Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-11-16

the command over to your" suggested
Governor Beaver, to which General
Breckinridge responded: mo. he did not.
do not think there Is any Improperly
In saying that he could not have done
So"
EVILS AT CAMP THOMAS.
DR.. Conner questioned General Breckin-
ridge about the question OF sinks at
Camp Thomas. when the troops LETT
there. saying that 1t had been represent
ed to the commission that some 1900 OF
them had been found to be uncovered.
The General replied that necessarily
some or the sinks had been left uncover
ed: that 1t was difficult 10 clean up after
large army evacuating a camp. He
said. however, that he had foreseen this,
and had asked $500 from Washington
for the purpose of putting the sinks in
proper condition. This money had not
arrived before his departure, but he sup
posed IL had been received later, and mad
been used by mis- successor for the pur-
pose for which 1T was intended.
Captain Robert w. Dodd, who was mas
ter OF transportation at Montauk Point,
apd DR.. McGruder. local physician, were
also examined at the morning session.
They testified as. to Camp Wykoff and
Camp Alger conditions, but nothing Ok I'M
portance was developed.
HOSPITAL ABUSES
DR.. William G. Weaver. OF the Ninth
Pennsylvania Volunteers, was the hrst
| witness at the afternoon session, ana ne
| proved an important one, as he gave de-
| tailed Information concerning the conduct
of regimental hospital at Camp Thomas.
DR.. Weaver said that typhoid-fever had
broken out about June 18th. and that II
| had increased from that time until Au-
| gust Goth. There had been about 60 cases
OF this disease In the regiment, and TWEEN
| ty-eight or thirty deaths. The Doctor
] said there was an insufficient supply OF
drugs, and that OF times he failed to get
what was needed. Quinine was one q
| the articles of which there had been a
| scarcity. and 10000 pills were secured
from home. He said that at one time
there were fifty-six typhoid patients in the
| regimental hospital, because there was
no accommodation for them in the divi
| sion hospital At another time there were
sixty-seven fever patients in the company
| tents, for whom admission could not II
secured in any hospital, divisional or regi
| mental
In summing up the causes of diseas
| in the camp, DR.. Weaver included over
work Of the men as one. He also ex
| pressed the opinion that the water from
Chickamauga creek was polluted.
SPECIMEN RED-TAPEISM.
DR.. Weaver related his difficulties 81
| securing tents for the regimental hos
pital, and said that in one case Chief
Quartermaster Lee had refused TO ALLOW
the regiment to have a tent which wa
stored, and which was its property
Colonel Lee said the tent could not b
taken out, except in the proper militar
manner. but the regiment had never bee
able to ascertain what he required, an
had never secured the tent. The defec
was supplied by taking the officers mes
tent for hospital purposes.
General Beaver expressed the oplnio
in this connection that this conduct o
the part of Colonel Lee was an outrage
and he said the only mistake that IN
doctor and his colonel had made wa
that "they had not taken the colonel b
the nape of the neck and kicked him OF
of the camp
The witness expressed the opinion tha
the hospital facilities should have bee
furnished by the government, adding tha
not an article of property in his hospit;
had been thus supplied the citizens {
Pennsylvania buying beds, blanket
sheets, and all the food, ice, and mil
that had been used there. They had e'
pended over 5000 on the hospital alone.
TRANSPORTS OVERCROWDED.
Major Louis A. Lagarde, a regular arm
, surgeon, testified that transports takr
: troops to Cuba were overcrowded. Q
his steamer, the Saratoga, sixteen cas-
, of fever had developed going over. y
| | spoke highly of the work done by Il
Red-Cross Society.