New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-17
RELIEF WORK NOTES.
SOLDIERS COMFORT COMMITTEE AT
GRAND CENTRAL ACTIVE
TERDAY

MEN STILL. FED AT THE sEvENTY-F1Rsrs AR
MoRY-HEBREws FUR1OUGHED-RF'ooN-
cENrRApos AGAIN IN MED.
"Goodby heaven bless you; you have been kind
IN me-" the expressive sentiment written yes
terday by a soldier in the address-book OF Edward
Belknap who has charge OF the refreshment car
n the Grand Central Station. The car was placed
4, the station by the Soldiers Comfort Committee
and Is supported largely by the Board Of Trade
and TRANSFORMATION and the Red Cross. 1t is one
Of the popular resorts in the city for returned
soldiers The large Red Cross banners on the
car are not unfamiliar 10 the men in blue. and they
fock there in large numbers.
Miss Helen Gould visited the place yesterday and
shook hands with the who were present.
They all know OF her and they freely expressed
their complimentary opinions about her, and con-
graduated each other having the privilege
Of knowing such American woman" She said
she glad that they were being so we'll cared
for
At the table were seated six saunt, weary sick
looking men Not one present seemed TO have
enough energy 10 carry him 10 his homo. They were
OF the Sth New-York Regiment. and on being ques-
toned said their one hope was 20 be mus
tered out Of service. az they were physical wrecks
while others whose patriotism had not yet been
quenched by their suffering. said they were weary
and sick but should their country's honor demand
1, they would not hesitate TO 60 back 10 camp.
One. Italian by birth. was only out of the
hospital four hours. having been one Of the lS5
that brought into the city sick with fever.
Out OF fourteen hundred men In one regiment, the
return Of only four hundred was registered One
who was 70 take the next train for his home said
return She has been teleRra Dhed that | am dead
True enough II would have been II ! had spent one
city unconscious. and have Just left the hospital
where stayed for two weeks" o, -, ...o
eggs a cup OF cocoa and two dozen buttered crack
ers and was asked II ne would not like glass OF
milk. This he refused. the ground that he sub
sisted milk alone for fifteen days. and could
not endure more Of H. The same man said that
while III in the hospital his clothes and blan-
kets stolen.
Another convalescent who returned August 10
weighing 1913 pounds said that he lost thirty seven
pounds while he was In Cuba but had gained hf-
since he returned home.
One who had been cook In the Sth Regiment
before he took the fever said that 100 men were
made 10 live on twenty pounds Of meat day and
never bit Of fresh beef and bread unless
the captain bought II himself He also stated that
In the morning the barrel that contained the water
he used for cooking had sediment two inches
deep in the bottom
Resides the tales 0. suffering that were told
many interesting experiences were related. one
showed hat with a bullet hole in the top and
some OF the Cuban SOL the brim. and all ornn-
inent OF an ordinary pin. stuck into the side by
Cuban girl Two months have added some rust
70 Il, the hat having been used a pillow on the
bare ground night after night but the owner said
ne would always keep ii as souvenir OF the
senorita
ance IN broad-brmmed. high-crowned straw hats
made and given them by two Cuban young
women. who allowed their photographs TO accom-
rany the hats TO the United States
Mr. Carey. porter OF the Hudson River Rail-
road who Is veteran Of the Civil War assists
ar. Belknap in the care OF the soldiers.