The record-union., 1896-03-19

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feat the spanish Troops Near Cam
delaria.
SOMERS POINT IN. j., March 49,
After three failures Calixto Garcia is at
last upon his way to Cuba to fight
against the Spaniards. Togther with
sixty-two of his countrymen he was put
aboard the steamship Bermuda off here
this morning by the little passenger
steamer Atlantic City. The entire
scheme was cleverly worked out, and
the agents of the Spanish Government
are said to have been badly taken in.
| 1t is now known that the members of
! the expedition left Philadelphia in a
rather open manner on Sunday night in
a tug. To all intentS and purposes it
was proclaimed from the housetopS that
their destination was the Delaware
Breakwater, and that it was. from off
| her that a steamer would be boarded
for Cuba. 1t is presumed that the Span
ish officials had the tug followed when it
| left Philadelphia. The Cubans went
upon this presumption at least, and
during a fog on Monday afternoon the
| tug doubled and turned up the Della
ware Bay and River to Camden, arriv-
| ing there Monday evening. The party
at once boarded a special train which
landed them at Tuckacoe. The Cubans
| boarded the steamboat Atlantic City
which was waiting for them.
| The Atlantic City is used for summer
| traffic at the Seashore resort of that
name. 1t has been out of commission
for several months. On Monday last
the Atlantic City took out papers of in
/ spection from the Custom m-house for the
purpose, as supposed by the customs
othclaIs, of putting ner IN temporary
commission, as it was known some par
ties had been negotiating to purchase
/ her.
| The Atlantic City left Tuckacoe at 6
o'clock yesterday morning and steamed
to Ocean City, where she lay all night
While the Atlantic City was at Tucka-
coe and Ocean City none of the Cubans
were visible on deck, but this morning
| when the whistle of the Bermuda at
tracted people along the coast the con-
cealed men came on deck and gave
cheer after cheer as the Atlantic City
started out to meet the arms-laden
steamer
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| fer of the Cubans to the Bermuda took
place, and the steamer then proceeded
on her way. The Customs house off,
Gals were caught mapping, and could do
nothing to hinder the transfer of the
men. They, however, communicated
with the authorities ut Washington.
r. III. Ingersou, Secretary of the com
pany who owns the Atlantic City, says
that the steamer was only put in com
mission for the purpose of giving her
trial trip for the benefit of her intended
purchasers
| ARMS FOR THE CUBANS LANDED.
| JACKSONVILLE (Fla), March 49,
| A special to the Times Union from
Key West says: The steamer Three
! Friends of Jacksonville, in command
| of Captain Broward, arrived here at
| noon to-day, having succeeded in land
| ing in Cuba General Enrique Cauazo.
Duke Estrada, besides four men taken
| off the schooner Ardel from Tampa and
! the cargo of arms and ammunition of
the schooner Mallory from Cedar KEYS.
| 1t was by long odds the most impor-
tant expedition that has set out from
this country, and the Cubans here when
| they learned that the Three Friends had
| safely fulfilled her mission shouted
| Viva la Cuba" until they were hoarse.
They declared that it would change the
character of the whole army as the un-
armed men would now be armed and
those without ammunition would be
| supplied and that Maceo, who had
| before been wary and cautious, would
| be more aggressive than he had ever
| been before
The cargo of arms landed by the Three
| Friends and Mallory was as follows:
100000 rounds of cartridges, 1,400
rifles, / POO machetes, 400 revolvers, be-
sides reloading tools, etc.
The Three Friends met the Mallory
at Alligator Key. The Ardell had just
| finished transferring the men to her
While they were rendezvousing there
behind the pines in deep creek, three
big Spanish men-of-war steamed slowly
by. but they did not discover that there
was anything uspicious-looking in
shore, although with a glass men could
be seen in their lookouts scanning the
horizon as well as searching the shore
Sunday about noon no vessels being
in sight, the Three Friends took in tow
the Mallory and steamed southwark
under good head of steam. The Three
Friends is powerful tug, and by Mon
day night was close enough to the
Cuban shore to hear the breakers Sew
eral shiplights to the west were seen,
one of which was evidently a Spanish
man n-of-war, for she had a searchlight
at her bows and was sweeping the waves
with it, but the Three Friends was a
long way off, and had no light, and
so was out of reach of the Spaniards.
At l o'clock that night, by the aid of