The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-06-19
photographs Taken
|ourlng the Progress
ii the Battle.
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month En- Route.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
4. MAY s, via San Francisco, June
,n,se days Of submarine telegraphic
latter sent by mail stands about as
49, to attract the reading public
one of the forcible expressions
ME Secretary Robeson--a cat in hell
laws: hence it would not be rea-
4. Ia me TO hope for many readers OF
.,,.tle II | had not been SO fortunate
rcurs a number of photos of the
that recently occurred in Manila
80 shots taken in the heat OF action
.n.rxard As the transmission OF
:. by submarine cables has not yet
4 ,hs stage of commercial success
AIRED TO send my pictures. at least, by
Ana in order to crafty, perhaps,
..,aer of the Herald who may not
mad my cnble story of the battle OF
nav I may as we'll run a rivulet Of
,,,on ALONGSIDE the islands OF pho
phy.
!. in the latter part of last February
Commodore George Dewey, command
/. ls,atic station of the United States
hz,n TO feel that the drift of events
o.srd warlike, rather than peace
.s.,laneut Of our differences with
AZ any rate, he decided to bring
!. squadron together. and he chose
Kong as the place OF rendezvous for
M reasons, the importance and value
M were fully justified by subsequent
The vessels attached to this sta
we're as follows:
mula, flagship, Captain C. V. Gridley
..ndIng: Boston, Captain Frank
4. Concord, Commander Asa Walker;
Commander K. p. Wood. The RAJ
captain ]. B. Coughlan commanding.
\ rom New York soon afterward,
~ before the battle of Manila bay.
baltimore, commanded by Captain n.
M was detached from the Pacific
i and given to Commodore Dewey.
q vessels we're all cruisers-not, as
neople have enormously supposed.
,l,ds" or armored battleships. Elk
Az armor four inches thick around
urret guns of the Olympia there was
ror In the squadron. These six cruis-
l.. Artn .1 .
HQ9.ton Olympia, carrying four d
md ten rapid fire 5-inch guns and
Nm 6.pounders, with Lieutenant c.
)m, executive officer; the 440O-ton
bore, four S-inch and six 6-inch rifles
bur e-pounders, with Lieutenant Com
]. B. Briggs as executive officer;
OA-ton Boston, carrying two S-inch
y s.inch rifles and two 6-pounders,
Lieutenant Commander J. A. Norris
wutlve officer; the 3200-ton Raleigh,
ng one 6-inch and ten rapid fire s.
guns, with Lieutenant Commander
BE Singer as executive officer; the
Va Concord, carrying six 6-inch rifles
" e-pounders, and the 900-ton Petrol,
as four 6-inch rifles, with Lieutena!1
Ae6hSo rs CASSultNt
total number Of officers and men in
suadron was 1895. There were, of
some vacancies in the ships COM
but Just before sailing for Manila
nmodore brought 100 men and sew
licers from the obsolete Monoeacy
lied up the compliments of his active
accompanying the squadron was the
V cutter Hugh McCulloch, which
nNeo at Hong Kong on her way
NV York to the Pacific coast. She
!our light pieces. and was COM
'" captain Hobson of the revenue
service, who was ordered by the
~ Of the treasury to report to
pu0le Dewey for duty as a dispatch
VI ior any other service that she
~, ~ ,ouno capable TO perform. Two
=. NV steamers, the Nashan, laden with
~ o. Cardiff coal, and the Zafiro,
y wy tons of similar coal, having
Nseus oy Commodore Dewey, went
= SQUADRON. They We're not taken
,sh lazy Dut were regarded merely
Mu vessels owned by the United
saeir officers and crews all gave
" AN. nelr intention to become Unit d
isuA.ns, and remained on beard to
s,,, mem as needed. Commodore
4. u from the harbor of Hong
ne., Avvuuay' April 25. in response to
Ko,r 'vn the acting governor of
VI me commodore remained at
nm, !" Ininese waters, about thirty
a nohg Kong, until the after
=. "sanesday, the 9th. when he
IN me philippines. Owing to the
4, economy in the use of coal,
hs,vrn e danger of driving into the
Nj si,s sea mat was running, a speed
M ~ Knots was maintained in
slow UP 70 the Philippines. Even
(ai zsss speeu the heavily laden Ma
bd ths N made decidedly wet yoy-
'-' re'rel also pitched and role d
and ma nu other exercises kept the
nun sn occupied continuously dur
] n Mir a from the time the SQUAD
~ Of ~ oay until it came into the
sh,cS Enemy there was not an
aaer u,o nepara ions for battle were
! ny hal ss. When the tired shIp's
(siay finished its days work on
10 tbs a un the Olympia had settled
1 Va IA h quiet of the first watch. tba
blare 0. 80 with abrupt harshness
tasSssa q the bugle. red and White
shlU,s y, 10 and down the masts Of
psrspS , IN response to the conf commo o..
J and In ivy signal, Prepare for ac-
4 'lih Nor minutes each vessel was
had hss, VINO only a few minutes
de- ~ ase n sleeping soundly. From
assii xs "a. and in sven Minutes aI,efes
lsa. SIrisaley; "The shin 10 IS r reaay
rsIb Ssck !. along the line of sb,ns
ii mat mat, every one Of them NJ WAS WAS
ID IsS "s greatly pleose Spna WITH
Saa thorough response 'u to WI" his
Pan W W. war existed hal been en- re- re-
d e., Tuesday had brought ea the
|,t A. 'slcSS u al doll $50