The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1899-05-06
FINEST TRANSPORT ARLOAr.
ne Sherman Splendidly Fitted Out For Hel
Trip to Manila.

a, Trip to Manila.
- The United States transport She
3. man, which did excellent work as
10 troOpship In the West Indies durin
a. the war with Spain, when she wa
q known as the Mobile, recently sale
Il from New York for the Philippine
o with 1000 officers and men of TIL
g Third and Seventeenth United State
q Infantry regiments.
I The Sherman, when she sailed, wa
a very different looking ship tina
) when she was the Mobile. She ha
, been In the Cramps shipyards in Phi
I adelphia since September, and mad
. dition to interior changes that max
} her well nigh perfect vessel for tn,
work she Is to do she has donned
J coat Of white. The Quartermaster'
Department officers say that no troop
ship has left this or any other port il
the country since the beginning of tn,
war with Spain so completely equip
ped as Is the Sherman. Not a thing
is lacking to make the trip a com
Portable one for the soldiers who ar
going to reinforce General Otis's army
at Manila, and perhaps assist in TAX
ing fall out Of Aguinaldo. There is
everything for the sick and the well
and plenty Of it.
From superstructure to lower hold
the Sherman is equipped with metal
pipes, which are partitioned into two
parts. Through one channel cold air
Is forced, through the other hot air.
There are registers in every srateroom
and in the quarters Of the men. The
soldiers can turn on either the hot or
the cold air, and they are not apt to
suffer, in view Of this equipment,
from the changes of temperature.
There are also several gross Of cleo
trie fans and plenty of power to run
them, so that the heat of the Red Sea
is not apt to find many victims among
the men on board.
The hospital contains sixty CON-
Portable cots, is light and well venti-
lated. 1t is built on the after main
deck and contains everything that
well-equipped hospital, on either land
or sea, should contain. The dispen-
sary carries the regular army hospital
equipment. which means that every
thlng that can be possibly needed is
There la connection with the hospi,
tai are steam diet kitchen and
storeroOm full of delicacies. Six
nurses sent out by the Women's Relief
Association, in charge of Miss Starr,
are going to the Philippines ON the
sherman. They are not assigned to
any work on the transport but they
nave already offered their services il
they are needed. There are state
rooms for the doctors, lockers for the
patients and three bathrooms contain
ing new porcelain tubs for both. There
is also an operating room.
The quarters Of the men on the two
lower decks are large and airy. The
cots are built Of steel and are three |
stories high. Strips of canvas are
laced across them and they make the
couches. The canvas strips
can be unlaced at any time and taken
out to be washed. There is a great
stateroom full of extra strips in case
It becomes necessary to DESTROY those
IN use.
The soldiers dining room is on the
upper deck. They will eat off new
and highly polished tables and when
hey are through they can work a cou-
Die OF springs and send their tables.
egs folded in, up to the ceiling, turn
ng the dining room into a recreation
TALL.
In the matter of food there is almost
'nough on the Sherman now to last
Manila, although fresh supplies will
'e taken on at Malta or Gibraltar
here is whole storeroom full of del
cacies. for the officers and plenty of
GOD substantial food for the men.
or breakfast the soldiers will get /.
oHee, bread and butter, steak and /.
otatoes and sometimes oatmeal and
lilk. For dinner they will get beef
nd vegetables with an occasional =
essert, and on Fridays fish, while tea. :
read and butter and stew will be :
'rved for supper. The Sherman has !.
zen equipped with a fine refrigerat-
g apparatus. In one of the refrig- I.
'ators there was 10000 pounds of 4
esh beef, frozen so hard that MOTH
g short Of an axe will make an i'm =
'ession on 1t. All the beef will be u
pit In this condition until used. It :,
Ill get no chance to spoil. 1t will n
put up for use in the refrigerators T,
I'd carried out to the fires without m
lay. =.
Forward on the main deck is a large n
nix which will supply drinking wa q,
to all on board. 1t is connected 81
tn the refrigerating apparatus and to
water will be as easy to get when IN
Sherman Is in the Red Sea as It Is "
W. There are fifty-two staterooms of
the saloon and promenade decks I'll
the officers of the regiments and tie
GERS of the ship. In the saloon tn
re is a. piano and books. There the to
yes of the officers who are going TO di
ompany their husbands on the trim ur
| gather. Forward on the main tn
k a new smoking room has been
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