Evening journal., 1898-09-05
LEAVING THE CAMP.
Volunteers to Be Sent Home
as Fast as Possible.
TO BE NEARLY ALL OUT BY OCT. I.
Movements Hampered by Limited Carry
ing Capacity of Long Island Road.
The Water at MontaulS Point.
More Transports Arrive.


CAMP WIKOFF. Montauk Point, n.
Y. Sept 5.-This great camp will dis
solve during the three coming weeks,
and by Oct. 1 It will have shrunk 10
slender proportions. The well men, ac-
cording to the war departments pres
ent design, will leave the camp as fast
as transportation can be conveniently
provided probably at the rate of 5000
or 1000 a week. The convalescent from
the hospitals instead Of being sent
again into camp with their commands,
Will go to their homes The president,
Secretary Alger and General Wheeler
had talk about It Saturday, and at
though General Wheeler thought the
men would do well in camp until Oct. !,
II was determined to continue sending
the men away. The regulars taken from
posts east Of the Mississippi VIII, ac-
cording 10 the presidents directions, be
sent to where they were before the war;
The war department has not transmit
ted the order to General Shafter yet
but it viii no doubt be received by Tues
day
The Eighth Ohio and First Illinois
will break, camp tomorrow. The Rough
Riders will muster out toward the end
Of the week probably and Will not pa
rade. The Rough Riders had service In
their camp yesterday. Colonel Roose-
velt after Chaplain Grown had conclud-
ed, rose and made a little speech. a sort
of farewell some Of the men took It to
be.
! General Wheeler said yesterday that
Lieutenant Colonel Smart of the med
ical staff of the army had come TO chem
ically examine the water supplied TO the
camp. He was at the top Of his pro-
fession and would in two or three days
be able to give an absolutely authorita-
tive decision as to the purity Of the wa
= ter. People had an idea that the water
p came from the fresh water pond Gen.
p eral Wheeler said they were mistaken
5 The water was drawn from wells 20l
and 300 feet deep. Women passing
Z through the camp were displeased by
, seeing that some tents did not have
floors and fancied that the men slept .or
4 the ground. They were wrong in sup
posing that In tents without floors
were wooden hunks or thick straw. Al
r for himself General Wheeler said, h'
liked the camp better every day an'
y would like to live in it until oct. /.
The season Of September gales is ap
a preaching and the war department
a foresees that the Long Island railroad
|
4 more than / 900 men a day. Plans hav
! been partially made TO transport troop
: to New York by water if 1t should b
: advisable.
, The troopship Roumania. five day
e from Santiago. came in yesterday wit
e Companies X and l. of the Ninth Mas
i sachusetts and convalescents from va
d rious commands, in all 600 men. Seve
al died on the voyage and were buried O
E. sea.
le The Unionist also arrived from SAINT
10 ago with 36O men. Fifty-three were {
"A Company Il, First Illinois infantry Th
n rest were teamsters and carpenters. A
4 on board are well.
- Those who died in the general hosp
tai yesterday were: Samuel lOsborn'
IA private Company 1. Seventh infantry
Michael OHare, private. Company !
le Eighth infantry; James McGrath, pr
vate. Company +, Eighth infantry
y. Henry Sawyer, private. Tenth cavalry
IT James Ray. private Company II, SeN
.enth infantry; Matthias Hills, privat
a Company f, Third infantry; Elmer
A. Greene, private, Company f, Sevent
infantry Hesekiah Bell, private, Con
pany G, Twenty-fifth infantry.
Number Of patients in general hosp
tai, 1910.
No one died at the detention hospit
yesterday. It has 275 patients.
Arthur Fieble, a private in Compar
f, Second United States infantry, Kill
ed himself in his tent yesterday. I
es took his Krag-Jorgensen rifle, put Il
muzzle to his left eye and touched q
the trigger with his sword bayonet. i
was recruited in Tampa three and
40, half months ago went to Cuba tough
caught the fever and was out OF h
mind for some time He had not be,
nearly himself for several days.