The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-07

are encamped on a bed of sand. No
straw is furnished TO the enlisted men.
They are somewhat crowded and rather
short of blankets. 50 that when one gets
sick and is assigned to quarters there
is very little. II any, comfort for the
patients. Patients assigned to hospital
have been transferred to the division
hospital. which is on the next city block
from our encampment. The DIVISION
hospital is yet embryonic and has been
overlooking for some time. Several So
~cieties. notably the Catholic Truth So
Ciety and the Red Cross. have kindly
furnished facilities for treating our most
critical cases in various hospitals in the
city. such as Lanes, st. Luke's and
French. Owing TO the crowding in the
division hospital we were forced to pro-
vide some better facilities for treating
our men who were too sick to perform
their duty, and the Red Cross society
came to our rescue by furnishing n
hospital tent and II cots complete, in
Guiding mattresses. sheets, pillow cases,
etc, also two dozen night shirts.
Colonel Wallace very generously gave
up his large tent and had il pitched in
our quarters and substituted a very
! modest. small one for himself. So we
have two hospital tents now, containing
II beds, and / regret TO say that they
are now all filled. but not with very
serious cases. We have two cases OF
pneumonia, which have been sent to the
French hospital. We nave up 10 date
had a total number of 304 cases assigned
10 quarters and hospital. of which about
20 cases are now incompleted: all this
without "A fatality and no cases on hand
which are at all critical. Most of the
sickness is diarrhoea and next is colds
or influenza. with here and there a case
of rheumatism.
The government is very slow in fur
nishing medicines and we find this a
menace to the proper treatment of the
cases brought to our notice. The Red
Cross society furnishes us with a great
deal of medicines and food for the sick,
but somehow we all feel that If we had a
fund from our own people in Montana
our existence would be less like
living on the charity of others. How
often | have wished that the good peo-
pie of Butte might have realized that
the LIST Montana infantry was in need
of cash and appropriated some of the
Fourth of July money TO our use. lf
you have any money for Red Cross work
and don't know what to buy, send the
money at once. as we are daily in need
of money to buy emergency medicines
and food for the sick in our own hospi-
tai. At present IL is near supper time
and we need eggs for the patients sup
per. The Red Cross ladies promised us
some this evening. We are waiting
on their generosity for them to be de-
livered. IL we had the mons we could
buy all such things as needed. | Jug
gest that. IL possible, $1,000 be sent to a
responsible physician who has the abil-
ity and integrity to properly n tu-
diciously handle the und for the use
| of the hospital and the sick of this regi-
ment exclusively. AS we will doubtless
leave for the Philippines with the fourth
expedition, the matter should receive
prompt attention, II at all. Lack Of
time prevents me from giving more de-
tails
Mrs. Hammond turned the letter over
to Mrs. II. A. Burton, president of the
Soldiers Aid, and 1t was promptly de-
cided TO try and raise the fund needed.
As a first step $50 was mailed to Mr..
Paxson last evening by Mrs. Burton, $40
of which was taken from the reasuTy
of the Soldiers Aid and $40 was con-
tributed personally by two of the la
dies. the thought being hat the $50
would afford some relief until a larger
fund could be raised. The ladies of the
society will now start out with sub
scriptions and endeaVor to raise at least
81. 900. As there has been some difficulty
about persons imposing on the public
by soliciting subscriptions representing
they were for the Soldiers Aid, while
in reality the persons had no connec-
ton with the society and never turned
In what they secured. IL has been de-
cided to protect the public against fur
ther impositions by getting out a print
ed heading for the subscriptions blanks,
and any one presenting one of these
stamped with the seal of the Soldiers
Aid is authorized to solicit subscriptions
and make collections. Anyone who does
not have one of the blanks is not so
authorized. The fund will be sent TO
Mr.. Paxson or such other person in the
regiment as is regarded as the most
suitable person to handle the fund.