The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-14

tents, accommodating four men each. have
oeen put up. To this island all the wound
ed ana sick soldiers will be brought over
from cuba. Besides, all soldiers returning
from the front, whether i'll or well. will
De detained in camp for ten days The
statloh mas heretofore been named Tampa
camp OF Detention. Even the correspond
ents VIII be detained here as a precaution
against carrying Cuban fever into The
United states. The station Is in charge of
Or. Ceilings and DR.. Dudley.
There is considerable objection to the
manner of bathing employed by the SOL
diers at Port Tampa, where it is the daily
custom Tor hundreds of men TO undress.
ana without stitch on, battle in the shall
low water. They undress on the rocky
aDutment of the pier, and line themselves
IN numbers along the lengthy pier much
10 the discontinue of ladies who visit the
port. II has come to such a pass that all
ladies are practically forced to sit on the
Nerahdas OF the lun, and are not able to
see the busy scenes of war preparations on
account of this nuisance No one appears
TO be responsible for this breach of deco
rum, and at present there seems to be no
remedy for H.
Jacksonville Times-Union and Citizen:
Jacksonville has been spoken of as a point
for the establishment of permanent mill
tary headquarters, and it seems not I'M
likely that such will be the result. One in
dlcatlon of this fact is the permanent for
tlncauons that are being erected at St
Johns Bluff on the river. The intention of
the government at first was
merely to erect temporary for
titications there, but in addi-
lion to these, it was afterwards determln-
ed to erect other Notifications of the most
substantial character, necessitatjng the es-
adjustment of permanent force there to
man the guns. The erection of these forti-
hcations is now proceeding with all vigor
Necessarily, considerable time will elapse
before their completion, as they cannot be
quilt In day or month, although be-
tween 100 and 200 men are being employed
to push the work along.
Tampa Times: At Port Tampa City
there is a notorious dive called the Green
Goose, and right opposite is another no
torious negro dive. Saturday afternoon
there was gang Of three white soldiers
and three negro soldiers in the latter place
when 1t was agreed that all the men would
chip in 10 cents each and get a bucket of
peer for the women. 1t was then pro-
posed that one of the negro soldiers should
go after the beer, but one of the white fell
lows said that mo - Niger could
get beer for him" At this the negro haul
Gu OIL ana smashed the White soldier and
a general row began, negroes whites and
women, pistols, beer bottles, razors anu
knives ticurishing promiscuously. Several
of the crowd were hurt by one of the white
soldiers, who pulled up young tree and
pitched right into their midst. During the
fight they broke UP all the furniture and
all the glassware including the lamps, and
spilling the coal oil over everything and
then setting fire to It, The whole outfit
was burned to the ground. Not a vestige
is standing but the brick piers. 1t is the
general opinion down there that one of the
white soldiers was shot. One of the negro
women was arrested and taken before the
court, when she proved her innocence of
the charge of shooting him, and It is not
yet definitely known whether a man was
shot or not