Evening Star Newspaper, August 6, 1898, Page 10

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1898-24 PAGES. McK new’s|!SLAND OF JAMAICA 933 Penn. Ave. “dally 5 p-m., Saturdays 1 p.m. Don't fail to drop in Monday At Our Annual Midsummer Ciearing Saie of Mens [Furnishings. er famcus makes of MANHATTAN™ Shirts your ¥ of these Shirts a ge Shirts at 5 > Shirts at 89c. e Shirts at $2. S 5 Silk Negliges, $3.50. toc. Wash Madras Ties, 5c. (6 for 25e.) 15c. Wash Madras Ties, toc. for ) and 35c. Hose, 21c. Striped Hose, 35c. 3 pairs for $1.) 390¢. Swi Ribbed Shirts and Drawers going at 29c. soc. Balbriggan and Gauze Shirts and Drawers, 46c. $1 Silk-finished French Balbrig- gan Shirts and Drawer. ’ soc. Jersey Bathing Suits, 46c. sathing Suits, &89c. soc. Muslin Night Shirts, 42c. sit $1 Fa lands, 23c. v. H. McKnew, 933 Pa. Av. ARMS LANDED IN CUBA. Steamship Wanderer’s Thrice Sac- cessful Mission to the Isiane lerer returne after € and amn the Cul early in July. with anxious to join their nm members . to protect who pep- bullets, ere wait- and woande? back to r injured men in th tarted en her second a she went to a point about six t of Bahia Honda, where she met a small party of insurgents from Col. Car- filo's fore but Spaniards. About two. thirds of her cargo wds discharged here nd twenty-five Cubans were put ashore Wanderer then headed for the mouth Manati river, province of Puerto where. on the night of July 30, ed without difficulty about the antity of arms and ammunition 2 Cubans. From there she we Padre. in the same province. remainder of her cargo and embarked. All three landings hout the necessity for firing ——___+se MARCK’S PRECAUTIONS. Against Mischievous Pranks Being Played With His Dead Body. Lord Salisbury’s telegram of condolence, ribing the “splendid genius” of Prince gives great satisfaction at Rer- imperor William announces that he will present sture of Bismarck t a valuable p to the warship Fuerst Bismarck, now in truction at Kiel. it is reported, once said to his I will at least take precautions in od time against mischievous pranks be- played with my dead body. I should © to fu the Berliners call one of those thi something between a hurch procession. It thing that now cess of con Bismarck Hayden, editor of the Zukunft, which publishe foregoing, was one of most friends. In the , but Kept the know! end. It was in a Bismare’ own wi: nation was publi ter his death. bec he was longer delayed high revent its publication al- bouts of the memoirs is st but it is asserted that they hands of Cotta at Stuttgart Js, it is unli y ore Dece nd must » copyright- abroad for simultaneous It is be d that the memotrs e diplomatic history ar: e+ MASO WRITES TO THE PRESIDENS. Trasts That Cabans and Americans Will Be in Harmony. Bartalore M of Cuba has to President Me- » hope that there will no serious misunderstanding between cubans and Ameri In part he realize, and are We are in the United States, for ernment we the most fidence. The slightest friction s with the administra- would give us un- ed in of the them sired ¢ “Our only wish is to know what is de- tained with re by ng us, lution of the prob- of Cu my p do, I cannot the pr onstruction, approached, rious as it siders. I know that the sly asked whether the “wf governing them- trusted to govern? I ng that we kave ferent from that American countries, and on earth can be found where om from strife of all kinds sired than in the Island of Cuba. he establishment of any form of gov- nment ould with the utmost nknes both sides, and a clear un- anding of the relations that are to be ablished between the government and people govern. If the right hosen to govern, task will be people will govern themselves. 2 litical friction can be avo’ is selection of the > path of those to follow wi! ugh St step, with the States goverrme will be to call mbly, which will represent, as »ssible, every section of territory ncition of people. This assembly approval of the *t a rew provisional government possess more powers than the hich is, of necessity, a gov- of the revclution. But the result the hew assembly will be to form a gov- meat which will still be Hmited in er. and whose important work will he of a permanent and government, founded on the lines ef that of the United States, and one, which we hope, and have every reason ‘o believe, will be satisfactory, both to the United States and Cuba. ———\_+e+__. William Carpenter was thrown from his @ in South Washington last night and injured about the head. He was removed to his home by friends. Something About the Next Door Neighbor of Cuba. SUDDEN IMPORTANCE OF PORT ANTONIO The Population a Mixed One— Change of Industries. A ROU EN ESD FORT Written for The Evening Star. Cuba's next door neighbor to the south is Jamaica. It is twelve hours, usually stormy hours, through the entrance of the Caribbean sea to Port An- tonio. A few months ago Port Antonio was known to the vesseis which frequent West Indian waters as a comfortable haven, the leading shipping point on the north coast for an extensive