The age-herald., 1901-10-09
Lieutenant Bristol of the Texas Tsstifles in Regard
 to Chart
WAINWRIGHT ON SAME LINE
Says That the Conclusions of the Board of Navigators Are lncor- rect-Rayner and Hanna
 Have a Tilt.

Washington, October s.-There were two new witnesses before the Schley court of inquiry today. ley were Com mander Richard Wainwright who com manded the Gloucester during the war with Spain, and Lieutenant M. L. Bristol who, as ensign. was a watcn and division officer on the battlesnip Texas during that period.
 Lieutenant Bristol did not see the loop made by the Brooklyn, the greater part of his testimony turning upon chart he had made. showing largely. according to his memory, the positions of the var ious ships of the American fleet at diff ferent times during the engagement of July 8.
 Commander Wainwrighxs testimony dealt largely with chart making He was for a time senior member of the board Of navigators which prepared the official chart, showing the position of the Amer ican ships during the battie off Santiago, and he gave details of the method of its preparation. He said he did not consider the positions assigned in that drawing ac- curate, but that they were given as the result of a compromise of the views Of the members of the board.
 Lieutenant Commander Aodgson, Cap tain Folger and Lieutenant Dyson made additions to their previous testimony.
 FoIqer Asked Further Questions.
 The proceedings of the day began by the recall of Capt. W. M. Folger for the purpose of correcting his testimony of yesterday. Advantage was taken of his presence to ask him further questions concerning the blockade of Santiago.
 Among other questions, he was asked by Captain Lemley if he had had any conversation with Commodore Schley during the blockade. He replied: 'To- ward the evening of one of the days, the 3oth, there was an extended, very severe rain storm; so severe that feared Ger vera had gotton out,as it was sufficiently long to have permitted him to do so So l went on board the flagship the next day, thinking it my duty to tell the commo- dore what I had seen as to the blockade kept by the Japanese off the port of Wei Hai Wei, where similarly the enemys fleet was within a fortified harbor. said to the commodore, the adoption of the tactics of the Japanese, forming circle directly in front of the harbor, would, in my opinion, be preferable, as then it would be difficult for anything to get out"
 The Judge Advocate: Was there any re- ply by the commodore?"
 He did not agree with me as to the necessity for that"
 Captain Folger also said that he had no recollection of picket line on the in side of the American fleet.
 Log of New Orleans.
 At the request of Captain Parker. of counsel for Admiral Schley, the witness examined the log of the New Orleans for May 30 and 31, 1898, for the purpose of determining accurately the state of the weather, but he declined to modify his statement of yesterday that the weather on those days was bad.
 Captain Folger was then excused, and Lieutenant Dyson was called. He was questioned by Captain Lemley concerning the steaming condition of the Brooklyn on July 3.
 The judge advocate asked: What does the Brooklyn's steam log show as to the number of engines coupled up and the boilers in use July B. 1898, as compared with the total engine and boiler power of the vessel?"
 The reply was; 'The Brooklyn has four main engines. two to each shaft, connect ed together by combining. She has seven boilers, five main and two auxiliaries. On the morning of July 8 both forward en- zines were uncoupled, there were banked fires under three of the main boilers, the other boilers were what we call dead, with no steam in them. Judging from the time 1t took to start fires in these boilers after the Spanish fleet came out of the harbor, I should say the furnaces were not even primed and that two of the boil CTS had to be run up to the sea steam leveling. It took from 9:35 to 10 o'clock to start fires"
 In response to other questions, the wit ness detailed from the log of the Brook lyn all that was due on that vessel to get up speed.
 MT. Rayner asked if it was not neces- sary to stop the ship to couple the un- coupled engines, and the witness replied that the ship could have been kept going with one engine while the other was coupled The engines were designed, he said, to be coupled during war.
 Oregon Signal to Brooklyn.
 Discussing the speed of the various vessels of the fleet on July B. the witness said that the Oregon got up speed about equal to the Brooklyns that day, not withstanding that on her trial trip the Brooklyn made over twenty-one knots to the Oregons seventeen. He called atten- tion to the fact that the New York had made sixteen or seventeen knots of speed on the day of the battle.
 In response to questions from Captain Parker he said that the New York had not had her engines coupled on the day of the battle and that the Brooklyn had made all the speed necessary.
 After Lieutenant Dyson was excused, Commander Hodgson was recalled for the purpose of correcting errors in his testimony as printed in the official record He took occasion to change some of the language of his previous testimony.
 One of these changes was made in re- sponse to the questions asked yesterday as to why he has designated ''as a liar and blackguard the editor of a news paper which had originally printed the alleged colloquy between himself and Commodore Schley. He said he desired to alter the reply that he had yesterday given to this interrogatory. He then said:
 His Language Incorporate.
 T am of course very sorry that I ever so far forgot myself to write a letter containing such incorporate language. It was not written exactly for publica- kx.k xI-.-