Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-09-11
Interview Appearing 10 Buffalo
News Says Camp John Smith
is "A Fright.
IS WORSE THAN UNTRUE
New York National Guard officer is
Quoted as Saying That There Are
$40 Cases of Typhoid Fever in En-.
campmcnt, When There Has Been
Only One Case This Summer.

numerous Northern newspapers and
periodicals have ma,ic it II point never
10 overlook an opportunity 10 publish
harmful and false reports about the
jamestown Exposition, and thousands
oi people who otherwise would have
been here To attend the Tcrccntcnnial
have remained ut nome as n result OF
this fact.
All sorts of articles. inspired nv
Ignorance or malice, have appeared in
publications having large calculations.
and there Is no saying To what OK
tent the Exposition has been injurc a.
Even since the completion of the fair:
since the world knows through re-
liahlc nows sources that tho Exposi.
ton is splendid show aud complete
IN every detail. the attacks do not
cease
An Alleged interview
Just n few days ago the Buffalo.
n, " Evening News. in an account
OF the return OF the Scventy.fourth
Now York regiment from it's encamp
mont at the Exposition. gave the fol-
lowing az an interview with one of the
Officers of the regiment
1T was Il fright down here. Camp
Captain John Smith. where the men
were quartcrcd. Is a lo;0ed of typhoid
fever. There are about $50 eases of
II there now. The Twcntv.third
United States Infantry has been rta. |
toned thee since May. ana the regi- |
ment Is so infected with germs that
II cannot 20 to the phillppines.
whore II is ordered TO proceed with |
its present complement OF men. ltl
is being filled up with new recruits |,
To lake the place Of the men who are
from the disease. AlmostI
every one OF our mNn who slept in
Camn Captain John Smith is SCARED
with bcgbug bites. A member of the
Third Artillery died of TYPHOID VIZ
We were there.
Worse Than Untrue.
Anyone who is conversant with the
facts. knows that the above is utterly
untrue. Tho man who wrote 1. either |
lied himself. or had been talking to |
an unmitigatcd liar.
Major &. ~ Woodruff. u. S. A.. one
of the best known surgeons in the
army, in charge of all sanitary ar
rangements ut camp John Smith ana
ne Is assisted by Captain Percy l..
Jones. L. ). ~, Il prominent young
assistant surgeon. Roth of these off4
GERS say that Camp John Smith Is one
of the most hoalthful and pleasant
military camps they have
ever seen, and declare that such re-
ports as the above are worse than I'M
true
One Case Of Typhoid All Summer.
During the entire summer there has
been but one case of typhoid fevcri
nt the camp. ana that one patient is |
now Commissioning 1hcFc has been
very little sickness Of any kln1. ana
even mosquitoes, which are not rari-
ties anywhere In this section. have
been comparatively scarce In the
camp.
Water is not allowed to stand any
whore III or near the camp. and the
ground is carefully oiIIgr' 20 prcver
me termination OF disease ana TIE
collection OF mosquitoes
PennsyIvanians Coming.
a i.w days ago n representative
OF the PENNSYLVANIA National Guar
came to the Exposition TO see for MIN.
self whether or not the above rcport
was correct. The Officers of the rem.
syivania troops were thinking serious
~ oil abandoning their plan for an en-
campment at the Exposition. not car
ing To encounter such discomfor.s and
dangers MS described by The News.
The representative was so wcii salts.
licd with what hc saw that lie att
once notified oadquarters that tho
camp was Il splendid one. and theI
troops will como according TO sche
dule.