Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1898-11-24
The WAR INQUIRY.
The Investigating Committee Ex'
amines Witnesses in New York.
CAMP NOS1AUK An IDEAL CAMP.


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vestigation committee met here yes
terday. DR.. Charles r. Green cal
chief surgeon Of the troops in the fell
on Gen Mics staff. said that in som
respects camp Alg-r was Il good cam
for a small body OF men. but Their
were many drawbacks. The waite
supply was poor and the region wa
known TO be highly malarious Cam
Montauk he considered an ideal cam
for its purpose. Lack Of train service
he considered petty discomfort NJ
complaints of any moment were sub
mitted to him and the small grum
blings he heard he investigated ane
found without justification. Dr. Con
nor asked why the large force o.
women nurses, who had offered theil
services, were not accepted, and Dr.
Greenleaf said there was no way tc
care for them at the camp.
Gen Dodge asked the condition OF the
transports leaving Tampa for Cuba
and Dr. Greenleaf said they were
dreadfully overcrowded. He could not
say that the overcrowding was not a
military necessity, but he was certain
it was wrong from sanitary stand.
point
David }. Goss, private in the
Seventy.frst regiment, who was cook
for his company at Camp Black, told
of the supplies issued to the troops.
He said they were good and ample.
He went to Siboney from Tampa on
the Vigilancia, transport No. 30, and
found the conditions aboard pleasant.
The ship was very comfortable, he
said, but the ventilation might have
been better. In reply to questions by
Gen, Beaver, Goss told OF the olsen.
barkation at Siboney and the march
to camp. lie said some Of the march.
ing men threw AWAY their haversacks
with their ratons and then shared
other mems supplies until the next
days rations were issued. He had q
slight attack Of yellow fever in Santi-
ago and later, on the ST. Louis, return
ing to the United States was taken
sick again. He spoke hiphly Of the
attention paid to him by the surgeons
at Camp Montauk hospital. As a gen.
eral summing up of his most unpleas.
ant experience, Goss said: ut was all
pretty rough. Nothing went right
1t was some ones ncompetency, but l
don't know whose. When we left
Camp Black at four o'clock we were
kept moving about doing nothing and
then forced to spend all night in the
car sheds at Long Island City, because
some one had Numbered, and so it
went on all the time
Henry llauck, an assistant foreman
In the department, who served through
out the campaign as private in COM
pany ], of The Seventy first regiment,
was the next witness. He said that
there was never a lack of good food
until the regiment reached Cuba, and
then the fault was due to the lack OF
facilities and the necessity for
each man TO cook his own rations.
William Hamilton Henry, whose son
served as private in company B, Of !
the Seventy first regiment during the
was the first witness at the
afternoon session. Mr. Henry told Of
a visit to Camp Wikoff in search Of his
son. He found him lying on the bare
ground in tent The officers tents
we're all aoored. Mr.. Henry told of
difficulty in obtaining furlough for
his son and how he finally succeeded
by personal appeal to Gen. Wheeler.
Richard W. Henry, the son, was
,alled. He was taken sick after the
of Santiago. Speaking Of
he treatment he received from the
lrmy surgeons in Cuba, Henry said
hat they did tine best that they could,
md treated everyone alike. "ln fact
he said, they made no distinction in
manner of treatment or in medicine.
1t was two pills for fever and three
bills for broken arm
Henry returned from Cuba in the
transport Grand Duchess. Imme-
lately on landing at Montauk point,
IN August Is, he went to the detention
lo,pital, With some of his comrades
lie was assigned to some new tents in
he hospital. When asked what he re-
'eived to eat he answered. II suppose
hey forgot u.s. We did not get any
hing until the next day when an or
lerlv gave us some soup. A surgeon
listed us at noon, He made a cursory
Examination Of us and said he would
end US medicine Immediately. The
Medicine did not reach us until late
hat night"
Dr. Frank Donaldson, who joined
,ol Roosevelts regiment in Cuba on
July s, and who was stricken with yell
ow fever on July "a, followed Mr..
henry on the witness stand. Asked
~ DR.. Conner as to the condition of
he hospitals, he replied: II do not
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