The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-08-20
SOLDIERS FROM SANTIAGO
BROUGHT TO NEp HAVEN ON RED
 CROSS TACHT ADMTRAE.

dny and 300 in All VIII Probably he
 Chartered Here-Tents to Acoomxno.
 date Them Will be Erected on Hosp,ta,
 Grounds.
 It was about thirty years ago that tbe last of the sick soldiers of the repeilion who were quartered there left New Ha- ven hospital and now the first lot of the SICK soldiers of the war with Spain lave just been received there. fifteen in number, with many more to follow m few days The advantages of the New Haven hospital as a. military hos- pital were tested by the government and found it to be first class in the six ties, when thousands of sick and wounded were brought here.
 The Red Cross yacht Admiral for- merly owned by MT. Wardwell of New York and given by him to the Red Cross society, yesterday afternoon about o'clock arrived at Belle dock with fifteen sick soldiers aboard who had been brought from Montauk Point to be cared for at the New Haven hos pital. The yacht was expected all. day yesterday, and about Il o'clock in the forenoon 1t was reported to the hospi- tai authorities that she was coming up the harbor. General Merwin went out on the tug D. P. Avery to meet the supposed Red Cross yacht which, how ever, turned out to be a yacht with a party of Port Jefferson people aboard.
 When the Admiral arrived and had tied up at the old line steamboat dock near Tomlinson bridge, word was tele- phoned to the hospital and the hospital and police ambulances, together with the old so-called town ambulance, four in all, were soon on the way to Belle dock. large crowd of people had gathered on the dock and the bridge near by curiously watching the Red Cross yacht and attempting to get glimpses of the sick men who had as- sisted in the taking of Santiago. There was, however, no demonstration or cheering. As the sick men were car ried on stretchers from the boat to the ambulances, the crowd was hushed and quiet sympathy for the sufferers being depicted on every coultenance, this sympathy crowding out every desire to cheer the brave fellows.
 General Merwin, president of the hospital society; pr. Daggett, Dr. ,. Smith, and Dr. Heerey were on hard to superintend the transfer of the men from the boat to the ambulances, and Sergeant Doherty of the Grand avenue police station, with two patroimen. Z were present to keep the crowd and the ofnfiipreSefit small boys out of the way while the transfer was going on. Most of the sick soldiers were necessarily carried from the boat on stretchers, but others. although very weak, were able to walk, supported on each side. These latter were placed 1 the town These latter were placed in the town and sat on blankets spread on the bot tom.
 Some of the soldiers are i'll with ma laria, while others have typhoid fever, and many were greatly emaoiated and were evidently very i'll. They were handled as tenderly and carefully as possible and pillows were placed under each one, while they were covered with blankets and every effort made to ren- der their ride to the hospital as com fortable as possible. Two at trip were taken by the ambulances, and while waiting for them to return on the last trip General Merwin had lunch on board the Admiral. Nearly all the men wore their army uniforms or portions of them and their army shoes. The soles of some of the shoes were worn almost through by the marching through Cuban mud, up San Juan hill and through the entrenchments before Santiago. Some not so i'll as the others carried their brown campaign hats with them, and several of the hats were full of holes, looking suspiciously like bullet holes, which they undoubtedly were. One stalwart young fellow. about twenty-four years of age, well built and evidently fine looking man before he had become emaciated by ill- ness, bravely smiled as he was carried up the gang plank to the wharf and in his eyes could be read the thankful ness which he felt at being once more on friendly soil, and where he could be well cared for. Some of the boys, sick as they were, when placed in the am- bulance on soft pillows and enveloped in clean blankets, fondled the pillows and showed in every look their appre- citation of the change from the rough and ready camp to these evidences of home and friends.
 The Admiral was under command of Captain Shaw, and with him was Cap tain Shaw of Baldwin place. this city. The yacht is a particularly fine one, and it's decks are piled with stretchers, pillows, blankets and other parapher- nalia used in it's mission. The fifteen sick men brought over are all regular army men and were through the San tiago campaign. They are:
 Charles E. Brewer, Troop B, 9th U. 5. cavalry of Leavenworth, Kan.
 William H. West, Troop ], Sd caval- ry, an Englishman by birth, 64 years of age, and for thirty years member of the U $. regular army.
 Frank E. Hill, Co. D, 9th infantry, of Ludlow, Ky.
 Arthur Agnew, Co. H, 18th infantry. of Philadelphia
 Benjamin Farris, Co. F, 6th infantry, of Hudson, Ind.
 Claude Romaine, Troop D, 2d cavalry, of English, Ind.
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