The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-09-05
CAMP WIKOFF

CAMP WlkUFF
WIN be Dissolved During the Coming
Three Weeks-CoI. ROossVslts Farewell
speech TO the RouEh RldsrS,
CAMP WIKoFF, Montauk Point, N.
Y. Sept. 4-Thls great camp win dis
solve during the three coming weeks.
and by October It will have shrunE 10
slender proportions The well men, ac-
cordlng to the war departments pres
ent designs, will leave the camp as fast
as transportation can be conveniently
provided, probably at the rate of 5000
or 1000 a week. The convalescent from
the hospitals, instead of being sent
again into camp with their commands,
will 90 70 their homes. The President.
Secretary AIger and General Wheeler
had a talk about 1t yesterday and al
though General Wheeler thought the
men would do well in camp untIl oc-
tober !, 1t was determined to continue
sending the men away. The regulars
taken from the posts east Of the Mis-
slssIppl will, according to the Presidents
directions, be sent where they were be-
fore the war. The war department has
not transmitted the order to General
shafter yet, but It will no doubt be re-
celved by Tuesday,
The Eighth Ohio and First Illinois viii
break camp Tuesday. The ngh RID
ers viii not parade. The Rough Riders
held religious service in their camp to-
day. Colonel Roosevelt, after Chaplain
Brown had concluded, rose and made a
little speech, sort of farewell some Of
the men took 1t to be, Colonel Roose-
welt compllmented the daring and gall
lantry of the men. their wholesome
good Fellowship. their skin in managing
horses and in the use of arms.
When the regiment was forming, he
said, many men had offered themselves
who said they were ready to storm
MORO or fight hell" but would not take
kindly to camp routine and drill. All
such men had been rejected. The
Rough Riders had all the forces Of in
dlvIduaI strength and in battle was
about as eoheren. and effective as a
projectile.
General wheeler said to-day that
Lieutenant Colonel Mark, Of the med
Ical stan Of the army, had come to
chemically examine the water supply
of the camp. He was at the top Of his
profession and would in two or three
days be able to give an absolutely au-
thoritatIve decision as to the purity OF
the water. People had an idea that the
water came from the fresh water pond.
General Wheeler said they were mis-
taken. The water was drawn from
wells two and three hundred feet deep.
Women passing through the camp were
diSpieased by seeing that some tents did
not have floors and fancied that the
men must sleep on the ground. They
were wrong in supposIng that. In tents
without floors were wooden hunks or
thick straw. As for himself, General
wheeler said he liked me camp better
every day and would like to live in 1t
until october frSt. The season OF Sep
tember gales is approaching and the
war department foresees that the Long
Island railway may not be able to
move conveniently more than one thou
sand men a day. Plans have been par
TALLY made to transport troops to New
York by water II It should be advisable.
The troop ship RoumRnla, few days
from Santiago, came In to-day with
Companies X and L of the Ninth Mas
sachusetts ana convalescents from va
rious commands, In oil about 600 men.
Seven died on the voyage and were
buried at sea.
The unlonlst also arrived from San
tlngo with 500 men. Flfty-three were
of Company E, First Illinois infantry.
The rest we're teamsters and carpen-
ters. All on board are well.
The number OF patients In the general
hospital is l.O4O No one died at the de-
tentlon hospital to-day 1t has 27S pa
tlentA