The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-18
VIZCAYA DUE HERE TO-DAY
A BOAT PATROL II GUARD THE
SPANISH CRUIsER.

CRUISER.
Admiral Buncs Asks FOR the Police boat te
Reip-vircaJa Will Probably Anchor In
the North Rivsr-Her 0mcers viii Pay the
Mayor n visit or Ceurtesy with tho Spanish
Consui-Genernl. ana Onsr Their Cendoi-
onces on the Disaster 10 the raaine.
The Spanish armored cruiser vizcaya will
doubtless enter this harbor to-day.
The Navy Department has taken steps TO have
a suitable guard of patrol boats established
about her while she 10 here and has asked the
police to lend tho Patrol and a sufficient number
Of policemen for the same purpose. The officers
Of the vizcaya will come ashore and pay a visit
OF compliment to the Mayor, according to estab.
lished custom.
Lieut.. Alexander Sharp. Jr., U. 8. N, with an
other officer in an ensign's uniform. and q third
man. who looked like q spaniard. called at
Police Headquarters last night. They wanted
to see Chief McCullagh. but he had gone home,
80 they were referred to Capt. vredenburgh,
who was In charge.
Lieut.. Sharp said that he was attached to the
office OF Theodore Roosevelt, Assistant Score
tary Of the Navy. and that no had Just come
over from the Navy Yard at the request of
Admiral Bunce, to ask for q detail of
poiiSohcu W hOiP ku6Iu Nv 'ibSayo. ho
said that tho Admiral had arranged
to keep two tugs full of marines
alongside the vizcaya while she was in this port,
and wanted to know whether the local author
ities would assist In the work Of protecting the
spaniard by detailing the police boat Patrol to
lie alongside. He also wanted policemen to
guard the Vizoaya's officers and men when
they came ashore.
Capt. vredenburgh told the officers that he
bad no authority to grant Admiral Bunce's
request, and advised them to see Chief McCul-
lagh this morning. Lieut.. Sharp rang up both
the Chief and Deputy Chief Cortright on the
telephone from Police Headquarters. but they
were not at homo.
The officers and their companion then went to
Jersey City to consult the police there.
At tho navy yard Admiral Bunce would not
tell Of his preparations to guard the Spaniard.
The Spanish Consul. Senior Arturo Baldesano.
said last evening":
II expect tho ViZcaya In tomorrow. and I
have consequently sent word to the authori-
tics announcing the usual visit Of courtesy.
which I will pay them with the commander
and officers Of the cruiser. We will express
also to the authorities our condolences for
tho horrible disaster that befell tho Maine
at Havana. So far as I know there 10 no truth
in the published reports that orders will be con-
veyed to the Vizcaya not to enter this harbor.
Up to this time 1 have heard of no such orders"
This was at z o'clock last night.
1t was said last night by an officer on tho an
chorage cutter Manhattan that she had orders
to go down to the Hook and meet the Span
ish battleship vizcaya. in case she should be
sighted. and anchor outside the bar. Capt. Stod-
dard Of the Manhattan said in the afternoon that
he did not see why the cutter should 60 to tho
vizcaya and take her to anchorage. That was
the duty of the Sandy Hook pilot who might
bring her in. Other visiting war vessels
have found anchorage without the assist
ance of the Manhattan. Her duty 10 to
see that all craft keep outside of the channels
while In port. II they anchor in the fairway 1t
is the duty OF the cutter to help them to anchor.
age grounds If they are unable to get there
without great trouble to themselves.
The chances are that the Vizcaya will 60 to
the usual North River anchorage OF the foot of
Twenty.eighth street.
There were reports last night that tho cruiser
had been seen off the New Jersey coast coming
north. but the watchers at the life saving sta
tions did not see her.
The Vizcaya Ia q twin-screw armored cruiser
Of 1000 tons displacement. She Is $40 feet
long and IS feet in beam, and her indicated
horse power 10 $4,000. She has a 12.inch belt Of
armor on her sides and 1Ols inches of steel on
the barbette. She carries two 11.inch rapid
firing guns, ten 5.inch rapid-firing guns. ono
machine gun and fourteen guns Of lesser cali
bre. Her speed il 20 knots an hour.
The Vizcaya was launched in 1891. Her
cost was $4,000. OoO. She left Las Palmss.
Canary Islands,. on Feb. 8. bound for New York.
under the command of Capt. D.. Antonio Eulate.
The Maine had left Key West for Havana on
Jan. "a. Tho vizcaya carries q total complement
of 400 men. and the officers said to be aboard her
besides Capt. Eulato are Commander Roldan.
acknowledgements Dc Fuentoe. Lieuts
Suances. Ristori, MaRaz, Pazos. and Cugo, Sub
Lieuts. Sobrino. Gonzales. and Manjon. Puraer
Urdapilleta. Drs. Jurada and Tornell. Chaplain
Riera. Captain of Marines Baleato, and Chief
Engineer Fontela.
The viscaya 10 ono Of tho crack modern cruis-
ers of the Spanish Navy. being one OF the three
sister ships built seven years ago at Bilbao. Tho
othor two are tho Infanta Maria Teresa, we'll
known In these waters. and the Almirante
OQuendo,