Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-05-30
THE ARMY SITUATION.

the South to make at any time the
movement on Cuba. In the vicinity
of Tampa alone there are 25, 900 troops
almost all of whom are fully equipped
and eager for the order to proceed.
Tampa. indeed, is the most available
port from which the expedition can
start, and there are now in the har-
Dor there about 20 transports, swift
passenger steamers, waiting for the
order to carry the troops across.
In the camps in the district of Tam
pa there are both regulars and vol
unteers. The regulars are ready to go
at days notice. The volunteers are
almost ready, though the Second
Georgia regiment arrived at Tampa
without uniforms or arms, and reg
iment from Michigan arrived there
without rifles.
The Government officers, however,
quickly supplied the volunteers with
what they needed, and they will be
ready to move when the order comes.
In charge of the troops at Tampa is
Maj. Gen. Shafter, who is said to have
been ordered TO take charge of the
first big expedition. Gen. Shafter has
reported to the department that his
transports are all ready for the men
to be embarked for Cuba. He thinks
that when the order for embarka ton
comes three days at the outside will
be sufficient to load all the troops,
arms and horses upon the transports
and start off for Cuba.
The transports now at Tampa, with
a few which are on the way there,
will be sufficient to carry all the men
in camp to Cuba. Gen. Shafter,
it is said, does not believe that more
than Sc, 900 troops will be sent to Cuba
in all. All these troops would not go
at once. Probably $4,000 would be
sent over to make base of supplies;
the rest to follow as soon as deemed
necessary or advisable.
The second 5000 of troops would
be drawn from the Chattanooga
Camp, where there are now between
10000 and 10000 troops, perhaps
hardly so we'll advanced in readiness
as those at Tampa. At Chattanooga
the Eighth Massachusetts regiment is
now stationed, and there are several
other New England regiments.
Strong opposition to sending the
year is still made at Washington. Re
ports from the blockading squadron
off Cuba say that the rainy season has
already set in. The weather is ex-
tremely disagreeable. Rain descends
in copious showers, aud the wind
blows in ugly squalls.
The DIRECTORS produce medical tes-
timony to prove that they are right,
and Surgeon Gen. Sternberg of the
United States Army is said to have
made protest to President McKin-
ley against sending the troops until
fall. The President, it is stated, was
greatly impressed with what Surgeon
Gen. Sternberg said.
Much can be learned by the expe
rience of the Spanish army of the
past three years in Cuba. Given
proper clothing, food and medical
care, our death rate should be less
than half of theirs. Even the death
rate from yellow fever can be ma
teriaDy lessened if an army of occu-
patton is necessary during the coming
summer.
There are also many medical au-
thorities who declare that the death
rate among American troops will be
very low indeed, because great care
will be observed regarding the sani-
tary conditions, good food will be
provided and every measure possible
will be adopted in order to insure the
health of the troops. Another thing
that has been lost sight of by some tof
the protesting ones is that the men
selected by ithe recruiting officers
from among the host of volunteers
are physically in fine condition. Every
effort to keep them so will be made.
There is Catarrh in this section of the
country than all other diseases put together,
and until the lastfew years supposed to
be incurab1e. For great many years doctors
pronounced it a local disease, and prescribed
local remedies, and by constantly failing to
cure with local treatment, pronounced it in
durable. Science has proven catarrh to be a
constitutional disease, and therefore requires
constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure, manufactured by f. J. Cheney & Co.,
Toledo, Ohio, Is the only constitutional cure
on the market. 1t is taken internally in doses
from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. 1t acts di-
rectly on the blood and mucous surfaces of
the system. They offer one hundred dollars
for any case it fails to cure. Send for circu-
lars and testimonials. Address,
F. j. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.