Evening star., 1898-09-03
Yellow Look Leaving the Faces Of
the District Troops.
ARE NOT YET IN FIRST GLASS HEALTH
Good Work Being Done by the
New Hired Cooks.
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STAFF Correspondence of The Evening Star

STAFF Correspondence of The Evening Star.
CAMP WIKOFF, Montauk Point, N. Y,
September 2, 1S9S
The District regiment is one happy fami-
ly again, happy in being visited and happy
in the realization that it will be home one
week from today. Since the 1st Battalion
Joined the I'd and Sd yesterday the rsgu-
lar regimental camp has moved along as
regularly as clock work. Maj. O'Brien was
able to turn model camp over to Col.
Harries when that officer came in from the
detention camp with the 1st Battalion. The
regular routine with it's duties and calls
gees on. The men in camp are not suffer-
ing in any particular. They are getting
plenty to eat, gaining in flesh, and
while many of them have a yellow look
about the face, still 1t is rapidly disap-
pearng. They are homesick; homesick
clear down to their boots. They will allow
that this is a good, healthy place to stay
and recuperate, but their main thought,
wish and longing. is for sight of the
Capitol dome and the dear ones at home.
1t would have been a cruel kininess to
keep the regiment here for any great
length of time. The other morning, at first
roll call, the captain of each company
asked those of the men who wanted to go
home at once to step forward, and in every
case the entire company stepped forward
one man.
Work of the New Cooks.
Eight cooks sent on by Maj. Neumeyer,
The Stars commissioner, came on from
New York yesterday and went to work on
supper. They are going to be Of great as
sistance, the cooking being done in a new
way.
The company cooks understand the han
ding of army rations all right, but the pro-
fessionals are throwing in little extra
kinks that will do much to tempt the ap-
petites Of the weak. The commssariat is
we'll supplied.
Every morning Lieutenant Griffiths, who
is looking after the commissary is in the
saddle with the sun, looking for fresh sup
plies. Some seven hundred pounds of fresh
meat are drawn each day, besides eggs
milk and vegetables. Lieutenant Griffiths
is hustler, and in getting stuff for his reg
iment is pirate. This morning the men
were given fresh meat, eggs. oatmeal. pota-
toes and coffee. AS a matter of fact, talks
with the men bring out the fact that there
have been but four OF five days since they
left Washington that the regiment has ac-
tually been without plenty of food Some
times the food has not been just what the
men needed or wanted, but there was al
ways something on hand except on a few
days in the trenches at Santiago, when pro-
visions were as scarce as the proverbial
snow ball
Health of the Regiment.
1t must not be understood that the men
in the regiment are in first-class health, be-
thew he Of
all are affected by fever and chills 1t will
be matter of consider able time before
the boys lose all souvenirs of Santiago.
Ihis morning at sick call, for instance,
eighty or ninety patients reported and were
treated by Surgeons PyIes and Cox Two
men OF Company G, Privates Chase and
Bethunc. Will be sent to thu general hos
pltai today. They are not seriously i'll, but
need better care than can be given in camp.
one serious trouble here is getting hold of
smoulances to take men to the hospital
Inc surgeons send hurry calls for ambu-
lances. but the ambulances never come.
They are too busily engaged in carving
visitors over the camp
captain Jacobs of Company NJ who has
peen absent on sick leave since the regi-
ment left Tampa, rejoined the regiment
last night. He was detailed on quartermas-
ter work. his first duty today being the COM
mencement Of a stern search for the instru-
ments belonging to the band, which were
shipped to Tampa and have been lost ever
since. In the meantime the band has been
doing the best it could with any old thing
for instruments. AT guard mount this morn
ing it managed to get a good deal of muaic
out Of these pieces.
The following men were sent to Monroe
Hospital today, none Of them seriously Ill.
Thomas c. Maddox and VIM. H. Prender of
company b and Chas. w. Brown of Com
pany F.
This morning, for the first time for many
weeks, at guard mount there was a march
in rsview, with the band which shows thai
the men are getting In shape
Hospital Records Defective.
There are today 276 men in the regi-
ment who are marked sick. OF this number
l2o are In camp and are not in bad shape,
suffering only with the remnants Of chiIls
and fevers; 1856 men have been sent to the
general hospital These men are scattered
Ill forty tents. among 1900 patients, and so
Tar as any name is concerned the lists in
cIude five or six thousand names 1t is
also impossible to get any statement of
the conoition Of the hospital patients A
very large number of them have been fur
loughed direct from the hospital and taken
home. Company officers are trying to get
to the men in hospital in order to get the
pay rolls signed. The difficulty can be seen
from the one instance of single company
that has fourteen men in hospital Yes
terday, in spite Of earnest search, only
six could be found. 1t has been a great
hardship to the men not receiving any
pay. Corporal George Shilling Is one of
the very sick men in hospital
The Regiments Sick.
The number of more or less sick reported
by companies is follows: A, H. B, 21; C,
IA; ID, 16; E. IS; F, 10; G, II; l, IS; K, IT;
L. q; NJ, 20; band, 3. There is little doubt
that many of the men have had true yell
low fever in a mild form. The regiment
has been fortunate, due more to the ex-
cellence of its officers than to good luck
The people of Washington have cause to