fruit business that had grewn up with the United States. One morning a ficet cf newspaper d'spatch boats put into the port, and without waiting for local regulations to be complied with half a score of correspondents were on shore making a mad rush for the post office, which was also the government telegraph line. On that line messages might be sent overland to Kingston, and then cabled to the United States. Up to this time it is doubtful if more than a shilling message— always payable in advance—had been trans mitted to Kingston. A shilling paid for twenty woveds. The agony of the corre- spondents on learning the extent of the telegraph “facilities,” the subsequent ex- periences with English official methods. which drove most of them to the verge of insanity and violently prejudiced them all against the Anglo-American alliance, form a chap er which would be better understood by members of their own profession than by the general public. The point was that this coming of the newspaper boats was the introduction of the sea-coast village to the outside world, for thereafter patches “via Port Antonio” became so com- mon that every newspaper reader learned there was such a place. The occasion of the dispatch boats’ arrival was the definite knowledge that Cervera’s fleet had been lo- cated in Santiago harbor. The theater of the war was shifted and they shifted with it from Havana and Key West to Santiago and Port Antonio. Afterward the port oc- ecasionally sheltered one of the warship doing duty as scout or one of the trans- ports which had brought the American troops from Tampa. These could put in for water or ice or some other purpose per missible within the twenty hours allowe vessels of pelligerents iw a neutral port. First Acquaintance With the Istand. My own acquaintance with Jamaica and Jamaica: Was made at a time when the possible effect of Americanizing Cuba was the uppermost topic. This was atter the victory at Santiago. I went across from Stboney in order to take ship for New York, and a few 's’ wait gave the chance to learn what the people in this English colony were thinking and saying. They felt that the future of Cuba could not be disassociated entirely from the other West Indies, and while they feared the colony might suffer still further from its present depression that did not interfere with their good will. The stranger can see no reason why Ja- maica should suffer through the prosperity of its neighbors. Sailing into the bay the impression is of natural richness to reple- tion. The Blue mountains might better be called green. The azure haze on their sum- mits is less striking than the verdure on their sid » tropical and luxuriant that it leaves only a re glimpse to be had of the white limestone. In the days when the pirates and the buccaneers made this quiet haven their resort, they are credited with frequent resolves to forsake the sea and pass their old age in this region. Their good resolves were never carried out. Where sea and mountain blend as on this Jamaican coast and the palm mingles with the green branching trees, the restiess spirit of the buccaneers could not have been con- tent. The surroundings are for meditation, and meditation is not good for the soul of a pirate. A Characteristic Village. The village of Port Antonio, they told me, was a characteristic one. That fs, its long, narrow and straggling street, lined with boxes of wooden and brick house was like other villages, while its lazy good-natured and gossiping inhabits were like the population of other coa towns. They work sometimes, because the monotony of idlene: an acquired liking for the artificial forts of life cannot be gratifed by w: ing the cocoanuts drop from the trees. The outward appearanee of the village is not improved by the municipal or government buildings. These are too smail to he mas- sive, but they are ugly enough te demon- strate the solidity of the British empire. It is in reality the Americans who, in fol- lowing out comnfercial instincts, have not forgotten the natural surrounding: have not tried to beautlfy or aoc the st-aggling street, but have gone up to the hillt and covered these with villas an yttages, which conve than a suggestion of paradi are rot many since Skipper Baker, into Pert Antonio for some chance pur- cided to take to Boston a cargo of aS on a venture. Out of that ven- ture has developed ‘the fruit busine: which is almost the sole hope of Jamaica. Out of it, too, has come the influx of Bos- ton people, who are going to make the is- lend a winter resort. They have chosen Port Antonio as a beginning. In the sea- son colonies of them sit 9n the porch of the cosy hotel talking mugwump politics and the literary defeccs of William Dean Howells. A Cuban Barber's Dilemma. While the story of the Yankee ship cap- tain’s lesson to the Jamaicans on their wealth of natural products is interesting and instructive, it will bear telling some other time. I was more entertained, if not instructed, the day of my arrival by the dilemma of the Cuban barber. The