The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-24
READY TO BEGIN ARGUMENT.
Al THE TESTIMONY NOW BEFORE
THE COURT MARTIAL.

nRGkes
sterIy-Capt. A. j. TwiSgs Again
Refore the COurt-some Errors in
.ba Record to BE Corrected, andS
the Arguments Will Begin Tuesday
Morning at . O'Clock.
An If he evidence in the Carter Gaze Is
.,o,, before the court martial. and nothing
-or,a;ns but the argument and the -consid-
o-afion of the case by the court.
# was expected by many that the
soaal,ing would begin yesterday, but for
,aosors stated it did not, and the court
odiourned until Tuesday morning at
o,rlock Anticipating the beginning of the
ore-,ueuts, a much larger crowd than US
,,,- filed the court room. all of the avail
oh.e seating space being occupied by la
dies.
THE chart of the breakwater, as made
from the survey of the attaches of the
1-cited states Coast and Geodetic Survey
service. was submitted, and a number of
other witnesses were examined on minor
,,otnts. Between now and Tuesday the
record will be put in shape, and the er-.
rors in it will be corrected.
The court martial occupied a portion CT
its time in the early part of the session in
examining some decayed ends of fasclne
nees brought down from the Savanna n
river work by Contractor A. ]. Twiggs.
cant. Twiggs had little satchel f. tom
which he produced half dozen dec aged
ends of pegs, which he said he had aiken
from the work done by the Atlantic. Con-
tracing Company. They were much
smaller than the pegs produced fro N Capt
Twigss work, and it was appar ent that
they were split stakes, as were . lso those
IN the Twlggs work
.,T nose are all the stakes I could find
IN Gaynor's whole york" he S; I'D. There
was one other but it fell to pieces, and
] could not bring it
capt Twiggs also had a fresh lot of
photographs of the river We ak near Au-
eusta. which Col. Barr intr 5duced in evil
dence. The defense did net cross exam
Inc the witness
Engineer A. S. Cooper " as then recalled
to the stand and present ed a table show
ing his computations of The specific grav-
itv Of 100 different specimens of rock. The
mean specific gravity Of 70 samples select
ed by Inspector Daniels was 208 as de-
termined from the weight in and out OF
water, but as corref tly determined" Mr..
Cooper said, that mean specific gravity
is 295 The averag;e weight of a cubic
foot was 1883 pou nds and the average
weight under wafer was So pounds. Sew
eral other tables on similar lines were
presented.
The only conversation he remembered
having had with Capt. Carter with refer
once to the lTrybee breakwater was at
time when he had driven some Of the piles
about 80 feet nearer to Tybee than origi-
nally. Capt. Carter told him to build it
there. and at that point he said the water
was somewhat shoaler than in the other
place. Mr.. Cooper said he had never re-
ported any deeper soundings at the break
water.
There was about a foot and a half of
subsistence of the mats, but Mr.. Cooper
did not think that the situation necessitat-
ed the use of any more mattresses. The
sounding he made, he said, showed less
depth than was anticipated by the pro-
ject. The defense did not question the
witness.
Mr. L. C. Guilford, boy of 10 years.
from Button, S. c., said he accompanied
Inspector S. NJ. Hale to Foote Point. He
was with Mr.. Hale when the chokers re-
Gently introduced were found there. The
witness identified the chokers as those
found at Foote Point A photograph
was offered in evidence. The defense had
no cross examination.
Richard Aston, colored, from South
Carolina, had been engaged in making fas-
zines at Foote Point. He identified the
Chokers in evidence 1--WE calls 'em
twitchers,' he said in answer to a ques-
ton as to what they We're
AT this stage Col Barr ran out of wit
II nesses and asked the indulgence of the
court for a few moments.
Mr.. Henry L. Marindin, an officer Of the
United States coast and geodetic survey
service, was the next witness. He had
been engaged in coast surveying since
1863. He came to Savannah about three
weeks ago under orders from the superin-
tendent of the coast survey and reported
TO Col. Barr, who told him he wanted an
Independent survey of the Tybee breakwa-
ter Mr. Marndin then gave an eXplana
ton of how he went about the work and
the force he had with him.
Mr.. Marindin said he had completed his
survey and had prepared a chart OF it,
which Col. Barr called for and exhibited
to the court. The survey covered the en-
tire breakwater with the exception of 100
Or $50 feet.
Mr.. Marindin went over his entire chart
upon which he had made cross sections at
every 100 or 125 feet These cross sections
showed depths at mean low water just OUT
side the jetties varying all the way from
TO liz feet while the crest of the jetty
was all the way from feet to or feet
below the mean low water line. Very few
Of the cross sections showed any brush, but
rock was evident in all of them. The
error in the survey found a few days ago
consisted in the fact that some of the
cross sections, showed rock while the lon
sHudlnal section showed sand. This made
d necessary to resurvey a space of some
o." ieet or more in order to get the figures
| correct.
All of the cross sections showed stone
ana some of them brush In one place a
mattress was exposed at mean low water.
very little brush was found, Mr.. Marndin
s"l' The work was done just as well as it
eoNid possibly be done under the existing
conditions.
Nr. Marindln then went over the longi-
u4inal sections. They showed stone most
al me way He had not compared his
mart with those made from the surveys of
MT Cooper and Mr.. Ripley.
Yu the cross examination, Mr.. Marndin
sa'a ne could not tell from his survey
"He ther there was brush underneath the
luck or not. All he could tell was what the