The herald., 1898-03-27

be held ready for immediate duty.
Twenty cases of Lee magaxine riheA
400 in all. were delivered to'ths Chicago
battalion last night. and the quarters
presented a busy scene as the arms were
unlocked, wiped, oiled and put into the
racks, Ammunition Is expected today,
and three Hotchkiss one-pounder guns
are looked for early next week.
ON WAITING ORDERS
BUFFALO. March 26.-Brig.- General
P. c. Doyle last night received the fol-
lowing telegram dated Albany, N. Y,
from Brig. General Patrick Doyle,
Fourth Brigade N. G., Buffalo:
Hold your officers within call. None
should absent themselves without ap-
proval Of proper authority"
&c. w. TILLINGHAsT,
"Adjutant-Gener
Immediately upon receiving this mes
sage General Doyle notified the COM
manders Of the Seventy-fourth and
Sixty-ffth Regiments in this city. the
first separate company at Rochester, the
second at Auburn, tie eighth at Roches-
ter, the thirteenth at jamestown, the
| twenty-fifth at TOnawanda, the Twen-
ty-ninth at Medina, the thirtieth at Ell
mira, the thirty-fourth at Geneva, the
forty.second at Syracuse. the forty
first at Syracuse, the forty-second at
Niagara Falls. the forty third at Olean,
the forty-scventh at Hornellsville, the
|forty-eighth at Oswego and the Signal
Corps at Buffalo.
The direct effect Of these orders is to
place practically every officer Of the
Fourth Brigade on waiting orders under
martial law.
NEW YORK HARBOR
NEW YORK, March 26- The United
States Government has just awarded a
contract for more than 100 miles Of tele-
graph cables, the largest order ever
placed by the government, to the Safety
Insulated Wire and Gable Company Of
this city. Sixty-five miles will be sub
marine cable and 35 miles will be under
ground cable. The order was given for
the purpose of connecting all the forts
and islands in New York harbor, so that
in case of war immediate and direct
communication can be had between the
| forts. 1t Is understood that one cable
will be laid under the water from Sandy
Hook to Fort Hamilton, touching at
Fort Wadsworth and Fort Lafayette.
Another cable connecting with this one
will be laid to Governors Island. At
this point the underground cable will
come into use and be laid in a certain
section not yet selected, it Is said, to
Whitestone and Willetts Point to con-
meet with Fort Schuyler. AS soon as
the work is begun, which will be in few
days. 1t will be continued night and day
until completed. The contract price is
not now known. 1t is expected that
within a couple Of months at the most
the cable communication between all the
forts will be completed.
|, A MAINE MONUMENT
| NEW YORK. March 26.-The carnival
Of sports given at Madison Square Gar
den in aid Of the fund for the erection of
| a monument to the victims of the battle
ship Maine was a brilliant success in
every sense of the word and as result
several thousand dollars will be added
to the already large total.
Aside from the purpose Of entertain
ment and the patriotic feeling to which
II appealed, the program which had been
larranged was enough to pack the i'm
mense building. The very pick of the
athletic champions, amateur and profess
sional, were present and entered in the
various events. From all sources the
benefit should net the monument fund
close to $4,000.
Among the galaxy Of prominent cham
pions who helped to make the affair a
success were Jimmy Michael, Bob Fitz-
simmons. Ernest Roebery. John l.. Sulli-
van. Earl Kiser. Tom Linton. Gougoltz
| and Lan1berjack, Ismail Yousouff and
Major Taylor.
| SPANISH ALARM;
a MEDRIN, MaxcK 26.-El Liberal, the
organ Of thee RTem1er, Senior Sagasta,
| has published a paragraph which is
attracting much attention. 1t says:
1.-THE alarmist impression continued
| late yesterday evening, affecting even
| official centers. The Ministers saw moth
ing to relieve the situation Of things.
Thus at IL p. m, when person in the
confidence of the Queen Regent visited
Senior Sagasta, and had long inter-
view with him, great importance was at
| tached thereto"
Senior Dupuy de LONE, the former
Spanish Minister to the United States,
has arrived at Valencia. He refused to
| be interviewed.
| Senator CASTELAR,, former Minister and
Republican leader, editor of Ell Globo,
said: II do not believe war will come.
I do not see how a nation like the United
| States could declare war against Spain.
I do not believe the pending question
will furnish sufficient motive"
HAVANA NOT EXCITED
| HAVANA, March 26.-Captain Sigsbee
received large flower ship when he
sailed north on the Olivette, with the
other officers Of the Maine. The flowers
were from Consul-General Lee and
newspaper correspondents. The Cap
tain was much affected.
All Is quiet here. Neither the informa-
tion from the Court Of Inquiry nor the
war rumors have been able to produce
| any sentiment among the Volunteers or
other Spanish soldiers. They take every
thing coolly, awaiting developments.
They do not believe peace will be inter-
| rupted by the report of the American
Court and they seem to feel certain that
arbitrators will declare that the explo-
sion occurred inside and not outside the
Maine.
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