The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-08-14
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Annapolis, Ne,

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fail.
To-day Cergefa st4ollS along the slopes
Of the Seven Il very silent man. He II
nos aaonFoSe. He does rot maTnar. lie
Is a proud prisoner.
In h3s daily w'aIIs aboas Annapolis he
seeaas a man at liberty. Tie. AT least,
knows be4ter. Tie Feels ahoa3 him the
strong &fea4tess az ah 4fseRA silken
thread, checking hifa III he wo8aia Walk
abroad boyoffa the appointed time. Like
leSeaaaae as Malnlai16n, Napoleon on his
iress-lresna i>AaTra a4o44ense within tho
prison walls as 7f4e Alps, Jefferson Davis
within tho tggSorqeTs 0f Fortress Monroe,
Lee under tho liaaseslS OF alexSngtons like
the leaders Of an host tSaaases, in al times.
Cervera keeps his smile for men who
come and go--and his dcSolation for
himlseu He moves in an envelope of
pathnS. About him is an armor as in
visible as ii is impenetrahle--like that Of
Brunhilde's Knight-not. happily like the
armor of his own cherished Cristohal
Colon.
The American feels kind of close to
what is called n fair and square man.
So it is that the good folk of Annapolis.
VITA the echoes of the voice of Wash
ington still heard from the State House
on the hill. look. forsooth. with some
sort of kindness upon this stricken man
of Santiago. who babe Hobson. indeed
be of good cheer, but spared not himself
in the sea fight.
PEN PICTURE OF THE ADMIRAL.
Ceryera is full six feet tall. His legs
are long and heavy and traggling. They
do not look as il they We're used to
walking. man not over fat, though
he weighs easily over two houndred
pounds. His waist seems girdled with
muscle, and the body develops ponder
Ousiy and with a suggestion of great
power up to and about the shoulders. He
must Wear as much as Il seventeen collar
around a neck that looks hard and stub
born and not too short. The back of
his head comes more straight down than
otherwise without leaving the impress
sion of the intense and extravagant pas
slons that seem to abound in the alb
normally developed cerebelum Of
Eulate.
They We're walking together Cervera
and Eulate, when | saw them. Cerver;l
with Father Cook, of st. Mary's, and
Eulate with Lieutenant Cervera, the son
of the distinguished prisoner.
Cervera was dressed in a ctiZen's sack
suit, an inexpensive suit of blue, and
walked with an umbrella, the morning
l saw him. 1t was an interesting four.
Lieutenant Cervera, who by report saved
his fathers life and who by report s
an athlete, does not look the athlete. He
is trim figure, small by the side of
his father; a man of much bonhomie,
with reddish brown hair and beard,
worn Van Dyke. The priest father
walked along in a long alpaca sack suit
and was duly shaven, but not shorn of
his whitish hair. This very priest it is to
whom Ceryera speaks more freely, per-
haps, than to any other person in An
napolis. The good father respects the
confidence. But he said to me, with a
look of pride entirely just:
'"Tne first voluntary act done by Adj
mirnl Cervera after his arrival in An
napolis was to attend mass. He arrived
in Annapolis Saturday night and attend
ed early mass Sunday morning"
LIKES FATHER COOKS CoMPAN-
'.'- IONSHIP.
Admiral Cervera spends much of his
time with Father Cook, and sometimes
when the crowds begin to get too curious
at early mass he slips out unobserved
from the academy about half-past ten
or eleven. and has a special mass said
for him. Father Cook has had some OPP
portnnity to get at the mental quality Of
Admiral Cervera, as well as Lieutenant
Commander Moore. officer in charge of
the building and grounds OF the Naval
Academy. Cervera is not reconeou: he
is not philosophic. He may be both, but
ne has not evinced either quality to Mr.
Moore or to Father Cook. He has inn
pressed both as being observant. well
read and tactful, with sincere dignity.
But one must meet the man; must
look at him straight Almost filmy blue
eyes. which are large: perfectly white.
bushy beard. with thin auburn hair below
the hat; heavy, crumpled face--a Ger
man face-with a cultural voice that
deals alphabetically with the sibilants
and liquids and labials and dentals of his
language. His sentences seem like n
Spaniard making his escape from Ger
many.
Like the Grand Duke Nicholas when
he was in this country, cervera is an
early riser. He is mp every morning ct
half-past five His room is on the second
floor front. but his suite extends to the
rear of his residence, looking out upon
the Severn. During his dressing hour he
spends much time looking out upon this
river with thoughts that are his own
AT six O'Clock or little after he goes to
early mass at st. Mary's. When he does
not go to mass he strolls in the grounds.
When Cervera first came the hours were
from eight until shutdown. Lieutenant
Commander Moore told me they had
been changed from six until shutdown.
in Difference to the devotional desires of
Cervera. The Spanish Admiral spends
much time in devotion. and fights his
battles upon the troubled waters of his
own heart. and looks like a man who has
won the fight
After mass and breakfast which is
taken about eight O'clock, Cervera nearly
every morning goes up into the little
town to do his little shopping. or TO visit
or TO walk and talk with the priests