The San Francisco call., 1901-10-25

sampson Whlcn is designated as No This
is the dispatch in which the commander in
squasdroH9 that the Spanish aeet probably va;
that they are not at Cienfuegos, to proceed
with all dispatch to Santiago
The witness said he had received duplicate
the copy brought by. the Hawk as the first re-
made on the copy. He also said that copy
Of No. Z, the Dear Schley'' letter, and also
a copy Of the McCalla memorandum had been
were fixed in his mind by the circumstances
that on that date signal had been given to
the squadron notifying the vessels that there
was rumor that Cervera's fleet was at San
tiago That he said, 'is fixed in my mind.
6G because & # th had got it the day bef9re would
habit was to keep them all informed
No Verbal Orders From Hood.
Relating the fact of the arrival of the Cas-
tine and collier on the sd. Admiral schley
tenant Hood, which. he said. lis one of the
other conversations l do not remember L
think" he went on, that 1 can show you by
any verbal orders he forgot report them.
The admiral then referred to Inemoran-
dix to the report Of the chief of the Bureau
Of Navigation reading as follows:
The Hawk has just reported from cienfue-
good number Of officers don't believe the
only surmise.''
That" remarked the admiral, would go
10 indicate that Mr.. Hood was not very
ay @ rerba S to- me- n fhas aao he fsed
TO report the fact to the commander in chief.
Below 1t is also a border information which
should have been very glad to have had. Mr..
Hood got into the anchorage, l think, some
time about O'clock Thg AQUA afo- dia not o get et
II o'clock Lieutenant Hood did not board that
IN my ne @ mac nad go1 aFedIs tSs nsa
and failed to deliver it to me then he COM
mitted an indiscretion, for I was the senior
to do with her. 1 should have been glad to
have had his information. So that with this
note and this information l think Mr.. Hood
remembered a good deal of what he said to
have DONE
Blockade at Cienfuegos.
Admiral schley gave further details concern
ing the blockade at Cienfuegos, telling how
he had observed men laying mines across the
river and how he had established picket
line inside the main line of blockade. He
again referred to the arrival OF the Dupont.
which, he said, was very short OF COAL having,
as was reported, only tlve or six tons aboard.
putting additional aboard the tor
pedo- boat, and in this connection said:
THE work struck me being one of such
difficulty that any attempt to coal a larger
vessel by boats would not only be exhaustIng
and fatiguing, but almost impossible beyond a
The incident of the arrival of the British
ship Adula was related in much detail, the ad-
miral telling how he had had her boarded and
how she had brought information in the shape
Of war bulletin which had stated that the
Is and had left there on the following day.
Remarking upon the report contained IN this
bulletin the admiral said:
That. of course. taken with the manner of
my approach and the distance being about
thirty-six to forty-eight hours away. lent color
10 the belief that entertained"
The admiral then related how the commander
Of the Adula had been allowed upon specious
premises to go into the harbor and had not
come out on the following day as he had
Admiral schley said that on the night of the
2Sd he had seen three horizontal lights to the
eastward and to the westward of the harbor
of Cienfuegoe.
The one to the eastward he said was
in the mountains and 1 should say ten miles
from the coast, and certainly 800 feet up; the
others to the westward. about five or six miles
in on the beach. but back Of it on the high
He said that while the squadron lay off Glen
fuegos the winds were fresh and there was
quite a rolling swell to the sea. In this con-
nection Admiral Schley referred to the fact
that he had not been informed that there was
any system of signals for communicating with
the insurgents, and he said that he did not
know that there were any insurgents to the
westward of Cienfuegos. This fact, he said,
together with the circumstance that the Adula
had failed to communicate any information,
and the further fact that McCalla's squadron
responsible for the delay in communicating
with the insurgents.
Did Not Waste Ammunition.
"of course" he said, Ito risk boat through
the surf on a coast believed to be occupied by
the enemy must have resulted in repetition
of Captain McCalla's experiment. He found
that the coast was pretty well occupied.
saw cavalry once or twice. both to the east and
to the west of this point. They appeared for
a moment. and Immediately got out of sight.
1 thought that TO waste ammunition upon
solitary caValryman like shooting big
guns at sparrows, and that killing one or two
men would not affect the result. l thought
ton we had for use against the squadron
which 1 believed to be somewhere in that sea-
did everything that was possible during the
time we were there to maintain the blockade
that was practicable possible
Continuing on the subject Of coaling Admiral
Schley said:
After we got hold of colliers which were
very much better fitted to resist shock well
TO deliver coal rapidly, perhaps, and with
the later experience of the 1 might have
coaled on days with worse weather We had
a good many accidents about which men
tion has as been ma, made; One Of the eolliers had had
Merrimac herself had several holes punched
through her. and my impression now is that
was injured in some way. but We managed
with more patience to do a little better than
rolling swell and vessels with projecting spon-
sons or projecting guns were always in dam
FOUNDER guns of the Brooklyn was bent at an
angle Of 30 degrees by coming into collision
with one Of these colliers. OF course the twin
screws made it extremely dangerous to coal
except under the most favorable conditions.
The problem presented to me at Cienfuegos to
solve-that Of coaling-has disturbed the ma
vies Of the world for fifty years 1 know we
accomplished this reasonably well under the
circumstances"
Hears Of Insurgents Code.
On the morning of May "a Captain McCalla
had arrived off Cienfuegos with the Marblehead
and the Vixen, and the captain had, according
to Admiral Schley Immediately reported to him
on board the Brooklyn. The witness said he
then heard for the first time of the code of
signals arranged for communicating with the
insurgents at Cienfuegos.
II great deal surprised" said the wit
ness "and asked who made these arrange
ments He said 1 did when 1 was here be-
fore l asked why it was not communicated to
me. That he did not know of course. He was
not answerable for that 1 said: Where are
those fellows% He said: I communicat ted with
them when 1 here last TO the west
ward some twelve or fourteen miles, but they
are migratory and they may may not be
there I said: Go ahead and take up the
line of search and let me know "
The admiral then told of his sending Captain
McCalla ashore and of the latter's reporting