Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-08-31
DEFENDERS OF CAMPS.
Grosvenor Could See Little
Wrong at Dunn Loring.
ALLEN Is or LIKE OPINION.
Men Suffered siood Deal at Camp Thomas.
but No Worse Than In Civil War.
Newspaper sensationaIism, Said Gov
ernor Black of New York.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.-Representa-
tive Grosvenor of Ohio called at the
war department yesterday in company
with Representative Thompson to
report to Secretary Alger the results of
their visit OF inspection of the camp at
Dunn Lorlng, and particularly the
state of affairs in the Seventh Ohio
volunteer regiment.
General sirosvenor was emphatic in
his approval of what he saw. He said:
Il never saw body of soldiers better
fed. better clothed and better sheltered
than is the Seventh Ohio regiment OF
present. So much for the general cen
dition. Now as to particulars: There
were 1900 men in the regiment. Ex-
cept from suicide there have beer but
two deaths among them since the or
ganization four and half months ago.
Including the men who were furloughed
to go home and recuperate and those in
the hospitals, there were only Al men
not able to report for duty yesterday
morning. A finer, ADLER set of men l
never saw in my life."
Continuing, General Grosvenor said
that the dissatisfaction among the SOL
diers was all traceable to the fact that
they had not been able TO get to the
front. On the whole he (Grosvenor)
was satisfied the men were very much
better off than were the soldiers in the
Civil war.
This last view was confirmed by SEN
ator Allen of Nebraska, who called at
the war department to get some news
of the whereabouts of the Second Me-
braska regiment which he was told
was enroute from Chickamauga to
Omaha.
He said the main complaint among
the men was their enforced detention
at the camps instead of being sent to the
front. So far as their physical condi-
ton was concerned, while the men had
suffered good deal at Camp Thomas,
SO far as he could judge from his own
experience in the Civil war, they were
certainly no worse off than the soldiers
then engaged
Black was seen last night by an Asso.
ciated Press representative and was
asked as to the conditions as he found
them in the camps of the New York
regiments, as well as those at division
hospitals.
Governor Black said there appeared
to be "a perfect hydrophobia' among
newspapers over the condition of the
soldiers, that the press bristled with
such phrases as 'hollow eyed and
starving in articles descriptive OF
the troops. He gave it as his opinion
that the matter was exaggerated imam
ufactured IN newspaper Offices" and
the outcome and result of Journalistic
knavery."
When assured that his views would
be printed verbatim, and not withheld
because they failed to concur with the
present newspaper craze" his excel
lency gave the following interview in
part:
"My impression, said Governor
Black, ''of the camp of the New York
troops at Chickamauga park is not half
as bad as [ expected it would be- The
unfortunate condition of the camp and
hospitals has, beyond a doubt, been
very greatly exaggerated by the papers.
"The division hospital in which the
sick soldiers of the Ninth New York
infantry are quartered is certainly in
very bad condition. The present state
of this hospital ought never to have
been permitted to exist and should be
corrected also.
81 think that the troops at Chicka-
manga Park should have been moved
long before any sickness broke out IN
the ranks
This Sternberg hospital is in OK
cellent condition. | do not see that it
could be made any better. 1t is ad-
mirable both in plan and manage
ment.
The case of Private Num- of the am
bulance company, who was transferred
from the Ninth New York. was re-
ported to the governor by Captain
O'Connor of Company A, Ninth New
York, and was reported by the governor
to Washington for investigation. Cap
tain O'Connor's statement was that he
had found the body of Num- lying
naked in a division hospital two days
after death, infested by Nuggets, that
an autopsy had been held and that no
preparation had been made for the care
or internment of the body up to the
time found. The affair will likely re.
suit in the trial of Captain O'Connor
by courtmartial.