Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-08-04
Troops Scheduled For Porto Rico
May Not Go.
ORDER ISSUED MAY Be RESCINDED
Experience Of Second Brigade on
March to Manassas.
ONE DEATH REPORTED
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.


CAMP ALGER, Va, August 4, 1898.
1t Is not by any means certain that the
Sd Virginia, list New Jersey, LIST Rhode Is
land and 4th Missouri are to go to Porto
Rico as indicated In the press dispatches
of yesterday. Announcement was made in
The Evening Star and other afternoon
papers that the regiments indicated We're
to be sent to Porto Rico, together with
many other regiments from other camps,
for garrison duty 1t was said that an
order had been issued from the adjutant
generals office to that effect. Up to
o'clock this afternoon the officials here had
received no information other than the
press dispatch referred to that any such
move Is contemplated, and many Of them
express full confidence that none of the
troops of the I'd Corps will be sent away
from Camp Alger within three months.
Major General Graham ard Major Gen
eIal Butler went into Washington early
this morning for the express purpose, it is
said, of prevailing upon the adjutant gen.
eral to rescind the order detaching four
regiments from the I'd Corps. Both men
are said to be very anxious to have the
present corps organization held intact.
A second report, not less surprising to the
rank and file of General Graham's COM
mand, reached camp this morning from
Manassas. 1t was to the effect that the
site selected near Bristoe station was likely
to prove unsanitary, and to prove as in
imical tG the health of the enlisted men as
the present site. All efforts to have this
report authoritatively affirmed or denied
failed of results. AS neither General Ora
ham nor General Butler is in camp, their
subordinates did not feel warranted in dis
cussing the subject If the story should
prove true, it is likely that additional
marching rations will be sent to the I'd Di-
vision and that the troops will be kept
tln -,
good sanitary location shall have been dis
covered.
1t may be that no more troops will be
sent ou: from Camp Alger until final ar
engagements have been made for installing
the corps at either Mt. Gretna or Sea
Girt.
One Result of Move.
One consequence of the outgoing of the
ID Division yesterday was considerable con-
fusion in the two division hospitals today.
Numbers of men, according to reports sent
to the chief surgeon from the regiments on
the march, have fallen out before the di-
vision had moved five miles. Many such
cases were brought to the hospitals this
morning, and when added TO the number
of typhoid patierts reported sir ce yester-
day gave the surgeons more than enough
to do. AT O'Clock this afternoon no list
had been prepared of the new cases of
typhoid. The number, however, will doubt
less prove to be almost as large as that or
yesterday
In order to prevent a further spread of
typhoid in the companies of his regiment
Col. S. NJ. WEIGH, jr., of the Goth New York
had the Sd Battalion, consisting of Com
panies E, K, l. and NJ, move 10 new quar-
tiers the crest of a hill near the regi-
mental hospital. Most of the cases reported
from that regiment have come from Com
pany +, and Col. WEIGH and Maj. Briggs,
the regimental surgeon, have concluded that
they are directly traceable to the condition
of the ground on which the Sd Battalion is
encamped. The conditions were such in the
old camp of the battalion that it was i'm
possible to dig new sinks, all the ground
having been once worked over.