The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-08-11
WATER OR%MONTAUKPOINT
RED CROSS TO SUPPLY THE PRES
EYT DEFICIENCY.

-four Tank Cars Holding 5000 Gallons Each
to Roach tho Camp To-DRy-Twenty-hvo
Font of Supplies ForwRrded-"An Amer
lean" subscribes $4,000 TO Red Cross.
The lack OF water at the camp ut Montauk
Point, caused by the difficulty in sinking wells.
will be relieved for the time being by the Red
Cross Society. In accordance with a plnn
adopted yesterday at n meeting OF the Execu-
tive Committee. enough water will be on hand
by tonight to supply the men for some days
without recourse to the water that may In the
meantime be derived from tho wells. W. T..
Wardwell presided at the meeting held yester-
day in the Chamber OF Commerce, and besides
hin there we're present Alexander Z. Orr,
Frederick Happen. Douglas Robinson. Cleve-
land II. Dodge. A. s. Solomons and John p.
Faure.
Mr.. Wardwell. on behalf OF the Standard Oil
Company and the Union Tank Line, offered to
provide four tank cars with a capacity OF 5000
gallons each. The cars were to be provided by
the Union Tank Line, and the Standard Oil
Company offered to tow the cars from Commu-
nipaw to Long Island City. From there the
cars would be taken by the Long Island Rail-
road to some point in Long Island. where n
good supply OF pure winter is obtainable. After
being filed they will then be taken Mt once to
Montauk Point.
liz OHOE mHu0 ny VII. WdIuNoh WOO "hiV
dlately accepted. and orders were given last
night to have the cars ready bymorning. Gangs
OF men were put at work cleaning and steaming
the tanks. and they will be taken to Long ISL
and City early this morning. Just where the
water will come from will not be decided until
to-day. 1t was said at the meeting that 1t
would probably be got from springs near
Jamaica. The four cars with the $4,000 gal
Ions OF water will arrive Mt Montauk Point
this afternoon. AS soon rs the water In them Is
consumed the cars will be rcflled, providing
that a sufficient supply OF water has not been
found at the camp in the meantime.
1t was announced at the meeting that the
yacht Red Cross would start for the camp with
twenty-five tons OF supplies last night. The
appointment OF Howard Townsend as agent
for Montauk Point was confirmed. Mr.. Towns
end went down to the camp yesterday in order
to get the Red Cross headquarters erected by
the time the supplies arrive.
The Red Cross Committee on Supplies met
yesterday morning at the supply depot at $50
Broadway. Cleveland H. Dodge presided. Mrs.
Royal Phelps Carroll, representing the Ambu-
lance Equipment Auxiliary. announced that
that auxiliary had on hand an u~nexpended bal
ance Of $32. 600. The auxiliary was conse-
quently asked to appropriate $4,000 for pro-
viding supplies for the Red Cross establish
ment at Montauk Point.
Mrs. Paul Dana of the Woman's Committee
on Auxiliaries gave a full account of the con-
tributions made by the several auxiliaries dur
ing the past week. Several hundred cases have
been received. The call for delicacies for the
hospitals. together with pajamas and night
shirts. continues to be very large. but II was
announced yesterday that every order thus far
received has been filled. A requisition was re-
ceived yesterday for fifty rocking chairs for the
convalescents at the hospitals. These will be
supplied by Auxiliary No. s.. Mrs. Dana re-
ported that Of soventy-nine auxiliaries formed.
seventy-three were already engaged in active
work.
The transport Concho. which will probably
sail to-day for Porto Rico. will carry forty tons
OF supplies. ten cases Of dry goods. two hos
pital tents. and fifty equipped cots. This Is the
first important shipment Of Red Cross supplies
for Porto Rico. and it Is planned to equip a hos
pital with them. Horace +. Barnes Of Boston.
a member OF the Red Cross Society, has been
appointed agent for Porto Rico. and will sail on
the Concho. 1t has been decided to send some
nurses to Porto Rico as soon as possible. and 1t
is quite probable that some of Miss Rutty's
party may go down on the boat chartered by
the Philadelphia branch. While the nurses
may not do much land work. 1t is thought that
their services would be OF great value in ac-
companying the sick and wounded North on
the transports.
D. L. Cobb Of the Red Cross Society. who has
been making a tour OF inspection among the
different Southern camps. arrived here yester-
day. He succeeded in establishing n Red Cross
branch at Fort Monroe. but found that the sur
geons there. while in want OF twenty-five Rod
Cross nurses, we're not for some reason per-
mitted to call for them. The difficulties in tho
way OF the Government taking such nurses it
was thought had been removed. as Surgeon
General Sternberg conveyed such an impress
sion in the last conference he had on the
matter. In consequence Of the situation which
Mr.. Cobb reported as existing at Fort Monroe.
the Red Cross Society on Tuesday laid the
whole matter before the Secretary OF War. 1t
is hoped that the decision received from him
will clear up the troubles which have arisen
over tho question. An answer is expected to-
day. The subscriptions to the Red Cross fund
now amount to $3.50. 230.92. Among those
received yesterday were the following:
Grace. 81, ooo
Mrs. u. Wills James. 1000
Mr.. Henry Kirke Porter. 100
Collection at Chautauqua, N. Y, through WA
Duncan; 1OQ