New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-07
SOLDIERS TAKEN CARE OF.
WAR RELIEF ASSOCIATION HELPS THEM TO
HEALTH AND STRENGTH

HEALTH AND STRENGTH.
meeting of the directors of the women's War
Relief Association held at It's rooms at the
Windsor Hotel Yesterday The directors attending
the meeting were Mrs Harmon D. Bull Mrs
Daniel Lamont Mrs. Russell Sage Mrs. Charles
II. Raymond. Miss Anne Rhodes. Mrs Washington
Roebling Miss Helen Gould and Mrs Ellen II. Wal
worth.
Mrs. Nelson A. Miles. wife Of the General COM
manding the United States Army. and Mrs 8. "
White sent their acceptance OF the Board OF d.
rectors' invitation to serve the Board and All
the two vacant places
The total receipts 10 date s33 i33 II. which In
cludes only $4,000 OF the SIS co offered for the
sociations drafts by Miss Gould.
Mrs. Walworth reported that in company with
Mrs Roehling she went about with the President
and his party his visit to Camp wikon. After
the review OF the troops they met the President
and Vice President OF the United States and The
Secretary Of War al General Wheelers headquar-
ters. The President thanked Mrs Walworth per-
sonally for the work of the War Relief Association
and the Secretary Of War gave her order for .
dining-room TO accommodate two hundred and nifty
convalescents. Mrs. Walworth said this par
ticularly pleasing. as she had been going from
official TO another for over a week TO get permiSs
sion erect this dining-room.
The invited 10 take luncheon With
the Presidents party but were unable 10 accept
owing 10 their duties.
worth and Or. Baldwin from the camp Tuesday
night. They the station by Or. A.
Ernest Gallant and his wife and taken to this
Grand Union Hotel spend the night. They vera
the Tarrytown Hospital yesterday morning
The following the names OF the sick soldiers
there:
George Marsh, "a Infantry; Charles Smith Bat
terry A. 4th Artillery; Carl Classen sth Infantry.
Henry Robbins LIST Artillery: Howard Mccall. Com
pany q, eth Infantry James Flynn, Company A,
eth Massachusetts. Victor p Asplet. Battery +.
9TH Artillery Thomas White. Company c. 21st In
fantry: Charles Black. Company r, ID Infantry:
Frank Krouse Company l. It'll Infantry; Chris.
Iomdar Company O. 20th Infantry; Royal Meth.
9TH Army Hospital Corps; Joseph Hanson sergeant,
Company F. 2ls, Infantry.
James A. Kohn. list District OF Columbia Volun
teers and A. X Ramsberg OF Company A. Is;
These men are selected by Mrs Walworth at the
camp after they haye been given their sick leave
and are DISCHARGED rom me hospital as soon as
Mrs Waworth also reported that the camp han
greay % am mat me COCO n1
Secretary Of War and General Sternberg could no
great. however. that with TIE exlsting trans
portaton facilities IL il impossible for either th'
the needs in regard to bedding and equipments
The care and work Of the physicians have oeei
made hurredIy as so many sick men arrive con-
stantly. The annex and detention wards now con
President has given the OF the water facilities
% nd roads at Montauk 10 a regiment OF volunteec
engineers and this has greatly improved the situa-
ton DR. Gallant reported that he had arrange
for twelve hundred rooms lodge the sick soldier,
I'm as they come to the city until they can be carst
for . -. -,
An offer was received from the Young Woman's
Branch OF the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union through Miss Emma Alexander. 20 care for
a number OF sick soldiers ar the Battle Creek Sani'
tariun at Prohibition Park Staten Island Ths
orcr was accepted and arrangements Will be made
70 send the sick men there The Board empowered
Or Gallant 20 supervise medical work on trains
and stations, to keep record OF the men heipeo'
etc.
Before the meeting was over six sick men VINO
had been allowed 10 leave Roosevelt HosptaI came
IN IN. rooms for aid. They were Private RatcNn
% Infantry; James Hit iSih infan'ryj Koher,
Charles Holloway 18th Infantry. and Ernest korte.
Company D. District Of Columbia Volunteers:
Edward J Martin, OF Company NJ. 18th Regiment
New-York Volunteers was also at the rooms
onxiously waiting 20 be the country. where
ne hopes 10 regain his health