The herald., 1898-05-11

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Manila Prize Money

ert Is Americas heaven-sent opportunity"
Manila Prize Money
NEW YORK, May 1O.-A dispatch to the
Times from Washington says:
Rear Admiral Dewey and his men will
not have been fully rewarded for their
victory at Manila when they receive the
thanks of Congress and the medals or
dered to be struck for them. Under the
law they have become entitled to a rich
bounty. Unless the numerical Importance
of the fleet of Admiral Montijo has been
overestimated and its losses overstated, the
will be entitled to share among them
something like $1S7,OOO bounty money, ac-
cording to section 1895 of the Revised
Statutes of the United States.
According to the reports from Manila.
the Spanish fleet destroyed by the Ameri-
cans consisted of ten or eleven cruisers.
gunboats and torpedo boats, with crews
amounting in all to 1872 men. The amount
to be divided among the American sailors
will be s1S7, 200. The vessels of the United
States were, If anything, undermanned.
The number will be under, rather than
over, 1873.
The $1S7,2O0 will be distributed to the
fleet under the statute relating to prize
money.
Admiral Dewey will get one-twentieth
of the whole amount Of the bounty award
ed to his command. That will give him
$4,000. If he has a fleet captain, or what
passes for one, the latter will have q share
of something like $1,000. There will be left
to be distributed to the vessels Of the feet,
according to their pay rolls, about $175,-
900. This will go to seven ships and in
about the following shares:
Olympia, $45, 900; Baltimore, $40,O 900; Bos-
ton, SIS, 900; Raleigh, $4,000; Concord, $1O,-
900; Petrol, $4,000; McCulloch, $1,000.
To the commander of each single vessel
there will go one-tenth Of the amount as
signed to that vessel.
After the amounts mentioned have been
deducted the residue will be distributed to
the lesser officers and seamen in proper
ton to their rates of pay on the day of
the engagement. The amount to each sea-
man, it is believed, will be in the neighbor-
hood Of $50.
The Fate of Montijo
LONDON, May 10-A special dispatch
from Shanghai says 1t is reported there
that Admiral Montijo, the commander of
the Spanish fleet, who escaped from Ca
vite by running along the shore to Manila
with his two sons, was killed by the popu-
lace of the latter place. 1t Is added that
the hospital of Gan Rogue, filled with
Spanish soldiers, was set on fire by shells
from the Boston and that Sisters of Char
ity were killed while removing the wound
ed.
Massacres are reported to have occurred
outside of Manila, the insurgents butcher
ing even the Spanish women and children.
A Treacherous Trick
HONG KONG, May 10, 10 am, Green
wich.-A fresh example Of Spanish treach-
cry seems to have come to light. 1t is said
here that the priests and sisters Of char
ity of the Cavite hospital in a procession
bearing crosses, ETC., petitioned Rear Adj
miral Dewey not to massacre the sick and
wounded, which, naturally, he did not do.
The Spaniards, 1t Is asserted, thereupon
thanked the Americans for their humanity
and repaid them by informing them of a
not mined. An investigation on the part
Of the Americans, however, revealed the
contrary to be the case and the mines were
blown up by the sailors of the American
fleet.
Rear Admiral Dewey, 1t is said here,
finds the insurgents growing dangerous.
1t is added that he cannot control them
nor can he enable the Spaniards to do so.
There is one Japanese warship at Manila.