The Indianapolis journal., 1899-01-17

home with the sick. he said, they had no
Ice, unless the Red Cross had a little.
The first ice schooner, he said, reached San
There was a long wrangIe over the re-
sponsibility for the loading of the trans
ports for the sick.
Woodbury., was overcTowded. was it be-
cause the government had not provided suf-
ficient transportation OF through an error
of judgment by the medical department ,
why, the medical department, certainly,
replied General Humphrey. emphatically
because there were two more ships, each
as good as the Concho, available.
TOO MUCH BEEF.
General Humphreys resumed his testi-
mony at the afternoon session. Asked about
his experience with the refrigerated beef,
he said the first he saw was at Santiago.
'The trouble was there was too much of
it," said he, but what ] saw was pretty
good. l think it was all good when landed
at daylight each morning but 1 know moth
ing about it's condition when it reached
the troops. l heard some of it spoiled"
How about the timed roast beef
THAT l know did not give satisfaction,
possibly owing to intense heat
Did you hear an intimation that it might
have been chemically treated?'
Il did not In a joking way l heard that
Armour had extracted the juice from the
roast beef for his beef extract"
Homer QuaFIeTfldS-
ter of the Manitoba. which carried the re-
frigerated beef that was dumped overheard
on the return voyage from Ponce, testified
that the beef was tested when it was placed
aboard ship His engineer he said, was fa-
miliar with the shipment of beef in the
transatlantic trade, and was little ner-
Vous about the tempera ture of the refrig-
orator. 1t was new business to him (Aspin-
walD. The engineer said it was impossible
to get the temperature of the boxes" be-
low SO Fahrenheit The average tempera-
ture on the trip was "a. He arrived at
Ponce Aug 10 and ran aground. While
aground one of the pipes choked and the
temperature in the boxes went up to 46.
The pipe was choked for four hours. At
Mayaguez he opened the boxes for the first
time. There were 1,5O0 troops there. The
beef was good. AT Ponce, Colonel Smith,
chief quartermaster. agreed to take 5000
pounds a day. BY mistake the lighter came
for the first installment of meat at o'clock
in the evening instead of ) in the morning.
1t was kept ashore over night and issued.
There was one complaint that a portion of
the meat had spoiled 1t was buried by or
der of the surgeon. But the rest was good.
Major Birmingham, of the hospital at
Ponce said it was the best beef issued to
the hospital. No further beef was issued at
Ponce. With the quantity used aboard ship.
about 5000 of the 10000 pounds of the beef
were issued. Two days before he reached
obliged to cut away third of each quarter
IN the boxes, which had spoiled, and threw
it overheard.
He said the officers aboard ship continued
to use the meat. He heard no complaints
although he would not have been surprised
had there been complaints. AT New York
he reported the beef spoiled. A board of
survey appointed and condemned the
beef Sept. II. He received orders not to
dispose of the beef until he got instructions
from Swift e Co. He thought there was
more beef aboard than could have been
consumed by the troops in Porto Rico be-
fore some of it spoiled. He heard no init
nation that the beef had been chemically
treated General Gilmore told him when he
arrived at Ponce that they did not want
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 was often
issued while the flesh still quivered. He
felt annoyed because the beef from his own
country was being refused and the bulls
of Porto Rico accepted.