The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-11-22
WHAT 0NE WOMAN SAW
While Working Among the Soldiers
N;;t<ss:- at Camp Wikoff. 4as..
FURLoUGHED MEN WERE TOO ILL

malned In the HOspital-Lnwyer Par
= rich Says the President Made O Pa
rade Inspection.
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New York, Nov. 22.-Before the wa
Investigating commission yesterda.
Major r. +. Ives, the chief surgeon
of the Third division of the Fifth arm,
corps, testified that the condition
of the men in the Cuban campaign wa
as good as could be expected. DR.
Louis A. Stinson, of New York. tolt
of unsanitary conditions at Camp WI
koff. He also testified that soldiers hat
complained to him of having had moth.
ing to eat for "a hours. There was
enough food for well men. but the sick
were not provided for. He knew of AZ
men in one regiment being put on milk
diet when there was no milk in camp
Miss Julia Hasted Chadwick, one OF
the, women who worked for the sick
at Camp Wikoff, submitted a written
statement of the condition she found
there In the latter part of August and
told of the distribution of food and
drink.
WAS 1t possible" Ex-Governor Wood
bury asked, "for the camp to have been
put in better shape by the time you
visited 1t in August?"
, 81 think so. From warning given in
the published accounts of the great
suffering in Cuba the government
might have been prepared for the
emergency"
J Miss Chadwick went on to tell of
The inefficient supply Of bed clothing
bnd underclothes. She heard that there
wss plenty of both in store. but she
knew the soldiers did not have them.
Some OF the men told her they tried
to buy clothes, but they had no money.
I. She said she did not know that SOL
y diers could buy clothes without money,
nor did she know that General Wheeler
had testified that there was clothing,
but that the soldiers would not draw
1t lest the cost be deducted from their
pay
did you hear any complaints from
the regular soldiers?"
mo. they would not complain, but
any one could see they were suffering.
would ask them if there was not
Bomething we could do for them, and
they always replied, oh, we're all
right. Wen get along all right. Don't
trouble about u.s.. Still knew those
men really lacked neccssaries, not to
speak of comforts"
y Miss Chadwick told of men too sick
10 stand who left the hospitals at camp
and were found delirious on the trains
and at the railway stations. Asked
by Ex-Governor Woodbury. il she knew
bf any man who was sent from the hos,
pitai except at his own request, Miss
Chadwick said:
''t saw rien sent from hospitals who
lwerc in no condition to make their de-
Sires known. | am very sure that at
}east seven-tenths of the sick who were
{urioughed were far too i'll to move,
Hnd | met several men who had no
homes who did not wish to leave the
hospitals
"Did YOU hear men say they were
)cnt away against their will?" asked
kx-Governor Woodbury..
! II heard men say 1T Is shame to
bend me away sick as l am"
Il But you did not hear them say they
We're sent away?"
I, mo, but surely that statement meant
HE same thing"
h" Replying to question as to the SYM
eRthy that prevailed between officers
Ind men. Miss Chadwick said:
/, "Among the officers and men of the
regular army saw the most beautiful
and noble devotion. An officer who
looked as Ill as any of his mon came up
10 our carriage and thanked us for our
kindness to his men. You know he
said, we regulars have no friends I
teplied that the whole nation were
their friends, and he burst into tears
hnd walked away"
3 Dr.. Conner asked Miss Chadwick II
The condition OF the sick was not made
worse by the crowd of visitors con-
Dtantly at the camp.
mo. most decidedly not" she re-
Piled The infantry would have
Starved but for the food we gave them.
Hhey were. the majority of them, in
very poor health and could not eat the
Regular army rations."
DIR. William Gilman Thompson, of
New York. said he visited Camp Wi
(sof on Sept. 2 and on Sept. s to learn
how many of the men in the hospitals
There We're likely to be transferred to
fhe hospitals of the city. Asked If he
had any criticism to make Of the con-
huct of the hospitals of AIontauk, he |
Bald:
d"Well. hardly. ] was not there long
Enough to make proper criticism.
was told that there was not sufficient !
aisinfectants. My own observation in
ene instance showed me that this was
] at
btances."
"But yon have been quoted in the
pewspapers all over the country as
having said that you found filthy con-
littOns prevailing"
IAN ] know about the hospital condi-
Hons Is the one instance examined"
'Then you have been misquoted?"
Eyes. sir. I wish to say that I have
not come here to make criticisms in
l merely came to tell you
ahbut the 30 cases of typhoid fever
which came under my observation in
The Presbyterian hospital. In my
opinion they should not have been al
Owed to travel on railroad 100 miles,
lcAteCuE Infection at every STOP +
IAN give you the names of those 80,
Some of the men picked up in the
Itreets of this city and taken to the
Presbyterian hospital We're In the third
week of typhoid fever One was COW
red with bed sores, another died with
n two hours Of his admission and an
'ther within "a hours.'
Samuel L. Parrich, lawyer of this
My. who spent the summer at South
lmpton and visited Camp Wikoff sew
,ral times, was the next witness. He
lived in the Red Cross tent there and
worked independently, doing what he
'ould for the soldiers in camp. He was
lsked by General Beaver If there were
my complaints He answered:
Indeed. no. There never was a more
man than the American
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