The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-07
SIGN OF MOVING.
General Graham Ordered Not to
Make Further Permanent I'm
provements.


provements.
BY Associated Press.
Camp Meade. Middletown. Pa. oct
6.-Major General Graham received a
telegram from the war department to-
day directing him to make no more
permanent improvements at Camp
Meade or large purchases of supplies
Chief Surgeon Girard thinks tho en-
tire Second corps will be shipped tG
Cuba for garrison duty and is sending
the sick to the city hospitals. His pur-
pose is to make these institutions a base
to clear the division hospitals. The
force of contract surgeons is also being
increased with a view of selecting the
most capable for service in the West
Indies.
\ hospital car Is being fitted up by
the PENNSYLVANIA railroad company for
transporting patients to small hospi-
tails.
Fifteen more seriously sick were sent
away today going to the West Chester
hosuital, and tomorrow the Red Cross
society viii send a special train from
Philadelphia 10 remove seventy-two
typhoid patients to hospitals in that
city. Colonel Girard sent a check for
$500 today to the Good Samaritan hos
pital. Lebanon, TO pay for the soldier
sick sent from Camp Meade. He says
that eventually all outside hospitals
Will receive pay for any extra ex-
pense incurred by the treatment of
soldiers.
GROSSLY EXAGGERATED.
Governor Hastings sent Private Sec
retary Beitler today to investigate the
complaint of Private John u. Brooks.
company l.. Fourth Pennsylvania, Il
student at Dickinson college, that his
brother, Private T. Lattimer Brooks,
Company a. Eighth Pennsylvania, a
patient in the Second division hosni-
tai, was being neglected and would
die unless sent TO a good hospital. Sec
retary Beitler found that the young
mans statement was grossly exag-
gerated.
Colonel Girard has assigned Major
Powell. an attache of the war depart
ment who reported today. as first sur
geon of the First division.
Major Foster, of Cambridge, chief
surgeon of the Fifth Massachusetts,
has resigned, and Lieutenant Pearl, Of
Boston, takes his place. A number Of
other officers will resign when they
learn definitely what disposition is to
be made of the corps.
General Graham visited the detention
camp of the 2O3d New York today and
was pleased to find that sickness Is
on the decrease. 1t will be some time,
however, before the regiment is fit for
active duty.
GENERAL OATES RETURNS.
Colonel William J. Glenn, of Pitts
burg, was today relieved of command
of the Second brigade of the First di-
vision and returned to the Fourteenth
regiment. He is succeeded by General
Oates, who is back from a visit to
his family at Washington. The gen.
eral says the Second amy corps will
probably ben sent south in about thir-
ty days and that a large percentage
of the troops at Camp Meade will be
located at Montgomery, Ala. He has
refused to approve the applications of
large number of privates for their
discharge. Many of the officers have
obtained leave to attend the triennial
conclave of the Knights Templar, to
be held next week at Pittsburg
The Sixteenth Pennsylvania strag-
Slers, who are quartered with the Sec
ond West Virginia convalescents, have
asked that they be sent to their
homes in advance of the regiment.
which is to be brought home from
Porto Rico and mustered out Private
Orndorff, of Company b, First Mary
land, while on guard duty at the reg
mental camp, accidentally allowed the
bayonet end Of his gun to drop on the
ground to hard and it went off, a ball
entering his left foot, between the
toes. He was not seriously injured and
was taken to the regimental dispen-
sary.
IN HASTINGS HONOR.
General Graham has ordered a re.
view of the entire corps for 2.3O o'clock
tomorrow afternoon in honor of Gov
erncr Hastings. The governor has ac-
cepted and will be accompanied by
Adjutant General Stewart and other
members OF his staff. The Philadel-
phia councilmanic committee, which
will visit the camp tomorrow to ar
range for the shipment of 10000 troops
to the Quaker City to take part in the
peace jubilee. are expected to remain
to witness the review.
There is no change in the condition
of General Chambers McKibben, of
Pittsburg, who is suffering with San
tiago fever He Is confined to his
quarters and will be sent to a Phil
adelphia hospital as soon as the sur
geons think it safe to move him.
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