The evening times., 1898-06-04

New York. June 4-Following is the
breakfast menu served at Camp Black
Yesterday, with the cost of the food In
quantity to feed 1900 men, which is the
number now at Camp Black:
BREAKFAST
One boiled potato, l-Sc.
Two biscuits Of hardtack, l-2c. Butter for ONT
biscuit Lee.
Two thirds Ct a cup of coffee without milk. ONT
spoonful of sugar, 12c.
DINNER.
One-half cup of bad soup, &c.
One piece of fish, two by three inches and one
inch thick. SC.
One boiled potato. 1-sc.
Two biscuits of hardtack, l2c.
SUPPER.
One big spoonful of hash, Sc.
Two biscuits Of hardtack. 12c.
fwo-thirds of cup of coffee without mix. i-zc.
The United States Government is feed
ing these soldiers and allows 80 cents per
man per day for ratiens. The cost of the
breakfast, dinner and supper for each
man in this company was IL IA cents and
the soldiers did their own cooking If all
the men at Camp Black Jared SO poorly
their food yesterday cost S5s7.5O.
Three thousand times SO cents is Vito
Thus are fortunes made in time of war
The men in this company Were actually
hungry last night. When they enlisted
they were strong and healthy, and natur-
ally they had good appetites. Outdoor
file and the exercise of drilling has put
a sharper edge on their appetites. So
they were hungry last night after their
alleged supper, and they went to bed
hungry; for they had spent all their
money Some declare they do not get
n l1nlpSS they bIlV additional
food at the canteens. And they have
spent all Their money for extra food at
the canteens. Some of them have daily
Paid out more than twice the amount
they earned as soldiers.
The variation in this daily menu is beef
steak served two or three times a week.
The soldiers of one company of the
Twenty-second said yesterday the beef
steak is so tough they cannot eat it.
That these soidiers are healthy, and
therefore have good appetites. was proved
By the surgeons report for May. issued
yesterday morning. Despite the deluge of
rain during the month. less than 1 per
cent of the men have been ill. Had u
not been for the epidemic Of measles in
the First Regiment. the percentage of
sickness would have been much lower.
Private Place OF the Twentieth Sepsr-
ate Company. was taken to the hospital
with well-developed measles. His COM
pany has been quarantined-
Earnest and ambitious patriots of the
Twenty-second count on the other fell
lows measles to send them to the Phil
ippines.
While the Twenty-second bears the FRS
Regiment fl-will, its men and officers
say that if the disease keeps tht
First Regiment in quarantine. tn,
Twenty-second will surely be sent to Ma
Mia. They understand that one NOR
New York regiment will be ordered to tn
Philippines and that the choice lies be
tween the Tweaty-second and the First.
Schuyler Schieffelin. of New York, VIII
was an aide-de-camp on Gen. Butts staff
with the rank of major, has been ap
pointed second lieutenant of Company A
Forty-seventh Regiment. The appoint
ment is temporary. and was made in or
der that the major might be mustered in
As soon as he takes the oath he will e
to San Francisco to join Gen. Greene
whom he will accompany to Manila a:
an aide on his staff.
Sergt. Edward l.. Martin. of Company
G, Forty-seventh Regiment. was Marie,
at midnight last night. to Miss Mari,
Elizabeth Lee. of Brooklyn. The cere
mony was performed in st. Thomas Epis
copal Church. Brooklyn. by the Rev. Mr.
Jones. The soldier bridegroom returned
to camp today, and. although his com
rades noisily welcomed him, he bore hi:
blushins honors meekly.