Evening star., 1899-03-18
GOOD ONES AS TROPHIES
The Guns Captured in the Santiago Cam
paign.
Report of the joint Board Appointed
to Consider Their Dis
position.

The joint board composed Of Captain
Dickins of the navy and Major Hopkins of
the army, appointed to consider the ques-
ton of the number, character and DISPOSE
tion of the guns and mertars which have
become the property of the United States
as result of the war with Spain, has made
Its report In duplicate to the Secretaries of
the Navy and War An interesting feature
of the report is the mutual recognition of
the fact that the army and navy were
equally concerned in the capture of the har-
Dor and city of Santiago. The report con-
tains no recommendation for the disposition
or these trophies, except that each service
transfer to the other all captured cannon
in their possession to which the other is en-
titled.
Inc number of guns in the custody of
the War Department is as follows: At
Watervliet arsenal from Santiago. eigbtv-
two, OF which eleven are steel thirty-one
cast iron and forty bronze: at New York
arsenal from Santiago, forty bronze pieces:
total in the custody of the army in this
country, 10
The report Of the chief of ordnance of tbe
war Department shows that the following
guns We're captured from the land defenses
at Santiago on July IA last: San Antonio,
one piece: st. 1nez, six pieces; Sueno three
pieces; Caney road, five pieces: Palomar.
TWO pieces; st. Ursula, seven pieces. Cana
das, one, and Central Benehcieancia. one.
Ihose captured in the harbor defenses of
santiago on July IA were as follows: MORO
castle thirteen pieces five mortars ard
elsht guns; at the battery east of the
MORO, nine pieces; at MORO dock. five:
f-sueHa battery, nine; lower Socapa bat.
e teiS, Iour' upper Socapa battery, five; Pun
ia Gorda, four; Punta Blanca, forty From
the cruiser Reina Mercedes one pec, was
taken, and from the Santiago arsenal txan
ty-pWo; There was brought from Baracoa
one piece and from Guantanamo two
pieces, making a total of 141 guns leaving
hineteen not yet returned to this country
me captured guns in the possession of the
Navy department, continues The renort
HuihoeT hfty-six. OF these seven are at the
New York navy yard of which four were
taken from the Reina Mercedes,one from the
oquendo and two from the Cayp del Tore.
lWentE-tour are at the Norfolk navy yard,
OF which two were taken from the Maria
Teresa. At the Boston navy YARD ar tu,o 20
guns secured from the gunboat SandovaI
ana at the Washington navy yard are twen-
ty-three pieces, Of which ten We're taken
from the Fiscaya. ten from the Teresa and
three from the Oauendo.
1t Is recommended by the board that of
the captured guns taken from the Spanish
shlps and now in the custody of the Navy
Department four from the Oqueuao four
from the Teresa and two from fbe Wis
caYa, be delivered to the Wan Department.
that tne elSht cannon captured at MORO
castle, Low in the possession of the War
DepiTtment, be delivered to the navy: that
the fVe mortars captured at MORO be re-
tanned by the War department: that the
nine guns captured at the battery east of
MORO, seven guns and two mortars cap
tured at the Estrella battery and four guns
captured at Lower Socapa battery which
are now in the possession of the army be
delivered to the navy, and that all other
captured guns in the possession of either
department be retained by the departmeut
1t is found by the board that nearly all
the guns are useless except as trophies