The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-17

knows. This was the result of the con-
fusion when everything went by the
board. In the first instance, directed
all the hospital stores to go on the
Concho, Iroquois and Seneca, but
when they did not come we loaded what
came to the piers at Tampa. No one
knows exactly what arrived
He said he had seen only one order
directing a, single division hospital ship
to join the expedition. General Hum
phreys explained that almost every
thing during the first fortnight after the
landing was done on verbal orders or
telephone. There was little paper at
hand. Asked about the failure to I'M
load some of the transports which ar
rived at Santiago after the surrender,
General Humphreys said that the YES
sells were not unloaded because there
were plenty of supplies on shore for the
army, and his orders from Secretary
Alger were to allow nothing to inter-
fere with the movement of the troops
north. Asked about his experience with
refrigerator beef, he said the first he
saw was at Santiago. 1.-THE trouble was
there was too much of it," said he,
but what I saw was pretty good.
think it was all good when landed at
daylight next morning, but I know
nothing about its condition when it
reached the troops. I heard some of it
spoiled
TIMED ROAST BEEF
GLOW about the timed roast beef?"
THAT 1 know did not give satisfac-
ton, possibly owing to the intense
heat"
Did you hear any animation that it
might have been chemically treated?"
Il did not. In a joking way, 1 heard
that Armour had extracted the juice
from the roast beef for his beef ex-
tract"
Captain Homer F. Aspinwall quarter
master of the Manitoba, which carried the
board on the return voyage from Ponce
testified that the beef was tested when it
said was familiar '' With the the Shipment of
beef beef in the transatlantic trade and was a
him (AspinWaID. The engineer said it
the beloW s The U
erage temperature on the trip was "a. He
aground. While aground one of the pipes
choked and the temperature in the boxes
hours. AT Mayaguez he opened the boxes
for the first time. There. were 800 troops
was good. At Ponce Colonel smith. CHIEF
qu9rtermaster, agreed to take 5000 pounds
the first instailment of meat at 'e o'clock k
in the evening instead of in the morn
issued. There was one complaint that a
portion # F5s b msaf haa t sR9ieaa
@ e oy Sgdef %aoT B shgGoR
the best. beef issued to the hospital No
further beef was issued at Ponce. with
pounds of the 100000 pounds of beef were
issued. Two days before he reached New
York the steward reported that he was
obliged to cut away a third of each quar-
ter in the boxes which had spoiled and
throw it overheard. He said the officers
aboard ship continued to use the meat.
would not have been surprised had there
been complaints. At New York he re-
ported the beef spoiled. A board of sur
yey was appointed and condemned the beef
September T. He received orders not to
tons from Swift & Co. He thought there
was more beef aboard than could have
been consumed by the troops in Porto
Rico before some of it spoiled. He heard
no intimation that the beef had been
chemically treated General Gilmore had
told told him I'm, when they arrived at Ponce that
could get plenty of beef in Porto Rico
He heard many complaints among the
soldiers about the character of the fresh
beef issued to them 1t was slaughtered
in the morning and often issued while the
flesh still quivered. He felt annoyed be-
cause the beef from his own country was
being refused and the bulls of Porto Rico
accented