Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-01
ECHOES or THE WAN.

The average 1mpcrtalist sCornS the sug-
gestion that any American could be guilty OF
engaging in shipping arms and ammunition
to the Filipino. When a cargo was captured
by one of Dewey's vessels recently the crime
was promptly charged up to the Germans.
1t now appears that the criminal was
former Pennsylvania. an exile from neces-
sity, who preferred the salubrous climate
OF China to confinement in a penitentary.
The CRATER is the affable and accomplished
Philadelphia crook f. w. Sutterle, who
fled the city in January, 1896. leaving un-
settled million dollars in claims. Sutterle
is a mocking bird and a buzzard in one and
cares not whence come the feathers that
adorn his Shanghai roost.
4 typical story is afoat among the Ten
nessee volunteers recently mustered out at
Memphis While at Camp Meade Ave of the
boys got a furlough and went to Harris
burg, Pa, and proceeded 20 take in the
town. They were walking down one of the
principal thoroughfares, after reducing the
supply of mint juleps, and passed one of the
commanding officers. They failed to salute
and the officer wheeled on his horse, and,
after calling them to attention, inquired IL
they were soldiers. One Of the boys replied:
Some people think we are
"Well, l am General So-and-So command
ing this corps"
The HI you are" said the spokesman of
the squad. you've got a good job; you'd
better hang on to it."
That was too much fer the officer and he
rode off.
Private Andrew Spencer of the Twentieth
Kansas says in a letter from Manila that
every other native he meets wants to sell
him brass whistle, purporting to be the
celebrated gold whistle with which Agui-
naldo provided himself when he assumed the
dictatorship. II have had opportunity to
buy at least 300 of those Whistles" writes
Spencer "and the natives appear to be
greatly offended when | question the genu-
ineness OF the souvenirs. Each one tells
a different story about how he came into
possession of this trophy and the prices
asked range all the way from 10 cents to
800"
While many eminent members of the home
guard are wasting breath discussing what
the then Commodore Schley and the cruiser
Brooklyn did at the naval battle of San
tiago, the testimony of Spanish officers who
were in the thick of the fight was over
riety to the discussion On the morning
of July 6, Captain Eulate of the Vizcaya
made this statement:
The entire (Spanish) squadron was or
dered to devote the fire of its guns on the
cruiser Brooklyn, because it was believed
that 1t was the only ship in the Ameri-
can squadron that could overtake us. When
we got out Of the harbor my ship was
second in line, and / saw Immediately that
the flagship Maria Teresa was getting
terrible baptism of fire. 1t was frightfu.
The Texas and the Brooklyn were just
riddlng it, and in fifteen minutes i saw
it was on fire. The Iowa and the Oregon
were firing on the Oquendo, and as yet l
had not been badly hit. The Brooklyn was
a half mile closer to us than any other
ship, and 1 determined to try to ram it,
that the Cristobal Colon and the Oquendo
could get away, and l started for it. 1t
was good mark with it's big broadside,
and as / started l thought surely would
get it, but they had evidently seen us, and
very quickly it turned about, and, making
a short circle, came at our port side, so
that l thought it would ram us.
Il moved toward the shore, so that 1
could avoid her. The maneuver of the
Brooklyn was beautiful. We opened a rapid
fro at it with all our big gums, but it
returned it with terrible effect. The Oregon
also hit us several times, but the Brook
lyn's broadsde crashing into our super
structure simply terrorized the men. We
worked all our guns on it at one time, and
l don't see how it escaped u.s. 1t simply
drove us in to the shore, at one time fight
ing us at LOO yards.
'Ono shell went along the entire gun
deck, killing half the men on it and wound
ing nearly all the rest. A shell from the
Oregon hit the superstructure, and it was
then that, wounded and knowing that we
could not get away, l struck the flag and
started for the beach.
THE Brooklyn had prevented me from
getting away, for / could have beaten the
Oregon out, as i had a two-mile lead Of it.
My orders were to try to sink the Brook
lyn, and l tried to carry them out | did
not think that it's battery could be so ter
ribe as it was"
Spanish honor is peculiarly sensitive at
the mouth. 1t finds expression more in
words than in deeds. speculator from
New York, who secured Cuba for old cannon
and bell metal, was warned by a friend
against offering directly a cash equivalent,
lest Spanish honor would rebel. The drum
mer needed the hint. He waited on the