The herald., 1898-09-05
ALL THE CONVALfSCfNTS GOING HOME
REGULARS FROM THE CENTRAL DIVISION TO
RETURN TO THEIR POSTS
Troop Ships From Santiago Arrive With thousand Vet
terans Of the Cuban Campaign-Flftsen Deaths En-
Route to Report-Repors From the
Other Hospitals
Associated Press Special Wire.


CAMP WIKOFF, Montauk Point, Sept.
l.-This great camp will dissolve during the
three coming weeks and Dy October 1t
will have shrunk to slender proportions.
The well men, according to the war de-
partments set designs, will leave camp as
fast as transportation can conveniently be
provided. probably at the rate Of 5000 or
1000 week. The convalescents from the
transports, instead OF being again sent into
camp, will go to their homes.
The president, Secretary Alger and Gen
eral Wheeler had a talk about 1t yesterday
and although General Wheeler thought the
men would DO we'll in camp until October
I. It was determined TO continue sending
them away. The regulars taken from the
posts east Of the Mississippi win, accord
ing to the present directions. be sen, where
they were before the war. The war de-
partment has not transmitted tho order to
General Shafter yet. but 1t will no doubt
be received by Tuesday. The Eighth Ohio
and First Illinois will break camp Tues
day. The rough riders will muster out
toward the end OF the week. probably, and
will not parade.
Roosevelt's Farewell
The rough riders had religious services
In their camp today. Colonel Roosevelt.
after Chaplain Grown had concluded. made
little speech. a sort Of farewell. some OF
the mon took It to be. Colonel Roosevelt
commended the daring and galiantry OF the
men. their skill in managing horses and In
the use Of arms.
When the regiment was forming he said
many men had offered themselves who an
nounoed they were ready to storm the
Morro or nght hell" but would not take
kindly 10 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 etfec-
tive as projectile.
Affairs in Camp
General Wheeler said that Lieutenant
Colonel Smart of the medical staff Of the
army, had come TO examine chemically
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 abso-
lutely authoritative decision as to the pur-
tty Of the water.
Women passing through the camp were
displeased by seeing that some Of the tents
did not have floors, and fancied that the
men must sleep on the ground.
They were wrong in supposing that. In
tents without floors were 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 l.
The season Of September gales Is ap-
preaching and the war department fore
sees that the Long Island railway may not
be able to move conveniently more than
1000 men a day. Plans have been par
TALLY made to transport troops to New
York by water II It should be advisable.
More Men Arrive
The troopship Roumania. five days from
Santiago. came in today with Companies
X and two Of the Ninth Massachusetts,.
and convalescents from various COM
mands, in all about 600 men. Seven died
on the voyage and were buried at sea.
The Unionist also arrived from San
tiago with $50 men. Fifty-three were Of
Company E, First Illinoi, infantry. The
rest were teamsters and carpenters. All
in board are we'll. There were eight
deaths.
Hospital Report
Number Of patients In general hospital.
1910. There were eight deaths in the gen.
eral hospital today.
No one died at the detention hospital to.
day. 1t has zb patients.
Arthur Fieble. private in Company r,
Second United States infantry, killed him
self in his tent today by shooting himself
with Krag-Jorgeasen rife. He was re-
cruited In Tampa, went to Cuba, fought,
caught the fever and was out Of his mind
for some time.
Michigan Men
DETROIT. Mich. Sept. 4-Members Of
the Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth Mich
igan volunteers who arrived last night
were quartered in the leading hotels and
today In their Hobbies and corridors were
to be seen great piles Of guns. canteens.
equipments. blankets and other parapher-
MALTA Of the soldiers. In the comfortabl BILE
chairs and sofas were found many Of the
Michigan soldiers who while not sick
enough to be sent to the hospital still
were too weak to move around. In all
200 Of the men were removed directly from
the depots to the hospitals. Although
many Of them were In a serious condition,
there were no deaths among them today.
The men are being sent to their homes
as fast as transportation can be arranged
for them.
= At Chickamauga
FRANKFORT. KY. Sept. 4-Gov.
BradIey and his corps OF surgeons and
nurses returned today with the Kentucky
hospital train from ,Chickamauga. The
GOVERNOR after personal inspections Of
Camp Thomas. does not credit the many
ntories OF neglect Of soldiers at Camp
Thomas ny the ofncers. and says the sit
rasion there y much more favorable than
Unexpected to md. n
Ohio Hospital Train
JAcKsoNvILLE. Fla. Sept. 1.-THE