whole i w of his perplexity, and he was d to take strange -s into his confid=nce. “You wouldn't like to wait till Sunday, would you?” he caid, insinuatingly. To ask a man with a three weeks’ jungle of beard to wait over night for a clean shave in any circumstances wculd be a rash proposition. In this instance it met with a savage re- fusal. Th> Cuben barber resigned himself to his work, and between intervals of lather and razor unfolded his troubles. “I ask everybody to help me celebrate the freeing of that beautiful country,” he said. “Every- body came except that d—n Spanish store- keeper by the bridge. Those coolie Indians (Hindus) help me celebrate, those Norw2- gian sallors help me celebrate, the Ameri- cans help me celebrate. We hav> a good time. Next day all come again. They say, ‘Celebrate some more.’ I say, ‘Yes, cele- brate the freeing of that beautiful country some more.’ We all celebrate some more. My wife send word for me to come home. I send word to her too many customers in the shop; must not leav2 them. Today she again send word for me to come home. To- night at 11 o'clock she come after me. I tell 2verybody wait and get shave Sunday. Nobody will wait. Tonight at 11 o’clock I go home. Sunday will be very long day for me.” Other men In other countries, celebrating other events, have perhaps had experiences which would enable them to sympathize with the Cuban barber. However, no touch of nature seemed to glow in the breasts of those to whom he told his simple story. The advance he received was of a kind to add to the domestic discord and to lengthen the hours of that uncomfortable Sunday at home with his wife. A Mixed Population. Port Antonio has its Cuban settlement and also its loyal Spaniards, but there is not enough of either class to affect the na- tive Jamaican population. They get along well together without mixing the blood to a noticeable degree. The foreign element is composed of the Hindus, or coolies, who were brought to the island under contract and who usually stay when their contracts are ended. The colonial government foster- ed the system, and I was repeatedly told it had given satisfaction and had of great aid in giving the planters labor on which they could depend. The Hindus are putting net numerous enough to be of much conse- quence, but they have transplanted their customs irom the East to the West Indies. A group of them seen in the village street in the midst of a multitude of Jamaica blacks did not need an ethnologist to ex- plain that the brown or black Aryans are not of Kindred race with the Africans. Their lithe, arrow-like figures and their aquiline features and straight black, hair are too pronounced for any resemblance to be found. Yet there was some incongruity in the men carrying umbrellas, blue ging- ham or green, when they came into the town market day. It disturbed reflections incident to finding these representatives of the old Indies which Columbus sought to discover in the new Indies which he did discover. The umbrellas looked as ff they had ali come from a second-hand store in Boston. The Thritty Coolies. The coolies or Hindus are as thrifty as the Jamaicans are shiftless. They are fond of ornaments, and the long folds of linen which by a skillful twist or two are wound into garments are worn with grace. The trim little brown wemen are comely and neat in their appearance. The trans- planted custom which causes ail the wealth of a household to be turned into silver jew- eiry and worn on the person has its com- mercial side. The Jamaican if he finds a rare piece of coral may pick it up and by the offer of special inducements may hunt up a carved gourd or cocoanut shell wh will pass for a native curiosity. But th exertion is not one that he Hindu is just the c necklaces, bracelets, -rings and other quaint silver ornaments fashion- ar-rings ed by the Hindu silversmith and worn by his wife and children can always be had for a consideration. To an Ameri eler the consideration is usually eig! the bullion value of the English shilling: that are used, with something extra for the workmanship and a little added for the privilege of knowing that the ornament was genuine and not made at some factory in Connecticut. Yet the gold standard is ing headway even among these pe intelligent coolie showed me with ‘much prige an American double eagle which he Wore suspended from a string of beads. The beads were worth fifty cents. On my-ask- ing how much he wanted for beads a gold coin he replied in good English hundred dollars.” - bargain v struck. it e, An An English gentleman who rode with me about the neighborhood s: of the Hindus were Mohammedans. T looked down on the blac latter disliked them. Ne’ coolies were first brought to th Work on the sugar plantation: n to decay they quickly » looking at the me rown ruins of a s' covered and vin mill ai the Hindu settlement of Goldenvale that the r ame gentleman told me sing Was a doomed industry in J roots began the downfall “thea bounties and ta ruin. I don't believe w sugar raising on a