Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-09-16

where he found life sufficiently exciting to
make him forget to be afraid. is one of
them. Leonard J. C. Kuh vein. gunner
served on the flagship and divided his time,
While the scr.mnage was going on, be-
tween duty below in the forward part Of
the ship, seeing that plenty OF ammunition
was supplied to the men doing the shoot
ing, and duty on deck where he was oc-
casionally summoned to make necessary
repairs. Besides. there are Lieutenant
Chadwick. who was on the Olympia while
Moore. who was medical officer of one of
the other ships.
1t is safe to say that each of these men
will take as active a part as he can in the
welcoming OF Manila's hero.
I<uhIwein's disappointment.
As the spelling of his name would indi-
cate, Gunner kuhlwen is of German de-
scent, but a more thorough paced Ameri-
can in spirit than he is never trod the deck
OF Yankee ship. Kuhlwein is short,
stocky without being stout, speaks with a
slight accent, and has the face of a man
with a keen sense of humor He is in
cined TO reticence, like most good fighters
but there is one subject unon which he
sometimes speaks at length. 1t is the
grievous disappointment he suffered on the
day of the Manila fight.
we had twelve elegant torpedoes on the
Olympia. says Kuhwen, land we had
practiced with them until we knew exact
~ what tlley coufd DO. over and over
again we had discharged every one OF
them, and the launching mechanism had
been used sufficiently to be in perfect or
der Ever since / began as a gunner and
that was long before the Olympia went in
TO commission, | had been hoping that
some day | might have an opportunity to
see loaded torpedo launched in real earn
est wanted to see what it would do, and
when the battle broke out | wondered if
the chance had come at last.
But there wasn't any chance tor
pedo shooting at the beginning Of the bat
tie The Spanish ships ~ere TOO far away
In the regular course of things took my
place below, just under the forward tur-
ret, when the fun began, so as 20 help send
ammunition up.
1t wasn't the pleasantest place imagina-
Bile down there We couldn't see anything
of the fighting, and besides We knew that
if a shell entered our Commandment or we
We're badly rammed, a torpedo hit US
we'd sure go to the bottom without the
gnost of a show. 1t wouldn't be right to
say we didn't feel skttish at the begin
ming of the scrimmage Eut things got
mighty lively down there soon after the
hrst guns had been fired from our ships,
and then we had to hustle So hard we
didn't have time to be afraid.
About once in often the big gun lust
over US would go off with a roar and a jar
that would shake everything. The grind
ing rafting cogs and racks and other ma
chinery of the turret were in constant
operation, making frightful noise Four
electric hoists were sending up ammunition
for the five and eight-inch guns as fast as
we could operate them. The handwhips for
supplying the one-pounders and six-pound-
ers were not Idle a minute. Four big cleo
trio dynamos were buZzing continually in
our ears. the air compressor pumping
away all the time. packing atmosphere in
to an accumulation at pressure of loo
pounds to the square inch, to be used in
firing torpedoes, If the opportunity arose.
Every man in the compartment was work.
ing as If the result OF the battle depended
solely upon him. On account Of the I'M