The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-08-29
CHARGES GROSS NEGLECT
Soldiers of the First =. S.
Cavalry Arriving Here
Tell Sad Tales.
MEN HAD TO SCOUR FOR FOOD
No Fault With Site at
Montauk--Blarne With
Higher Authorities
MEN HAD TO SCOUR FOR FOOD

dlgnSr AuGuOTIbltS
The Third Squadron of the First United
States Regular Cavalry, consisting OF 43V
men under command of Captain 3. *
Ward, arrived in Jersey City at 2:SO
O'clock this morning in Pullman sleeping
cars. They came in two sections.
third train brought the horses One pas
senger train was composed Of seven
sleeping cars and three baggage cars,
the other of thirteen sleepers. me cars
were landed in the d5arsimus Cove yaFus.
None Of the troopers who arrived in Jer-
sey City were seriously sick. There were
a number of convalescents, but all were
able to walk about and attend TO their
duties.
The Third Squadron is on its way to
join the First Regiment at Montauk
Point. When the regiment left for CUBA
the Third Squadron was. left behind al
Lakeland, Florida to care for the horses.
While in Lakeland ten of the men died
Of fever and many were taken seriously
ILL., Sergeant s. II. Marshall, VINO actea
as drill master of recruits at Lakeland
said of the conditions there
.The climate is such that it induces
laziness. The natives are lndolent ana
don't seem capable Of exerting any great
amount of energy. They are slow NOV.
ing and seem possessed OF perpetual tla
soldiers soon get into the same habit
1t is that that kills so many OF tnen
They give up too easily. The minute
they get the tired feeling they lie right
down and don't make any effort to com
bat 1t. / had a slight touch or the fever
but l worked it otf The doctor told Us
that hard exercise was all that would
knock it out of our system. used to
get UP early every morning and enop
wood until / was dripping With perSpira-
ton The result was that | could eat q
hearty breakfast and | soon got rld oI
the fever. Those of us who took plenty
OF exercise escaped being very sick.
Troop II is in charge OF Captain George
fIazle. He said of the conditions which
prevail at present In most OF the camps /.
Il am glad that the people are crying
for an Investigation. 1t is needed. Ihey
have been negiectful OF the soldiers TOO
long. For the last twenty years they
have not been treating them as they
should An investigation may improve
Captain Ward said;-s"The fault at Mon,
tauk Point cannot be in the selection Of
in every camp they have formed. They
must look elsewhere for the blunder
cannot say more.
there were 21efever patients in a hospital
car They were in charge OF Dr- irving
Bennett When the squadron reacned
Washington yesterday the SICK were lei,
behind 10 be cared for III the hospitals. Il
is said that Private Thomas Middleton OF
Troop Ii died Of mafarial fever soon after
arriving in Washington. The men VINO
Wednesday last. Their trains were often
side tracked on the journey iafsfstds 70 per-
mil regular trains to pass. stop Oh
twenty-four hours was made az spencer,
North Carolina to exercise the horses.
On arriving IN Jersey City Inns morning
many of the men left the tram 10 scoul
about for something to eat. me ne major .1
ity of them remained in their hunks un-
iii five o'clock when they began to get
ready for breakfast. The. men al com
planned of the cold last night. Ihey hdo
not prepared for it. Captain Hoyle sald
that he had NO clothing with him suitable
for such weather.
word came every few days TO prepare
to go to Cuba. 1 thought we We're gong
and shipped my oyereoat and my heaVy
clothing home All have with me now
is light summer clothing. I have tele-
graphe6 to have my trunk sent to Mon
taul Point. and | hope IT viii arrive
there soon. If it don't | shall freeze.
Health Inspector Benjamin fears an
epidemic of TYPHOID in Jersey City, ow-
iIse to the hundreds of typhoid patients
that pass through the railroad yards.
There is great danger of inspection. The
railroad yards are always in filthy con-
dition after the trains leave. Inspector
Renjamin has stationed Health Officers
Fiannelly and kilburn in the yards to
see that they are properly cleaned and
disinfected After breakfast the men
were taken on ferryboat to Long
Island City wher they took a train for
Montauk Point while the horses and
baggage were sent by way of Bay Ridge
on the floats in the cars in which they
arrived.
A mixed detachment, consisting of 1Ss
privates and seven officers of the regu-
air United States infantry from Fernan-
dina FLA, arrived in the Pennsylvania
Railroad yard in Jersey City about S.3t
p M. Yesterday They were under com
nland Of Col. E. w. Coates of the Seventh
Infantry The detachment was made uE
of men from the First, Second, Third,
Tenth Twelfth, Thirteenth Fourteenth.
Sixteenth. Seventeenth, Twentieth, TWen-
ty-first Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth.
Nearly all of them had seen serviced in
Santiago. Lieut.. ]. b. Scfoeffel of the
Third was very sick. He was accom-
panied by his wife. An ambulance from
the Jersey City Hospital took him to the
Grand Central Station, in New York City,
where he was placed .on a train to be
taken to his home in Fredonia, n. Y.
One of the private who was suffering
from typhoid fever and five who had MAJ
larial fever were unable to walk and
Were taken in a wagon from the train
to the ferryboat. All the others were in
good health. One Of the soldiers said
that the complaints about scarcity OF
others in his regiment, he said. always
had plenty to eat. The complaints, he
said came from volunteers, who wasted
their rations. The train arrived in two
sections. one of which carried the bag
gage and mules. The troops occupied
or board the ferryboat John S. Darcy and
taken to Long Island City, on their way
to Montauk Point.