Evening star., 1900-09-26
DIR. CZarra.
Result of the Naval Maneuvers at
Newport, n. I.

Result OF the Naval Maneuvera 0t
Newport, n. l.
A dispatch last night from Newport, r. l.,
says:
No greater contrast as a spectacle for the
unintiated and as a piece of naval tactics
and strategy could have been presented
than the maneuvers of last night and to-
night in a sham attack upon Newport har-
Dor.
Last night all was brilliant and exciting
so filled with important incidents that 1t
was impossible for any one stationed at any
given point to witness more than a small
part of the splendid demonstration. To-
night all was dark and dreary and silent.
Capt. Folger'S red squadron, supposed to be
blockading fleet, went SO far out to sea
that the blockade was practically no block
ade at all, according to the declarations of
torpedo boat commanders sent out to sink
the kearsarge. the Texas and the Indiana
and their auxiliary converted yachts, the
Eagle and the Scorpion.
The Holland had long night of II, and
she did not get back to the station till mid.
night. In the meantime there was some lit
tie anxiety about her, but she was all right,
and, Furthermore, she had done her DUTY
we'll She crept up under the very bow Of the
Kearsarge, and before any one aboard that
ship knew Of her presence Lieut.. Caldwell,
commander Of the Holland. announced TO
the men on the Kearsarge that they were
torpedoed. The Porter also claimed to have
torpedoed the Kearsarge previously. The
Holland did not dive, making only surface
run.
Commander N. E. Mason, commander-in-
chief Of the torpedo fotilla, feels thoroughly
satisfied with the work of his fleet Fore
most of the achievements claimed by the
torpedo boats is that of the Morris, Lieut..
Bispham commanding, which claims she
torpedoed the Kearsarge. The Morris,
the Gwynne and the Rogers made a sumui-
taneous descent on the big battle ship. The
Rogers was discovered by the Kearsarge
gunners and put out of action, and the
Gwynne, quick to see this, and that the
Morris had cast red rocket, the signal
that she had torpedoed the Kearsarge, slid
away in the darkness before she could be
found.
Finding no big game in sight, the Gwynns
directed her attack toward the Eagle and
the Scorpion, following the latter swiftly
and persistently for twentyseven minutes,
casting her rocket SO close under the speedy
yachts stern that the ruby ball came near
landing on the captive's deck. Leaving the
1rst victim disabled, she pounced upon the
clever dodger no time to attempt to escape.
Distance did not daunt the Dahlgren, which
stole swiftly far out to sea, where the bat
tie ship Indiana's officers were blissful in
their feeling Of perfect security. Her claim
is that she torpedoed the Indiana.
The Leyden, big as she Is and white as
she is gallaptly attempted to run the block
ade, but before the Gwynne had begun her
chase after the Scorpion the little sentry
sighted the teyden without the use of a
searchlisht and put her out of action.
The board of arbitrament met at the War
College and considered the reports Of the
urnpires on last nights maneuvers off New
port, and gave out the following conclh.
sionsJ
The torpedo boats failed in their attacks
on the ships, and the war vessels ran past
the forts, though in badly crippled condi.
tion. The former conclusion is not positive,
as the claim that the Stiletto torpedoed the
Massachusetts is yet to be settled"