New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-11
SECRETARY ALGER AT HOME.
HE DESIRES THE CONDUCT or THE WAR
EI-IIN INQI.LRED lNTO.

Detroit Sept io-Sccrctary Alger arrived at tho
Michigan Central station from the East at s:ho
to-day Accompanying him were Mrs AlScr ana
their son Captain Frederick Alger who Is gradual
ly recovering from fever contracted In cuba; also
colonel flccker and Major Hopkins the Secretary
vy,r aids both Detroit men. To tho reporters
c.neral Alger remarked that all he would say now
was that he was glad TO get home. and especially
10 breathe Michigan mir again. The Secretary was
then driven 10 his residence accompanied by Gov
crnor Pngroc
General AIgor's friends and neighbors. and that
means the whole city of Detroit. regardless OF poll
tics welcomed him back home today In a manner
which must have convinced him that II he needed
Endorsement De had only 20 come home to get II.
All sorts Of political social and business lines were
FORGOTTEN and every body turned out to cheer Gen
eral AIgcr The parade this afternoon. In when
the military and civic bodies escorted him from his
house 10 the Light Guard Armory. was an impos-
lr, pag.ant and the loudest IN cheering the Sec
rotarv were the Naval Reserves. just back from
the Yosemite. and Company NJ of the 3Sd Michigan
who served under Shafter at Santiago.
After arriving home General AlSer said ne cH-
pccted TO remain here untn week from to-mor-
row When asked to make statement Tor puph-
cation relative to the charges against his ao-
minisration Of the War Department, the secretary
ropl,ed: .'What do you want me TO do? Get down
I'm the sewer with these sensational persons.
They are not worrying me. There is nothing to
the charges excepting somebody's desire To make
political capital
'"Thc work the Department had to do IN so
short "A time has been great task The commits
sarv and Ouartermastcr's departments have had
the distribution 81 than nine hundred tons or
provisions -raiions and foragc-day, part or
which has involved transportation more than hat
around the world II IL not surprising that some
few slips have been made.
II have asked the President TO appoint tho
strongest Commission possible to secure. to con-
duct an inquiry into tho conduct of the war. II
Will be made up of some OF the ablest Army Of
nccrs and it's work will be OF the greatest inn
portance. as applied TO the past and as affecting
the future Its greatest value will be In perfect
inr the entire organization Of the Army and APP
plying In this the lessons Of the past
columbus Sept l0-A telegram to The Dis
patch' from Mansfield. Ohio, says:
The reception which was accorded to Secretary
Algor at Detroit came near passing off without the
guest OF honor, as result of the oiiciousness OF
"A Pullman car porter. Secretary Alger arrived
here AZ II 80 last night the Pennsylvanla
line and was TO have gone TO Toledo at l;S5
A m over the Walhonding Valley Railroad. lie
was asleep. and the porter refused TO allow the
car 10 be attached TO the l:3 train. claiming that
Secretary Alger did not want to go until In the
morning.
At o'clock the Secretary awoke and there was
n scene. He hurried to the telegraph office in his
pajamas. and ordered a special. and got away ut
BIG a.. m.