The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-23
THE TIsCAYA rs CoAI1Ne UP.
will Ne Ready 70 Sail or Thursday aua Nal
&c Our Holiday.

It was Capt. D. Antonio Eulate J Fery's day
at homo yesterday aboard tho Spanish cruiser
Vizcaya. Just after sunrise tho Captain ordered
tho cruiser to be dressed in all her flnery Of flags
In honor Of Washington's Birthday. Accord
ingly, q limo Of signal flags was stretched from
the bowsprit over the trucks TO the taffrail.
Spanish flags floated from the bow and stern Of
tho cruiser, but away up at tho main truck
waved Old Glory. When his ship had been put
in holiday attire Capt. Eulsto and his officers
waited for tho visitors they expected.
Tho first ono to arrive was Commodore Bunco
In the full dress of q Commodore in Uncle Sans
navy. He was attended by his senior and junior
aides, Commander Gilmour and Flag Lieut..
Ward. also in full dress uniform. They had
left the navy yard at 10 1876 on the Commandments
barge Undino, which ran up under tho viEcaya's
ladder at IL o'clock.
The side had been manned by an Admiral's
guard under command OF a young Lieutenant.
As the Yankee officers went up the ladder the
guard presented arms and q Spanish bugler
blew q blast.
The visitors were received on the main dock,
and. after having been greeted by Capt. Eulate.
they were presented in turn to each Of the ships
officers. Thon the whole party adjourned to the
Spanish Captains cabin. whore everybody chat
ted with everybody else for about fifteen min
utes. At the end of that time tho visitors took
thoir leave, As the barge drew away from the
cruiser . Commodore's salute of eleEen guns
was fred BY the vkcaya's small rifles and her
band played tho "Star-Spangled Banner"
Shortly after Commodore Bunce had departed,
Major-Gen. Wesley Merritt. u. S. A., command.
ing the Department of the East, accompanied
by his aides. Lieuts. Mott. Halo, and Struther,
called. They came down to Tompkinsville by
rail and were met at the dock by one of the
Vizcaya's launches. Tho Same guard was
drawn up on deck to receive Con. Merritt. His
call lasted about fifteen minutes, and when he
loft . salute Of thirteen guns was fred. and tho
cruisers band tried the "Star-Spangled Ban
ner" again.
At IL o'clock a salute from tho cruiser of
twenty.one guns was fired in honor Of the day
all Americans were celebrating. An hour later
Capt Eulate received his last official call Of tho
day. This was from the Spanish Consul lem
eral. He. too, wore a uniform. and looked very
vel IN It.; When he got OIL the train az
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forged spaniard one Of tho urohins cried:
That was tho signal for moro remarks of q |
lowed tho Co~nsul.Goneral to the dock, where a
launch from the cruiser was waiting for him.
Senior Baldasano remained aboard for some
time.
honors of host the cruiser was taking on a
supply of coal. The Consult General had made
ARRANGEMENTS with the Baltimore and Ohio
to the cruiser. About 8 o'clock two tugs with a |
big coal barge in tow came VI alongside the
officer from the visoaya was stationed on the
barge to inspect the loading. The Spanish
baskets and then these were dumped into the
cruisers coal bunkers. An zach basket was |
dumped in the %eontents were carefully inspect
on at nightfalI: Two navy yard tugs with
watch over the coal barge, and on the waters
around her to see that no boat came even within
n1 When a cspt. Ealate called upon Gen. Merritt
at Governors Island on Monday he told the Gen
Counting eaui n ting h.e sn Ias T sunds ssm. The sf fosr fo days sS Wifi
tSa " t sS would take q " until Tat late i tbs aftern S1esln S9d
possibly longer, for the cruiser to coal. In that
soon. he viii hardly pull up bis anchors before
The coal was taken in on the port sido of the |
ship. In tho afternoon the water boat Croton
ran up on tho starboard side and put fresh water
sightseers throneed the old ferry landing near
T0mpkinsyilio: S; L. from early morning tn
view from tho shore was interrupted by tho
presence OF an oil tank. which. with a total dis
in such a position that only about two-thirds Of
tho Vizcnya was visible from the dock. Alto.
upon tho ship from wharf and shore.
A man who said he was Jones reported at the
snip Jews Olncb ldbU nlRDC tDRC q tug mad run |
into Capt. Eulate's launch an hour before, upset
1t. and picked up tho Captain and his party.
Thereupon the Associated Press sent out this:
The launch Of the Spanish warship Vizcaya,
with her commander. Capt. Eulate. and party
on board. was run down by the tugboat L. s. At
wood of the Raymond Towing Company off
Tompkinsville about $3.50 tonight. Tho launch
WAS cut In two and the whole party thrown into
the winter: 1t is reported that Capt. Eulate was
drowned"
The last sentence was thrown in to make good
measure, and the. whole thing was printed In
one OF the Worlds freak extras for O cent. In
drowning the Captain the story went Jones one
bettc and Jones's story itself was pure fiction.
No collision or accident had happened. and Can't
Eulate did not leave his boat after dark. So
tho World got out another extra for another
cent. saying this:
The rnmor sent out late tonight by the As.
Of tho Spanish cruiser Vizcaya, with Capt.
by the Raymond tug f. 8. Atwood proves to DO
The Associated Press found on careful
investigation that there was no truth in the re-
Consul General Baldasano gave n dinner last
evening to some Of the junior officers of the Viz.
To an inquiry as to when tho cruiser
would sail he said that neither he nor Capt,
had received any sailing orders. lie
said that the coal would all DO taken on by late
this afternoon. SO that the cruiser would DO
ready to sail as soon as orders were received.
MAHAN ON THE DISASTER.