The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-05-05
OUR NATIONAL MUSEUM EXHIBIT
Relics of the war With Spain. of Grant

the National Museum. There is alread!
a promising beginning and additions ar
made almost daily There is room il
this institution for quite as many more
curious and historical articles as arr
now displayed. The object has been tt
give preference and prominence to eve
rything distinctly American, just as If
the Geological gardens the animals char
acteristic of this country are sought
| chiefly.
The New York visitor used to the Mu
scum of Art and the Museum of Natura
History notes the absence of light ano
brightness in this institution Except
under the dome, there is not light
enough for the fair exhibition of its
| treasures, while the tiled floors have a
dusty look. The cases containing the
Spanish war relics are in this central
part. The largest contains pieces Of sill
yer plate from the wreck of the Maine
soup tureen and loving cup. Among
the specimens of powder taken from the
magazines Of the sunllen ship are octa-
gonal blocks of the brown powder that
was soaked with water and never eX-
ploded. 1t is from the particular maya
zine which, according to the Spaniards,
blew up the Warship. There are two
powder tanks, showing the effects of
their stay in the water, and compass,
which was wholly uninjured, even the
glass being uncraclSed.
A plate from a partition (from chain
lockery of the Iowa, presented by Cap
tain Evans, shows the effects of shots
from the Colon. There are four hits,
three of which perforated the plates.
One is the work of large shell. Anoth-
err piece of plate is from the Winslow, on
which Ensign Worth Bagley, the first
victim of the war, was killed 1t is
taken from the coming tower, near the
spot where the young officer was struck.
Although the plate is not more than
three feet in diameter, it shows thirteen
distinct hits, three of which perforated
the armor. This was all the work of
the land batteries at Cardenas. The
pinnacle lamp and compass box, both
riddled with bullets, show what hot
work there was. 1t will be recalled that
the Winslow moved up to a red buoy
and stopped to fire at the batteries. 1t
turned out that the Spanish gInners had
used this for target and had the range
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