Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-17
STATE HOUSE.
Gen. Richards Arranges for
Coming Of Sick Soldiers.
An Insurance Company Refused Re-
newal Of License in Maine.
Il Now Asks ier Receiver Creditors Of Bay
State Company More Hepsivl.

General Richards left on the after
noon train. Tuesday, for Portland.
where he had appointed to meet Mayor
Randall and Surgeon General Maybury
In regard to the disposal Of the pa
tients who will arrive from Chicka-
manga, Wednesday. to come to their
homes in this State to recuperate
from the effects OF the fevers and
other illnesses they have contracted.
The men. about 50 in number it is
thought. will arrive in Portland at 5
O'clock in the afternoon. IN two spec
ial cars and what will be done with
them has not yet been decided, as the
state Of affairs that exists among them
is not known. Neither IL it known
who are the men, nor where they are
to CO.
Through some oversight the officers
at Chickamauga have not notified the
State authorities even OF the departure
Of the men from the hospitals there.
for Maine. SO 1t is not known whether
the men are well enough to take care
Of themselves when they arrive, or
whether they are SO weak f4bm the eff
fects Of the illness, that they will need
assistance.
AS nothing more than the fact that
they started Is learned, and that
through the papers and private tele-
grams, their reception in the State will
have to be arranged In the dark,
though it will not long remain that
way. as General Richards has arranged
every particular so that whether the
men are well or in the last stages of
disease, they can be cared for.
In order to ascertain how many men
are in the party. where they are go
ing, and the condition they are in,
that the Maine officials may know
what action to take. General Richards
has ordered Lieut.. w. E. Riker. COM
mander of the Ambulance Corps, to re-
port to him at Portland, with six men,
Wednesday morning. Lieut.. Riker
will be sent to Boston to meet the par
ty. and he will wire General Richards
all that is desired to be learned.
Arrangement will be made by Gen
eral Richards and Mayor Randall in
Portland, to care for the men that are
not able to care for themselves, and
in prospect of all being in a very low
.cessditibn. every arrangement will be
made that each man in the party may
be cared for. 1t is not known whether
the armory will be used as a place
Ewiaere cots may be erected. or a ward
In the Maine General Hospital can be
secured. At the station will be six of
the Ambulance Corps, who, under the
direction of the commander, can handle
all the men who are not able to walk.
1t is understood that one car will be
run through to Rockland. Immediately
after the train arrives, but what will
be done with the others is not even
guessed, under The arrangement that
has been made by the officers of the
regiment.
However, it makes no difference who
the men are, nor where they are bound
in this Sate. neither of their condi-
ton; they will be cared for in the best
manner possible that can be arranged
by General Richards, aided by the hos
pitality of Portland. which has long
been tested and found to exist in
an abundance Between General Rich
ards, Mayor Randall and Colonel May
bury, assisted by Lieut.. Riker and his
corps, the men will suffer not the least
amount of lack Of attention, SO the
folks, at home need not worry about
their boys, so long as they are in
Maine.
AS number of Lewiston and Au-
burn men will be on the train, detail
of men of the Ambulance Corps will
meet them when they arrive there.
If any of the men who arrive are In
a weak condition the State officials vii
arrange so that they may be left IN
the Maine General Hospital, that they
may receive proper care before sending
them to- their homes. OF course the
men !willAnot be obliged to stay at the
hospital but in case Surgeon Genera
Maybury thinks proper. the officer In
command of the men will be strongly
advised to have them remain.
Lieut. Colonel Morton is not with the
train as he preferred to remain with
his regiment, now that he is slowly i'm
proving in health. 81
Major Ulmer Of Rockland, who has
been exceedingly i'll, will be taken di'
rectiy to his home.
1t is understood that the party o.
patients is under the care Of HOspita
Stewart Ernest H. Wheeler. who Is ii
private life, a practicing physician IL