New-York tribune., 1901-12-24
MCCLELLAN WAS della l ED.
RERMITDA OFFICIALS STOPPED CoAL
ING OF TRANSPORT, OFFICER
DECLARES.

,.. 17,,tsd states transport Mcclellan arrived
at Jersey City yesterday from MANIA Ai'ei :"
voyaee of two months and five days She car
RED thirty eight cabin passengers ana AZ SOL
diers of whom 236 of Companies b. ana
d of the 1st Battalion of Engineers. Ine
others have been discharged. The transport
also brought the bodies of Captain Herbert
Draper of the United States Marine Corps, who
died at Hong-Kong and William b. Taop,
tbirtv-fve wears old who the civilian clerk
70 the United States naval engineer at Guam,
who expired board the transport on NoVem-
Der IL This was the only case of Illness ABOARD
throughout the long voyage. Lieutenant H. r
Rowland 23d Infantry, was the quartermaster
in charge of the transport, Captain W. T. Nye
the navigating officer and Major Henry the sur
geon. Captain George A. zinn commanded the
troops.
Companies and will leave early to-day for
the Jefferson Barracks, at St Louis. and Com
pany c will go to West Point. where it has been
stationed when not in active service for twenty
five years.
The Mcclellan cleared from Manila on October
1S and the voyage in the main was pleasant.
The officers. troops and crew were accorded a
royal welcome at Singapore and Colombo.
Lieutenant Howland exploded the story about
the passengers who left the Mcclellan at Suez
He said it was not because the vessel was over
crowded or that the food bad When they
reached Suez they found that the Bubonic
plaugue prevailed there The party who de-
barked consisted of Lieutenants Holden. Par
rott and Townsend Major Charles Byrne.- Cap
tain McMasters. Mrs. schoeffell, wife of Lieu
tenant Schoeffell. of the 9th Infantry; Edwin
Joy, brother of the Congressman. and Mrs. Ed
win Joy. his wife. They desired to see some
thing of Egypt and had arranged TO visit CAIRO
and Alexandria, and boarded the Mcclellan at
Port Said The officials announced that if any
one was taken aboard at Port Said the trans
port would be detained at quarantine To avoid
this delay those who left the Mcclellan decided
after their tour in Egypt to so to Italy and sail
for this country passenger steamer.
At Gibraltar the unusual privilege was granted
of allowing the transport to take coal INSIDE the
breakwater. The only disagreeable feature OF
the voyage was the lack of courtesy shown at
Bermuda. The transport had encountered neao
winds after leaving Gibraltar and put into Ber-
rnuda to replenish the coal bunkers. Ihe NC
CIellan anchored about three miles from the
coalipg station. The commercial agent was
seen and asked to obtain permission to have the
transport take on coal. This was early in the
morning of December 1S. So confident were the
officers that consent would be given tnat tile
collier was ordered At noon the collector OF
customs at ST. George boarded the transport
and told them to cease coaling, indicating that
the Governor had received the request IL was
4 O'Clock in the afternoon before the message
was received by telephone from the Colonial
secretarv at Hamilton. It absolute re
fusal. He said that 1t would be Ti0lanon 11 fo
steam to Grassy Bay, seventeen miles distant
to take on coal that had to be sent from 81.
George. The Mcclellan was conpelied 10 re
Mrs. Draper, who accompanied her husbands S
body left for Washington last evening. ner
husbands body Will reach there to-day. Inc
body of Tabb will be sent to his home in Vir-
Pinia.