Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1898-09-20
NOW RESTING At Rome.
Members of the Fifty-Second Iowa
Volunteers Get Furloughs
of Thirty Days.
WILL RECEIVE FULL PAY DURING TIME.
Visit to the Troops Mt Jacksonville
Promotions Upon Merit-Competi-
ton Mt Live Stock Show-Other
Notes of Interest.
Tsp ecial Correspondence

49,
diers of the Fifty-second Iowa volun-
teers are now resting at home. Their
furloughs are dated to-day and are
good for 80 days. The war department
allows SO-day furloughs to troops that
did not leave the United States and
60 days to those that served outside
the United States. They receive full
pay, $3.50 month, during that time
and an allowance for rations of rs
cents day. There is also small al
lowance for travel rations, and when
they return to Camp Mckinley Octo-
Der II to be mustered out they will
receive the balance of the six months
clothing allowance in cash, SO that all
told each enlisted man will receive be-
tween $50 and $50 and commissioned
and oncommissioned officers in pro-
portion. The noncommissioned Off
GERS receive clothing allowance, but
the commissioned officer gets moth
ing but his salary, and from that must
pay for his own clothing and subsist-
ence.
State Bears Expense.
The state bears the expense of send
ing the boys home from Des Moines,
and will probably bring them back to
be mustered out and return them
again to their homes in the same way.
The state pays the railway companies
one cent per mile for the transporta-
ton of soldiers, while they would pay
three cents if they went on their own
private account. Gov. Shaw and Adjt.
Gen. Byers therefore concluded that
the state could better afford to pay
the railway fare than to compel the
boys to pay it out of their petty al
lowance from the government. The
paymaster came and paid the men for
August just before they left camp.
Health Improved.
The health of the regiment has
greatly improved since it arrived in
Camp Mckinley, though many cases
of fever and other illness have been
reported since, and about so men are
in the hospitals, and that number
has been there most of the time.
though at times it has been lower
Cottage hospital, operated by the la
dies of the sanitary commission, and
the Hyde Park sanitarium. operated
by the local Red Cross society. are
caring for all the hospitals will hold,
about 30 each, while some of the
milder cases are in the hospitals in
camp. In the two outside hospitals
trained nurses are supplied, and in
addition to the regular regimental
surgeons Gov. Shaw has secured the
services of DR.. r. A. Patchin and Drs
J. T. and Crayke Priestley. we'll known
as among the most skillful physicians
in the state, to assist in the care o.
the soldiers. The boys are therefore
getting the best possible care.
Gone to Jacksonville.
Col. Egbert, of Davenport, and DR..
Powers, Of Reinbeck, have gone to
Jacksonville to examine the condition
of the troops in camp there, the For.
ty-ninth and Fiftieth Iowa regiments
and will report to Gov. Shaw upon his
return to Iowa this week. A success
full effort was made to secure hospi.
tai train from there to bring the sick
Iowa soldiers home with the least pos.
sible discomfort, and this was part
Of the purpose of Gov. shaw's visit to
Washington. The sick were all sent
home, the train arriving in Des
Moines last Friday. He and Senator
Allison went there to ascertain def
initely just what the government
wanted to do with the Fort y-ninth and
Fifty-frst regiments.
Soldiers Divided.
The requests, demands, in fact, for
their discharge are increasing at
home, while the soldiers themselves
are divided. Some want to come home,
while others realize that they enlisted
for certain time to serve their coun.
try in connection with the war with
Spain, not to do this or that, but what
ever they were ordered to do. So a
great many soldiers feel that 1t is not
creditable to themselves or the state
they represent to be clamoring to be
discharged as soon as the opportunity
fer winning glory is past. A large
number of the men, on the other hand,
left important business at home to
join the army and are very eager to
get back to it before they suffer too
great loss. The policy of the war de-
partment in releasing the regiments
by states, each state getting its quota
of discharges as the time comes when
troops can be spared, is not likely to
be changed 10 accommodate the de-
sires of any of the Iowa troops.
Appointment Declined.
Miss Della Weeks, the nurse that
went from Des Moines to help comfort
and care for the Fifty-frst regiment
in San Francisco, and who was ap.
pointed nurse in the army, declined
the appointment because she would
have to go to the division hospital and
would not be allowed to remain with
the regiment exclusively and do other
things besides care for the sick. The
local committee, which has been MAX
ing extraordinary efforts to main
tain Miss Weeks in her work, is much
displeased at this, and will withdraw
ttE support unless she accepts the gov
eminent appointment. 1t would be
necessary for the committee to raise
$1,000 to pay the cost of what the gov
eminent offers to furnish, and the re-
sources of the committee are not equal
to it. They secured for her the APP
pointment.
Promotion Upon Merit.
The state board of control has
adopted policy of promotion upon
merit and the board insures perma-
nency of tenure to all officers who are
competent and worthy. DR.. Frank