The times., 1898-06-07
THE soLACE AT NEW YORK.
Arrives There, with Fifty-four Dis
abled Sailors.

aDfeu SaslOFs
New York. June 6.-Sunering from al
most every Ill to which flesh Is heir. six
of them carrying wounds received In bat
tie. fifty-four men belonging to various
United States warships were brought to
this port yesterday by the United States
hospital or ambulance ship Solace. The
patients were. all transferred from the
Solace to the Naval Hospital In Brooklyn.
Among the passengers were men whose
faces and heads were bandaged. others
whose faces were pale and sunken from
long sufferings; men who shambled about
the promenade decks with crutches to aid
them, while several looked out into the
blue waters of the harbor from their
hunks in the hospital wards below. un-
able TO move without assistance. On the
promenade deck aft several men We're ly-
ing in swinging hunks. These were the
most serious cases.
The Solace left Key West at O'Clock
last Wednesday afternoon. She dropped
her anchor off Tompkinsvil.e. S. l., at
sac O'Clock yesterday morning, after an
uneventful trip.
Commander Dunlap weighed anchor
shortly after noon yesterday, and the
white vessel, with her white flag bearing
the red cross at the top of the foremast,
headed I'D the harbor on her way to the
navy yard. She was speedily recognized
DA pASSlflB craft anu sfutS IdIiiS
blasts OF welcome-cheers from hoarse
steam whisties-whiIe passengers ON fer
ryboats waved hands and handkerchiefs.
When the hospital ship reached the ma
Wy yard ambulances from the naval hos
pital were at the dock waiting to transfer
the patients, who had been brought from
the Key West hospital by orders of the
Navy Department. 1t was thought that
the men would improve more rapidly in
this their native climate.
These are the men who were brought
by the Solace and the ships on which they
were engaged:
William Watson, oiler, Manning; James
B. Scott, seaman. ST. Paul; George Mer.
kle, marine, Iowa; John Eagle. seaman,
Iowa: Klaus Il. Norman. seaman. VII
mington. Robert f. NolZ, seaman, Nash
vile; John f. Kendig, apprentice, Cas-
tine; Frank s. Burkett coal passer. Su-
vance Max Cook. coal passer. Machias:
George w. Barber coppersmith Puritan:
Carl Askenberg. seaman. Algonquin:
Albert w Simons. quartermaster. Dol
phin; Joseph n. Stanley, gunner's mate,
Hornet: Harry Hennickson. seaman, Mar
blehead; John Varily. fireman. Mangrove;
William Taylor. apprentice New York:
Michael J. Henry, marine, marine battaI-
ion Key West; NJ. w Aaltonen gunner's
mate, Indiana; Arthur Hesford, coal pass
er, Terror: ID. o. O'Connell. marine ma
rine battalion. Key West; Sidney NJ.
Traunnei, marine. Key West; Maurice E.
Nelson. marine, Key West Albert Link,
machinist, Annapolis; James Mcleod.
master-at-arms. Newport; Frank Davis,
CoNswain, Castine; Charles II. Kelly, ma
chinist, Nezinscott: BARLEY O'Leary. coal
passer. Marblehead; Thomas Dodds. sea-
man. Dolphin: Edward A. Donohue ma
rine. Key West: Charles Schmitt. boat
swain's mate. Dolphin; John Davis. gun
ner's mate, Marblehead; II. w. Kuch-
meister, marine, Marblehead; Charles L.
Weiss, mate, Osceola; Robert McFeet-
ers, marine. Key West; Winston
Chiles. mess attendant. Amphitrite: Dan
iel Burns. quarteTmaster Puritan VIII
lam H. Powell, apprentice, Vixen; Pat
rick McKernan. fireman. Suwanee; Adam
II Howard fireman. Amphitrite; Louis
E. Mitschal first sergeant of marines.
Annapolis: Jacob w. Eek. first sergeant.
marine battalion Key West; William A.
Shaw, nlachinist. Machias: Daniel d.
Donovan. seaman. Bancroft; Robert l..
Grubb. landsman WinsIow; Edward E.
Brithers. fireman. Maple: William Giles,
naval cadet, Oregon; Louis T. Upson,
seaman. New Orleans; James q. Web
ber. seaman. Montgomery: Charles f.
Woerz. quartermaster. Porter; Philip J.
Lynch marine. Oregon; Michael II. Cox.
seaman. Samoset; Henry F. Mackey,
seaman. w AaTnDOtucks George WlSS
water-tender Iowa, and Alonzo Gartley
apprentice, Oregon.
Four of the men were suffering with
tuberculosis. one of them being Naval Ca
det Giles. Of the Oregon another Mcleod.
Of the Newport. Volz, of the Nashville,
and Hennicksin, Davis and kuchmeister,
of the Marblehead, We're wounded while
cutting cables at Cienfuegos. George
Merkle and John Engie, of the cruiser
Iowa. were injured at the bombardment
of San Juan. William Taylor, Of the New
York, was the victim of an accident.
Boatswain Mullen dropped his revolver
and ii exploded, bullet passing through
TayIor's right arm. and, entering the alb
domen. passed through the liver, grazed
a lung and came out through the left
shoulder.
The officers Of the Solace are comman-
der, Andrew Dunlap; Lieut.. E. Lloyd,
navigator: acting ensigns. William w
Willett William w. Barrett, John Farms
worth: chief surgeon, Thomas A. Streets;
chief assistant surgeon c. F. Stokes,
P A S: assistant surgeons. Z. S. Bogert,
p. A S. and @. Tucker Smith. p A S
acting assistant paymaster, Herbert Z
Stevens. and acting chief engineer, w H.
Levay.
There are eight trained nurses aboard
and three apothecaries. The equipment is
complete in every detail for the work the
Solace is required TO perform.
HIS FAMILY INFORMED