The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-22
WAR COMMISSIONS woRIS.
Witnesses Examined in New York
Yesterday.

New York, Nov. G.-Maj. F. J. Ives,
chief surgeon of the Third Provisional Di-
vision of the Fifth Army Corps, was the
first witness before the war Investigating
commission to-day.
His evidence summed up. IS as follows;
MY personal opinion Is that the army
was well equipped in every respect, ex-
cept that at times there were not enough
ambulanoes, and at times there was
lack of medical supplies. l never knew
a time when If a surgeon took the trou-
bic to hustle for medicine, that he failed
TO get all that was needed. When 1 wish
ed supplies l mounted my horse and rode
after them, and when l could not get
things which we're not at headquarters I
bought them, with the permission of my
superiors"
DR. Louis A. Stimson of New York tes-
tilted in regard TO the conditions at Camp
Wikoff He said the surgeons told him
they suffered from lack of competent male
help. The witness criticised the system
prevailing at the hospitals which allowed
patients to leave before they were wen.
He thought that the whole conception Of
the court was wrong.
Miss Julia Halstead Chadwick, one OF
the women who worked FOR the sick at
Camp Wikoff submitted written state
ment of the conditions she found there in
the latter part of August and told of the
distribution of food and drink to the
Rough Riders, negro cavalry and Eighth
and Twenty-second Infantry.
WAS 1t possible" ex-Gov. Woodbury.
asked "for the camp to have been in BET
ter shape by the time you visited IL In Au-
gust?'
II think so, from warning given in the
published accounts of the great suffering
In Cuba, the government might have been
prepared for the emergency"
Miss Chadwick went on to tell of the i'm
efficient supply of bed clothing and UNDER
clothing. She heard that there was plenty
OF both in store, but she knew the soldiers
did not have them. Replying TO a ques-
tion as to the sympathy that prevailed be-
tween officers and men, Miss Chadwick
said: Among the officers and men OF the
regular army l saw the most beautiful and
noble devotion An officer who looked as
! III as any of his men came up and thank
ed US for our kindness to his men You
know he said, we regulars have no
| friends.
II replied that the whole nation were
their friends, ana he burst into tears and
walked away"
Or. Gilman Thompson OF this city con-
demned the policy of allowing patients at
Camp Wikoff hospitals TO leave before
they were thoroughly cured. He said the
sanitary arrangements Of the camp We're
not bad He claimed he had been mis-
quoted in the papers throughout The coun-
/ try that made him say he found filthy con-
ditions prevailing at the camp.
Samuel L. Parrish, lawyer of this city,
who visited Camp Wikom several times,
testified that IL President Mckinley at
! his visit TO the camp, had placed himself
in his (Parrish's) hands. he could have
! shown him some things that would have
| shocked him. Parrish said he saw dis
! graceful conditions, but heard no com
plants. He claimed that the generals in
! charge of the camp we're changed too
often. The witness was asked II he saw
any officer of the army or doctor neglect
ing his duty, but he refused 10 answer, and
the commission adjourned until to-mor-
row.