New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-08-28
MOVEMENTS AT MONTAUK.
THE SECOND MASSACHUSETTS, GETS
AWAY-THE SEVFNTY-FIRST NEW
YORK WILL GO TOMORROW.
[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRrBuSEl

Sunday the regiment will also get Its Govern
ment pay, for General Wheeler has promised
that the Assistant Paymaster-Ge who to-
day busy paying off the four troops OF
Rough Riders that were in Tampa, shall visit
this camp tomorrow and distribute the money.
The plans of the regiment are now to leave
Montauk on a special train at o'clock Monday
morning. The train will be run through on
schedule time. and will arrive at Long Island
City at 12 o'clock At the regiment will be
landed at the Battery. and march UP Broadway.
carriages being provided for those too sick or
too weak TO walk. They are 10 be met and
escorted to their armory by the list Veteran
Association.
Yesterday after the order had been issued
for the regiment 10 return TO its arnory on fur
lough. and when it expected the regiment
would start to-day Major-General Wheeler is
sued tho following letter Of farewell to the Of
fcers and men, and 1t read at retreat last
evening to the entire command:
Headquarters United States Forces.
Long island August IS. 1898
To the officers and Soldiers Of the list Regiment
Pursuant to the direction OF the President. you
will proceed 20 your homes and friends. to receive
turning heroes who have fought, endured and
suffered for the sake Of country its honor and ts
made ours the Leading among the great countries
Of The eath and y1gh haSs d9n your run par wbo o
feIi IN battle. and those who became victims OF
IN n oPea b b e se % IL DS yorr mpe a
but by the seventy millions Of this great Repube.
each M Vr and all Of you % as honored comrades Of the
Santiago campaign the effect Of which IN mpNrr IN r
JOSEPH WHEELER
Mator-tieneral, Commanding
THE I'd MASSACHUSETTS GETS OFF
The ID Massachusetts, which was also ordered
home on furough, left Camp Wlkoff at I:45 this
morning in the steamer Block Island bound
/ for vs-London. where they will take the train
to Springfeld There were 5iS and 50
officers in the command when 1t started from
here. and they all have slxty-day furloughs in
order that they may draw Government pay for
time sufficient for them to recuperate and
take up their business affairs again None OF
then, will return here but will be mustered out
in their own State at the expiration Of their
furloughs They left three tons Of food and
daintics sent them by Massachusetts, people.
and before going away they sent an invitation
70 the Regulars 10 come and heir themselves
when they were gone. an invitation the Regulars
! accepted with alacrity.
The 9th Ohio may be the next to 60 Lieu
tenant Colonel Dick said to-day that the regf'
rnent would be held In the detention camp
three days ana in the general camp about
week. Al the end or that time the regiment ca
| pected n be sent home on furloush.
At about the same time the Rough Riders, the
Is. United States Volunteer Cavalry. will prob
ably 60 away Lieutenant Colonel Brodie. the
acting colonel OF the regiment. is gathering the
mems enlistment papers together, preparatory
to the mastering out. and ir ten days. 1t 10
thought all the formaties could be compiled
with and the regiment be mustered out. They
will proceed then by train TO New-York and
deliver over their Government property there.
Colonel Roosevelt is anxious that all the men OF
his regiment away on furlouSh or sick leave
should retoin his regiment before It goes to New
York.
Other regiments expect to follow these fortu-
mates In short order All are anxious TO get
home now the war is over. and every one who
can is getting furlough. Every outgoing train
from Montauk is now crowded with soldiers
homeward bound
The general hospital was overcrowded again
this mora'ng by the large arriva! OF sick from
the transports which arrived yesterday but .
large force OF men and carpenters got hum
dred tents up during the day. with floors and
staging complete. and every one Of the twelve
hundred patients at the hospital had shelter to-
night.
MORE NURSES NEEDED.
They have every supply needed but
trained nurses are badly wanted There seems
to be a lack of them in New-York, and Mrs.
ouintard. Of St. Iuke's Hospital Training School
has beer asked by Or. Ira c. Brown to send ten
nurses a day here until further notice. The
possibilities are however. that unframed nurses
may have to be employed.
There were only four deaths In the hospital In
the last twenty four hours-those Of Jacob Artz.
no company or regiment given yet; Thomas
Flynn Company C. 18th Infantry; Charles Far
rel no company regiment given, and Ser
geant Edgar Q. Train. Company ID. I'd Massa-
chusetts Sergeant Train was from Holyoke.
Mass and before he died he requested that his
body be sent to his home. His request will be
complied with.
In the detention camp there were FIVE Deaths
D. NJ Earl Company NJ. list New-York; Thom-
as Mulhearn Company l., list New-York; John
Moran. Company II, ID Massachusetts,; John
Dinan, Company F. list New-York. and Frank
Jones' Company X. Cd Massachusetts. The con-
dltions In this hospital are much improved. and
like the general hospital. IT is now fully sup
Piled Fifty new tents have just been put up
ard a requistion has just been acknowledged
for Ave hundred sheets three hundred pillow
cases one hundred beds, one hundred mat
tresses. five hundred towels and five hundred
tin cups.
Fifty-thr men from the Mohawk are isolated
from the other tents in the hospital. and eigh-
teen yellow fever convalescents were put by
themselves. But contagion was reported and
no suspicious cases There was q new case Of
dphtheria making five in all now. and one new
of measles. Forty five patients sent
out on furlough. From the general hospital i5Q
furnished.
The transport Santiago arrived from Santi-
ago last night, having board 4S6 Of the 34th
Michigan companies A. B. c, ID. E. II and /.
There were 124 Of the troops sick. and the deaths
a.. .is ..,,.auo Of I,rivata GuhooleY. of CompanY