The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-02-02
FINEST TRANSPORT AFLoAT.
THE SHERMAN rs FITTED U IN
GREAT STYLE o HER JOURNET.

Expected to Sail for Manila To-Day with
1000 Onioers and Men-Hot and Cold
Air, leo Water, steel Cots and Porcelain
Bnthtubs Some of the IuNuries Aboard,
The United States transport sherman. which
did excellent work as n troopshiD In the West
Indies during the war with Spain. when she
was known as the Mobile, is scheduled to
leave this port some time to-day for the Phil.
ipplnes with 2.0OO officers and men OF the
Third and Seventeenth United States Infantry
regiments. The men OF tho Seventeenth In
fantry got aboard yesterday morning, and last
night tho last OF the stores were placed aboard
the big transport, The FIVE sections of the
train bearing the Third Infantry got in last
night. but 1t was too late to ferry the men over
TO the foot Of Pacific street. Brooklyn. 80 they
remained in tho cars In the New York Central
freight yards at tho foot OF West Thlrty-third
street.
The Sherman, as she lay moored at her
dock yesterday. was a very different looking
ship than she was when she was the Mobile.
She has been In tho Cramps shipyards In Phil
hdelphia since September. and in addition TO
interior changes that mako her a well-nigh
perfect vessel for the work she Is 10 DO sho
has donned n coat OF white. The Quarter
masters Department officers say that 10 troop
ship has left this or any other port in the coun-
try since the beginning Of tho war with SFaln
30 completely. equipped as il the Sherman, Not
n thing IS lacking to make the tri2. a comfort
able one for the soldiers who are going to rein
force Gen. Otis's army at Manila. and perhaps
assist in taking a fan ont Of AGuinaldo. There
Ia everything Tor the sick and the well and
From superstructure to lower hold the Sher-
man. 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 state
room 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 Oj tenperh-
ture. There are also several gross OF electric
fans and plenty Of power to run them, 50 that
the heat OF the Red Sea is not apt to lind many
victims among the men on board.
The hospital contains sixty G,oWt9rta6Ic cots.
utter main deck and contains everything that
a, woll,eluIpped hospital, on either land or sea.
should contain. The diispensary carries the
means. that everything that can be possibly
needed is there. In connection with the hos
full OF deliracies. Six nurses sent out By the
Nomen's War Relief Association. in charge OF
Miss Starr. are going TO the Philippines Cd the
sherman. They are not assigned to any work
on the transport, but they have already offered
their services il they are needed, There are
staterooms for the doctors. lockers for the
patients and three bathrooms containing new
porcelain tubs for both. There is also an OBJ
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
tho soldiers couches. The canvas strips eau
he unlaced, Mt any time and taken out. to DO
washed, There is Il great stateroom full OF
extra strips in case it becomes necessary to
destroy those In use.
The soldiers dining room - on, the upper
deck: They will cat of new and highly pol
ishel tables and whom they are through they
can, work a ,c9prie OF springs and Send their
ing the dining room into a recreation hall.
IN the matter of food there is almost enough
though fresh supplies win he taken on at
Malta or Gibraltar. There is a whole store;
plenty OF good substantial food for the men.
For breakfast the soldiers will get coffee. bread
and butter. steak and potatoes and somstimes
beef aud vegetables with an occasional dessert.
and on Fridays fish, while tea, bread and but
Sherman has been equipped with a tine re-
frigerating apparatus. Ia one OF the r%eirtGer.
fresh beet. frozen so hard that nothing short
OF an axe will make an impression, on IT. 81
the beet wi, be kept in this condition until
be put up for use III the reIrigerators and car
ried out TO the fires without delay.
which will supply drinking wafer to all on |
board. 1t Is connected with tho refrigeratiuE
apparatus and ice water will lie as easy TO get
now. There are fiity-twO staterOOIus on tile
saloon and promenade decks for the officers Of
the regiments and ofiicerS.or the shin. In the
saloon there is a piano and books. There the
wives OF the officers who are going 70 accom-
pany their husbands on the trip VIII gather. |
Forward ON the main deck u new smoking
room has been built.
The second battalion Of the Seventeenth In
Hies II. II, X and j. in command of Capt. u. II. |
Brush. arrived at Weehawken. from their bar
Yesterday morning. About - per cent. Of the
men are RECRUITS. but they are a iine-lookinE,
to the sherman in tho ferryboat Chester, and
ware kept Iretty busy for a couple Of hours
tlcprS had their wives with them. Not one of