The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-22
Told German Admiral He Must Stop
Interfering.
GAVE HIM SOME WAR TALK
AND PUT AN END TO ALL THE
THRILLING.
Captain Coughlin Relates An Incl
dent That Shows the Kind of
Stuff the American Hero of Man
lila Is Made of-Didn't Care For
Kaiser's Flag.

New York, April 21.-Captain ]. 3
Coughlin and his officers of the United
States cruiser Raleigh were entertain
ed at he Union League cub tonight
The dining room was handsomely dec
Grated with American and British flags
President Elihu Root presided, and
after a speech of welcome, called fol
three cheers for Admiral Dewey. They
were given, SO that the building seemed
to throb in sympathy. Three cheers
followed for Captain Coughlin. Almost
| greater than either were the shouts OF
approval when President Root called
for three cheers for the Snen behind
the guns"
Captain Coughlin was called upon tc
| speak. He accepted, he said, all the
| good things that have been said about
him and his men as meant for Admiral
! Dewey.
Every day we were with him. he
/ added, I'VE learned more and more to
| love him, and more and more how the
| country's interests were safe in his
! hands, and how he could do nochins
! but that which would rebound to the
! country's credit.
| Throughout those long. weary
months of waiting and the most out
| rageous nagging that anybody could
| suffer, wearing him to the very bone,
he held himself up and he neld US up
with him"
Dewey and the Germans.
Then Captain .Coughlin told the fol-
| lowing story of his admiral:
AN officer of our friend, Admiral
Won Diedrich, came down one day to
make q complaint. 1t was nv pleas
ure to step out on the quarter deck just
as he came aboard. 1t was partly by
accident and partly by design. L heard
him tell the admiral about his COM
plant, and ! heard the admiral re-
ply.
"'Tell your admiral those ships of
his must stop when I say SO. / wish
to make the blockade of this harbor
complete
The German officer replied: But we
fly the flag
THE reply of the admiral was just
like Dewey He said:
" Those flags can be bought at half
a dollar d yard anywhere
There was no fun in that express
sion of the admiral. He told the off
Ger that anyone could fly German flag
and that a whole Spanish fleet smight
come on him with German flags up.
Then he drew back and stroked his
moustache. He has a. great habit of
stroking his moustache when he gets
mad. He said:
Said It Would Mean Wor.
Tell your admiral I am blockading
here. Now, note carefully what L say,
and tell your admiral that I say it.
have been making this blockade as easy
for everybody as 1 could, but 1 am get
ting tired of the puerile work here 1t
has been of such character that a man
would not notice it, although children
might fight over it. but the time has
come when it must stop. Tell your ad-
miral that the slightest infraction of
any rule will mean but one thing. That
will be war. 1t will be SO accepted and
resented Immediately. If you people
are ready for war with the United
States. you can have it at any time
u am free to admit that almost took
my breath away. 1t came 50 suddenly
We had expected it all along, but
things you have been expecting always
come Unexpectedly. As he left with a
face about this long Indicating by
holding up his hands far apart) the
German said to me:
q I think your admiral does not ex-
actly understand.
"'Not only does he understand
told him, but he means what he says,
and you had better look out
After that they did not breathe more
than four times successfully without
asking permission