Show AT BAREHEADED BAREHEADED HE GAZED UPON i HIS STRICKEN ARMY V Visited IsI ed the Cots Cots of the Soldiers and Braced up the tho Heroes of Santiago o in j Neat Little Speech Found found I Shatter Shaffer Feeling Achy I 1 Washington Sept l 5 Preside Preside nt at McKinley has bas visited Camp and for fOl four or file JlOU hours S he reviewed the camp bare barc headed headed most of the tIle time visiting tile sick in their hospitals and and inspecting the well tell ellin in their cantonments canton canton- cantonments ments meats He made speech a-speech to the as as- i infantrymen reviewed the cavalrymen n expressed his o opinion of the camp to tl the e reporters and issued an order directing the directing the he regiments to return re re- re tur turn turp to their station east of the Mississippi General Wheeler ler his 1 s staff ff and nd IH nearly arl every every oil off ce of prominence prominence-in the camp met the president at the the station except General Shafter Shatter who is still in detention detention de de- and General General- Young who had broken his arm ami the night before After greeting and introductions introduction on the railway platform the president took Geder it l Wheelers Wheeler's arm aria and to a carria carriage e. e Mr Ir McKinley then drove to to General Shafter's Shatters tent in the det detention camp The General was flush ed cd and weak from a mild case of f malarial fever was WM in full uniform sitting in a chair at lit the e door of the tho tent lie He tried to torise torise torise rise but Mr Dir McKinley said Stay where you are arc general You are entitled entitled en en- ti titled d to a arcs rest t. t It The rhe president congratulated Gen Cen Shatter Shafter on the Santiago campaign and nd after a few minutes' minutes rest proceeded to the thc the general general hospital The soldiers recently arrived on the transports and amI detained in the detention detention lion tion section of th the camp lined up irregularly on each side of or the road and cheered Mr lr McKinley took off his straw hat then and scarcely more than put it on for more snore than a minute or two at t t p time during the of his progress through the camp General Wheeler announced in iu each ward II Boys lloys OS the president has lass come cometo cometo cometo to see you yon or Soldier Soldiers the president president president dent of the United States Some of the thc soldiers slept unconscious cious some listlessly raised upon their elbows others othen fee feebly ly clapped their hands Mr McKinley gently shook hands with many and amI at every cot he paused an instant and if It he saw Jaw the sick man looking at him Mm he bowed owed in ina a a. direct and personal way Later rater the party proceeded to the Infantry plain as it is called and the president preside t m made d a a. speech to the assembled assembled assembled assem assem- bled soldiers in which he eulogized them for tor their glorious conduct during the war and thanked them In the name nama of the nation The president and those with him took lunch with General Wheeler and his staff After lunch the president Mr Alger General Wheeler and Colonel Hard nard of the Eighth Ohio were photographed in a grou group |