Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-08-31
COOKSFOR REGIMENT
Maj. Neumeyer Supplies Want at
the District Camp.
TROUBLE ABOUT WARM CLOTHES
The Boys Want No Escort on
Their March Up the Avenue.
SOME Personal NOTES
cial From a STAFF Correspondent.

CAMP WIKOF'F, N. Y. August 31.-Mr.
Edwin Neumyer. acting for The Evening
Star relief fund, went TO New York last
evening in order to make an arrangement
which it is believed will do more than
anything else to add TO the comfort of
the soldiers of the District regiment Sup
plies are being received in liberal quanti-
ties. but company cooks are not able to
make palatable dishes of them. Mr.. Neu-
myer has gone to New York to engage
twelve first-class cooks at wages sufficient
to get men who can prepare delicate and
appeuzing dishes for the soldiers until they
leave camp for Washington.
Surgeon r. A Pyles of the District regi-
ment was asked this morning in regard to
the present condition of the sick men and
convalescents.
The maIarial fever these men suffer
from he said, lis a recurring one To
my mind, it is purely malar!al. 1t will re-
turn at intervals of several days a week
or two weeks until it has left the system.
What effect this climate will have on it
is prOblematical- The danger to the men
now is from lung trouble. In their weak
ened condition they liable to catch
cold. This may last year with some of
the men Fifty per cent of the regiment
are suffering from enlarged Hvec and
spleen"
What per cent of the men have had
Ninety-fve Fer cent of them have had
it,, he replied. since their enlistment"
Time of Departure.
There is division of opinion here among
the officers and men of the District regi-
ment IN respect to the time the regiment
should go Washington. There has been
some talk about having 1t leave here next
Monday. but this proposition does not meet
the approval OF Col Harrics, who believes
weeks.
TheIe a number of reasons to support
Col. Htrries' opinion. II the regiment can
be made comfortable in camp the boys Will
have good opportunity to rest and to lead
life much more apt to benefit them than
IL in the hands of their friends at home.
While most of them would be taken good
care of at home tEere still many who
would not fare as we'll as they will here.
If they should go to Washington in a
week they would not be strong enough to
march up Pennsylvania avenue half
dozen squares OF the whole number $50
are sick in hospitals. AMI of the others
many are too weak for any eAertion.
Want No Escort.
The soldiers reception in Washington has
been discussed here in view of the PROPOSE
ton that military organizations of the Dis
trict should escort the returning heroes
after they leave the depot. This PROPOSE
ton meets no approval the regiment.
The boys very generally say they had no
escort when they came away and they
want to go back they LETT the city.
Their regimental band may moi give as
fine music as the Marine Band, but that
band which played Tine Star Spangled
Banner" in the trenches before Santiago
IS the band they want to play for them
when they parade in Washington.
Maj. Brown. In charge of the general hos
pital. has directed that the swdmps be filled
in and that the grounds around the hos
pital be sprinkled freq Iently with antisep
tics DR.. Brown has also ordered that all
drinking water be boiled before used.
Private 4. w. Thomas 1st Cavalry, who
shot and killed another soldier, named
Dean, at Lakeland. Fla, is being kept un-
der close guard and will be tried by
court-martiaL
President Not Coming.
Cen Wheeler has been notified by Adju-
tant General Corbin. at Washington, that
President Mckinley is not likely to visit
Camp Wikon on Saturday. as previously
announced, because he has had occasion to
change his plans. The President may go
to MonCauk Point some time next week
john Wagoner, Company II, 18th United
States Infantry, who enlisted from Colum-
bus. Ohio, hanged himself from the ridge
pole OF his tent today. He had fought at
Santiago and contracted typhoid fever
there. His suicide is supposed to have been
committed while in the delirium of the
fever.
Tae transport Panther arrived today at
MOntauk Point. She has on board 116 sol
Giers of different commands. fifteen of
whom are ILL.,
Overcoafs and Blankets.
The relief committee here have found it
impossible TO accomplish Immediately some
thirgs they expected to have done. They
expected to have cots. plenty of blankets
and overcoats for the soldiers yesterday
when the I'd and I'd BattaIons moved from
fT,a
mile nearer the lighthouse. But while over
coats and blankets Were available their
transportation could not be arranged in
Tune, and the soldiers had to sleep on the
ground, some without blankets and all
without oyercoats. The nights here are
damp and chilly, and overcoats ara neces-
sary II one is to keep comfortable. Over
coats and blankets will surely be provided
today, and an effort will be made to get
cots by tonight
Mr.. James E Bell. together with J. Iar-
rison johnson and DIR. II. L. E Johnson
acting in conjunction with Mr. Edwin
Neumeyer and Charles E. Swiggard. have
DSen constantly occupied in studying the
SITUATION mere and doing all they can to
render aid to the regiment.
The I'd and Sd Battalfons are now canned
on lower ground than they occupied IN The
detention camp Fifty yards from them Is
a piece of marshy ground but n is tborebt
the location perfectly healthy rrba o1Iy
trouble with the site is that il is on the
lower slope of the hill, and if there cbo,,i5
" d Ht1NN rain IL IS apt to flood the
PrlEate F. f. GreenawaIt of Comnanv
Z District of Columbia Volunteers, wb;ie
IN Cuba made a number of water colors
Which he Will place on exhibition n, Vaar'
hons gallery when he returns to wssb-
ington. ~ asst
Private Greenawalt's father. J. G. Gr,e,-
await OF the pension Office is here visiting
his son. e
Privates Greenawalt and w. d. Jones
Srtificer Of Company c. before enIiSting a.
ths regiment took the advice Of Paul Du-
Chaillu the French explorer in tronical
countries, and from the day of their cnI;st
Irent they took two grains of qu.nine daify
ard abstalned from all Intoxicating limrorS
Neither of them had fever 7sl4r:.:r NJ S5;I,.ySat-
tribute TO the course they aad6pted
The general hospital herszis crowded al
though work of providing additional tents
with floors Is constantly going on. TLfs
condition has led doctors tSs discharge some
OF the patients before they have been In Ar
condition to leave.
Last evkping a soldier of the 7th Massa-
chusetts went to New York on the Long
Island road suffering from fever On the
train he was delirious. Some one on the