New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-02
DR.. SEAMAN ON ARMY FOOD
THE sURGEoN-MAJoR BACK FROM THE
PARIS MEDICAL CONGRESS AND
A SHOOTING TRIP
A SHOOTING TRIP.

Dr' Louis l. Seaman, OF No. IS West Thrty-frst-
ST. late surgeon-major OF the LIST Regiment United
states Volunteer Engineers, who attended the In
'ernauonal Medical Congress in Paris. pas
senger on the steamer Deutschland. which arrived
Yesterday on a record making trip. DR.. Seaman
has offered his services to the Government for
outy IN China, and his return from abroad was
hastened to some extent account Of the proba-
ohity that he will soon be wanted
man has to be a rather enthusiastic sportsman
to go TO the trouble of transporting twenty or thirty
brace OF Welsh grouse three thousand miles for the
benefit Of his friends. but that is what Major Sea-
man did on his trip home from England this time
I had pretty good luck at the shooting having
killed about four hundred birds" said DR.. Seaman
yesterday afternoon to a Tribune reporter at was
the guest OF Evan Powell who is interested in coal
properties in West Virginia. He has fne estate
IN wales There are about eight thousand acres in
1t, and on all the moors I suppose there is not a
tree larger than ones wrist. The shooting begins
on August R-'glorious August T. they call It
there-ano the guests of Mr. Powell had magnif-
cent sport following that date The English grouse
is perhaps trihe heavier than the American part
ridge darker on the breast, and there are small
crimson crests over each eye. They thrive in Wales
on the seeds OF the heather with which the moors
are thickly covered. Their crops are full of the
heather seeds this time of year. They fly like
sTeaS. and that is why shooting them affords such
high class sport"
SOLDIERS DIET A CAUSE OF DISEASE
DR.. Seaman read a paper before the International
MEDICAL Congress on The Soldiers Ratons in the
Tropics: Its Use and It's Abuse" With reference
to the subject the doctor said:
We have about seventy thousand troops in the
6md!pplnes, and 60 per cent sick because Of
cesslVe meat diet. The existing ration, containing
gsE nPi1g things connected with the Army in the
66nInppnines to-day 1t is more than wrong It Is
issued providing for candy for the soldiers That
0IoeI was dictated by common sense. That is
cbocoI eHe so51ieTs needsweets sugar Give them
large decrease IN t Gr S0gaT and you'll soon see
Americans a rule have q poor opinion of the
vestgatio that he has FAR greaer Endurance IN
tropical climates than our own soldiers on their
present diet The Chinese soldier gets about one
being made up principally of rice and -four His
sustenance and pay together amount to IS a month,
these same Chinese soldiers RaVe exhiSted fas
greater re- Ter en no than our own soldiers.
by bullets. Every death from preventable disease
It occurs in the Army 1t becomes a crime. The
tben as OF e moss vars are cash From moral
stare should guard the soldiers health, for moth
Ing IS more costly in war than disease and after
The critics Of the present Army ration are told
get Of Congress can change it. When men nS are re
peing invaded by thousands a statement like
is not proper one it should be changed at once
! am going to keep hammering away on this sub
When our troops were sent to the Philippines It
was noticed that the cavalry horses could not be
One day trooper who had been in the habit Of
showed evidences of the greatest delight over the
sugar, and sugar tried with the other horses
had been dying by the bundled Then one o fSs
army officers suggested that the horses might eat
was tried the horses ate the hay with the greafest
avidity, and the sickness disappeared almost as if
by magic.