Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-08-03

servation for limited period Of time.
Arrangements have been made 20 send
TO the home two immune male and two
immune female nurses and two immune
physicians.
Or. J. q. Tuten. OF Jesup, Ga. will be
one Of the latter. while the immune male
nurses selected are r.. j. Hamstead, Of
Baltimore. and Alfred J. Barton, Of
Maryland.
TROOPS GO TO BATTERY POINT.
Just before the close OF the War De-
partment to-day a final decision was
reached TO send the troops from Fort
Monroe 10 Battery Point. Del, thus re-
curing to the original proposition laid
down by General Merritt. All day the
officials had been I'm communication with
him by telegraph and telephone, and he
was informed that objections had been
made by Surgeon-GeneraI Wyman to To-
eating the troops so far south, but in turn
General Merritt held that ii would be
fatal I'm case any OF the men were infect
ed to take them north. and in the end,
as the department had left the matter in
his hands. his original order prevailed.
IL is understood that General Merritt has
had professional advice in support of his
position.
The removal OF the troops and the off,
GERS and their families. IL Is said will
begin Tomorrow. when passenger
steamer Is scheduled to leave at o'clock
for Cape Charles. A barge with cars Is
expected 10 reach the reservation to-
morrow and 10 take the baggage and
equipment OF the troops over TO Cape
Charles.
.SUPPLY-SHIP IN BAY.
The quarantine-ship James Townes, an
chored in the bay, will be made a sort
of halfway landing place, where persons
and supplies may be landed from Norfolk
and other places, and then shipped to
Old Point by launch, thence to be sent 10
Hampton.
WAR DEPARTMENT AID.
Secretary Root gave up much Of his
time to-day to the consideration Of the
different phases of the fever situation
he thought of the position OF the Old
soldiers at the Hampton Home, but find
Ing that their care was matter entirely
within the power of the National Board
he Informed the board, through its secre-
tary, Of the willingness of the War De-
partment TO do everything possible to as
sist 1t in combating the fever. Word TO
the same effect was sent 10 Surgeon Gen
eral Wyman, who is directly in charge of
the EFFORT now making at Hampton In
that direction.
As 10 the suggestion that the veterans
be taken from the home 10 some northern
point. in order to reduce the food for
the fever, and thus hasten the extirpa-
tlon OF the disease, the department has
come TO no conclusion, though If the
board should call for aid i'm that direc-
ton IT will be extended. It is said. how
ever, that II would be extremely difficult
to secure vessels for such service.
GEN. FRANKLIN NON -CONE-AT-IBUS
The department IL as yet ignorant OF
the whereabouts of General Franklin,
president Of the Board OF National
Homes. and was telegraphing to-day in
an effort 10 discover him.
TWO volunteer surgeons have rendered
their services to General Wyman for duty
IN the injected district They are
Acting Assistant Surgeon Robbins, of
Vcksburg. Miss, and Assistant Surgeon
John f. Anderson, OF New York.
REFUGEES FOR RICHMOND.
DR.. Wyman received a dispatch from
Surgeon Pettus, at Fort Monroe, to-
night, saying there was nothing sus-
picious there train left there this
evening for Richmond, with about one
hundred people. All We're inspected be-
fore boarding the cars, and made TO prove
they had NOT been exposed 20 infection.
steam launch is patrolllng the water
front, and guards are being sworn in as
fast as they can be obtained.
INSPECTION OF PHOEBUS.
A dispatch from Or. Wasdin says a
house house inspection of the worst
portion Of Phoebus discloses nothing.
The dispatch adds:
suspicious case Of last night verified
No new cases at the home to-day. one
desperate"
Dr Wasdin said he would start to-
morrow 10 canvass 1900 of the inmates,
then 20 disinfect the rookeries (presum-
ably those AT Phoebus).
WASHINGTON PRECAUTIONS.
The District commissioners have order
ed that all persons coming from famp-
ton and Phoebus, and any other place
that may be infected shall be prohibited
from entering the district until the health
officials are satisfied that they have not
been exposed.
What are supposed 10 have been the
last of the Old Point, Norfolk, and New
port News refugees passed through
Washington tonight, coming on the
Richmond train None Of them were de-
tanned.
About $50 people, supposed to be from
the towns in the vicinity of Hampton
boarded the train at Richmond.
RAN THE GAUNTLET.
one woman, with two small children
who lived at Hampton, and who says she
escaped the vigilance Of the quarantine
restrictions, arrived here tonight, by way
of RichrSOnd. She applied for transpor-
tation to Bound Brook, n. j.