The evening times., 1899-02-15

The next day his captain, who had sent
him to the Military Hospital telephoned
for information as to the boys condition.
He is getting on WELL" was the reply
"Oh, yes, he is pretty sick, but we will
pull him through"
The boy was lying In = raging fever on
a bed at the Queens Hospital at that mo-
ment.
Horror of the Hospital.
The boys have a horror OF the Military
Hospital. They do not like Major Davis.
who has a rough, curt way with them, and
the tales told in camp by the convalescent
patients have not encouraged them. The
hospital has been oyercrowded; men sick
unto death have lain next to men on the
road to recover. Men have passed away
in crowded wards, with but a screen to
hide their death struggles from the boys
whose spirits. at best. have been depressed
enough TO retard their slow recovery
inefficient night nurses, poor food and
the horrors of inconsistencies have been the
story told by every conyalescent. Still 80
cents day extra-over their regular army
rations-has been paid for each sick man
at the Military Hospital by the Commissa-
ry Department, where it is declared The
boys could even have champagne il nee
eSSary.
At the time when the hospital was over
crowded one poor sick fellow, after wait
ing for hours to be examined asked where
| he was TO sleep. sleep on your hat"
was the sympathetic response.
There are other stories told by the SOL
diers who have been discharged cured aud
the boys, as they have gone off in the am
bulance to the Military Hospital, have
looked back with smile, sadder than
| tears and said:
Good by, fellers. this is the end of me-,
| The boys have tried to nurse each other
and to hide their sick chums.
| To save each other from the Military
| Hospital has been the prevalent idea.
4 Soldiers Appeal.
/ \ young soldier went one day to a pri-
vate house and asked manfully and in a
| straightforward manner for ice and for
milk The Inhabitants of the house be-
| came interested and questioned the soldier.
| He was nursing his chum. he explained.
| When the hospital was suggested hunted
| look. pathetic TO see, came into the boy's
! eyes. 1t told tale to his sympathetic
| listeners.
| The favorite doctor of the New York
| regiment was young Ashley, who was sent
| home before his regiment because of Ill
! health. When he became sick he went to
| the Queens Hospital. where Major Davis
| frequently visited him. When about at the
crisis of bad case OF typhoid fever, Major
| Davis came one night to take away his
nurse Major Davis explained that the
nurses services were needed by friend
| CT his. The nurse expostulated at leaving
"A patient at such a critical time but Major
Davis insisted and took her away to a case
of whooping cough. There was a storm of
| indignation among the boys who loved
| DR.. Ashley and Major Davis action was
universally condemned
! Young Ashley had a relapse. When he
recovered sufficiently he was taken by Mrs.
| S. G. Wilder. who has a heart renowned
! for its goodness, to her beautiful home up
! Nunanu Avenue. There, with two profes-
sional nurses. he was brought back from
| the jaws of death and was finally able to
| return to his home
Justly or unjustly, Major Davis is un-
| popular. There are two sides to every
story. and he won't tell his. He is a
young man and he feels the Importance of
| his position. His duties have been Onerous
i and he has not been, well. He declines to
make any comment or give any eXplana-
tion on the refusal at his hospital to the
knights of Pythias to see Granville Wells,
and Major Davis is a member of the order
The knights of Pythias have taken this
| matter in hand