New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-21
TENTS AT WIKOFF TO CLOSE.
WAR RELIEF ASSOCIATION DIsCONTIN-
UES THE GREATER PART OF
ITS WORK.
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IT is VOTED TO PRESENT a LAUNCH TO MAJOR
QUICKER AT SANTIAGO. WHO rs IN COMMAND

IT is VOTED TO PRESENT A LAUNCH TO MAJOR
FUCKER AT SANTIAGO WHO rs IN COMMAND
OF The YELLOW FEVER HOSPITAL
Al the regular weekly meeting of the womcns
National War Relief Association. held Yesterday
IN the Windsor Hotel. Mrs. Walworth for the first
time IN some weeks was able to preside There
were present Miss Gould Mrs Mclean. Mrs. Rus
cell Sage Mrs Harmon n Hull. Mrs Washing
ton A Roehling. Mrs. c. r. Raymond. Miss Eliza
beth MarQuand Mrs. Daniel 5 Lamont, Mrs G
L. Gillespie and Miss Anne Rhodes
Mrs Waworth. who went 70 Montauk on August
T. reported her intention OF closing her ablish-
ment at Camp Wkof. She had already placed
her tents in charge OF Major Parker. ~ the 22d
United States Regular Infantry. having ceased 70
distribute supplies Sunday last ~ Il o'clock
The convalescent table however. will be continued:
the services OF the two trained whose duty
&, is 10 take the dead in charge, Will also be
tanned These nurses have done incalcuable
vice I, was said.
One Of the interesting and important feat
Of the meeting the reading Of letter
from Major Quicker In command OF the yellow
fever hospital Santiago. In this letter the
Major indicated the extreme need Of a launch for
the hospital. which is situated two miles from
shore. Lately he has been unable 10 get the
steam launch which used 10 be his disposal. and
as ne Is dependent boat service for all land
ncations. he has suggested the timeness
AZ the Major reports that In time OF high wind
and Indictment weather the hospital is often with
out the proper articles OF food and the call for
II appeared urgent the association voted TO present
launch for hospital use. and agents already
work looking for suitable
a report read from Mrs Gertrude Rhoades.
reported ably Of he condiiions here The
chef continues 10 give satisfaction 70 Major De
Witt the surgeon commanding
Mrs. Wall the associations regular visitor al
Fort Hamilton. Bedlow's Island and Governor
Island. also reports favorably % the condition In
those places.
Or. A F. Gallants report Of what Is being done
that through the courtesy OF Major Appel he
camp has received about ~ per cent of the soldiers
who have been sent here from Montauk The
camp also offers convalescents from all the city
hospitals such and aid within its
power
The Sir Thomas Upton fund has given the asso-
plies TO Santiago on its large yacht and through
II the needed launch will he conveyed TO its dest-
nation.
The Army hospital steamship Relief Will sail to-
morrow from the wharf at the end Of Atlantic-ave
Brooklyn. She will carry medical supplies 10 Porto
Rico and Santiago. and will bring hack sick sol
diers.
Three hundred sick soldiers brought from
Montauk yesterday by the ambulance steamer
shinnecock Some Of the patients We're taken TO
Miss Helen Coulds hospital in Fffteenth-st, and
others were distributed the hospitals Of the
city or sent to their homes. At Jersey tity one
hundred and ninety sick placed aboard a
hospital train, consisting Of thirteen Pullman sleep
ers in charge OF Surgeon Major Charles Richards,
who had received orders 10 take the men 20 Fort
Myer Virginia. The men nearly al belonged TO
the Regular Army, and only forty were unable to