Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1898-09-03

company food. To get a pass to N,
town ! must put In an application a dal
In advance. am not sick enough to 2,
TO The hospital 20 cannot get food there
| 90 TO town without a pass. ca
there a gOod palatable meal with a qlas,
OF beer. return. Into the guard hous,
/ 20 Tor mi7.ing retreat a d roll call.
am there vt sick. Thee the grub il
even worse than company grub II Is
Wietchod. ! have seen prisoners from
other companies give fiod to prisoners Of
company A. grow yet more sick and
weak, but ! cannot beg or buy food out.
side Of the guard house. II I do moi
work. into the dsrk cell I a.. am fed
on bread ami wafer. u at all. I do moi
work because / lnuOt, | an punished
| cannot keep str % tn for military duty
On the food furnished for the company.
IN Older to get the strength TO work for
Uuclo Sam. | miss roll call and buy IL. !
buy that may do %duty-for this 1 am
punished. am damned IL I do and I'm
damned II I DONE. The guard house Il
speak plainlJ) Is buggy-lousy, and
Sinking as a cess pool. A we'll man
would become sick In II. sentlnels do
not now sleep In IL. Tents have been
erected nea II for the guard. Yet SEN
tinels sometimes become infested. The
house Is some 2Ox30 feet In extent. Into
tails den OF official malice / have seen
crowded at one time sixty-seyen men.
There wa hardly standing room. When
they lay down to sleep they we're wedged
together like dimes in n boG. In the
morning some had to be taken 10 the
hospital or die N the floor Of the guard
house. What we're they Ia tory Mostly
Tor being out after II .. m, or for being
alightiy intoxicated. / know men who
were put In Tor d~rluking. after payday
whose officers we're too much indisDOsed 20
look after them, for the same reason. |
know men whose yaluables we're taken
away from them when thrown In and
which were never returned. There is no
closet in the guard house. I have seen
men plead TO go TO the rear only TO be
%impudently laughed at by some petty hog
-miscalled officer"
D~ysentery was prevalent. There was
but n result. II one was fortunate
annuah IN no piIouad 20 70, ut, tha .a..t
he was accompanied by an armed
and ~bayonetted guard, who would assist
his prisoner In cursing such petty
tyranny. A committee Of my company
has just seen me. 1t il the time Of
%noontay meal-they brought the dinner
o. n Of the men, IL is a tough piece OF
beef and gristle, rough edged. It had
been boiled. The manure OF the beef had
gotten on II while being ~butchered, dried
there aud been boiled into Il, II was
u~nmistekable. There Is not a morning
but the boys will be seen lowering about
the camp hre doing their own cooking.
There are men In camp who from the
beginning have furnished their own
clothes and halt at least OF the food they
ate.
say most emphatically that II we
had been Ia an unhealthy climate In.
stead Of here, the graveyard would have
received mAuy OF Us. fhs writr pur-
chased his dinner yesterday; did wIthOu.
breakfast and cooked a 10 u m. dinner
to-day. | repeat ths mon are dissatisfied
aud Disguised because OF tbs foregoing
and many other facts Of similar charac-
ter. IL seems useless 10 try to remedy
them. When attention Is called through
the proper channels, the men get a
promise to "look into II" and that Il all
they get. II a man IL feeling too unwell
todIill he dislikes TO ask 10 be excused for
fear the officer looks him a liar.
II he wants to go to town be must give
a notice something like a tenant about
to quit. The permission must be signed
by at least three officers living far apart.
Two days red tape and he may walk a
iali lulib iiouu HuhINtih' - IL a WOuueT
men are des-rtingY While such facts
exist here, at home, In peace and In a
land Of plenty, what wonder II the men
d. not want TO go 10 Cuba Tor garrison
duty, where the conditions will be far
worse? What wonder, l say, that men
who enlisted to eight want to be dis
charged when they cannot hghtY
There was general inspection and
OF muster roll yesterday. Al
hner looking body Of lean men we're
gotten together, They are mag
niacent specimens Of manhood. But
volunteered to eight and not 10 be
made the tools to any mans A~ggrandize.
either personal or peculiarly.
Those 10 whom these facts do not
apply, are not in any way affected.
Those to whom they DO apply, deserve to
affected, even more than the mere
statement can effect them. They ought
10 resign, do their duty or be punished.