The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-30

in proceeding. A. last the admiral inter
iered and reproached the young woman
for taking risks.
why, admiral" she responded. L am
not AFRAID OF bullets. least of all when 1
am protected by one of your officers"
Well replied the admiral sweetlv "if
you , 10 not object to being killed l cannot
heip but admire your courage. but l can
/ not spare any of my officers"
nave moi figured out yet" says the
Young woman, recounting the incident.
"hether the admiral meant that as a
compliment or rebuke. But | did moi go
driving on the firing line again"
story of the Gunner's Mate.
That gun" said Phillips. according 10
the Times, fondly passing his hand over
tue polished surface Of the big eight-inch
starboard forward gun. did the trick for
Cne Relna Crlstina, Montojo's flagship At
iedSt, mat is the way il figures i'm the
admiral report, and no one knows it bet
| ter than he does. l remember the shot
mat did the work, but l couldn't see it
idhd. From the shout that went up after
| 'he gun was fired, we in the turret knew
mat something had happened. and we were
| 1olo what 1t was afterward. In all, TWEEN
ty-siN rounds were fired from this turret.
| ana lew of them went astray.
| 'But there is another story connected
| with that gun that is not so well known"
! went on Phillips, now fairly started "A
! Shot from her sunk the transport Minda-
| mao and she deserved her fate for being
| sassy. Admiral Dewey will not stand
| freshness of any sort. and it was for get
| ting fresh that the Mindanao went 10 the
| bottom. But for that trait i'm her charac-
| ter she might now be sailing gloriously
under the Stars and Stripes and doing
! something creditahe. Well it all came
| about in this way:
| when the battle opened transport was
| seen lying some distance off to our right,
| and she a once tried to get away She
recognized at once that the noighborhood
wasn't healthy one for Spanish shps.
! but her captain got ratified, and she ran
| INTO shoal water. After the battle the
| little Concord ana Petrol steamed up as
| near as they could get to her, and what
| does the fool ship do but open on them
with shot from her two six-pouuders The
| lutle SuuboatS reElated, ana there was
| quite an interchange Of compliments when
| the admiral, who was standing on the
! bridge, gave orders TO put a stop TO the
| Spaniards nonsense with shot from our
forward eiSht-inch gun. a minute later
you could have driven a horse and cart
! through the hole in the side Of the trans
port and that part of the fight was over"
Then Phillips got technical, but in an
| interesting way, and he talked about gas
check pads and breeches and ammunition
| hoists aud dozen other things that grad
| ually became to be less Greek to his hearer
| than they had been before. He laughed
| good-naturedly when he heard one of the
| sight-seers talk knowingly to another of
| the same kind about "this here S-pound-
err and when appealed 20 for an opinion
! he ventured to remind the man VINO knew
| that there was great difference between
an S-inch aud an S-pounder. ana pointed
TO the fact that the gun on which ne was
leaning was not TO be classed in the small
arm category when she weighed 1854
| pounds and threw prOjec.le weighing
| $50 pounds. when you come to think that
something was nit every time that gun
| spoke, he said. There isn't much wonder
that Spain's fleet went TO the bottom"
4 Batch of stories.
The New York Press prints this batch of
| Dewey and Olympia stories;
Among he veterans of the fight at Ma
| Mia now on The Olympia is a canary bird.
| There are about two dozen canaries on the
ship, but This one Is the p=t of all The
men because il was wounded al the battle
IN Sub.g bay
The Raleigh and other ships in he China
seas had birds on. them. On the morning of
| the fight il was question of what TO do
| with the birds. They were put below in
places where it was thought they would
be safe.
On the Raleigh was sailor who owned
a canary. It's cage hung near one of the
| 6-inch guns. The hook that held its cage
| TO the top OF the deck was over The powder
| magazine. When the fight got hot there
was little racket, and the men working
| in the M gazine Wee startled 10 see the
cage with the bird come tumbling down.
| The cage was set aside in he magazue
and after The fight was brought up. 1t then
was seen that The fan had broken one leg
of the bird. The leg was hanging by a itue
piece of flesh
A day or two later the bird was seen
TO be pecking a the leg, and the part that
had been hanging fell off. The stump heal
ed and from that time on the bird was
ruler of that part of the ship. He sang as
of yore and to-day is singing On the Oiym-
pia.
There is an admirars suit on board the
Olympia and it does not belong TO Dewey
1t is the property of Tom Toohey. cox
swain 1t was once the property of Mon
TOTO. After the fight, when the jackies got
ashore at Cavite and started 10 prowl
around Toohey found the suit. In it was
the scard of the former owner. The cox
swain took it as a personal prize II has
Bit more lace than Dewey's.
There was almost a panic in Wall street
yesterday, when il was rumored that Rus
| sell Sage's Office was decorated with the
national colors, and every broker wonder
ed who was to pay the piper. Finally one
broker who had calling acquaintance
with Sage (cal money at 10 per cent? vol
unteered to learn the extent and cost of
the decorations.
Ten minutes after his visit TO Sage's
office he staggered into the group of brok-
ers on the curb and whispered hoarsely:
It's true
What's true?"
"Sage's office is decorated with the ma
tional colors.'
Manhattan Elevated rose two points aud
Gas fell one.
But it's this way" painted the broker
getting his second breath. 'Sage's type
writer spilled bottle of red Ink over the
blue blotter OH his desk. See?'
mo we don't see" the chorus chanted
"Where does the white come in?'
"Oh. Sage turned pale when he saw how
his lux had been wasted
If there comes any social function where
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