The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-11-19

1.-THE DELAYS AT SANTIAGO
<onms One Wa Drssdfuny at Fsuit IN Not
provsding for ths Landing OF Medi-
|. oal Supplies Transports
Were O~vercrowded.

ID. C04rleE D chief surgeon
{he FIRST witness. said that in some re-
spects Camp Aiger was a good camp
for a small body OF men, but there
were many drawbacks. The water was
poor n the country was known to
be highly maiarious. The best inter-
ests Of the sick. DR.. Greenleaf said.
were not seriously imperiled. but the
efforts OF physicians were generally en-
barrassed.
Taking up the question of h lack Of
tents. surgeons and medical supplies IN
Cuba, DR.. Connor asked Or. Greenleaf
how the medical supplies were delayed
at Siboney. DR.. Greenleaf said he did
not know.
.who finally loaded these supplies?'
asked DR.. Connor.
Il did. 1 captured six pontoons and
took the law into my own hands"
You unioaded in sc hours supplies
that had ben lying in the harbor two
weeks? Why did not DIR. Pope, chief
surgeon OF Genera Skaters corps.
land them within those two weeks"
Il suppose he IA at h front, at
tending to the wounded"
Did DR.. Pope take charge of n
wounded mani"
II cannot say" replied DIR. Greenleaf.
II am sure that DIR. Pope did the bes;
he could. I had full authority from
General Miles to do what l thought
best"
In reply to a question, DR.. Greenleaf
said he supposed DIR. Pope had author.
" from General Shafter sufficient to
enable him TO unload the supplies at
s~ibeoney as he (GreenleaO had done.
There is no doubt" said DR.. Common.
that somebody was ~dreadfully at fault.
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II VAST"
DR.. Greenieaf said he could not. In
reply to another question. DIR. Greenleaf
said that 1. was usu in time of war
to anticipate the wants of wounded
men and TO expect that there would DC
wounded. He could not tell II any prop
or arrangements had been n in Gu
ba. but he knew that the stores had not
been landed. He declared positively
that he found no evidence of any neg
lect or incompetency on the part Of any
medical Officer.
Questioned as to the condition of af-
fairs IN the transports. DIR. Greenleaf
said he aid not personally inspect the
transports at Cuba. but those leaving
Porto Rico under his personal direction
were well equipped in all respects.
Camp Montauk DIR. Greenleaf consid-
ered an ideal camp for Its purpose.
Lack OF train service he considered a
petty discomfort. No complaints of any
moment were submitted to him. n the
ANAL grumbling he heard he investi-
gated n found without justification.
Questioned as. to the discomforts en-
dured by the furloughed men. who.
when sick. were compelled to loiter
about the railway station. awaiting
fares and furioughs. he said that all
that trouble might have been avoided
by the establishment of a quartermas-
ter's ONCE at the hospital.
DIR. Connor asked why the large force
of women nurses. who had offered their
services. were not accepted. n DIR.
Greenleaf said there was no way TO care
for them at the camp.
DIR. Greenleaf. still replying to ques-
lions. told OF the methods of granting
furloughs from the hospitals at Camp
Montauk and OF the influence brought
20 bear upon the surgeons TO grant
these furloughs. He said II a man to
whom leave was granted died at his
home. m were blamed Tor
letting him leave the hospitals. and
man died there. his friend declared
that home nursing would have cured
him.
General Beaver asked DIR. Greenieaf
II sick men were taken to the battle
line. and when the doctor said no. Gen.
eral Beaver asked why so much stress
was laid upon the fact that no medical
supplies were taken to the front unless
II was usual TO send medicine TO the
men M not men TO the medicine.
DR.. Greenleaf said that supplies
should have been at the battle line for
the men taken sick there.
To questions from Captain Howell.
Ex-Governor Woodbury. and General
Wilson. DIR. Greenleaf said that ne
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as q camping place for soldiers and
that. In his opinion. Camp Miami in
Florida. was fitted only for a quaran-
tine hospital and should not have been
used a. q camp for 10. 900 men awaiting
transportation TO Cuba.
Ex-Governor W~oodbury-Is Il proper
TO criticisc the department for not
having employed female nures sooner
than Il did?
DR.. Greenleaf-I think not. General
s~ternberger. and I agree with him. did
not believe that the fighting hne was
the place for women. In the hospitals,
women nurses rendered excellent SER
vice. blu at the front there was no place
for them.
General Dodge asked OF conditions 81
transports leaving Tampa for CUBA.
q DIR. Greenleaf said they were
~dreadfully overcrowded. He could not
say that the o~vercrowding was not a
military necessity. but II was certain Il
was wrong from a sanitary standpoint
This concluded the examination Of
DR.. Greenleaf.
william Hamilton Henry. whose son
served as a private in company r Of
h list regiment during the campaign.
vas the FIRST witness at the afternoon
eession- Mr.. Henry told of a visit 10
Camp Wfkoff in search OF his son. who
was sick He found him lying on the
hare ground in a tent. The officers
tents were all foored. Richard W. Hen
~. the SON was called. He was taken
sick af1Gr the surrender OF Santiago.
GpeakinG OF the treatment he received
from tho army surgeons In Cuba. he
said that they did the best that lacy
could and treated every one alike.
I'm fact" he said. they mace no dis
tfncfion In matter OF treatment or in
medicine II wa two pills for n fever
and three pills for a broken arm"
DIR. Frank Donaldson. who Jg!Eed CO..