proti sis and for one I am not trying. But it the right thing to let my cane tick back into ju rising. It is ap) fruits grow in the night without your ing to stay awake to watch them with sugar it was night and day w: and then never certair protit This English plaatet more wisdom than many of his fellows who cling to the hope that something maf be done for the Riding through the ¢ nut groves the banana fields it did seem as though there was a Mpensit~ n for the elds. The ble and I went into fruit ke i the cane ange groves did not look so well, thuugh I was assured that this crop was becom- ing marketable, and therefore profitable. But even in the tropics nature does not harvest her own crop, and the wild banana trees on the mountain sides yield no fruit without cultivation. red acting, though thi to be a peculiar! stenance to all ifving animals loubted Mark Twain's dc stantial narrative of cats ed ng cocoanuts, but here the evideace was given me. Hereafter I am ready to sup- port the statement that cats eat cocounuts. Ruined Fort. Port Aaitcnio one attraction which makes it unique in the West Indies. This a ruined fert which is not a ruined Span- ish fort. It is an English colonial ruin, a stone stockade with rusty cannons a cen- tury old commar ding the narrow channels which lead from the sea into the two bays. At its front are the abandoned bar- racks apd the fort itself is a playground for chifdrer, and a refuge for strolling lovers who want to wander by the sea and imagine thy have all creation to them- selves. The place fell into disuse because it came to pass that the pirates disappeared from the Caribbean waters, and England had no enemies to repulse in the West Indies. A fine light house on the headland across the east bay is of more benefit to commerce than the fort was in its day, ard the wooded island across the other channel is a pressing invitation to dream- ing away days and weeks, when weary of the talk of cocoanuts and bananas. Something has to be kept behind at Port Antonio for the next comer. At present it is a choice bargain in a sealskin sacque, or cloak, or something of the kind that American women throw over thelr should- ers when the first cold snap comes so that their husba imely warning of the a new by Christmas. An enterprising Lo: shopkeeper sent this fur garment out as a ample to a country where the thermometer registe midsummer heat all the year round. There being no local demand for this class of luxuries, the sealskin is offered to travel- ers from northern countries at reduced rates. No one who was there this summer being familiar with the war tariff schedule, a sale has not been made. too, require care. It that the cocoanut 1 t- CHARLES M. PEPPER. ee TRIED TO POISON GOMEZ. Renegade Cubans Executed for Treachery. According to advices r:cently received in Washington General Gomez narrowly es. caped death at the hands of Spanish assas- sins not long ago. It appears that five or six presentados (Cuban soldiers who had laid down their arms and accepted auton- omy from Spain) undertook the mission of removing th2 grim old warrior, for which they Were to get a big sum. Having been in the insurgent ranks, and their treason in presenting themselves at Spanish headquar- ters not being g2nerally known, they had no trouble in getting inside the lines of General Gomez and near his person. They were prepared for their deadly work with poisons, th> intention being to pollute the drinking water. One of the spies was caught acting suspiciously and searched. A large quantity of arsenic was found on his person, and he was hauled up before the general, where h> broke down and confess- ed to the conspir: A court-martial was immediately sum- moned, and while it was sitting tne cap- tured spy implicated several others. All were found guilty and sentznced to be shot. General Gomez himself was disposed to im- pese a lighter sentence, saying that he re- geréed the war as practically over. But bis officers declared that as the conspira- tors had intended to place the life of every soldier in camp in jeopardy they should suf- fer death. The spies were accordingly ex- ecuted. ——E— Walsh Would Huve Been Cardinal. A high London Catholic authority informs the Associated Press that the Vatican had decided to make Archbishop Walsh of To- ronto a cardinal. His death leaves the question of succession to Cardinal Tasche- reau open, as the Vatican is understood to have no second choice. The Catholic week- lies, the Tablet and the Register, confirm the report that Archbishop Walsh was the Vatican's choice for the Canadian cardinal- ate. The Irish parliamentary party met ia the house of commons yesterday and adopt- ed a resolution, proposed by Mr. John Dil- lon and seconded by Mr. Michael Davitt, declaring that the death of Archbishop Walsh was a heavy blow to the Irish cause, and tendering sympathy to his Canadian countrymen. ——+o+—___. Ice-Making Plant Donated. The War Department has accepted the offer made some time ago by Mr. Nathan Strauss to furnish the department with