Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-08-31
LIST OF THE BOYS
District Soldiers Who Are at Mon
tauk Point and Their Condition.
MEETINGS OF PARENTS And SONS
Difficulty in Finding Men Who Are
in Hospital.
FIR ST BAIT ALTON SICK
Special From Staff Correspondent.


respondent has been deluged with pri-
vate kilograms inquirng about the arrival
of members of the District of Columbia reg
iment. Whenever it has been possible to
reply to these kilograms answers have been
sent But it has been impossible to answer
all inquiries.
1t has been especially impossible to learn
the condition of the sick men in the general
hospital, WHARF, about $50 of the District
men are now being cared for. These men
are scattered in all parts of the general
hospital, the records of which are not kept
in such a way that men can be located The
only way to find any one there is to pass
through the wards inquiring the names of
men from tent to tent, and when it is con-
sidered that this hospital contains couple
Of thousand men the difficulty of finding
any one is realized. A large corps of clerks
are now engaged in rearranging the rec
ords of the hospital, so that men can be
located; but this work progresses slowly
and it will be some time before a better
condition will prevail there.
The First battalion Sick,
The men who are sick in the LIST Bat
talon. District of Columbia Volunteers, the
last arrivals, and who are being cared for
both in the general hospital and in the reg
mental hospital, are as follows:
Company B-Sergts. Albert Eberly, john
Mahany, B. P. Rickenbacker and Geo. E.
Lewis, COrpOralS Fred NJ Smith Jonn
Shuster and Arthur Sherrier, Privates Mil
ton Reed, Emmett Graham, James Craven
Thomas Shaeffer, Albert Hart, Henry Bait
Eel, Bedford Downing. August Happier
Thomas Chism, John Hurdle John Brown
ing, Henry Barrett, Edward Ferry Roman
Anders, Lewis Hauck, James G. Alley,
Thomas Carroll. Anthony seufert. Hugh
Clements Thomas Maddox, Liggi Mays.
Cornelius Townley, William w. Evans. Al
len Hartman, Major Embrey.
Company G-Sergeant Ed. Dutton, Cor
porals Charles Smell. w. L. Lower George
Smiling, George Gilman, Joseph Hodgson,
Privates Earl Yoder, Jos. Cornish, Myatt
Goring. c. ]. Noyes, F. Marshall. Joseph
Gaddis. E. A. Ferris Norman Norman.
John Bethune, P. E. Chamberlain. William
Driver, G. Winans, c. Hart, E. Griffith, Jos
Hartman G. Eichlebuser, S. Bliss j. NJ
Petty. M c. Henry, E. NJ. Phelps, H
Scott, Harry Shinn, H. o. Weiss. a. l..
White. E. E. Landon
Company F-Privates ]. H. Kolb, E W.
Fuller, Barrows, Arthur Lusby. J. Ochil-
koosky, Percy Whitney, John Cronan. J.
V. V. Pierce, Thomas Jenkins Joseph
Bladen, John Munro, H NJ Bennett Isl.
Hayre, F. Paul. R. Steadman. Harry Cam
eron Joseph Duvall. William Gavin. A.
Heitmuller. Thomas Serrin, Robert Colds
borough. George Kyle, Joseph Gutenberg.
Rudolph Scheitlein, E. w. Short, Charles
\. tucker. William Myers, Geo. Rudolph,
Carl Rottman, E. C. Kaufman. Harvey
Cox, Francis Maloy, James Thorpe. Bert
Bouser, Walter Brown. Albert Murphy.
Second Lieutenant William R. Harrison,
Sergeants Charles Lyman and r. II War,
den. Corporal ]. C. Maley
company A-Sergeants W. F. Gallagher
and H. W. Vermilion. Corporal C. w.
Gynne, Privates S. Carpenter. w. E Sacks,
q Z. Meade, f. L. Gooding, William An
derson. ]. A. Miller, VIM. Broderick. Thos.
Jones. Claude Allen, A. Van Ruth. VIM.
White. James c. Barry, A McPike and
James L. Brown. In nearly all of these
cases the trouble is fever or diarrhoea.
Stirring scenes.
Scenes are enacted here that will live
long in the memory of any one who has
witnessed them. The stage has never pre-
scented such pictures as are to be observed
constantly about the hospitals, the deten-
ton camp or the station where those long
separated meet for the first time
Auditor James T Petty of the District of
Columbia arrived here this afternoon to see
his son. corporal in the District regi-
ment- Mr. Petty went to General Wheelers
headquarters TO get permission to see his
son, VINO was in the detention camp and
under the strict surveillance of the auaran-
tine laws He got pass which permitted
him to call for his son at the entrance to
the camp where he was to be allowed to
see the young man at a distance of six feet
in order to make sure he might not get anv
infection should the returning soldier carry
Cuban contagion in his clothing Mr. Petty
did not read his pass very carefully, and
when he climbed to the big hawser that is
stretched about the entrance of the daten-
ton camp he showed ii to a colored guard .
who eyed 1t a whole minute. The auditor
thought he was to go in the camp and he
proceeded to do so. the guard looking on as
II the visitor could be depended upon to do
what the pass allowed him. Mr. Petty soon
found his son. whom he was to keep away
from distance of six feet but he rushed
forward threw his arms about the boy and
in violation of every quarantine law kissed
him. 1t was happy meeting and if any
officer saw that the law was being violated
he had not the heart to interfere.
The father of Private Smith of Company
Il called at the entrance to the detention
camp this evening TO see his son. who was
in the LIST Battalion, and who will not be
allowed TO communicate with the outer
world until next Friday morning. Mr. Smith
was told by the army officer in charge that
he might see his son at a distance of six
feet. The father was greatly pleased at this
prospect, being assured that his boy was
we'll by an officer of the regiment who was
passing at the time. The boy was called.
and the officer stood there silently as the
father and son met.
IT am sorry said the officer but you
must not approach your boy nearer than
six feet"
1t is difficult to describe that uniting Fa-
Their and son looked at each other a mo-
ment without speaking.
The officer looked at them, and, turning
his back. walked to his tent; but the guard
stood there and the visitor complied with
the regulations.
'D-n iti' said the officer as he entered
his tent and hammered his fist on his desk.
If any one wants my job he can have it.
/ would thousand times rather fight Span
iards than stand between fathers, mothers
q nd their sons as have to do here"
One of the most pathetic scenes that has
occurred here took place today, when a
mother came to the general hospital to
find her son. who had been taken there.
Several hours search threw no light upon
the whereabouts of the boy, though it
was well known he had been carried in the
hospital. This experience Is not unusual
just now. the trouble being that no rec
ord is kept showing the location of SOL
diers In the hospital wards. The mother
had become fatigued by the anxiety at
tending her long search. She was offered
a seat by one of the nurses and as she
rested she heard conversation between
two doctors.
He died and was buried without being
identified" she heard one of them remark.
There was reply, but she did not hear
it. Her head dropped as she wondered
whether such had been the fate of her
boy. 4 nurse had stood beside her, and
hearing the doctors remarks knew what
affected the visitor She placed her arm
about the woman and stood there silepf1x