The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-02-19
PREPARATIONS FOR RECEPTION.
Extraordinary Precautions to Prevent

Any UnpleaSantness
New York, Feb. 1S.-Rear Admiral
Bunce has given final instructions to
Lieutenant John Dougherty, who will
have charge of the patrol tugs, six in
number to guard the Spanish cruiser
Vizcaya during her stay in this
vicinity.
Lieutenant Dougherty will make his
headquarters on the navy yard tug
Nina, and the other tug from the navy
yard, the Marietta, will be used princi-
pally as a dispatch boat carrying mes
sages between the navy yard and the
guard boats. Lieutenant Dougherty
will have entire charge of the patrol,
which consist, besides the two tugs
mentioned, of two tugs of the super
visor of the harbor and two police
patrol boats. The watches will be di-
vided between the six boats, two to be
on duty on each turn. Each boat is
to have on board, while on watch, four
marines and one on-commissioned
officer of marines, roundsman and
four policemen of the Metropolitan
force.
While on duty the boats are to patrol
carefully the waters in the vicinity of
the visiting Spaniard, and no boat or
person will be allowed to approach the
Vizcaya without the sanction of the
The Nina will be always within call
of the visitor. As soon as the Vizcaya
drops anchor in the upper bay, or in the
North river, Lieutenant Dougerty, in
full uniform, and representing Rear
Admiral Bunce, commandant of the
navy yard, New York, will board the
cruiser and convey the usual cour-
tesies extended foreign vessels of war
entering an American port, and will
also explain what the patrol is there
for Lieutenant Dougherty has had
the fire banked in his boat for tonight,
and early in the morning will take her
to pier \, North river, for the police
escort.
Lieutenant Neville of the marine
corps will be in charge of the sc ma
rines who will be quartered on board
the Nina. At night it is intended to
keep the Vizcaya brilliantly illumin-
ated with electric lights, and the watch
boats will also be we'll lighted, so that
there can be no possible means of ap-
preaching the vessel without detection.
It was stated tonight that the Viscaya
would come up the bay early tomor-
row morning. Passing up the bay, she
will be saluted by Forts Hamilton and
Wadsworth. She will steam to point
off Tomkinsville, where she will drop
anchor This, it is said, is considered
the best place for the boat to anchor,
as she VIII be freer from encroach-
ments of small boats there than else
where.
Captain Smith was informed by Ad-
miral Bunce tonight that the ship had
anchored off Sandy Hook and at sun
rise tomorrow the fleet of government
and police patrol boats would steam
down the bay to escort her to her an
chorage. Applications for leave to ac-
the feet down the bay on the
patrols have been refused all persons
except newspaper men.
Two Pinkerton detectives, who
claimed they had come from the Span
ish, consulate, one of whom spoke
Spanish tiuently, presented letters of
TO Captain Smith and
asked permission to go down with the
fleet. They were referred to Chief Nc
Cullach. who afterwards telephoned
that he had given them permission to /
go down. The men said they had bust /
ness with persons aboard the Vizcaya. |
but neither they nor anyone at the Of
flee of Consul Baldezano would say
what their mission was.