The herald., 1898-11-17
THE FOOD IS ALL RIGHT
PHYSICAL EXAMINATIONS BE.
ING RAPIDLY COMPLETED
THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE
Preparations for Great Event About
Completed-Special Trains Will
Run-Big Crowd Expected


mustered out and just how are questions
which the officers of the regiment may bt
able to answer, and which the privates would
be more than pleased to have answered in
the near future. The physical examination
of the men is progressing rapidly and will bt
completed on Monday next providing tho
privatcs in line average up as well as they
have been doing heretofore.
Surgeon a. j. Pedlar, who has charge ol
the physical examination of the regiment
is more than pleased at the results SO far
But few, very few, cases of permanent dis
ability have been discovered among the men
who were presumably sound physically
when they entered the service. Where or
ganic diseases have been found the cases
are remanded for a further examination in
order that the full history of the patient may
be obtained both prior to his entering the
service, especially his camp life in San Fran
cisco and the records of his case as kept by
the regimental, division and general sur
geons.
Bronchial and other throat troubles seem
to be the prevailing diseases from which a
small minority of the regiment are suffering
The fact that ninety men, on an average, re-
port on sick call each morning is not looked
upon by the surgeons as anything unusual
The men left strict regime in camp and
came home to be petted and fattened up on
pie and other things equally indigestible.
After three weeks of this sort of diet they
were once more turned into camp and got
down to regular soldier meals with the re-
suit that many of them are suffering from
the change.
There is no reason to complain of the food
furnished at the camp and, in TACT, the COM
plants from the first have emanated from
very small body Of men who seem to- have
entered the army for the sole purpose of
making themselves and everybody else un-
comfortable. A thorough canvass among
the boys yesterday developed the fact that
the soldiers were being better fed than they
ever were in camp at San Francisco and
while, at the start, all the arrangements
were not complete, there is no fault to be
found on that score now.
In fact, if the officers can be believed, the
ranks of the kickers who cause all the trotl-
bic, both about food and everything else,
comprise about forty or fifty men, the ma
jority of whom are of the hobo type when
citizens and who have given the officers more
trouble since their enlistment than all the
other privates put together.
Excellent order was maintained in camp
yesterday. The blanket tossing, peanut
raiding, etc, was stopped and the officers
OF the various companies warned the men
that swift punishment would follow any
disobcdience of the rules of the camp.
General order No. 25 was issued by COL
Berry yesterday morning. This order de.
taches Second Lieutenant George +. Lemon
of Company b from his regular duties and
puts him over the camp as police officer. Not
only will Lieutenant Lemon watch the con-
duct of the men but he viii also note the
conduct of visitors to the camp and a GER
tain class of visitors will find their privi-
leges curtailed in future. Sanitary measures
will also be adopted to prevent any chance
of disease from accumulated refuse and filth
A question has arisen as to whether or not
the members of the Seventh living elsewhere
than in Los Angeles will be compelled to
pay their fare to their homes after being
mustered out. The government should and
would pay the fares of the men but for the
fact that Captain L. de Darlington, the Of
ficer who mustered the regiment into the
service failed to designate in his report the
homes of the various companies, but sched-
uled them all to the war department rs from
Los Angeles. When the order to report here
for mastering out came many of the men
living out of town were confronted with the
proposition of paying their own fare here or
being liable to arrest and punishment for de-
eerton.
The matter of fare getting here for out
lying companies was arranged. but no pro-
vision has been made as yet for returning the
men living in Riverside, San Bernardino
and other places, to their homes. If they
are compelled to pay full fare to return
home they will be out of pocket no small
sum considering their pay. It is believed
that Uncle Sam having promised his SOL
diers free transportation should see that
they get it and to this end the secretary of
war has been appealed to asking that Cap
tain de Carrington's mistake be corrected
and the men from other cities than Los An
geles be sent to their homes free of cost of
transportation.
The Thanksgiving day drill and bene-
fit for the monument fund, which
will probably be the last public
appearance of the Seventh regiment
before being mustered out, promises to be
one of the best military entertainments
ever given in the state.
j. d. Black, lessee of Agricultural park,
has donated the grounds and will do every
thing possible to put them in shape for the
drill
The chamber of commerce committee has
been resolved into various special commit
tees, and these have charge of the entire
affair. The committee as whole attends
to the finances, with j. S. Slauson as chair
man, A. b. Cass treasurer, II. w. Frank Sec
retary, the others being J. r. Newberry and
Il. w. Burnham. j. S. Slauson has charge of
the transportation, George w. Burton is
press agent and Frank Virgins ticket agent
for the show.
The committee will have $4,000 tickets
printed. The railroads will run special ex-
cursion trains from all interior points.
The boxes will be auctioned off and are
expected to bring n large sum. Tickets will
be for sale in all the leading stores and ho-
tells, and thirty soldiers will be detailed to
canvass office buildings. so everyone will
have an opportunity to help swell the mon
ument fund, even if he cam t attend the drill.