
and mules in this section has caused the
price of the former to 60 from about so
to $50. Good ones are very scarce at
this price. Never mind the price of the
mules.
The stock here consumes in one month
three and cne.half million pounds OF oats
and four and one-half million pounds OF
hay. Five thousand cords OF wood are
burned in the same tine and all used for
cooking purposes.
There are over 10000 mules and horses
| IN the park, and IL is sald mat Inc NUMBER
is about equally divided between each kind
But the brand on the shoulder of each an
mal is the same, [. 5.
The news of SaRtiagos fall came night
before last and lasted about all night.
Bands headed their regiments, marching
almost everywhere in the park, doing al
they could to celebrate that most import
ant event.
1t is understood the officers do not like
the sanitary conditions which surround the
regiments and will do all they can to gel
us away, no matter where We 60. A higE
officer was heard TO remark the 'othel
high ones had come to the conclusion the
trouble was not with the water, but with
the sinks.
| know there was trouble with the water
last evening after +. NJ, for you couldn't
get a swallow of it for love nor money
around anywhere. 1t goes that way al
the time, and to speak about it does moi
seem to me to be out of the way. Plenty
of mule teams idle all day long, but no wa
ter lots of the time.