The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1898-11-22

sent Away who should Have Re-
mnined In the Hospital-Lawyer Par
rich SAYS the President Made Pa
radc Inspection.
New York. Nov. 22.-Before the war
Investigating commission yesterday
Major f. B. Ives, the chief surgeon
of the Third division of the Fifth army
CORDS testified that the condition
of the men in the Cuban campaign was
as good as could be expected. DIT.
Louis a. Stinson, of New York told
of unsanitary conditions at Camp WI
koff. He also testified that soldiers had
complained to him Of having had moth
ing to eat for "a hours. There was
enough food for well men, but the sick
were not provided for He knew OF 4O
men in one regiment being put on milk
diet when there was no milk in camp.
Miss Julia Halsted Chadwick, one OF
the women who worked for the SICK |
at Camp Wikoff, submitted a written
statement of the condition she found
there in the latter part of August and
told of the distribution of food ana
drink.
WAS It possible" Ex-Governor Wood |
bury asked, "for the camp to have been |
put III DtlltI SIldDt bg tiiN bAA''S 49, |
visited 1t in August?"
81 think so. From warning given in |
the published accounts of the great |
suffering in Cuba the government
might have been prepared for the
emergency"
Miss Chadwick went on to tell OF
the inefficient supply Of bed clothing
and underclothes. She heard that there
was plenty of both in store, but she
knew the soldiers did not have them.
Some of the men told her they tried
to buy clothes, but they had no money.
She said she did not know that SOL
diers could buy clothes without money,
| nor did she know that General Wheeler
had testified that there was clothing,
but that the soldiers would not draw
It lest the cost be deducted from their
| pay
"Did you hear any complaints from
/ the regular solders|
mo. they would not complain, but
! any one could see they were suffering.
| 1 would ask them if there was not
something we could do for them, and
\ they always replied, oh, we're all
right. We'll get along all right. Don't
| trouble about u.s. Still 1 knew those
4 men really lacked necessaries, not to
speak of comforts"
4 Miss Chadwick told of men too sick
| to stand who left the hospitals at camp
A and were found delirious on the trains
4 and at the railway stations. Asked
| by Ex-Governor Woodbury. If she knew
| of any man who was sent from the hos
| pital except at his own request, Miss
Chadwick said:
"I saw men sent from hospitals who
1 were in no condition to make their de-
| sires known. l am very sure that at
| least seven-tenths of the sick who were
[ furloughed were far too i'll to move,
| and 1 met several men who had no
| homes who did not wish to leave the
K hospitals"
| Did you hear men say they were
h sent away against their will?" asked
| Ex-Governor Woodbury..
/ Il heard men say Tt is a shame to
|! send me away sick as l am
I "But you did not hear them say they
| were sent away?
| mo, but surely that statement meant
the same thing"
| Replying to a question as to the SYM
| pathy thai prevailed between officers
/ and men, Miss Chadwick said:
I Among the officers and men OF the
regular army saw the most beautiful
and noble devotion. An officer who
| looked as i'll as any of his men came up
| to our carriage and thanked us for our
| Kindness to his men. You know he
said we regulars have no friends
replied that the whole nation wer'
| their friends and he burst into tear
and walked away"
| Dr. Conner asked Miss Chadwick l
/ the condition Of the sick was not mao
| worse by the crowd of visitors con
| .stantly at the camp.
| "No, most decidedly not" she re
I Piled. "The infantry would hav
| starved but for the food we gave them
They were, the majority of them, II
very poor health and could not eat tn
| regular army rations."
I Dr. William Gilman Thompson o
/ New York, said he visited Camp WI
koff on Sept. 2 and on Sept. to lear
how many of the men in the hospital
there were likely to be transferred t
the hospitals of the city. Asked II h
| had any criticism to make of the con
\ duct of the hospitals of Montauk, h
said;
"Well, hardly. I was not there lon
enough to make proper criticism.
was told that there was not sufficien
| disinfectants. My own observation 4
| one instance showed me that this wa
| true / found at least 80 such In
| stances"
but you have been quoted in tn
newspapers all over the country a.
- having said that you found filthy con
ditions prevailing"
IAN know about the hospital condi
tions is the one instance I examined
"Then you have been misquoted?"
"Yes, sir. I wish to say that / hav
not come here to make criticisms II
| general. merely came to tell yol
about the 30 cases of typhoid feve
which came under my observation Il
the Presbyterian hospital. In m
opinion they should not have been al
lowed to travel on a railroad 100 miles
scattering infection at every stop.
can give you the names of those 81
Some of the men picked up in tn
streets Of this city and taken to tn
Presbyterian hospital We're I'm the thir
week of typhoid fever. One was COY
cred with bed sores, another died will
In two hours of his admission and al
~ other within "a hours"
Samuel l.. Parrich, a lawyer of tn
city, who spent the summer at Soutl
D ampton and visited Camp Wikoff se'
"A eral times. was the next witness. +
q lived in the Red Cross tent there an
: worked Independently, doing what
Z could for the soldiers in camp. He we
asked by General Beaver If there wei
4 any complaints. He answered:
q Indeed, no. There never was MOI