an artificial ice plant capable of producing thirteen tons of ice per day and the ap- paratus necessary for the filtering of 20,000 gallons of water a day. In addition to the machinery itself, which Mr. Strauss of- fered for the use of the American soldiers at Santiago, the offer included the salaries of the men to operate it. Those associated with Mr. Strauss in making the offer are Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, Mr. Pei Bel- mont and President Steward of the nited } From the Scientific American, States Trust Company, X RAYS IN SURGERY Exact Location of Bullets Determined Without Péin or Risk. AIDING SURGEONS ON HOSPITAL SHIPS Views of an Expert on the Effect of the Maiiser Rifles. Ss SOME REMARKABLE CASES The velue of the probe as a diagnostic instrument in locating bullets in modern military service has been almost entirely superseded by the employment of the X as is often the case, of a bullet is unknown, its presence act location can be determined with- any additional risks to the patient by the use of the X rays. All of the bullets removed on board of the United States hospital ship Relief were the where- out pain or sof J ica, while the here is ho race conflict and no fear of one. The island to but when to the labor cf fruit completed the will ever get our gain, sn't let, especially when it struck parts that contained a large percentage of soft or fluid contents, such, for instance, as the head. These results were not produced. In fact, the destructive effect of the Mauser bullet has been much less than that produced by the old large-caliber rifle. There were sev- eral instances where the brain was pierced through and through. Both the wound of entrance and the wound of exit were mere punctures, and the brain itself was seem- ingly little disturbed. In two cases, espe- cially noted, consciousness was not lost. In a number of these brain injuries death resulted, but from septic poisoning, not from destruction of brain substance. Unaccountable Course of Bullets. “In wounds-of the extremities the bullets sometimes take a most unaccountable ccurse and often produce entirely unexpect- ed results. Usually the wound of entrance appears to be a mere puncture, and _fre- quently zlso the wound of exit, while with- in the part struck the most terrible erup- tion has taken place. “Another unexpected result produced, continued Dr. Gray, ‘was the retention of so many bullets in the body. We were led to suppose that owing to the great velocity of these bullets few or any would be found in the pody. Such was not the case, how- ever, for they have been removed by the | dczens. These bullets sometimes take the | rison duty in. the Philippines or at Ha- mest remarkable cou. Here is a pheto- graph which illustrates this point. T man was shot in the upper part of the right arm near the shoulder joint. It did not produce any injury to either the shoul- Ger or arm bones, but passel over under run Bedies) DUSIeSS ig ube HOSPITAL SHIP RELIE William M.} Army Medical ington, who is an expert s to Washing- He has charge of the scientific work of the floating hospital, and he has been of the greatest service to the surgeons in them to Jocate guiding them as to the advisability of me e oval. dertaking an operation for their removal His large collection’ of skiagraph pictures will also furnish a flood of new light on the ct of the gmail-caliber bullet on the different bones of the body. 2 In conversation with a representative of The Star Dr. Gray Said: he skiagraph has made it possible to diagnosticate the existence or absence of number of doubtful in which it was necessary to depend ex- clusively on this diagnostic resource. In Case of Fracture. “With fractures in close proximity to the X ray has been of the greatest value in ascertaining whether or not the fracture extended into the joint. i one case of gunshot wound at the base of the thigh, in which the bullet passed in the head of variance concerning the extent of the injury to the bone. the surgeons made a diagnosis of fracture, while others contended that there was no believed that the bullet had made a deep groove in the anterior portion of the bone and had possibly opened the capsule of the joint at the same time. ray picture clearly demonstrated the ab- and the existence of a the femur in the hood of the great trochanter. “The X ray has also proved of the great- in showing microscopist in skiagraph fractures in a large joints the femur, opinions were sence of fracture hole through est practical placement of fragments in gunshot frac- tures of the extremities, which enabled the surgeons to resort to timely measures to prevent vicious union. Effect of Small-Caliber Ballets. “The effect of modern small-caliber bul- lets on the tissues of the living person,” “has been much from what we were led to expect, judging of the results produced experimentally on the dead body, and on inanimate objects. Numerous experiments have been made in different parts of the world with the small- As a result of these experi- . we