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NEGLECTED 4 KTG. (Continued from first page.) jn«nt and that thwre is incompe tency, and that because of '.hem the very m m the country most delight* to honor are suffering -and dying. 2 At Montauk Point, within a few hours of New York City, in touch with all the comforts aud delicacies of life, sick heroes from Santiago are forced to sleep on the soaked ground without proper clothes or covering, and to stand guard duty when they are fainting from the debilitatating • fleets of fever. Some person or persons are re sponsible for such heart-rending conditions, That person or those persons deserve the severest pun ishment. But the suffering at Montauk is net the only fearful tale. At Camp Thomas, Chicamauga, 600 deaths have been reported since the camp was established and 92 since August 1, and there are 2,294 sick men in the hospitals. These men have not been battling in a tropical, fever-stricken land. They have been right in the United States all the time and certainly a healthy location for th-ir camp was the least that should have been provided for them. Before Camp Alger was broken up 250 men had died there. That is more than the Spaniards killed at Santiago, and Camp Alger is just outside of Washington . The Pres'- dent almost could hear the funeral marches from the White House. Fernandina and Tampa and other campshave also sent up piti ful tales of neglect, sickness suf fering and dea' h The report of Surgeon Gen. Ter ry regarding the condition of the New York troops in the several camps showed su :h a dreadful condition of affairs that Governor Black did not dare to publish it. When it is nece-sary to suppress such reports for fear the people will lie aroused to a dangerous pilch, it can be put down as cer tain that s< metl.ing is shamefully wrong. STARVATION Killed Lieu. Tiffany.' Said Hh Brother. Boston, Mass., Aug 27 —“My brother died of starvation,” Bel mont, Tiffany said last night, after First Lieut. WiPiam Tiffany, of Roosevelt’s Rough Riders, passed away at the Parker House. Lieu. Tiffany was brought from Santiago with other s ck soldiers on the Oli vette arriving here Tuesday, His condition was so serious that his mother and sister-in-law, Mrs. Perry Belmont, and Miss Maud Livingston, of New York his fian cee were summoned to his bedside. The death certificate says, “death due to protracted fevers, due to war life in Cuba and starvation,” The body will be sent to New’ York today. Tiffany was the son of George Tiffany and grandson of Commodore Perry. BIG GUNN FIRRING ON CAMP ALGER. Tht-re are thousands of places in which camps could bo pitched, healthful and pleasent, why are the troops sent to fever haunted districts to be decimated? Is it fat contracts which doesail this? Is it politics? Is , it. in other words Alger?—Milwaukee Journal, The sufferings to which Weyler subjectsd the reconcentrados were uo greater than those uow inflicted upor our own gallant troops by ignorance incompetence and in •ome instances heartless indiffer ence in official circles.—New York Hera'd. The United States Military Ac ademy at West P nut has for years been turning out hundreds upon hundreds of scientific military men whose xeceptionally intelligent appreciation of the art of war is second only to their honesty and patriotism. A great war Secretary would have placed his chief depen dence ou this corps of meu—meu drawn frrm all over the countiy, and having no other interests than its welfare at heart —Boston Herald. Mr Alger may coutinu > to is sue his replies hut they ca i not cover the notorious bretkdowns of the Commissary and Quarter master General’s Dipartments they can not restore the men who died in the typhoid fever camps they can not, or they do not stop the arrival of -those cargoes of dying men at Montauk Point. — Chicago Journal. S U RGIC ALMA LI ’R ACT 1C E Another striking instance of official carelessness, in the hos pi tai department, bordering closely on official murder, came to light yesterday. At one of the division hospitals a few days ago a fellow was brought in who had a high fever and was apparently in great pain The young surgeon who was sent to wait on him diagnosed his case as appendicitis. I'he chief surgeon was con sulted and he examined the patient and reached the conclu sion that he did not have appen dicitis, and he instructed the attending surgeon not to operate upon him for that disease. The chief surgeon aftewards had occasion to leave the hospital camp, and during his absence the attending surgeon enlisted the services of another young surgeon, who was looking for “experience” in surgery, and the two performed the operation for appendicits upon the poor soldier. On examination the vermiform appendix they found that they were mistaken in their diagnosis, but as a result the poor soldier was shortly afterward taken away by the undertaker. This story was related by an army surgeon who doesn’t live a thousand miles from Chattanoo ga.—Chattanooga Times. A PATHETIC CA°E v• • ’ A sad story is told on good authority in connection with the Sternberg hospital, which shows that somebody's business has been shamefully neglected. A soldier, it is related, died, and there were no means of ascertaining his name or to what command he belonged. As a result, he sleeps in tiie National cemetery among the pathetic graves marked “Unknown.” The condition matters naught to him who sleeps the sleep of death, but somewhere, doubtless, that boy has a mother whose heart will yearn for tidings of her son, but who, perchance, can never know what became of him until all mysteries have been solved by eternity. The weight of sorrow, which may be broken only by the hand of death, can be traced to the one short word —neglect!—Chattanooga Times. OTHER CASKS. There were twenty poor sick privates at the Soldiers’ Rest yesterday, some of whom were desperately ill. They were order ed back to Lytle when they were told they would receive trans portation and money for fool to their homes. After the weary journey there the man whom they depended upon did not “show up,” and the sick were left helpless. Some were finally taken to the hospital after a long delay, and all were rendered very much worse by the unnecessary ride back to the park, all provoked by the confu sion resulting from incompetent officials.—Chattanooga Times. Blanco, having had a seige of yellow journalism before the i war, is keeping the reporters out of Havana as long as possible. c«s k. it t tan aitVsasi aas a a a ir a■a s a ill. P.WQOI EN& BRO., § Successors to ROME PHARMACY. “TB 309 Broad st. —New Clark Building. We have bought the entire stock of the Rome • er** Pharmacy and are prepared to supply your wants in ■jL-s, drug, P’escription and patent medicine line. >ur stock is complete and of the very highest grade. 01 We solicit a part of your patronage aud shall en '.!• deavor to the best of our ability to please you at all times. We should be pleased to have you call on us. iJJ* Full line of druggist’s sundries, toilet articles and ' S’.a such things as are usually carried in a first-class ding JL,. store. 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