The times., 1898-08-10
RUSHING WORK AT MoNrAuK.
Twelve Hundred More Men VIII Ar
rive TadaY


rive Today.
Montauk Point Aug s-There was a big
jump made insthel work of preparing the
camp for Santiago and Florida troops
here today.
When word came that the camp must
be ready to receive 200 men from Fort
Mcpherson tomorrow the officers were
nonplussed' for a. time. Already $50 men
have been dumped on them a day before
they expected any troops at all, and the
result has been considerable confusion.
With the exception of the sick, all of
the men OF the Sixth Cavalry slept In the
open air around the camp fires last night
The rain came down on them in torrents
shortly after midnight, but they made no
complaints. They are the happiest lot of
men imaginable.
The arrival of the troops from Georgia
tomorrow has resulted in a change in the
plans for laying out the detention camp
1t had been arranged to put Santiago
troops in quarantine just back of the cav
airy camp. but now that location has been
taken for the Fort Mcpherson troops and
the site for the detention camp has been
shifted two miles TO the northeast.
The Georgia men will be marched over
to their camp as soon as they arrive, and
provided with tents If they have none
with them, but will have to take pot
luck" about food. unless the commissary
department succeeds in getting here the
10000 rations which have been asked for
by tomorrow night.
Gen. Young ordered extra efforts made
today to get the commissary store-houses
in readiness for supplies. There are two
of these storage houses in course of con-
truction now, one 300 by 80 feet and one
60 by 30 feet. What rations are here now
are on the ground. but the store-houses
are nearing completion and ought 20 be
in readiness by Wednesday or Thursday.
The most serious problem that has TO
be confronted is the water supply. Those
who are In a position to know say that
there is plenty of good water. but if there
is, the well diggers have not succeeded in
getting at it yet.
The well-diggers, after cutting great
excavations in the earth. are unable to
proceed now, as the rain filed up the
holes and there are no pumps to empty
them A few pumps Dame down by
train today. but by some oversight the
most important parts were left behind
and in their present condition they are
useless. A number of artesian wells have
been sunk, but no water fit TO drink has
been found
Today water for the cavalry was car
ried 10 their camp in barrels from Fort
Pond. The horses and mules were water
ed at Great Pond, the water of which
is brakish. The animals, however, show
no aversion to II.
Tonight the men of the Sixth Cavalry
got their tents up and from now on
they will be comfortably housed.
The second detachment of 324 men got
here at o'clock this morning
The sick men of Giyth in had
shape. Altogether there are thirty. and
fifteen of them have typhoid fever. One
man has measles and is quarantined.
and the rest are suffering from malaria
and dvsentery.
According 10 one of the surgeons here
all these men were in good health when
they left Fernandina They were strick-
en- on the route There were two detach-
ments of the cavalry. and only one sur
geon with them. He vas with the sec
ond section, and at every station his
train had TO. stop 10 pick up sick men
who had been dropped by the first sec
ton. The men are all doing fairly We'll
now