The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-09-13
ENDIN THE SICK AWAY.
COMPLAINT THAT roo MUCa HASTE
rs EXERCISED AT MONTAUK.

rs EXERCISED AT MONTAUK.
Some of the Men Not in Condition to he
Moved, II IL ChRrEed-List OF the RcKi-
ments in CaInp--RouEh Riders to BE Mus
tered Out To-Day-Six Deaths Yesterday.
CAMP WrKoFF. MoNTAuK POINT. L. l.. Sept.
12.-The detention hospital has reduced the
lumber Of It's patients to about eighty-nve.
Major Ebert expects that in the course OF two
weeks only twenty-five will remain. not allow
ing for deaths. The men now left are nearly
all regarded as too sick to be moved at present.
Major Harding Of the engineers began to-day
to frame In two wards and the mess hall for
their shelter. There were 439 patients in the
hospital when orders we're given to clear it
out. Since then 20 have returned to duty. ITO
have received furloughs. and 200 have been
transferred to other hospitals.
Some OF the doctors. notably DR.. Boyer. who
has about thirty serious cases in wards l and +,
have refused positively to sign removal permits
for any more men. Mrs. Geraldine Bailey. di-
rector OF the National Relief League, considers
that many men have already been sent from
the detention hospital who were not At to 60.
On Friday about 200 wore sent on the shlnne-
cock, and on Saturday came orders to send 100
more. She says that sixty-nine were selected
and that Col. Forwood then went through the
wards to pick out thirty-one others.
Miss Hattie Hawley. q daughter of Gen. Haw-
ley. and representing the Soldiers Rest OF
Washington. reports a conversation between
Col. Forwood and Major Ebert in which she
says the Colonel said he would annul any doc
tors contract on the spot II he refused to sign
the removal permits.
Yesterday, Mrs. Bailey says, some OF the
forty men selected to go up on the Shinnecock
protested against being moved. and begged to
be allowed to wait a day or two longer. Many
of them were afraid of being seasick. All we're
weak and most OF them were carried on board
the boat on stretchers. Nearly all. cxceptthose
from the detention hospital. were able to walk
and care for themselves, Mrs. Bailey says. She
does not wish to blame those in charge OF the
detention hospital for what she considers this
dangerous haste. She says the care and treat
ment all have received there have been excel
lent in every way.
The general hospital has about $50 patients
to-day. One hundred and twenty-five sick Mas
sachusetts men were sent direct to Boston
on the hospital ship Relief to-day. and 275
other sick and convalescents also left camp.
Orders were issued to-day to send several
ambulances to the station about 8 O'Clock each
night to gather up sick men there who were
intending to leave camp and did not. or who
were unadvisedly ont OF the hospital. Some Of
these will be kept over night at the detention
hospital. and II they develop fever or SICKNESS
wa w ~ lag iOAu bOSPllul tIC
next morning. .,, .r. Htt., a..
There were six deaths to-day. In the gem
eral hospital. James F. McTiern an. company
G.. Ninth Massachusetts, typhoid. and Louis
Brown. Company d. Twentieth Infantry, ty-
phoid. In the detention hospital. Frank Tink-
ham. Company +. First Illinois. typhoid: Rob-
ert T. Harrison. Company Z, First Illinois. dys-
EMERY. and George Gleason. Company L. Ninth
Massachusetts dysentery. In the First Divis-
ion hospital. John Quinn, Company G. Tenth
Infantry. typhoid.
The rough riders are preparing TO be mus
tered out tomorrow. and Col. Roosevelt will
probably leave camp about Thursday. Their
equipment has, all been turned in, There is a
feeling among them that they have been turned
other volunteers. Col. Mills. the musterine
officer. was ready to muster them out before
act was to be performed. Lieut.. Carr of vir-
ginia has announced his intention OF going to
The following regiments are now encampesd
si 3i binsEe s9satb sh f, FISss: F Tss3s. FRiFai 5Ee %5Ia..
teenth. Sixteenth. Seventeenth. Twentieth.
and a%GfTf3 Tyentytaf HthT rsSiments1 TWonty-fourth
OF cavalry. the First, second Third. Sixth.
Ninth nt I Tenth Ard I.lT Twelfth To1n !; and nd the b rough riders;
First A and F q the Second, F Of the Fourth
First and g and i 'c;ftRe Fourth Fourth a anu Vi '"'
or engineers. six companies of volunteers.
Transportation for the Third and Twentieth
Infantry is ready tonight, and they leave to-
enty- first Infantry have been under orders
to leave for several days for Plattsburg. but
there has been some delay in securing trans
portation. Other regiments under orders to be
ready to leave arc the Third Cavalry and the
Twelfth. Thiyteenth. Seventeenth and
Twenty-second InfahtSy.
Col. McClernand. Assistant Adjutant-Gen:
eral on Gen. Skaters staff. has been notified
that tho General will stop in Washington only
a few days. 1t is, not known whether he in
mand Of the camp or viii only visit Il as COM
mander Of the Department Of the East.