The San Francisco call., 1898-03-10
THE MONTGOMERY UNDER THE GUNS
 OF GRIM MORRO.
White Cruiser Lies in the HdrbOr Where the Mdine'S Men Went Down to
 Death.

Ia Bennett e Q Q . 0 HAHAHA, March 9.-Spick and span @ @ n fife gistsning gard Of whife paint, C, @ tbe Unife6 Stntes cruiser Montgomery e @ lies at Der moorings m Havana har- c l9 bor. pretty caatrust Q the 6fGck- z z z g painted huhs or Der larger neighbors, ' the Nzcaya nnd fife Aimrante 0quendo. ' So close is her prov to the stern Of = a be Vzcaya that orders given on the = a deck of one ship might almost De = "a heard in he forecdshe of the other. = a 4 good secon6-base man could easily = 0 throw basebaH from one Of the Viz {: @ caya's frowning guns to one Of tbe (. @ Montgomery's fen rapid-fre fve-inch e @ breech-ionders. e
 There lie, almost end to end, tie repre- sentahves Of sovereign powers Tie usual 1aYdf coUrfesies have been exchanged with puncGEo0s poiifeness. Commander Converse IS quite tbe equal Of gallant Captain EUidte 1 affairs of tis kind, and the discipline Of his ship IS superb When / ran alongside the Montgomerys gnngwuy this afternoon 6efaU of senmen was busy scrUbbing from her gfstening sj0es tbe fust black smudges remainin9 from yesterday s coaiing at Fey West.
 4 marine orderly at tbe head Of tbe gang way informed me cautiously that TO Us- itors would De received. He took my card to Commander Converse, however, and fhe captain Immediately requested he executive officer to receive the Heraid's correspondent on the quorterdeck. Commander Converse and captoin Sigsbee were busy at the mo- mentin the captain's cabin preparing for their official calls ashore.
 The Montgonery's executive officer fold me aH hands arrived well and ready for any duty assigned tem by the department. The reason for tbe dsfay n entering tbe har6or this morning, he explained, was desire to clean up the ship and make their toilet be- fore entering port, their nasty departure from Key West nf haUng permitted thor ough washing of the ships sides after tak- ing on coal.
 Commander Converse received me q mo- ment iufer. He sud frankly he had TO idea how long the Montgomery would remain in port, but that tie Heraid's correspondent would always De welcome aboard. As ar earnest Of this bt introduced me to each Of hs officers.
 Ensign Poweison has already transferred hs baggage from the Fern and made him. self at home on te Montgomery. While / stood on the crui;er's deck boatIoad of pieasure-seekers firm shore passed between the Montgomery's brow and tbe Vzcaya' s stern. Some exu6erant passenger m fhe small boat hoisfeo an American flag and called for three cheers for the United States navy. Some of the biuejuckets swnrming or deck forward slowed disposition to respond to fhis patriotic calf from he ex- uberant stranger. .Ust across the narrow stretch Of Intervening water the trim sailor men Of Spain were watching with curious eyes, but the Wgiiant officer Of the deck in- stantiy suppressed any demonstration by the Montgomery's men.
 "Ho demonstrations forward here!" he sang out, and he 6uejackets who might have felt like cheering resumed fheir posts and their stofd faces simultaneously, like martyrs 10 duty mo discipline.
 The Court Of Inquiry is stH busy direct ing fhe work oi divers and hearing their reports, Olsen oid Smith being the divers most m evidence b-day. Naval Constructor Hoover and Afr. H,ims, the ship carpenter Of fhe Maine, spent sene time among fbe divers and floats obtonint and verifying dnta tear- ing on structural eJdence ns to the cause Of the dIsasfar. Thiakind Of work wiH proba-