The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-12-07
SHIP DESTROYBRS
VISIT BRUNSWICK.
Queer Crafts Of Uncle Sans Torpe-
do Boat Flotilla Tied Up
at Our Wharves.
SHOOT TORPEDO FOR RESERVES
The DupOnt's lightning Trip to st. Simon
and Return-Lisutsnan Kimball
Displsased at First

As exclusively foretold in Sundays
TIMES, the torpedo-boat flotilla ar
rived from st. Catharine's island on
Sunday. The officers expected to get IN
at daybreak, but were delayed by fog.
pepper Pinebad sighted the boats
c3ming around the point of Jekyl,
and telephoned to the city. The four
qleer-looking crafts crept slowly up
the bay, headed by the Dupont, the
fifgship, with Lieutenant Commander
Kimball, commanding the flotIlla on
board. The Gushing, Ericsson and
Porter, followed, in the order named.
There was an unpleasant and
unfortunate hitch attendant up
en- the arrival of the boats,
which however, has been explain
ed 6y the officers of the Naval
Militia. Lieutenant Kimball had no
notice of which dock he was to be al
lowed to use, and the harbor master
was not on hand to inform him.
When the boats came in, none of the
Naval Militia officers were on hand.
Lieutenant Kimball. therefore, had to
appeal to the spectators for informa-
tion But for the presence of MI.
W. Colesberry, of the Downing
com any, on the company's wharf, it
is ce stain that Brunswick would not
have bad the pleasure of entertaining
III lietilla.
Tbt Dupont and the Cushing tied
up at the Downing company's wharf,
the Ericsson alongside the bark Amic
itia, and the Porter alongside the
steamer Hessie. 'Can we remain at
this wharf?" Lieutenant Kimball asked
Mr.. Colesberry. Mr.. Colesberry said
tht s, didn't have authority to an
swshsl In the meantime, the watchman
ordered the boats away from the dock.
swell, want to know" said the
naval officer, with some feeling. 81
am tired of bsing buffeted from place
to place. Ii cannot get authority to
stay tthIs wharf, will take the boats
Immediately to sea, and proceed to
FerDandlna."
The temper of Lieutenant Kimball
was clearly at a heated point, and he
ordered his men to stand ready to get
underway at once. Here Mr.. Coles
berry came to the rescue, and offered
to tel -whone Mr.. A. V. Wood for the
req authority. "Do SO at once
then, said the lieutenant. Mr.. Wood
promptly gave the required permls-
sion, and the torpedo boats remained.
Shortly after this, Lieutenants All
ken and Wright arrived on the scene,
and met Lieutenant Kimball aud the
officers. Explanations followed. 1t
appears that the berths at the Down
ing wharf had been engaged by Har-
Dor Master Curtis, but there was no
way to inform the officers of the fact,
except by meeting them promptly on
arrival. Captain Curtis went to Sa-
VanDah Sunday, saying that he had
waited three days for the boats, and
didn'fkaow when to expect them. He
didn't read Sundays TIMES.
Lieutenants Aiken and Wright give
substantially the same explanation of
the matter. They say that they were
unable 10 get any information what
ever in regard to the time the boats
were to arrive, and could not sit all
day. on tile docks waiting for them.
Lieutenant Aiken said that the only
information they could get was
through the adjutant- generals office,
and that this was not positive.
Within half hour after the boats