The evening times., 1898-05-10
UNDER STARS AND STRIPES
Cruisers Atlanta, Chicago and
Topeka Will Soon Sail.
SCOUT. BOATS FITTING OUT
Thirteen New warships Will De
Prepared Within a Month to Try
Their Gums ON Spanish ArmOr.
The Auxiliary Cruiser Prairie
May Sail Thursday.

New York, May 1O.-Three cheers ant
| a tiger were given by the crews of ths
monitor Nahant and of the receiving shiT
Vermont TO the go naval mili;iamen
forming the crew of the United States
auxiliary cruiser Yankee as she swung
into the East River from the navy yard
pier yesterday. Cries of Remember the
Maine,' fioated across the water, and
the answer went back, I'VE will!'
Commander Willard III. Brownson sailed
under secret orders. but from reliable
source IL was learned that the Yankee
would steam TO Provincetown. Mass.
there to join Commodore Howelrs pa
troll fleet. II is said that she will relieve
the cruiser Columbia, which may be
needed in the flying squadron. The Prai-
rie is to join the patrol fleet in a few
days.
All the way from the navy yard to her
first anchorage on Tompkinsville. S. l.,
the Yankee was greeted wi h whistle sa-
lutes from passing craft. Her departure
was delayed by the fact that her masts
bridge at high water.
AT Tompkinsville the Yankee was
boarded by Capt. Jacob w. Miller and
a committee of the Sons of the Revolu-
tion. After all hands had been mustered
Talbot Olyphant, chairman OF the COM
mittee. on behalf of the organization,
presented to Commander Brownson for
the naval committee three fiags-a jack.
an ensign and 4 pennant. The bugler
then sounded 'colors.'' and the flags
We're unfulred.
Capt. Brownson will remain at Tomp-
kinsville until today. when he will open
his sealed orders
The Yankees naval officers are: Will
lam II. Brownson, commander; Lieut.
John Hubbard. executive officer: Lieut.
William G. Cutler. navigator: John Gill
bert. chief engineer: Harry Biscoe, pay
master. and Joseph II. Pendleton, lieu
tenant of marines.
Her naval militia officers are: Lieut.
William Butler Duncan. jr.. senior watch
officer: Lieuts. S. Dana Greene. ]. II.
Barnard and W. DE Wolf Dimock, watch
officers: ensign. Charles Lee Andrews;
surgeon, j. Z. McGowan.
Guarding the Mines.
. New York. May 10.-Commander W. H.
Stayton. of the Second Battalion Naval
Reserves, reported yesterday to Admiral
Erben. L. S. N, of the Coast Defense
System. the results of tour of inspection
Of the Naval Reserve patrol fleet.
task has been thoroughly systematized,
and that the duty of preventing ships
from entering the submarine mine fields
S perfectly performed by the eight tugs
and one launch.
Nineteen vessels trying TO enter the har-
Dor were stopped by the tugs E S. At
wood, c. p. Raymond and Starbuck Sum
lay night. Seventeen trying TO run the
guard were brought to anchor Saturday
night and kept outside the Hook until
morning. Every night vessels endeavor to
wade the watch, but all are stopped. The
Reserves have not been obliged to use
heir rifles TO enforce their commands
The Cromwell Line steamer CAPTAIN
which arrived yesterday morn
ng from New Orleans. tried to enter the
Swash Channel. but was halted at once
by the Atwood.
The patrol fleet is busy all night and all
day, but the busiest time is between 4
p m and a. m. The harbor is then
thronged with boats waiting to get out,
and there is always fleet outside waiting
10 come in.
OF the three tugs at the Sandy Hook sta
tion, one is left to guard the mine fields
the other two pilot the vessels in single
file. two ships following each tug at slow
speeu uhtil tucy are past tne danger line.
BY this method four ships leave or enter
The harbor at one time.
The task of the tug Jacob NJ. Heath at
Willets Point is particularly difficult, and
The Second Battalion launch BROOKLYN
with Lieutenant Reid in charge has been
assigned to assist.
A steamer on one of the Southern lines
sailing out last week passed through the
Swash Channel in defiance of the regula-
ton. The swash released one of the
mines A complaint was made by Major
Adams against the captain. The company
ordered the officers suspension
This was before the patrol had been es-
Captains disobeying orders
hereafter will receive harsher treatment
A drifting mine, supposed to be mine No.
9, was found ashore near the Brighton
Hotel Sunday. The mine was found Sat-
lrday by the crew of John Hennessy's
ishing boat. 1t had drifted into a fish net
md was anchored by the crew to a pound
'take. but broke loose. 1t is said that
tbout forty mines have been lost altogeth-
r.
General Merritt has ordered the patrol
'oats to carry signals arranged differently
ZACH night, in order that other boats may
lot duplicate them and pass the forts.
The tug Dalzell, with Lieutenant How
Ird Patterson, navigator, in charge re-
mains at the New Hampshire. the head
quarters, at the foot of Twenty-eighth
street. leaving at 8 o'clock each morning
m a trip of inspection, visiting all the
ugs in the fleet. |
The Manly.
Admiral Erben was notified by - Sec
etary of the Navy yesterday that the
orpedo boat Manly had been assigned |
o patrol duty in the harbor.
Manly is the torpedo boat which was |
purchased recently in England.
Commander Fields reported that the |
'oat was unfit for patrol service. There |
S no gun mounted on her. and she is not |
itted with torpedo tubes. The Navy De- |
'artment was notified that the boat was |
Unfit for patrol duty Admiral Erben |
sked for four yach.s-Aileen. Viking, \
Restless and Felicia, now being fitted out !
It the Brooklyn navy yard, for torpedo |
'oat destroyersrfor patrol duty.
The Montauk.
Cape May. N. J.. May 1o.-The old sin
,le-turreted monitor Montauk. which
eft Philadelphia yesterday for Portland.