The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-07
TORPEDO BOAT AT brunswick.
The Dupont stops on Her Way to
New York.

The Dupont stops on Her Way to
New York.
Brunswick, Ga, Aug 6.-The torpedo
boat Dupont, Lieut., Wood in command,
arrived off quarantine to-day from Guam
tanamo bay, en- route to New York with
United States mail and dispatches for the
navy department.
All on board are well. Lieut.. Wood
Lieut. Clark and twenty-five men are on
board.
Lieut. Wood communicated with the de-
partment by wire on his arrival
The Dupont took on coal here before
proceeding and left for New York this
evening.
The men were in good spirits and have
some entertaining experiences to relate
among them the capture of a mascot in
the shape of a little brudled goat This
animal was taken from the shore at Ma
tanzas, where the Spaniards fired on the
crew and drove off the boat. Since that
time the goat has been kept as a souvenir
of that exciting episode 1t has fun run
of the boat and is very much petted by
officers and crew
After four hours in quarantine the Du-
pont was allowed TO come up to the docks
where she began taking on forty-eight
tons OF coal This, with what she has on
ing under orders from Quarantine Sur
geon Burford, no one was allowed 10 board
the Dupont, but later | secured an inter
view from Lieut.. Wood. lie said, in sub
stance I'VE are from Guantanamo bay.
Cuba, about 500 miles from here Our
final port is New York where we VIII
dock Since the Dist of September. or
about, when We passed south, the Dupont
has covered 1850 miles, and she has not
. suffered an accident or needed repair.
our work was practically over on the
Cuban coast. We have been doing block
ade al around cuba since the war began.
but with the destruction of the Spanish
fleet our occupation is practically gone
during the course of present hostn-
ties The men are all in
good health, but anxious to get home, ana
a sight of the states set them in fine spir-
its. We brought mail and have sent about
seven hundred pounds TO the local post
office We have no dispatches ana are only
after rest. After taking on coal here We
VIII proceed to New York
''The arrival of the Dupont brought out
a crowd Of anxious citizens. Her arrival
at quarantine had been heralded over
town since few minutes after she
had dropped anchor, and when she started
up stream the inhabitants began making
for the docks. Business men We'd with each
other Ia Going what they could TO assist
the officers and they i'm turn we're well
pleased with their reception The men on
the Dupont We're besieged with questions
from those who lined The docks. one of
the jacdes expressed their sentiments. in
response 70 questions. somewhat thuslv:
do we want to get back? wen say. lust
ask Billee the goat mascot. We got him
off MatanZas just after the SDanIards
shot at us and oven he has improved since
getting in Gods country. That's dirty
hole down there an Cuba and you don't
want to be hurrying away from your
feather beds to get into if either: do Won
understand? But we didn't do a thing
10 them, did we? Maybe they haven't such
a navy after all, but they can't beat as.
| and don't you forget the American nag
goes anywhere now" This delivery met
with hearty responses from it's hearers.
! and if the men could have been gotten ur
town nothing would have been TOO good
for them