were led to expect the most ter- ribly explosive effects from the Mauser bul- caliber rifle. s of the chest, e a_ bad fracture of the left lodged where shown in_the umeru X-ray picture. Another marvelous effect, | k of effect, of these been known to or, more properly, bullets is that they hav pass through vital organs with absolutely no symptoms produced. ‘Two cases were | | observed where one of these bullets passed @rectly through the body, inciuding in its ccurse the heart. These subjects «re both alive, and, were it not for other wounds, would be perfectly well.” = -WILL GO TO SANTIAGO. A Protest by Senator Bacon Re- pudiated. Senator Bacon of Georgia has sent a Iet- ter to the Secretary of War, protesting against the 3d (immune) United States Vol- j tnteer Infantry of Georgia being sent to Santiago to relieve troops now there. The protest is based on the claim that the regi- ment is not composed of “immunes.” Gen. Corbin has received from Col. P. H. Ray, commanding the regiment, the following idispatch: “I see by tonight’s paper a protest from Senator Bacon against this regiment going to Santiago. The officers and men of this regiment are willing and anxious to go and do their duty in any place they may be | called, and have no sympathy or interest in the protest of Senator Bacon, but depre- cate it. RAY, Colonel.” The Secretary of War has accepted the offer of “he Sth Illinois (colored) Infantry to relieve the Ist Illinois, now at Santiago. Gen. Corbin says in his telegram to Gov. Tanner: ‘The Secretary of War appreciates very much the offer of the 8th Illinois Volunteer Infantry for duty in Santiago, and has di- rected that the regiment be sent there on steamer Yale, leaving New York next Tuesday. The main trouble with our troops now fn Cuba is that they are suf- fering from exhaustion and exposure, inci- Cent to one of the must trying campaigns to which soldiers have ever been sub- jected.’ Renders in the Library. During the month of July the number of readers calling for books in the reading reom of the Library of Congress was 4,367. ‘The highest number of readers in a day ; the lowest, 65—an average of 176. The number of books supplied to readers was 7,681, an average of 307. s red the left | HOW THE MEN FARE Quality of Food Depends on the Com- pany Cooks, GREAT IMPROVEMENT AT CAMP ALGER Captain Little’s Work in the Sub- sistence Department. SELLING SURPLUS RATIONS eee Biscuits for breakfast, soft home-made bread for dinner and doughntits for supper. served with good coffee, fresh meat, mealy potatoes and pickles. This is the diet on which some of the men at Camp Alger are preparing to endure the hardships of gar- vana. Such a bill of fare does not tally very Well with the stories published in many newspapers recently of the bad food issued to the volunteers, or with the reports sent in to Washington by some of those volun- teers who are just now fighting for their country’s honor out at Camp Alger; but for the soldiers at least the bill of fare Will speak a great deal louder than any of the men who sit about camp and grumble because they are too lazy to help make their company mess all that their fan Stggests. For the truth of the matter is that not one, but many, of the companies in camp eat meals lke those indicated in the first sentence, prepared from the same rations as the hard tack and coffee meais of which the stay-at-komes have heard so much. There is, of course, some reason for this discrepancy, but ft is a reason that is a bit hard to discover. Capt. Little's Task. Long before half the regiments now in the 2d Corps had been ordered to Washing- ton, when the regiment from the District of Columbia and that from southern Ohio were the only detachments in camp, a tall, unassuming sort of a man came into camp to report to some one as the department commissary of subsistence. His name was plain John Littl dh a captain in the 14th Infantry. Some one gave him a room in the old Manor House, near the District camp, and then Captain Little set to work. Prior to his coming the men had lived hand to mouth, or not so well, and so the department commissary of subsistence had plenty to do to get things straightened out. How it was all done, carloads of supy brought to Duna Loring, meat bought, issued and inspected, and contracts completed for fresh bread every day, all within about ten days—no one could under- stand until he heard that the head of the department worked until after 11 o'clock at night and began work again at the next morning. «From that time to this an adequate supply of good, wholesome food for all the enlisted men in the 2d Corps has never been lacking. The work broad- ened out considerably; there were at one time 25,000 men to feed, i ad of less than 2,000. The camp has spread over half the county, the various regimental command: have been sent from time to time away from the camp on practice marches, and Captain Little has become a major and has been civen an assistant and two clerk: but none of these hapyenings have even affected the issue of