Evening star., 1898-08-29
ALL OF THEM THERE
First Battalion Reached Montauk
Point Last Night.
One DEATH ON The TRIP
Colonel Harries Reports Himself as
All Right.
MAJOR NEUMEYER'S WORK

The entire District regiment is at
Montauk Point The Minnawaska,
with Colonel Harries and his staff,
arrived off the point last night. Mrs.
Harries received a dispatch late last
night from Colonel Harries saying
he was all right
Srecial Correspondence of The Evening Star
CAMP wIKOFF, MONTAUK POINT. N.
Y. August 29.-Todays arrivals at Camp
Wikof. Montauk Point. included the 1st
Battalion of the District of Columbia Vol
unteers, one battalion of United States en-
gineers. attached to the 9Th Army Corps;
Troops A, C. D and F of the I'd Cavalry,
the men who operated the balloons at San
tiago and ninety-five men of the 33d Mich
ig&n Volunteers
These were debarked from the United
States transport Minnawaska, which left
Santiago de Cuba on August %. There
were forty-nine hospital cases on board the
transport. typhoid and dysentery being the
prevailing diseases. Private Bohlman,
Company B, District of Columbia Volun-
teers, died on the passage from Santiago.
Major Neumeyer's Work.
Mr.. Edwin H Neumeyer, in charge of
The Evening Stars relief work, arrived
here yesterday, and Immediately began
operations. With him was Mr. Charles E.
Swigart.
Major Neumeyer was at once driven to
the detention camp, where the District
troops are quartered, and conferred WI.
the officers there to see what the men need
He arrived while lunch was being served,
and was assured that the regiment was
getting everything it needs. Mr.. Neumeyer.
however, made a list of articles he thought
would add to the mems comfort, and in the
evening left for New York, where he will
make purchases and forward these sup
plies to the camp at once
Mr. James E. Bell, DIR. H. L. E Johnson
and Mr.. ]. Harrison johnson. the commit
tee from the Citizens Association, also
reached camp yesterday and made a care
1Cl investigation of the condition of the
men.
Doctor JOhnsOn's Diagnosis.
Dr. H L. E. JOIN son has been through
lhe camp OF the District regiment, and had
every opportunity to inspect the men and
the conditions under which they are living.
He has talked TO the sick and emacIated
snip has done much to undermine their
health. he says their condition is NOT eo
Dad as he expected ii would be- He be-
heVes they will rapidly pick up under the
conditions in which they are now living.
The fact is, two days rest in comfortable
tents and the good diet being given the
men, together with the fact that the men
are IN their own country and with pros
pects or soon being a. home has had q
wonderful effect in putting them in good
spirits. Ihe faces of the tagged out and
em&ciated soldiers have undergone a Won
oerluI change since they landed. They are
hopeful. and rest and good diet is making
new men CT them.
Speaking TO The Star correspondent of
the District soldiers and the conditions nm
der which they were living here Dr. john
sen said:
The location of this camp l regard as
excellent The hilly country here gives
splendid drainage where the District SOL
diers have their tents
nave found the hospital admirably
conducted. 1t is clean and comfortable and
Heclclnes are abundant in the dispensary
The doctors and nurses are attending to
their business.
The District boys show very plainly the
through from privation of food. oyerwor<
and climatic influences. Improper food has
greatly reduced their strength A number
OF them are very homesick, suffering from
nostalgia, as it is called. Still. while 1ha
boys are very thin and many are ern.ciat-
ed, they certainly did not appear so hag-
gard as the pen pictures 1 have read of
them led me to believe. 1 think the best
thing that could be done for them would he
10 let them go home and be among their
friends.
These men will shortly be restored to
health" he continued. What troubles
them chiefly are intestinal disturbances i,;-
cident 10 the climate in which they havs
been, together with improper food and the
weakness that follows typhoid fever which
has been SO common among them. If they
r-main away from home much longer the
result VIII be an exaggeraIion of their de-
pressed mental condition, wnicn, in some
cases, might result in the lnelancholia
state When among their friends and ac-
qGalntances they will all recover PROMPTLY
with proper diet and suitable treatment
FOR the profound anemia from which they
suffer"
Food Plentiful.
Food is plentiful enough here now. A
storehouse 800 by thirty feet in dimen-
sions is stacked with food that can be had
In abundance by every regiment in ca1np.
j. the regiments do not get these supplies
1t is the result of some fault within the
rcEin- cnts themselves.
The army ration is issued regularly. 1t
consists of fresh beef. pork, bacon. stalt
beet -four or bread, beans peas, rice and
honaiIy. potatoes. oricEs, canned tomatoes.
roasted coff e, sugar, vinegar, salt and
pepper. Soap is also supplied.
For four days $3.50 quarts of milk have
been received here daily. 1t is of the bes.
quality, and the quantity at present is
enough to give each man in camp one pint
of milk day. Twenty thousand Ioaves of
bread are co ming here daily, and as there
are not over 1G.O0c men in camp that allows
more than = loaf for each man The
bread is pretty good. but not of the best
quality. 1t has been delivered by contract.
but ovens are being erected so that after
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