The San Francisco call., 1899-06-26
This Is Col. FOrWood'S S
Recommendation.
WARE is UNFIT FOR SERVICE
FORTS INSPECTED BY CONGRESS
MAN HULL AND PARTY.
Valencia, Pennsylvania and City Of
Para Will Be the Next Trans
ports to Sail-Death of
Recruit.

The board of surgeons that recently ex-
amined into the mental condition Of Cap
tain Isaac P. Ware, assistant surgeon,
has submitted It's report to Colonel For
wood. chief surgeon of the department,
and he in turn has forwarded the report
to General Shafter with the recommended
ton that Captain Ware be ordered before
a retiring board. This can mean but one
thing, and that is that the first board has
found the young surgeon unfit for further
service in the army. An account of the
unfortunate officers condition has already
been published in The Call. He became
addicted to the use of a drug, which he
took at times in such quantities as to
mentally unfit him for the proper per-
formance of his duties. Captain Ware be-
came a slave to the drug by reason of
physical complaint. 1t was to relieve his
suffering that he first took the drug, but
finally it got the better of him.
From the fact that Colonel Forwood has
recommended that he be ordered before
retiring board it is evident that Captain
Wares chances of remaining in the army
by all who know him, and only the kind
est expressions are to be heard for him.
Congressman Hull, chairman of the
Committee on Military Affairs, who with
several other members of Congress and
a party of their lady friends are mere for
a few days on pleasure, were the guests
of General Shafter again yesterday. The
party visited the Preside in the after
noon, where they were joined by Colonel
Freeman and a number of the officers at
the post. They were taken to Fort Point
and inspected the coast defenSeS. They
inspected the 10 and y inch guns. the
mortar batteries and the dynamite guns.
The party then continued to the Cliff
House, where they were greatly interested
in the seals.
The probable order of the sailing of tAe
next transports will be the Valencia,
Pennsylvania and the City of Para. 1t is
not known positively just what troops
they will carry, but the following assign
ments. according to General Babcock. are
probably the order in which the troops
will take four companies and the head
quarters of the Twenty-fifth Infantry,
now at Fort Logan. On the Pennsyl-
xania will go four companies of the
Twenty-fifth Infantry and three COM
panies of the Twenty fourth Infantry.
The City of Para will take Troops B, M,
d and H of the Fourth Cavalry with
headquarters and company of $50 en-
gineers from Willets Point New York.
In addition to the troops named, each YES
sci will carry from the casual detachment
a sufficient number of men to complete
Z Company e, Twenty-ffth Infantry
Second Lieutenant Allen Parker COM
manding, arrived at the Presldio = yester,
Cavalry, Captain Elon F. Wilcox COM
manding, from Fort Eeavenworth, is ex-
morning This troop may form part of
the permanent garrison or it may be sent
to Sequoia Park. orders received at the
Preside yesterday from department head
quarters are not clear upon this point
Major Alfred c. Girard, surgeon, has
been assigned to the command of the gen
eral hospital at the Presidio, and in ada
ton he has been ordered to relieve Major
Matthews of command of the old general
hospital. This part of the order however.
does not go into effect until the first of
the month Acting Assistant Surgeon
Charles H. Stearns has been ordered to
report for duty at the general hospital at
the Presidio.
Private Frederick G. Killyn, Company
K. casual detachment died at the general
hospital at the Preside on Saturday night
of typhoid fever. His remains will prob
ably be shipped East to his family.