Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1899-01-28
SOMETHING LIKE CARRI0N.
fam, warburton SO Chsracterizes Some
Beef that WAS Issued to soiuiers
Near Ponce, Porto Rico.

Washington, Jan. 24.--The board or
survey appointed by Secretary Alger
to pass upon the question of proper
condemnation of large quantity or
beef destined for the troops in Porto
Rico has received from Capt. Barclay
RI. Warburton OF the Pennsylvania
volunteer battalion of artillery,
sworn statement of the condition OF
the refrigerated beef ON board the
transport Manitoba, which transports
was at Ponce from August 10 TO %. In
the course of this statement Capt.
| Warburton says:
Was Not GOOD Nor Was It Fit for issue'
.I ate of the beef which the Mani
toba brought to Porto Rico. 1t was
served to the officers mess ON the
United States transport Mississippi,
which brought my command back to
New York, leaving Ponce, Porto Rico,
sentember 3. and arriving in New YORK
September 10, 1898. When say ! alto
the meat must qualify my statement
: by saying that | tried to eat the meat
: II was so bad that it was Impossible
: TO swallow it. In my opinion the
i meat was not good nor was 1t mt TOT
O issue.
o Tbouaht It Due to y Lack OF Proper he-
frigerating Facilities.
~ had no idea that this meat had
u been subjected to any chemical pro-
:, cess but believed the beef to have de-
!" cemposed on account of the lack OF
" :" proper refrigerating facilities caused
,, by the clogging of the machinery used
~ for that purpose on the Manitoba.
= was informed by Capt. Gates, who was
- - then in command of the Manitoba
'n that said machinery had been ciogge'
e with sand as result of our haVint
'o' rup ashore, which necessitated the re
versing of the screw which thre" san
,c into the water pumps.
An Answer in General
me- "In reply to your request 10 CIV
VI the board any evidence or intorma'io
'aS in my possession or knowledge III
answer in general is that all the be
issued to my battalion was bad al
la'' had 10 be buried Immediately upon d
vi livery at our camp, which was aoo
neii two miles beyond Ponce, at a pia
called Banos la Quintana, which hec'
stated its transportation, should 81
distance of six miles from the CO
the missarv depot, which was at Pa.
n On the day in question Private fia
of light battery c, Pennsylvania
unteer artillery, was sent for an Isl
ates of beef which his captain had been
:, ur tifed would be issued on the morn
re- on which he was sent.
gton Noticed a Most Terrible Odor.
IS in n, b;s return 7 met the wagon,
de- while il was vet some hundred
nfer' fifty yards from me. noticed the d
S yet terrible ordor, which seemed to m
nents smell something like carbon !
r,onnted and when | got ciongsid
'e I'M the wagon I looked into it and sa"
es. II meat which had been issued TO
t at for LIGHT battery c, Pennsylvania
'rman upteer artillery. 1t looked W
Dt Inc about the color of the belly O
that aourder which had been covered
pres green slim, instructed nm 10
sent my compliments to his comm
zee in. ;nn officer Lieut.. Bean. with
at nc s,no,;ops to have the same buriet
beer mediately upon its arrival at cam
Capt. Warburton gives the nam
of the ,on,a ,,;tpesses whose testimony
OF, tht
eh 'h' be of value