The age-herald., 1898-11-22

l stand. Icould neither sleep nor eat, and l looked so badly my friends hardly
 knew me.
 | "I took doctors medicine but did not | derive much benefit from it. My drug | gist gave me one of your little books,
 and after reading it I decided to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com- l pound. I feel like a new person. I
 would not give your Compound for all the doctors medicine in the world. I | can not praise it enough" N Except in the case of the few men in charge and an occasional robust negro, all the men in camp were in very poor condl- tion. find no fault with the physicians who yielded to pressure and permitted pa- tients to leave before they were well; I criticise the system that permitted such a state of affairs. The pressure came from governors, senators, wives, mothers and sweethearts. e5
 The Government at Fault
 tWhat I can't understand Dr. Stimson said, lis why the United States govern ment should have suffered them to leave the hospital before they were cured. Sew enty-four typhoid cases picked up in one street of this city were treated in the Hud- son street hospital. They should not have been allowed to leave Montauk until they were we'll" sfs zs
 "what do you think could have ibeen done at Camp wikoff that was not done .s' asked Ex-Governor Woodbury. %EM
 T think the whole conception ofS the T+ 70 Ia called a hospital camp and conducted gas, a hospital camp entirely. The burden of proof rests upon the authorities to show why the proper things were not done" sss
 As pr. Stimson concluded his testimony: message was brought to General Dodge from Robert B. Roosevelt to the effect that he knew nothing of interest to the commits sion except a matter of hearsay.
 On motion of Ex-Governor Woodbury, 1t was decided to invite MT. Roosevelt to ap- pear and place himself on record to that effect. MT. Roosevelt said a meeting of the soldiers protective committee is to be held tomorrow and at that meeting list of wit nesses and the subjects on which they will testify is to be prepared for presentation to the commission.
 Noble Devotion
 Miss Julia Halstead Chadwick, one of the women who worked for the sick at Camp Wikoff told of men too sick to stand who left the hospitals at camp and were found delirious on the trains and at the railway stations. She said:
 Among the officers and men of the regu- lar army I saw the most beautiful and noble devotion. An officer who looked as lxs. riage and thanked us for our kindness to his men.
 You know" he said, i've regulars have no friends" I replied that the whole na- ton were their friends and he burst into tears and walked away"
 MT. W. Goldman Thompson, of New York, testified. Asked if he had any criti- cism to make of the conduct of the hos- pitals at Montauk he said:. 'I was told that there was not sufficient disinfectants. I found at least thirty such instances out side the general hospital in the general camp. The sanitary arrangements in the camp were bad and myriads of flies were dissemination focal matter exposed in the sinks''
 Do you know in these cases why men were allowed to go away from camp be- fore they should go?"
 "No; but I know that they should not have been allowed to leave"
 "Did you hear of the importunities of governors, senators. sweethearts and wives for patients to be sent homer"
 'I read of it in the newspapers, but do no think that anything could have justi- fled the discharge of some of these men. In the hospitals in the city we turn a deaf ear to such importunities." Samuel L. Parrich, a lawyer of this city, who visited Camp Wikoff several times, was the next witness.
 Replying to General Beaver, Mr. Parrich said that the great drawback to the cainp was the lack of one active, continuous, fn- telligent directing mind. Everybody in au- thority did his best, but there were too many changes. In one day General Wheeler | was in charge. When he became familiar with the conditions he went away. General Shafter succeeded him, and General Bates succeeded General Shafter, and he again | was new to what was going on.' < Were No Complaints
 General Beaver asked if there were any | complaints. Indeed no. There was never a more un- complaining man than the American sol- | dier. I saw disgraceful conditions, but | heard no complaints. If President McKin- ley had put himself in my hands could | have shown him something that would have shocked him. He saw none of them. He was permitted to make only a parade inspection" All the trouble and suffering at the camp, MT. Parrich declared, in summing up his views, twas due to lack of foresight and the neglect of someone. I cannot say who is responsible for the conditions that pre- vailed, but I can testify that very unde- sirable conditions did prevail"
 "Did you see any officer neglecting his