New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-08-04
NOTHING BUT PRAISE.
MISS REAsONER's ACCOUNT OF AFFAIRS
AT SIBONEY.
SHE TELLS OF THE vAIOR AND FORTITUDE OF
AMERICAN SOLDIERS-MIss BARTON

TO THE RESCUE
Miss Elsie Reascner OF Chicago who went TO
Cuha about a month for the purpose OF study
ing the work in the hospitals where the wounded
and sick soldiers treated. and also a WON
ans part in the campaign. arrived in this city on
Wednesday, looking as though she had been ex-
posed u the Cuban climate for many days Her
complexion was deep bronze and her hands were
much tanned She Is young. Of medium stature
has an exceedingly active temperament. and looks
as though "roughng 1t" out-of-doors in a country
like Cuba would be a pleasure for her. When seen
by a Tribune reporter she had nothing except words
Of praise for the manner in which the soldiers
cared for in the hospitals
Briefly summarized. her story o: what she saw
was that CHASTITY and horrld sights OF wounded and
sick met the eyes at every move, and tina,
the women nurses were brought face 10 face in the
performance of their duties with these conditions.
but none of them linched or shirked or were found
Incapable Of relieving the distress responding to
the many calls for them. II mostly at Siboney
that she spent her time in Cuba in carrying out
the special purpose OF her visit there. where she
landed under the auspices Of the Red Cross. At
Slboney. she the nurses and the doctors OF the
Red Cross and carefully watched them as they
about caring for the who had been shot
down suffering from fevers. Without those
physicians and nurses and without the supplies Of
food and clothing got to the front under the per
sonal supervision Of Miss Clara Barton. she be-
lieved a great calamity would have happened 10 the
Army.
soon after the soldiers had faced fire" said
Miss Reasoner. word was received by those miles
In the rear of the troops that the boys OF Uncle
Sam had been fighting on empty stomachs. and
that there was little prospect of their getting any
NhS 10 eat Hu1cKy Sn~,s me ATmy rarlons
landing place were carried over the rough roads to
them.
General Shafter called upon Miss Barton to do
her best to help the hungry troops Besides food;
themen wanted a change Of clothing. for they had
q a
night and when tho firing was on had lain in the
trenches. which were veritable breeding places OF
said had
AID Quickly and skifully she had the supplies
RED Cross ships to the land loaded on carts drawn
by mules and sent to the men her supplies dd
and She a. so fed large portion OF the Army for
ut was not the climate" continued Miss Rea-
soner that caused much sickness among the
troops but because they IN Net clothes fos
moistened earth. and further. owing TO the fact
convinced that shoney would be perfectly health
ful place II there were proper drainage The fevers
not yellow Jack as reported In fact. did not
one person down with the yellow fever. Such
from Chicago got fine horse in exchange for Il
piece Of ice
TIE ORDER OF THE DAY.
Work work and work was the order every day
for the and physicians Cessation from
labors never came. When the and physi-
clans took their turn In administering to the sick
and wounded that were in the hospitals. and those
that constantly being brought in from the
front. there was no rest until they were relieved.
after ABOUT twelve hours' work. Working those
hours in hospital In this country Is strain upon
the system but 1. is more than that in the scOrch
ing sun o: Cuba and under the conditions that pre-
vailed there. To say that the nurses worked nObly
and efficiently ~ only giving them the praise they
deserve. They everywhere and doing every
kind Of work that needed their hands They we're
which they represented. but to this land.
The hospitals scrCpulOusly well KEEP: and
arranged The hospital Al Siboney for patients SUI
Close ny in converted CUBAN houses were housed
persons afflicted with fevers 1t was necessary TO
put the fever patients III the houses because their
condition would have been aggraValcd II they were
every Cuban and recOncentrado that she saw. The
Cubans and the reconccntradcs reioiced when they
saw the Americans. MANY Spanish feared. how,
their coming. but General Shafter awaited
himself Of every means to dispel these fears. When
twenty eight Spanish officers VINO had been wound
cd. captured he saw 70 II thAt tney were
treated kindly. Our soldiers. whenever they hac
chance 10 show mercy or do a charitable act FOR
a Spaniard. acted they should Inelr oppo-
nents could not help speaking % their Kindness
and goodness OF heart .
he Spanish and the vaor of the American men;
The Standards groancd pitcously " they sunercl
any pain. but the Of this country VINO hhd
fallen in battle or had been taken sick In camp
sound could be heard In and about the hospitals az
Siboney while those occupied by the snniafns
never quiet The cries Of the Spanish dld
not sympathy. but disgust young hrst
lieutenant who had been shot IN Doth legs ana
was suffering from fever. gave me a message 70
deliver to his wife While was on my way home
unfoded the paper on which the message "aS
written, and read i am well