Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-11-19

We're all ffoored. Richard W Henry
the son. was called. He was taken sick
after the surrender of Santiago. Speak
ing of the treatment he received from
the army surgeons in Cuba, Henry said
that they did the best that they could
and treated everyone alike. In fact
he said, they made no distinction in
manner of treatment or in medicine. Tt
was two pills ror n fever and three pills
for 4 broken arm"
Immediately on landing at Nontauk
Point on Aug. IS he went TO the de-
tention hospital. With some of his COM
rades he was assigned to some new
tents in the hospital When asked what
he received to eat he said: Il suppose
they forgot US. We did not get any
thing until the next day when an or
derly gave us some soup. y surgeon
visited US at noon. He made a cursory
examination of US and said he would
send us medicine Immediately. The
medicine did not reach US until late
that night" Henry was able to eat
the provisions served on the Grand
Duchess. transport. but he could not
drink the coffee. His messmates bought
canned peaches and other fruit from the
crew.
James 6. Sewers. OF company X, Sew
.nty-first regiment, served from the
time the regiment went to Camp Black
until mustered out last week. He COM
panied that the coffee was poor and that
the volunteers were not treated as
well as the regulars. Asked by Gener-
al Beaver to explain what he meant
when he said the volunteer officers took
care of themselves while the regular
officers took care of their men. he said:
When we arrived home at Montauk
Point there was nothing for US to eat
until the next day. When the Tenth
regulars arrived there was a wagon
load of bread and meat waiting for
them. Our officers said that they had
nothing to do with the rations."
David ]. Goss, private OF the Seventy
first regiment, who was cook for his
company at Camp Black, told of the
supplies issued to the troops. and said
they were good and ample. Goss told of
the Decentralization at Siboney. He said
some of the marching men threw away
their haversacks with their rations and
then shared other mems supplies until
the next days rations were issued. AS
a general summing up of his most un-
pleasant experience Goss said: 1T was
all pretty rough. Nothing went right. |
1t was some ones incOmpetency, but I |
don't know whose" Goss said he slept
in the open air in Cuba for twelve days |
because he had no tent.
the campaign as a private in company
L, Seventy-first regiment. said that |
there was never any lack of good food |
until the regiment reached Cuba, and |
then the fault was due to the lack of !
cooking facilities and the necessity for |
each man to cook his own ratious. Dur |
ing the march to San Juan the msn |
lost their rations and there was some |
scarcity for three days. The officers told |
them to leave their haVersacks with |
their ratiOns by the roadside ana LETT d |
man to guard them, but the man was
shot and the Iations were stolen. Hauck |
said that he had no complaint at all TO
make of the treatment here,e.v- d while
n the service.
Mrs. Mary Marson, of West Fifty
irst street. was the last witness OF the
lay. She had been at Camp Nikoff in
,harge of a division of the Womens
War Relief association. She said the
nen at Camp Wikof had suffered great
y and had been ill-treated. When Cen
raj Dodge told her that the men testi-
led that they were rot badly treated
md had not beeen neglected al Camp /
Nikoff. Mrs. Manson declared that if
hey so testified they had said what was
,Of