The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-09-22
GEN. AIGER'S INSPECTION.
4 VISIT TO THE HOSPITAL
AT CAMP POLAND.

To-Day He VIII visit the Site of the Camp
At electromagnetic Review Mt Knoxville
Gen. ~sternberE Settles tho Question of
Authority OVorthe su~rgeonsin M Camps.
KSoxy1L.E. Tenn. Sept. 2l.-Upon the ar
rival here this morning OF Secretary Of War
AIper and Surgeon General %Sternberg they
were met by the Citizens Reception Commit
tee and military officials. They went directly
10 Camp Poland, where n review followed. In
IL we're the sixth Virginia Regiment. composed
Of colored men in charge OF u white Colonel.
and the Third North Carolina Regiment. ON
posed OF negroes from tho Colonel down. A
feature Of the review was the admiration dis
played BY the First Georgia and the Thirty
nrst Michigan for each other.
Secretary AIger and his party yisltedth the divis-
ion hospital. They went through the wards
hastily. and gave none OF the inmates a chance
TO shake hands, make requests or produce COM
plants. Later Gen. Sternberg said that the
sanitary condition Of the entire camp was sat-
Isfactory. and that more nurses who were
needed at the hospital would be ordered.
When asked about Knoxville as a permanent
military post Secretary Alger replied that all
good places in the South would BIO considered.
and this city was one OF them. Secretary AlRer
and his party left tonight for the camps at
ChickamauRa. Admission. Jacksonville. and
other points in the South.
CHATTANOOGA. Tenn. Sept. 21.-Secretary
AI0er and his party arrived here at $3.50 o'clock
tonight from Knoxville. They were met ut
the station by Gen. Boynton. Mayor Watkins
and n local committee, and escorted to the
Auditorium. where q public reception had been
planned. Owing to a driving rain and the late
ness of the hour a small crowd was present to
greet the officers.
Gen, Boynton introduced Secretary Alger,
who made a brief address. in which he said
that everything possible has been done for the
comfort and health OF the troops by the War
Department, and IL there had been needless
suffering it was the fault OF subordinate on
cers. Gen. Sternberg also made q short speech.
reiterating his assertion that medical supplies
in plenty could have been had for the asking.
Tomorrow Secretary Alger will inspect the
hospitals and old camp ground at Chicka-
LEXINGTON, KY. Sept. 21.-Major-Gen. Brock
inridGe and Surgeon General SternberG had 9
here WITH Secretary stSr &iEer.' Gen. BrecE:
inridCe wanted to know Just who had
He said that at ChieESmsuSa they seemedto be
under nobodys command. Cen. wilson re-
aHested certain things to be done in the hos
Glven to his instructions and the surgeons con-
siderod themselves subject only to the orders
found the same trouble at Camp. Hamilton. and
he wanted to have a distinct understanding re-
Gen. Sternberg said that the surgeons al
Chickamauga were subject to the orders OF
Gen. Wilson and that the General should have
found out this. II he saw his orders were not
obeyed. he should have found the reason foI
such disobedience and had the matter settled
Gen. ~Breckinridge said the same was the
case right. here, and he wanted. Gen. Stern.
proper person to command the surgeons.
Secretary Alger was 30 pleased with the
Twenty-frst Kansas Regiment that he, vii
ordered to be mustered out. The regiment
was the strongest in the review.