The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-06-11
UNDER SEALED ORDERS
0RUiSER NEW YORK DEPARTS ON A
MYSTERIOUS MISSION.

Left Boston Yesterday and Not u Soul on
Board Knew Her Destination Orders
Opened When the Cruiser Was Well Mt
sea-Navai Officials Extremely Reticent
-is She Bound for Cuba?
Boston, June 10.-The crack United
States cruiser New York, the flagship
of the North Atlantic squadron, with
Rear Admiral Montgomery on board,
steamed out Of the harbor at O'Clock
this afternoon, not soul on board
knowing to what port she is bound, for
it will only be when the big white
cruiser is well outside Of Boston light
with her pilot over her side that the
sealed orders from Washington will be
opened and her destination ascertained.
1t is generally believed, however, that
when shs reaches Cape Cod that she
will turn her nose to the southward
and that her twin screws will not stop
until she Is in the neighborhood OF
Cuba, if not In the harbor of Havana
itself, for when she started she was full
ly provisioned and coaled, and could, if
necessary. go so far as Gibraltar or
Rio Janeiro without laying in more
supplies.
The New York arrived here on May
Is to participate in the ceremonies at
tending the unveiling Of the Shaw
monument. The battleship Massachu-
setts came with the flagship, while the
battleship Texas had arrived some
days previous SO that Boston on Deco
ration day had three battleships of the
North Atlantic squadron.
The entire crew of the New York
has been hard at work for the past few
days getting her ready for sea. Early
this morning something more than the
usual activity was noticed on board
and soon the excitement extended to
the navy yard. 1t was seen that all
the steam launches We're being hoisted
aboard and secured as If for a long
voyage, while extra precautions ap-
peared to be taken to make every thing
snug.
At noon an officer came ashore and
notified Pilot Colby to report on board
at once and shortly after 3 o'clock it
became known that those mysterious
sealed orders, which always give wide
room for conjecture, had been received
from the navy department by the ad-
miral. Shortly after o'clock the guns
of the cruiser doomed out parting sa-
lutte to Commodore HoWison Of the
navy yard, and as soon as it had been
answered the anchor was weighed and
the cruiser swung round in the stream.
Down past the wharves she glided, with
the smoke streaming off from the three
yellow tunnels.
The wind had shifted to the north
ward, after blowing a gale from the
northeast all day, SO that in the outer
harbor there was a nasty sea on. These
conditions, however, had no terrors for
the sturdy cruiser. By o'clock she
had passed out by Boston light and was
headed straight out to sea, and in a.
short time the strong mists had van
ished and she had disappeared from
view.
The seal of the navy departments or
der will not be broken until Pilot Colay
leaves the ship.
The navy department officials were
singularly reserved about the move
ments of the New York, and showed
reluctance to answer any questions.
Secretary Long in answer to direct
Interrogation, replied:
..The New York is not going to Cuba:
she will next be heard from at some
point on the Atlantic coast well north
of Cuba
The secretary refused to answer fur
ther. The chief of the navigation bu-
reau who usually is always ready to
tell where ship is bound refused to
say one work as to the destination Of
the New York. 1t was learned, how
ever. that the cruiser is expected TO re-
port at Hampton Roads, Va. 1t is sur
missed that the navy department, which
has been charged Of late with the whole
duty of looking after f1libusters ahoat,
has been advised Of the intention of
some formidable expeditions bound for
Cuba to put out from some northern
port, possibly Delaware Bay, or per-
haps there is to be repetition of the
IIorsa expedition and some steamers to
take on arms for the Cubans off one of
the now deserted sand beaches of Jer-
sey or Delaware. In such case the de-
partment would sent out a smaller
cruiser.