Daily Kennebec journal., 1898-12-02
THE WAR INVESTIGATION.
Montauk Surgeon Tells How Bed Clothing
Was Placed Under Tents.

war investigating board was continued
at the Parker House, this morning.
with only two members present, For
mer Governor Woodbury. and DR.. Con-
nor, the others having returned to
Washington. last night. DR.. Edward
II. Bradford of Boston, VINO superin-
tended the landing of the troops,
brought to Boston by the vessels of
the Volunteer Aid Association, was
called. He said he saw about 1900 SOL
diers who came on the Olivette and the
Bay State.
They were from Santiago, Porto Rico
and Montauk. The men from Santiago
were much sicker than those from the
other places and seemed TO be suffering
largely from inanimation from diff
Guilty in assimilating food.
Gov. Woodbury. asked; Are you at
all familiar with the case of Lieut.
Tiffany"
Lieut.. Tiffany and / were friends.
found him without difficulty. and
asked him as TO his condition He said
he needed no help as friends are COM
ing to meet him. and that he was much
better. In appearance he was one of
the least i'll of all those on the ship.
ne W o., very CHEERFUL ana
about friends and said he was going
back to New York. Later, his brother
came on board and inquired for him
and found that Lieut.. Tiffany had gone
TO the Parker House. 1t was a very
hot day, and apparently he had left the
ship alone. Major Lapelle felt con-
carned about his welfare. 1 now re-
gret extremely that l did not urge him
mora strongly to go to the hospital. as
wished him to do
In answer to questions he repeated
his answer that Lieut.. Tiffany said. II
am feeling first rate"
Continuing. witness said: We had
one case that seemed to be as bad as
that of Lieut.. Tiffany. He was a mem
Der of the 9th Regiment and he seemed
just as we'll as Tiffany. His father hai
carriage in which to take him home
We took occasion to find out his con-
dition and he seemed to be all right. A
few weeks after this his father came to
us and reported that he had had col
lapse and nearly died on his way
home
DR.. Charles l.. Hickman, surgeon in
charge of the hospital at Montauk, tes-
titled that there was an abundance of
hospital tents. Aug. Ia, there being 12S
There was a shortage of bed pans. hy-
perdermic syringes. and thermometers,
and Major Brown had told him a few
days since that these medical SUPPLIES
were afterwards found IN the quarter
masters stores at the depot. Before
the departure of witness, Aug. IA, there
was ample supply of everything.
fa, L.
We're efficient. A few of them were re-
ported as being unfit, and the contract
with them was annulled. The major
ity of the 80 hospital men knew moth
ing of their duties, as most of them
had been transferred from the line.
The people at Montauk were two weeks
in finding out that an important order
had been issued regarding the feed o.
the sick. The SO cent ration would
not have been enough to feed a sick
man. The ice was in the possession of
man who wanted to make money. Il
had to make personal appeal to him.
DR.. Heizman said that after a while
there was sufficient milk which was
brought from ew York. The soiled lin
en- was stuck under the floors of the
tents and afterwards burned
DR.. Connor asked if the witness
thought the soiled linen from typhoid
patients was a good thing to be allow |
ed under the tents, and he replied that |
it was not, and protested against it to
Col. Forward. l asked him TO instant |
" destroy the soiled linen, but he did |
not follow my suggestion. The linen |
was afterwards burned by order of |
Gen. Young. The Red Cross Society |
did much to improve the condition of |
affairs.
DR.. Connor said as far as the evil |
dence then given showed what the Red |
Cross and other organizations seemed |
to have accomplished without any diff !
fculty, presented almost unsurmount-
able difficulty to the medical depart
ment of the army, and the government
the delay in delivering stores was
partly due to lack of accommodation
at the railroad.
Mr.. Daniel b. Jones was the next
witness. He said the men who came to
Fortress Monroe on the Obdam were
IN terrible condition. and the most
pltiable sight he had ever SEEN When
the vessel arrived from Porto Rico
most ha |