The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-17

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be gratifed. for l was called up to put
the torpedo In order. l am sure l never
worked so hard in my life / did trying
| to get that torpedo off. Some little thing
was out of order, and that made delay
| Meanwhile the Spanish ship kept coming
! nearer and nearer. From the instant of
! her starting out the vessel had been made
a special target for The guns on every one
of our ships, but she didn't slacken at
| first, and she got TO within 1000 yards
| of us before there was any sign of slowing
down. We had just got that torpedo ready
! to launch, and l was looking to see the
| biggest show I'd ever seen in my life, when
| the Reina Christina turned tail, riddled
with shot and shell, and started, ruined.
! for the shore. I'd have given six months
| pay rather than suffered that dsappoint-
ment. Now I'm afraid l shall never have
a chance to see a Yankee torpedo blow
| up a Spanish ship.
Dewey at His Best.
when did Dewey seem at his best to US
| who were at Manila with him? All the time
! Dewey was never anything but at his best
! yet l have three special memories of him
when he was at better than his best.
while / was on deck trying TO get that
| torpedo in shape for the Spaniards l saw
| him on top of the chart house, in the most
exposed place he could possibly find. di-
| recting the proceedings. Uncle George
was well worth seeing then.
after the battle was over and we knew
we had the Spaniards licked he was so
| happy his face fairly shone when he
thanked the men of the Olympia for their
! part in the fight, He was pretty well
stirred up then tell you, and so was ev-
erybody else. and the cheers we gave him
! just lifted US off our feet
"Deweys face shone again the day the
| first lot of Yankee transports, bringing
| thousands of blue soldiers, steamed into
| Manila bay He wasn't we'll that day, but
| the arrival of the transports made him bet
| ter Some time later a boat brought a
cablegram to the Olympia. Soon after he
! had read it, all hands were called on deck.
| We expected something highly important,
but we couldn't guess what. We'd never
seen Dewey so stirred up but once before,
| and we knew him too well not to be GER
tain that he had great news. lie must
have seen that we were eager, and L guess
he was willing to make us wait little.
He looked out upon us and smiled halle
| lujah smile, and then he said:
| "'Now men, l. want you to listen to
the best news we've had since the first
of May. l was i'll this morning, but 1t
has made me well. Now listenH
"Then lie had the dispatch read. 1t told
!
completely at Santiago as Montojo's had
been at Manila a little over two months
| before 1t was like an electric shock to the
| men on that ship. They yelled enough
| to lift the sky in their cheering, and then
they laughed and hooted and shook hands
with each other and jumped up and down
and danced. Everybody was pretty well
stirred up that day, from the admiral
down to the stokers.
while everybody was still congratulate
| ing everybody else l was chased out on
| launch to take that dispatch to all the
other ships. They had been notified by
| signal already, but they all wanted TO
read the dispatch, and l left a great wave
Of cheering in my wake all the way
| round"
Scattering n Myth.
The writer asked Gunner Kuhlwein what
| had become of Jim Hickey" the fat
beefy gunner of the Olympia, whose good
| natured phiz had been made known TO ev-
cry city and hamlet in the laud' through
the medium of a famous Autograph Kuhl-
vein laughed
THE shooting of the forward guns on
| the Olympia" he said, was done by
| Patrick Murray, white man, and John
Jordan, a negro There was no Jim Hick-
| ey on the ship, so far as ! know, and GER
tainly no gunner Of that name. There
| was a man in the forward turret named
Phillips, who looked a little like the jim
| Hickey picture, and who would have ham
| died one of the guns had not Murray and
Jordan been better marksmen. Phillips is
and was then an excellent seaman gun
ner, with a highly creditaole score for
| craftsmanship but Murray and Jordan
we're the best shots on the ship, and so
| the handling of the big guns was given
| to them. 1t was Murray, 80 it is claimed
who sent the famous best shot of the en-
easement straight through @the Reina
| Christina from end to end when she was
| coming directly toward the Olympia.
oddly enough, Phillips, who mad charge
! of the turret, is a fat, good-natured fell
| low, whose face resembles that of the
mythical Jim Hickey face somewhat, but
the partial likeness was nothing more than
a lucky stroke. 1t tickled the men Of
| the fleet immensely, though"
Mr. Kuh.wen was a member ofn the
| Olympia's crew when she was put IN com
| m ssion, and he remembers very well the
| hue and cry that was raised about the ship
in the first year or two of her service. II
was then that some of the newspapers
| printed long articles about her, IN which
she was called 1.-THE white SLAYER Of the
new navy" Her accommodations were
| declared 20 be bad; she was cramped, un-
! pleasant and unhealthy She came near
getting as bad a name, in a way. as
the Texas had when she was known az
he hoodoo ship.
Those who we're on the Olympia at that
lime win never forget the circumstances
OF her redemption. II came about through
| a radica. change among her officers. 20 the
| conduct Of certain whom alone. and not
| The vessels qualities, her bad name was
! due This change was made at Hawaii,
while the Olympia was ccaling, on her
| outward passage to the Asiatic station,
| and there never was a happier or more
comfortable lot of men on any ship than
her officers and crew after the chenge had
| been made. Osborn Spencer.
waiting in Washington.
washington, Sept l5.--While New York
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