The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-15
THE GR|ST WAS DEATH
A Frightful Condition of Affairs
in Manila.
DEAD HOUSE NEVER EMPTY
Scores OF Soldiers Dying for Want OF
Proper Nour.shment The Story
Told by Miss Schaefer. Oae of
the Red Cross Nurses.

Honolulu. via San Francisco. Dec. IL
The transport Scandal. which arrived
from Manila. which place she left Nov.
l.. brings a number OF officers. 81 Dis
charged and furioughed men and two
Red Cross nurses. She brings the largest
mail that ever left Manila. 2T3 sacks for
San Francisco and one FOR Honolulu. The
vessel Will resume hor voyage on or
about the 10th inst.
Miss Schaefer. "A Red Cross nurse, who
went from Honolulu to Manila. arriving
there Sept. Is. returned or the Scandia.
She makes startling charges as TO the
way the United States soldiers are taken
care Of I'm Manila. Miss Schaefer made
the following statement for publication:
Score OF soldier boys are dying IN
the hospitals at Manila just for want OF
proper nourishment. They say the gov
eminent allows % cents a day for each
patient. l could hav saved dozens of
lives on ) cents n day. oh. the utter woe
of the hospitals. the helplessness Of the
men. as bright and noble as God ever
made. giving up To death. hoping for IL.
seeking for II. taking poison. doing any
thing that would relieve the despair that
comes upon them. Seeing nothing before
them but days Of pain and nights Of
VIE ltlffiiltSf. WITHOUT DftDtI fiAts WIN
out proper food. alone with no one To
give them sympathy or cheer. 10 write to
friends. to soothe aching brows or moist
en- parchcd lips. IL by sheer endurance Of
nature or ~obstinacy of vitality they do
get. better. there Is before them nothing
but a still more cherries period of con-
valescence with a proba Jility OF relapse.
and the old WEAKNESS of despair To be
| suffered again. No ond there are six
I ar aENTn funerals daily M wonder The
dead house e. never empty.
And outside the hospital. ana even In
Il. there Is such Indifference. petty con-
sideration Of rank and position. squabble
about precedence. lack Of consideration
In prescribing and preparing food while
the men are dying not merely of heart
hunger. but for want Of nourishment. ]
have gone through wards day after day.
and as | spoke to this one or that one and
they poured out their sorrows, men who
do not wear their hearts on their sleeves
cried for pure agony of their loneliness
and despair. made pregnant and vivid by
their own telling Of IL.
IL got 30 I Just could not go through
the wards. What could | do? I saw the
need OF care. OF proper nourishment. OF
the most ordinary hospital treatment and
was utterly helpless To 10 anything. just
one cog in the great remorselCss grinding
machine whose material was noble men
and whose grist was death.
81 do not mean that all i'm the hospitals
are careless or indifferent. Many are Try
inC To- do their best. There Is "A lot oi
worthiness and unselhshness among the
attendants. In a whole ward there is moi
more than one nurse with experience and
her helpers only one ar two awkwar
boys. who. perhaps. never saw a sick
room before"
Colonel George W. MacFarlane return
ed by the COptic and brings word that
the comptroller of currency has guaran.
teed to Perry :. Heath. first assistant
postmaster general. and his associates
that he viii issue a charter for "a new
bank i'm which james Campbell and him.
self are interested as soon as congress
extends territorial laws to Hawaii. Th'
bank will have an authorized capital OF
81 600. 600.