The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-08-14
a Proud PriSOn8r
Is admiral C6rV6ra
DIGNIFIED YET EVER GENTLE AND
- COURTEOUS.
How the Commander of Span's Luck|ess Squadron and
His Fellow Captves Spend Their Days
In Annapolis,

Tine Of the mornings | WIS III sAnhaphtiS
10 see him he called ut the hotel to see
| Mrs, Sturdy, the widow Of Lieutenant
: Commander Sturdy, who died not long
4 ago on his way 10 Key West from n
United States port, As he passed through
the great iron~barred gate of the
, Academy grounds. n woman stood afar
4 off down the street; she was talking
| earnestly 10 her little girl: she was
= Coaching the little girl ms | afterward
learned how 10 speak to the Spanish
II Admiral who was now approaching her
With his gawSy, swinging gait The
mother had coached the child well.
Good morning. Admiral Ccrvera" ex-
claimed the little tot swectly. The big
Il Snaniari bent down deliberately and
swung the child clean from the ground
and pressed his lips to her forehead-tne
Spanish way of greeting. Then he went
| on with a grim smile to pay the visit ut
the hotel.
CAPT. EULATE'S CHARACTER
/ 1STICS.
i Eulate, too. was there that morning,
| Cervera dearly loves to be with Eulate.
i The two are opposite temperaments--
i ''same tastes and different disposition"
/ which Walter Scott says is the binding
! tie between people. Cervera loves Eu-
late as much as Mr.. Cleveland
used to love Carlisle, only on a war foot
ing. Eulate? He is a man who is dcs-
perate and melancholy and tender and
steady all at once. He is mixture
which Cervera delights in. He is the
only officer besides Cervera who was not
| required to sign his parole. He rebelIe1
and won over Admiral McNair. He
looks like man of forty. with Burnside
| whiskers which are passionate and his
lip abnormally proud.
Il have lost all but my commission"
he said. ut is true we have some pro-
4 perty in Porto Rico. but it will all be
swept away with the occupation Of
Miles,
/ Eulates family are still in Porto Rico,
and this, more than anything else,
weighs upon his mind. He is fascinat-
ing mixture-the most inexplicable and
/ wiful and picturesque Spaniard among
them, Cervera not excepted. An affec-
tionate and devilish fellow, this Eulate:
he never meets Il child in the Academy
but he takes it up and kisses it upon
4 the foreheau. The other day he took a
BABY from its carriage in the most care
| full fashion and thus kissed it, while the
nurse was panic-stricken. Euate was
thinking of his babies in Porto Rico.
his war bump and his wife and baby
bumps are about the same size. and
it is the clash of the two that makes
him such Il study.
Nobody knows what to make of ElI-
I late. He came to Annapolis twisted with
wound in the spine and unsettled with
a bad scalp wound in the back of the
head. He walks straight now, and the
) back of his head has n small round spot
on it. that is ALL
4 When Cervera and Eulate got through
with this visit, with the priest and Lieu
tenant Cervera, a jolly fellow. they
started back to the Academy Every
body along the streets looked at them,
! but not inquisitively. The curiosity in
Annapolis is a well bred curiosity.
i HOW CERyERA PASSES HIS
4 TIME.
| When Cervera returns from his morn
ing outing in town he rarely ever leaves
the Academy any more during the day.
He rests now until lunch, which he
takes at one. After dinner he smokes
under the awning, reads, takes short
nap, walks again, but in the grounds,
and dimes about seven. He and all the
Spaniards must be in their quarters by
: half-past nine; but Cervera spends his
) nights writing. He writes with his own
hand until late. He writes n great
amount Of stuff each night. Tn the
Il morning what he writes goes to the Of
flee of Admiral McNair, who has every
line censored, with Lieutenant Com
I mander Moore assisting
i Admiral McNair and Lieutenant Com
mandcr Moore coddle the most dis
tngushed of these prisoners with great
carefulness. Mr.. Moore spends an
hour each night after dinner with Ad-
4 miral Cervera, and knows lots of things
which he coyly withholds as is befitting.
but Mr.. Moore, being officer in charge
| OF buildings and grounds, knows how 10
keep secret or two-the man for the
place.
Admiral Cervera is happily less secre-
tive than Mr.. Moore, and talks courteous
~ with newspaper men when they come
to him. He speaks English compare tive
Il ~ well. only leaving out the verb as
Spaniards will do. His hand grasp is
/ tight and his fingers short and thick
executive fingers, as the phrenologists
call them. What surprises one most
about Cervera is his forehead-an AK
| pansive forehead. with little mathema-
1 ties, which HObSon has swelling out over
his eyebrows, and with large. ample
i Ideally, none of which Hobson has over
his eyebrows. Cervera is a practical
! dreamer, just as Disraeli was.
Il Since Spain sent $4,000 and Blanco
S15O,O0O to Cervera, the officers have
been busy buying. Cervera's new suit
was just finished Monday, in time for
him to take a dress suit dinner with
Admiral McNair Wednesday evening.
| THE BATTLE OF JULY 3.
/ About the battle of Santiago, that
i was what interested me, and | asked
some of the officers frankly about if.
and they spoke frankly.
Second Lieutenant Felix Gonzalez
| said to me that it would have been y,
sheer impossibility for Admiral Sampson
to have come into Santiago Harbor. that
his ships would have been surely de-