commissary supplies. Selling Surplus Rations. As the subsistence department is conduct- ed at Camp Alger, no one man could eat regularly all the food included in his ra- tions. Whenever any one suffers from lack of sufficient food the fault lies further down the line. The supplies issued are fresh beef, pork, bacon, corned beef, flour, hard- tack, cornmeal, baking powder, beans, peas, rice, hominy, canned tomatoes, coffee, tea, sugar, molasses, cane sirup, vinegar, salt, pepper, soap, candles, salmon and matches. Of the edibles in this Mst each company quartermaster receives more than his men could possibly digest. When any one fails to get enough it is usually the result of waste in the kitchen. It is un- usual, in consequence, to hear any one complain of not getting enough to eat. On the contrary, most of the company quar- termasters save great quantities of all the supplies named and sell them back to Major Little. The army encourages this sort of frugal- ity by conducting an exchange at each depot of supplies. Company cooks save on corned beef, hardtack and coffee, and get onions, macaroni, white sugar, prunes, or anything else, in return. Perhaps the best part of it all ts that the men always get full weight and good quality, and can buy without calculating the freight charges, for the government pays the freight. The Camp Stoves. Two appliances of rare practical v:'ue are brought to the ald of the company cooks, the “Buzzycot oven” and the “Ver- mont field oven.” Both are big, t iron contrivances that do splendid work. You can fry, broil, stew and roast in a “Buz: cot” over one fire. The Vermont oven used almost exclusively for baking bread and biscuits. With such tools and such supplies tt ts easy to see where the responsibility belongs for good company cooking and to determine THE FOUR STAGES OF THE SANTIAGO NAVAL EXGAGEMENT, ‘ the reason for the complaints made about the quality and quantity of the fool. The | company cooks are the arbiters of fate, | not the quartermasters or the commissary | officers. Effort was made to have each ens | listing officer recruit one good cook for | each company. Some of them succeeded admirably, but more of them didn’t. Con-| gress came to the rescue, however, @fit dignified the calling by creating an ad¢i= tional corporaicy in order to permit :he pro- motion of the cook to tha: rank. The efs fect was instantaneous. Bread bakers, ho- tel cooks and caterers sprang up every where and offered their ricos. ‘This im why some of the companies eat doughnut® while others grind their teeth on hard tack, Some time later, possibly, every company Will have a good cook, ani then there will be an end to all criticism of Uncle Sam's table. As it is now most of the troops are ridiculously proud of the:r cooks. One of the Illinois men chanced to pass 2he camp of the 65th New York last Sunday, and this was the dialogue that followed: negiste, Irish! What" y’ nave for din- vSome mate-fol and Merrilind biskit.” /Well, I don't see any steam comin’ out of your stoves. “We're goin’ to have vege- table soup and apple dumplin’, “O! most forgot to say,” rejoined the Tlt= nois man, in a brogue as thick as cream. thot we're to have a pooree of vegetable Soup and an entry of tomaty sarce wid onions and bread crust in * ——___+0+ CAMP ALGER. Suggestions ax to Necessity Thoroughly Disinfecting It. Among the communications received by The Star in regard to Camp Alger is one from Joseph Ambrose Thompson of Alex- andria, in which he says: Your editorial is to the point, but from whatever source the germs were imported, why were some preventative measures not adopted? The germ would hardly have connected with the well water supply; the weather was too dry. A man infected, whether it developed or not, and “careless of sanitation,” with the assistance of the for sun and wind, not to mention flies, could distribute germs over a lar ea.” When you know that the disease from which 4 person died many decades ago can be traced in the pollen of the flowers over the grave, you i how germs can spread. Yellow fever germs have been carried 100 miles by fog. We cannot but notice with serious apprehension that at Fort Myer the excrement of patients “is disinfected before it goes into the Poto- mac river,” and I think it is your duty, ing 40,000 subscribers (and shad . lo investigate this matter and see is District is not made the victim of further calamity through “somebody's neg- lect or blunder.” Jf they use a strong so- lution of acid, thoroughly done, it may b effective at a at cost, but I think thor- oughly incorporated with unslacked lime, then incinerated, would reduce ail risks. The owners of the late camp should be urged to grow sunflowers (Helianthus an- nuus). It “may” do some good, for the medical profession of today cannot gain- the old woman's adage, “Plant sun- flowers to drive off malaria.” nor the sup- posed mythical supersiition in Africa of “burning the plint to drive off disease and the devil,” for the alkaloid of the sunflow- er (Helantha) us2d internally