The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-01-27
STILL PREPARING FOR WAR.
shipping Coal to Montevideo-The New
Chilean CruisarS.


BALTIMORE, Jan. &c. - The steamship
EarnweN sailed in January from Balti-
more with a cargo of coal, ostensibly for
the West Indies. II is now known that
she is on the way TO Montevideo, where
the cargo will be transferred 30 the white
squadron. 1t is learned further that the
steamer Reedsburg, of the same line. left
January Is on the same errand.
PARIS, Jan. 26-The Chilean cruiser
Presidente Pinto lies at Havre ready to go
TO sea at any moment. The Captain Pratt
viii not be in condition to sail before
April.
WASHINGTON CRY, Jan. 26.-Captain
Schley, commander of the Baltimore. ar.
rived In Washington City this afternoon
from San Francisco and had long con-
terence with the secretary of the navy
In regard to the assault on the Balti.
more's crew in Valparaiso in October last.
subsequently he said he had nothing to
say on the subject for publication. He
said he expected to remain in Washington
City two or three days and then return to
his vessel at San Francisco. AS indicative
OF his feeling in the matter he remarked
significantly: eff there Is going to be q
play in Chile, / want front seat"
Another twelve-inch gun will soon be
sent to San Francisco for the Monterey.
The secretary of the navy this afternoon
sent a cable message to Commander Evans,
OF the Yorktown, now at Callao authorize
ing him TO give the crew shore leave. This
shows that the vessel will remain at Cal.
lao for at least two or three days. lit is
said at the navy department that it is not
decided whether the Yorktown or Boston,
or both, will return to Valparaiso. The
impression is general among naval officers
however, that the Yorktown will be Sc.
lected for that service, and that she will
be the only American vessel sent there for
the present, unless some unlooked-for in
cident should require the immediate pres
ence of others.
Nothing has yet been heard from Ad-
miral Gherardi, who was last heard from
at Barbados a week ago today. This is
regarded as sufficient evidence that he is
not merely cruising around among the
West Indies, and it is generally accepted
as fact that he has either gone south to
Montevideo or east to Gibraltar.
BosToN, Jan. 26.-The steamer Ohio ar
rived this morning from Philadel phia and
proceeded to the Charlestown navy yard,
where the instructions are to fit her up as
floating machine repair shop.
English Papers Continue Lashing Egan.
LONDON, Jan. 26.--Commenting on Pres
ident Harrison Chilean message, the So.
James Gazette says: The whole matter is
an example of difficulty consequent on the
subservience of politicians to the Irish
vote. The paper denounces Egan at great
length in an article headed The Irish
Boss As a Diplomat" and in most severe
terms says that had the United States
been represented in Santiago by a gentle
man of the stamp of Phelps, Lincoln and
Dana the trouble would not have hap
pened. There is 10 creditable reason why
the United States should fix quarrel upon
her little neighbor, Chile. The conces-
sions Chile made upon the main question
deprive the United States of all justifica-
ton for bullying.
The Globe says: President Harrison's
ultimatum is covered with spread-eagle-
ism. He makes out as poor a case for war
as any nation ever advanced. Chile would
hold her own tor long time in purely
naval war, but only one ending would be
possible. No doubt the prospect of that
fact influenced Chile in her quick submis-
sion, and President Montt was well ad-
yised to eat the leek, although he had
strong temptation TO defy the United
States. in the knowledge that such con-
duct would popularize him with the
Chilean masses and that the United States
could do nothing to exact reparation.
Fortunately there does not appear TO be
any further danger of strife between the
two nations. whose real interests are iden-
teal. The Globe says the quarrel is chiefly
due RI Epap