The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-11-27
ANH|LESI ROAST YET
Not Upon the Administrations
War Management
BUT UPON THE BOARD
Mr.. Robert J. RooseVeIt'S
SuItry Letter.

New York, Nov 2s.-When the war In
vestigating commission met today DR.. NJ.
r. Terry, surgeon general Of the National
| Guard of the state of New oYrk, was
asked to tell what he knew about the va
rious camps he visited.
| Dr. Terry began with Camp Alger. The
site was good one, he said, and every
| thing appeared to be in good condition.
! The water was clear in appearance, but
/ had a bad odor 1t was analysed, but
with what result he did not know.
/ He found the camp of the Eighth New
York regiment at Chickamauga in very
unsanitary condition. The camps OF the
Ninth and Twelfth New York were in
good condition.
In the course of his remarks he stated
that the water there appeared TO be clear.
but he was not certain as TO It's saluorlty,
because he did not taste it.
THE DOCTOR TOOK NO RISKS.
why did you not taste the water, doc
tori" asked DR.. Conner.
Il didn't see why l should take any
risks" retorted the witness.
DR.. Terry said that the Sternberg hos
pital at Camp Thomas under the charge
of Surgeon Major Hoffman, was in ex-
cellent condition and the best of order
prevailed The sick were given every at
tention, and everything that could be
done was done for them
In speaking of the camp a Huntsville,
Ala, DR.. Terry said that he met Colonel
Duffy and both he and the officers and
men of his regiment appeared TO be IN
excellent condition. Colonel Duffy, he
said, did all he could for his men and
there was very little sickness.
DR. Terry said he visited the hospitals
in Porto Rico the government hospitals
and thSee conducted by Miss Chanler and
other charitable women. Except at one
government hospital at Ponce, where there
was one physician to do the work of sew
eral all the hospitals were in good condl-
ton and well served.
TESTIMONY OF NURSES.
Mrs. L. W. Quintard, who was at Camp
Wiffoff from August II to September Is,
in charge of the paid trained nurses at the
general and division hospitals, said:
There were very few supplies of any
sort at first. There were no hypodermic
syringes, no hot-water bags and not
enough sheets. Later we had everything
that was necessary. Colonel Forwood
and DR.. Brown did all they could to
make the work on the nursing force as
efficient as possible"
Miss Alice 3. Babcock of New York,
who went to Cuba with the, Red Cross,
and returned to the United States with
DR.. Lesser in the transport Concho, and
was assigned to duty at Camp Wikof,
told of the voyage of the Concho from
Santiago to Hampton Roads There were
xix deaths aboard and the sick wanted
for food and clothing. There were Mo del
icacieS aboard except those Mrs. Lesser
had.
FROM A RAILROAD MAN
W. II. Baldwin, Jr., president of the
Long Island railroad said there was no
real scarcity of water. The scares to
that effect was started maliciously by
newspaper reporter. Mr.. Baldwin said
that from the beginning to the end there
was no delay in the carriage Of troops
or commissary supplies. Everything was
handled as express matter. although at
freight rates.
THE COMMISSION ITSELF ROASTED.
Captain Howell read a letter addressed
to the commission by Robert J. Roosevelt,
secretary of the committee of the Society
for the Protection OF Soldiers.
General Dodge suggested that the letter
be received and filed and by general con-
sent General Dodges suggestion was
adopted
Inc letter written 10 the commission
by Mr.. Roosevelt read, in part, as fol-
laws:
ITO the Presidential Commission of In
quiry:
Gentlemen: have noticed in the morn
ing press that one of your members criti-
ciZeS the witnesses who have testified
at the request Of the committee formed
in this city TO protect the soldiers. for the
reason that, while establishing the fact
that much groundless and inexcusable
suffering was inflicted on the army. they
do not fix the responsibility nor snow
who is to blame II the views Of your
commission are correctly reported, there
seems TO be a misunderstanding between
US. We supposed that all the witnesses
had to do was TO prove the facts and
that the commission would fix the re-
sponsibility; indeed. was appointed for the
express purpose of fixing the RESPONSE
bility
The heroic boys may forget their suf-
ferings; may even refuse to testify TO
them, but their mothers VIII not. ana
their fathers VIII not. Nor viii il DO