The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-04


Camp wikoff, Montauk Point, N. Y,
Sept. 3.-President Mckinley spent
five hours in the camp today, bare
headed most of the time, visiting the
sick in their hospitals and inspecting
the well il their cantonments. He made
speech to the assembled infantrymen,
reviewed the cavalrymen, expressed his
opinion of the camp to the reporters
and issued an order directing the reg1-
ments to return to their stations east
of the Mississippi.
With the president were Vice Presi-
dent Hobart, Secretary of War Alger,
Attorney General Griggs, Senator Red
field Proctor of Vermont, Brigadler
General Pagan; commissary OF the
army, General Ludington; quarter
master of the army, Colonel Henry
Hecker, and secretaries to the presi-
dent, Porter and Cortelyou. The ladies
of the party were Mrs. Alger and Miss
Heeker, a daughter Of Colonel Hecker.
General Wheeler, his staff and nearly
every officer of prominence in the camp
net the president at the station, ex-
cept General Shafter, who is still in de-
ten.ion, and General Young, who fell
and broke his arm last night. After
greetings and introductions on the rail-
way platform, the president took Gen
eral Wheeler's arm and went to a car
riage. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt OF
the rough riders was among a group
of hoTsemen nearby.
Mr. Mckinley saw him and got out
Of the carriage to speak to him. Colonel
Roosevelt hastily dismounted and tus-
seied with a gauntlet for 10 seconds, so
that ungloved he might shake hands.
The column of carriages wound up q
hill, escorted by the Third cavalry reg
iment and the mounted band of the
Sixth cavalry. The party paused a
moment on the hill, and the president
looked out on the wide, undulating
cape, water bounding each side and
whitened on the levels and hilltops by
the tents Of 5000 men, laid out in geo
metric lines.
AT SKATERS TENT.
- Mr.. Mckinley drove to General
Skaters tent in the detention camp
The general, who was flushed and weak
from a mild case of malarial fever,
was in full uniform, sitting in chair
ct the door of the tent. He tried TO
rise, but Mr.. Mckinley said:
stay where you are, general You
are entitled 20 rest
The president congratulated General
Sn2TIer on Ile odnlldSO Cd4l4 peAie5iA eSAAN
after a few minutes rest proceeded to
the general hospital.
The soldiers recently arrived on the
transports and detained in the deten-
ton section of the camp lined up lrreS-
ularly on each side of the road and
cheered. Mr.. Mckinley took off his
straw hat then, and scarcely more than
put it on for more than a minute or
two at a time during the remainder of
his progress through the camp. Miss
Wheeler, daughter of the general, hap
pened TO be in the first row of the hos
pitaI tents, and she showed the presi-
dent through her division.
General Wheeler announced in each
ward: Boys. the president has come /
to see YOU" or, Soldiers, the president /
of the United States"
AMONG THE SICK COTS.
Some Of the soldiers slept uncon- !
scious. some listlessly raised upon their |
elbows, others feebly clapped their 4
hands. Mr.. Mckinley gently shook |
hands with many. and at every cot he /
paused an instant and if he saw the /
sick man looking at him, he bowed In !
a direct and personal way.
In the second ward, as the president /
entered. Sergeant John A Alexander, |
company D, First Illinois, who has a |
fever. was rather startled to hear Cen |
eral wheeler announce the president, |
and the sergeant half raised up on his
cot. Mr. Mckinley, attracted by the !
took AleXander's hand and /
said:
Il am sorry to see you so SICK nope
that you are getting better"
Thank you, think shall get We'll
s'Do YOU wish for anything?" inquired !
General Wheeler.
NO. have everything good for me,
| guess" Alexander replied YEARLY,
but I wish I were home"
II hope that we may soon get you
there said Mr.. Mckinley.
He had many such bits of talk with
the men. and seemed to be in no hurry.
He almost outwore the patience of all
his party by his slow going through
ward after ward.
When seemingly all the wards of the
general hospital had been gone through
and the president was about to get into
a carriage, Attorney General Griggs de-
tanned him.
Miss wheeler has told me-" said he.
"of a lieutenant, Prado, who is in a
tent back here by himself. and he is in
4 diving condition. He has asked about
your. coming and Miss Wheeler has
promised that you shall see him"
Certainly. Let US go to him" Mr..
Mckinley said
1le GLQGTS u the
remained outside the tent.
HIS EYES WERE MOIST.
The president reappeared with the
nurse a minute or two later. His eyes
we're moist and downcast.
AS il was inconvenient to go back
20 the doors of the long tents, Mr. Nc
xinley would go through the frame
work at the ends of the tent and jump
lown. The general hospital is on a
slope and the height of the floor from
he ground is increased at each ward.
At ward F the jump was nearly six
eet. Mr.. Mckinley took it. Vice Pres
dent Hobart, who is bulky man, hes
tated. II balk here. Can't go over
his hurdle" he said. Neither would
Secretary Alger, who had taken all the
jumps until then. But General Wheeler
iprang lightly down
The day was hot Mr.. Mckinley
yore a black frock coat, with a waist