The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-01-17

me they can eat anything, and one OF
them added Everything, without the
slightest inconvenience. They have GER
tainly improved wonderfully In weight
and strength. / have prescribed your
BEST" Tonic great number OF times.
1t is one of the best, il not the very best,
of it's kind"
R. BELNER, N. D., Jersey City, N. J.
easy enough now to look back on things
which might have been done, but there
were a thousand and one things which
happened which could not have been an
ticipated He was closely questioned by
DR.. Conner as TO the supply of medlcai
stores and the transportation furnished to
convey them 20 the front. Witness SAID
that the transportation, the pack trains
used before the wagon trains were unload
ed, was under the direction of the COM
mandlng general, with orders to get ammu-
milton and stores to the front, preferably
ammunition, but there was, in his opin-
ion. no reason why the medical stores
should not have reached the front.
1.-The medical corps WERE" said ne, de
MED nothing when 1t was possible to give
! 1t to them" t.a
General Humphreys said the medicine
chasts belonging to many surgeons were
not landed with the troops, as they should
| have been. Tons and tons of regimental
property were landed in some cases, but
not the surgeons medical chests. Why,
| he could not understand.
| Asked if all the supplies were landed by
July 10, General Humphreys said he could
not say.
NOBODY KNOWS.
'T don't know what was taken with the
expedition" said he, land 1 don't think
anyone knows" This was the result Of con-
| fusion, when everything went by the
board. In the first instance, / directed all
the hospital stores to go on the Santiago
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 only seen one order d.
recting a single division hospital ship to
ioin the expedition. General Humphreys
explained that almost everything 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 unload some
! Of the transports which arrived at San
ttago after the surrender, General Humph-
4 reys said that the vessels were not I'M
/ loaded, because. there were plenty OF sup
| plies on shore for the army and his orders
from Secretary Alger were to allow notn-
ing 70 Interfere with the movement OF
troops north.
kZEF WAS PRETTY GOOD
ASKED, about his experience win refrls-
Grated beef, he said he first he saw was
at Santiago. l 7
THE trouble there was there was to'
much of it." said he, 'out what saw was
pretty good think it was all good Vher
larded at daylight each morning but
did not know of ats condition when y
reached the troops. heard some OF J
spoiled"
"How about the timed roast beefF'
''That Lknow did rot give satisfaction
possibly owing to the intense heat"
did you hear any intimation that !
might have been chemically treated?'
"I did not. In Joking way 1 heard tina
Armour had extracted the juice from tn
roast beef for his beef extract"
THE BEEF THAT WENT OVERBOARI
Captain Homer F. Aspinwall, quarter
master Of the Manitoba, which carried IN
refrigerated beef that was dumped over
board on the return voyage from Ponce
, testified that the beef was tested when
was placed aboard ship. His engineer, b
said, was familiar with the shipment o
beef in the transatlantic trade and wa
; a little nervous about the temperature o
I the refrigerator. 1t was new business l
him (AspinwalD. The AHsineer said it wa
impossible to get the temperature OF tn
: boxes below 80 Fahrenheit. The aver
= age temperature on the trip was 81. II
arrived at Ponce August 10 and "a
! aground. While aground, one OF the pipe
, choked and the temperature in the boxe
I went up to &C. The pipe was choked fou
: hours At Mayaguez he opened the boxe
: for the first time. There were 1900 troop
2 there. The beef was good. At Ponce Colo
q mel Smith, chief quartermaster. agreed
take 5000 pounds a day. By mistake tn
2 lighter carYe for the first installment {
: meat at > o'clock in the evening instead {
, in the morning. It was kept ashore owe
night and issued. There was one con
plant that portion of the meat ha
spoiled. It was buried by order OF IN
surgeon. But the rest was good.
Major Birmingham, OF the hospital {
Ponce. said it was the best beef issued I
the hospitals No further beef was issue
at Ponce With the quantity used aboaI
ship. about $4,000 Of the 5000 pounds
: beef were issued. Two days before
reached New York the steward reports
that he was obliged 70 cut away thil
OF each quarter IN the boxes which Ia
: spoiled and throw II overheard. He sa
. the officers aboard ship continued 10 u
: the meat He heard no complaints. a
- though he would not have been surpris;
had there been complaints. At New YOl
he reported the beef spoiled. a board
survey was appointed and condemned q
beef September l. He received orde
not TO dispose Of the beef until he got Il
structioas from Swift & CO. II thou
there was more beef aboard than COZ
= have been consumed BY the troops IL Por
Rico before some OF 4 spoiled. He hea'
10 complaints that the beef had De.
chemically treated. General Gilmore hs
. told him when he arrived a. Ponce ID
they id not VNnc the beef; that II,
could get plenty Of beef IN Porto Rio
e He heard many complaints among the =
A diers ABOUT the character cf the fresh b
issued TO them L was slaughtered II Il
morning aa7 often issued while he as,
stIu quivered. He felt annoyed beau
the beef from his oSu country was bs.s
refused and the bulls % Porto Rlco a
/. cs3ted-
Il Washington. Jan 1s-Gensral LsEtc
- has selected the following members Of =
Q stan; AIDES Captain Robert SeEeli.
son q Senator Seweus Lieutenant 2
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