The morning call., 1893-11-24
LOST ONE SHIP.
Admiral Mello Is Out of
Luck.
HIS MONITOR GOES UNDER.
She Was the Most Formidable
Fighter in the Fleet.
SUNK BY THE SHORE BATTERIES.
1t Is Said That Peixoto Has Plenty of
Money to Carry on the
War.
SUNK BY THE SHORE BATTERIES.


has telegraphed to the Brazilian Minister
iD this city that the insurgeDt ironclad
Javary has been sunk by the fire of the
batteries at Nictheroy and that the crew
of the JavaIy periShed. The Javary was
an iron-armored turret-ship of 300 tons;
carried four 1O-inch Whitworth muZze-
loading rifle guns, six 5-inch rapid-fire
guns and five machine guns. She was
2200 horse-po and twelve inches armor.
a powerful vessel. of light draught and
suitable for the coast defense or river SER
vice, built in France in 1875.
NEW YORK, Nov. 23.-Senhor Men,
douca, Brazilian Minister to the United
States. who is staying at the Brunswick
Hotel In this city, awaiting the departure
of the new Brazilian cruiser America. re-
ceived news this morning of the sinking
Of Mello's monitor Jayary. 1t came in a
cable dispatch directed TO him at Washing
ton and forwarded to this city. The dis
patch read:
"Ths monitor Javary was sunk this
afternoon by the fortress of San Joan"
In regard to this news Mendonca said
it was important. because the Javary was
the second most formidable ship Mello
possessed. She had even heavier guns
than the Aquidaban. and her loss would
| seve rely cripple the insurgents.
"The dispatches published this after
noon." Mendonca went on. "state that the
guns of the Nictheroy caused the sinking
of the Javary, but more directly the work
was from the fortress of San Joan. San
Joan is at the bar. and opposite it. or
nearly so, are the batteries of Santa Cruz
1t is under the fire of these two
forts that Mello would have to
pass IL he wished to leave the harbor
with any of his ships. The sinking of the
Jayary only shows what these forts amount
to. 1t would be impossible for any six of
the insurgent men-of-war now in the har-
bor of Rio to pass between Santa Cruz and
San Joan without being so seriously Grip
pied as to be Of little account in an engage
ment at sea.
"The Javary was dangerous boar. She
was monitor with turrets built of iron,
and was of 3640 tons displacement. Her
engines were of $500 horse power but DUR
| ing an earlier engagement they had been
so disabled as to be of no use to her lately,
and she was towed about the harbor
from place to place by tug. She was
simply floating battery. She had been
lying just out of range of the Nictheroy
guns and with her long-distance shots has
been doing much damage in Nictheroy."
OF reports published this morning in the
dispatches from London quoting the news
obtained by the London Times Mendonca
| spoke strongly.
Il have never paid any attention at all
to reports coming from the Times office.
They have been altogether unreliable.
They have not only misstated facts. but
have always had such a decided leaning
| toward Mello and the overthrow of
Peixoto as to make their accuracy
questionable. l doubt often whether the
| news SO given ever came from Brazil
| at all. In the present state of affairs dur
ing the revolution there, censorship exists
| and all cable dispatches. except those of
the Government, are subject to the severest
scrutiny. 1t is not likely that news lean
! ing strongly toward Mello and moparchical
ideas would be allowed to leave the coun-
try. The rumor that the Brazilian treas
ury was empty is only another such of
the statements as come from London.
Any one who knows anything at
all about Brazil will see how absurd is
such news. The port of Rio de Janeiro
alone turns into the treasury S5.OOO 900
month. That income has not been less
eaed during the revolution, and Rio is
only one of the many ports of entry in
Brazil which make large returns to the
Government Why, the entire outfit that
we are sending from here to Brazil will be
paid for by one weeks income of the port
of Rio. You can see how ridiculous such
rumors are"
Captain Zslinski of the United States
army informed reporter tonight that as
a result of careful calculations made with
data obtained from recent frings of the
dynamite gun now mounted on the Mic
theroy he had found that 1t could be fired
over a range extending from 2500 yards to
4500 yards with the gun set at an angle of 80
degrees. and that projectile could be
dropped at will at points between $500 and
1900 yards by simply closing a valve. The
results of Zalnski's calculations have been
carefully tabulated, and they will be for
warded to the captain of the Nictheroy by
the Americans. ZsliDski says he has con-
side rable faith in the ability of Lieutenant
Brinley. who has charge of the Nictheroy's
gun, to make record with the weapon.
Edmund Guerin, who says he is Mon
treal barrister. and Francis E. Devlin, both
of whom claim to be friends of Ad-
miral Mello. but whose actions Indicate
that they are rather agents in this country
for the insurgents. are making efforts to
aid MellO by having the departure of the
new Brazilian cruiser America, from this
pnrt, stopped by legal means. They said
tonight that they had made application
to United States District Attorney Mitch
ell to help them in holding the ship here,
but that he had declined to have any part
in the matter They DersIsted that
they had examined the neutrality
laws and that they were violated by the
fitting out Of such ships as the Nictheroy,
America and Destroyer. which work has
been going on in this harbor for weeks,
but their appeal for assistance was still in
vain.
They say that they will look up a pre-
cedant to support another application to
the proper authorities, and that they will
insist upon the America being held here
Their only sorrow is that they did not
reach New York in time to prevent the
Nictheroy's departure.
They said that thev had addrA esed tina