The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-11-02
FEEDING ARMY
IN PHILIPPINES
-%
Difficulties Experienced In Sc
curing Proper Food.
H0 COMPLAINT AS TO SUPPLY
EEOUsANDS OF SOLDIERS AND
OTHERS CARED FOE.
80 COMPLAINT AS TO SUPPLY

Washington. Nov. 1.-The report az
General John T.. Weston, commlssary
general Of subsistence, shows that the
total expenditures for the subsistence
of lhe army during the fiscal year were
1922 DOS. The receipts from the sales
or subsistence stores during the same
HeriJd were So go pa. An interesting
feature of the report is sts tement
from Colonel Woodruff, chief commits
sry 0f the army I'm the Philippines, in
1lch ne says.
During the first three months Of the
period covered by this report stores
here had, for various causes, become
greatly reduced, but owing to the grand
response made by tie cOmmissary gen
eral to every call from this Office and
lne energetic action Of the purchasing
.Hmmissarles in San Francisco and
New York. this was speedily corrected,
and this division was soon supplied as
no other army Of its size has ever been
appled in the worlds history.
During the period covered by this
report the command to be supplied ex-
tended from the great wall of China
.u the north TO the island of BorneO
south and the island Of Guam on the
east There were $50 stations in this
and the prisoners in Guam.
In addition to the 6S 600 troops and
1000 officers in this division, the sub
stence department supplied the deli
.Hrles or the sick rauOns for 1000
prisoners of war, eighteen marines,
many of the stores for the navy, IA
ulus for 1 900 civilian employees and
Gales sto-es for the army, navy and
marine officers, Philippine commission
and attaches and Americans employed
.r the army and by the government in
IFS treas ury. postOfice, interior and ed
U.gt Iai departments, metropolitan
.d native police. scouts, transports,
..e.-in other words, nearly 100. 600 per-
SONS occupying country almost dasti-
.H.e of meat and vegetables and other
bod supplies suitable for Americans
were supplied largely from single
base. 1000 miles distant.
Hero to Transport.
after the stores reached Manila they
HaG to be landed in cascOes and were
.Iel distributed by short railroads and
hon poled up narrow rivers, by wagon
nd carts. along almost bottOmless
IDS. by pack mules and coolies over
mountain trails. often through a hos
country and some of the posts sup
led were more distant in IOint of
ue from Manila than is the capital
ftsaVntry.'
colonel WOodENff says that during
period coveredNby the report $4,000
have been returned to the United
las and about 1900 have arrived in
philippines, and that not a single
lous complaint has been received
neerning the food supply.
There have been received ar the Ma
a depot lie 554 $50 pounds of ration
...6s and f2,444 900 pounds Of sales
torres. There have been shipped from
depot l.Tll509 pounds Of ration
.oIas and 5I022,671 pounds of sales
There has beer some deteriOra-
N or stores due TO i,OOr storage and
.auc conditions. -
colonel Woodruff refers TO the
es against the subsistence depart
- agI takes occasion 10 say that
Urges were greatly exaggerated,
me reviews what has already been
.fs1ed concerning the losses by dis
.rest officers and commissary ser
nls. together with tie trials and
setlons of those implicated. Re de-
any Illegal purchases of cham
He and says chat the purchases
. made necessary for sick a~7 do
.lea troops, who purchased it at
cents a pint
General WesJous report deals quite
E-veiy with the Chinese campaign
. quotes from officers who were i'm
expedition 20 show that the troops
wen supplied