The times., 1898-08-31
take Home THEIR SICK
Private Means to Aid Camp
Alger COnyaleScents.
THE VICTIMS OF FEVER
The New York Regiment Is Again
Disappointed and Great Is the In
diGnntiOn Thereat-Death of Na-
fhanieI Warner AHGther Evidence
OF Negleet-COnrt-Mar rtiaI Fin dings

Private enterprise has stepped in at
Camp Alger, the pest-ridden spot that
forms one of the many disgraces for
which official mismanagement and an
over-fondness for red tape are response
BILE during the war, and promises 10 do in
a day or two that which a month of al
legged heroic effort on the part of Govern
ment officials has been unable to accom-
plish-
A few determined men have come to the
rescue and will deliver their sons and
neighbors from the fate which awaits
them if they are allowed to remain in
camp The parents and friends of the re-
naming sick of the First Connecticut and
Gen. Goblin will have specIai trains at the
camp tomorrow TO deliver from the divi-
sion hospital the sufferers and take them
where they can receive proper treatment
and attention.
Caring for Their Sick.
Only one car, sleeper, fitted out with
all the necessities for treating the pa
tients while en- route, will be required to
take away the First Connecticut boys,
and they will be moved to Hartford.
Three cars will suffice to move all the
sick Pennsylvania troops who are strong
enough to take the journey, and train
| of sIeepers will leave for Philadelphia
| tomorrow. These departures will leave
something over a hundred patients in the
| hospital, and hospital trains will prob
ably be provided for other regiments
! when they move so that when the last
regiment leaves the camp only few pa
tients will remain. and they will be taken
to the hospital al Fort Mye-.
The movement Of troops from the camp
is proceeding satisfactorily. The Eighth
Pennsylvania left yesterday for Camp
Meade, at MiddletGwn. Pa. ard the Thir-
| teenth Pennsylvania and probably the
First Battalion of the Seventh Ohio will
leave today for the same point
Mad Lot of Soldiers.
The maddest men in camp, and proba-
bly, on the continent yesterday, were the
members CT the sixty-fifth New York
They expected to leave for Buffalo Mon
day but the orders were changed. and
they were on the card to leave today
Now come orders from the War Depart
| ment ordering that they remain in camp
| until the clerical work in connection with
| the granting of furloughs 10 the men for
| thirty days. TO take effect upon their ar
| rival at Buffalo. is finished. This will
| take several days, and If the men gei
| away in the early part of next week they
! think they will be lucky.
I'VE have been about the worst treated
| regiment in the country" said an indig-
nant officer yesterday, and now we are
allowed to stay in this camp and sicken
and die simply through red tape on the
part of officials. and, do our duty as we
| would we are helpless in their hands.
| Now that We have q chance to get home
| when there is hardly a possible chance for
| fighting, the tedious routine of the War
| Department delays u.s. We will have 10
remain here and see our companions sick
| en-. and in the end furloughs will be
granted TO dead men. and others will need
! a bugler to blow taps over their last rest
| ing place when they get home infected
with the disease they have contracted
while waiting for the War Department to
fix up furloughs.''
..Nat" Warmers Death.
The boys were already wrought UP over
bad news when the order OBTAINING them
| was made known. Private Nathaniel
| Warner, postmaster of Cold Springs, N
| Y, and one of the most popular men OF
| the regiment, was stricken down with ty-
| phoid several days ago, and when the
| hospital train left for Buffalo Monday he
was taken from the division hospital on
stretcher, being too weak to be moved
1 IN an ambulance, and borne over the hot
| dusty and tortuous route to Dunn Ior.
ing and placed on the train. Such brutal
| treatment was no new sight to the soldie,
| ooys at Camp Alger, but protesting mur-
| murs were heard all about the station
| When the litter came in sight Monday
| night telegram reached the regimental
| headquarters of the Sixty-fifth that MAT,
warner was dying and probably could not
| last the journey out, and the sorrnwful
chaplain will have to add another name
10 MS list of dead with the mental note
not or disease but of neglect
Secret Ballot.
a secret ballot was taken in the Firs,
New Jersey yesterday to learn the sn;ri,
Oh the regiment. whether or not they de-
sired to remain in the service with mo
prospect Of fighting. The result will prob.
| AMY not be made public for several davs
put positive information was obtained
that more than 50 per cent of the men
wanted to be mustered out at once.
| Three Years in Prison.
The general court-martial findings in
the case Of Private Floyd ". Gray. Com
pany F, Sixty-fifth New York, charged
with robbing the mails at Camp AIger.
Were made public yesterday He is dis
honorably discharged from the service.
forfefting all pay and allowances and
| sentenced to three years at hard labor
IN the prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
Two Typhoid Victims.
Typhoid claimed two more victims at
the Fort Myer hospital yesterday. They
were Privates John A. Boyd, Company E.
| Ninth Massachusetts, and George Neil
1 Company A, Sixth Pennsylvania.
His Relatives Unknown.
The name of another of the Camp AIger
| boys was recorded among the deaths at
the Office of the health officer of the Dis
trict of Columbia yesterday. He was
James f. Smith. private of one of the
regiments of the camp.
The death certificate stated that the
| young man was twenty-five years of age.
| that he was an Albanian, but that the
names Of his parents were unknown and
| 1t consequently became the lot Of the
! District government TO bear the funeral
/ expense.
The death certificate records the cause
| of death as typhoid fever. and states that
| the case was taken from the train on the
2Sth of the present month. He was at
| the hospital only one day. On the 18th of
| August, or the day following his arrival
at the Washington Barracks he sue