possesses un- doubted medicinal properties to prevent all kinds of malaria (inter, remittent and yel- low fevers). At any rate, can a more able pen give 2 suggestion rather than “await developments. Died Cured.” Another letter is as follows: A few years ago the writer spent some weeks in a primitive part of Italy, where blood letting was still held to be a cure- al. A sick child was bled till the mother timidly protested. The doctor assurea her that one more application of the cups would insure recovery. In spite of this, the ncxt morning when the doctor came che snoties, sobbed out that her baby was ad. Madam,” said the doctor, “be comfort- ed by knowing that your child died cured.” Much in the present situation recalls that consolation. Camp Alger. water was pro- nounced pure. Typhold was called mala-! ria. The hurriedly equipped, crowded hospitals are almost ideal. Manassas is more bracing than the Pennsylvania hills, and a walk of forty miles or so is not / long for boys with malaria, to say the least, about them, and arms inflamed with vaccination. A boy was brought into the city today by his friends far gone with inanition. Yesterday his comrade dropped dead at his side. But one says there has been over eating, another decides that the men would be “better for exercise.” Our sick and wounded languish in Cuba or return in ships that recall the old slavers. But it is no one’s fault. In fact, the Ha- chels of the country must not refuse to be comforted for their needlessly lost on2s —since they “die cured.” Sear ee BRINGING THE MEN NORTH. War Department Had Acted Before the Officers Made Their Protest. The Secretary of War gave out the fol- lowing statement just before leaving the department at the close of the day yester- aa ntil quite recently it was supposed that yellow fever was epidemic in Santiago, and it was not believed that it would be safe to send shiploads north of men largely in- fected with yellow fever. The disease, it was believed, would spread rapidly on shipboard and result in the death and burial of many at sea. “On the 28th ultimo the Secretary of War telegraphed to General Shafter that as soon as the fever subsided the men of his com- mand would be moved north to a camp that had been selected for them on Mon- tauk Point. On the 30th of July General Shafter telegraphed, ‘Made known Secre- tary of War's telegram that troops would be moved north as soon as fever subsided, and it had a very good effect on them.’ “When, however, the true condition was made known, an order was issued to Gen- eral Shafter to move his command north as rapidiy as possible, and all ships in the quartermaster’s service possible to get to Santiago were sent there, and the great | liners St. Paul and St. Louis were also or- dered there. All this was done before the communication signed by General Shafter and his generals was received, and before | Colonel Roosev s letter was published. “Over 150 surgvons are at Santiago and 176 immune nurses have been sent there, besides the usual hospital corps that al- | Ways attends such an army. There have | been less deaths in Santiago by yellow | fever than by typhoid fever in any camp of the same size in the United States.” ae ye eed WORD FROM GOMEZ. Will Strive to Restore Rel Friendship. Gen. Gomez has issued a proclamation on the Shafter-Garcia incident. The news comes to Washington from the interior of | Cuba and its source is authentic. The old soldier expresses his sorrow for the con- troversy, but declares that it has not! changed his opinion of the American people | and that his confidence in the administra- | tion’s attitude toward Cuba remains un- shaken. In his manifesto Gen. Gomez expresses deep sorrow that any misunderstanding} should occur, and says he will do what he’ cdn to restore friendly relation “The Americans,” he says, “have dealt with us very nobly. They have furnished us food, arms, clothing and ammunition, | thus helping the Cuban republic, which we | love. We are constrained, therefore, to be thankful to them.” Further on the general-in-chief of the Cuban army says he does not believe the | incident will cause the rupture of relations | detween the two republics, as “President | | ‘ions of McKinley, with his great heart, will show a forgiving spirit.” j Gen. Gomez declares that the stories of atrocities committed by the Cuban soldiers, re base calumnies. He as general-in-chief of the whole Cuban army has ordered thet the rights of Spanish prisoners he respect- | ed, and any soldier failing to comply ‘with | the order would be subject to court-martial and the death penalty. x So kindly disposed is Gen. Gomez toward | the American people that he insists on sharing his tent with Lieut. Johnson of, the United States army, who is now in his camp. . 3 + Capt. Clark to Mave a Rest. Capt. Charles E. Clark, commander of - the Oregon, who breught that vessel from - the Pacific around the Horn and took a Gallant part in the destruction of the Cer-~ vera fleet, has been inralided by a oe nie Hone oréered home and granted 4