Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-09-02
SKATER AT MONTAUK.
Tho General Arrives safely on tho City
OF Mexico.


OF Mexico.
Camp Wikoff, N. Y, Sept 2.-There
was a big stir in camp when a signal
was wigwagged from around the point
that the City Of Mexico, having on
board General Shafter. had been sight
ed. The City Of Mexico has on board,
besides General Shafter, the members
Of his staff, including Lieutenant Colo
nels ]. E. McClernand. B. F. Pope and
G. McC. Derby. Majors Robert H. No
nle, John Miley and S. w. Grosbeck and
Captains j. E. Gilmore and E. H. Plum
mer AS soon as General Wheeler was
notified OF General Skaters arrival he
at once made arrangements to pay hon.
or to the chief OF the American army at
Santiago and ordered a salute of Is
guns to be fired by the IIotchkiss bat
terry.
Prospects for the sick, as far as the
hospital itself Is concerned, are still IA
vorable and continue to get better ev-
cry day. Major Browns promise to re-
duce the number Of patients to a figure
very close to 900 has been made good,
and the continuation of the furlough
system promises to get many of the
sick away from any danger of typhoid
exodus OF we'll soldiers gradual. The
reduction in the number of patients
hsrc means that there will be room in
the hospital for all the new patients
that come ia and also that those who
are there now will get the full benefit
Of medicine and nursing.
Now that the surgeons do not openly
scott at DR.. Senn's warning that there
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they acknowledge that one important
reason for sending patients away as
fast as possible is that they may be
ready for an emergency IL it comes and
at the same time keep tins malarial pa
tents apart from the typhoid wards
Typhoid is decreasing not only because
of the number of patients being daily
carried away, but men are also conva-
lescing. The statistics Of the hospital
show that very fair proportion of the
deaths have thus ar resulted from ma
lariu fever direct; G" from the ex-
haustion following Its attacks.
1t is evident f,c:n the activity exist i.
ing about the general hospital that nei-
Their Colonel Forwood nor Major Brown
Is willing that DIR. Sem shall have
chance to say, no matter what happens
that they did not do their entire part to
save the camp. The provost marshaIs
guard around the hospital grounds has
never been so strict as now. A permit
from Maior Brown has always been
demanded before one could go through
the wards, but now visitor must have
a we'll defined reason for such visit,
or else the wards are kept closed.
A gang of men has filled the largest
Of the ponds near the hospital, and the
work is being pushed as fast AS posi-
BILE. Dr. Sem pointed out the pools as
likely places for the typhoid germs to
propagate and they were at once mark
ed for eradication by the committee OF
surgeons. Already four of the water
carts which have before this been used
for distributing water and watering the
roads have been turned into dsinfecting
carts and have been put at work sprin-
king disinfecting fluid on the hospital
grounds.
Men with hand sprinklers are also
at work sprinkling the disinfectant un-
der the wards, and system OF thor
oughly cleansing the wards daily viii
be inaugurated within week. The odoi
of ordinary medicines has entirely
gone, and the pungent odor OF disin'
fectant permeates every part OF tn'
hospital There will be no cessation o.
the disinfecting, Major Brown says, un
, til all danger of an epidemic has passed