The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-25

little feigned disorder in the hope that
we might invite those people out. We
knew there would be difficulty in get
ting In, because my flagship was of
greater draught than most of the others:
the channels were very tortuous and
our only hope, at least our only wish.
was that they might come out The
movements of the squadron were rather
an invitation usually. That was what
felt during all the period of this block
ade,'
At this point ADMIRAL Schley DEPRESSED
for moment to refer to the conversa-
ton he had had with Admiral Sampson
before leaving Key West, which he said
had induced the belief that the Span
ish squadron's objective was Cienfue..
COS.
The admiral then related the particulars
OF the visit of Lieut.. Wood, of the Du-
pont, to him, on board the Brooklyn,
when the Dupont arrived off Cienfuegos
He said that Lieut.. Wood was in a pitt
a able condition of exhaustion because of
told him. said the admiral, that if |
were king would promote every tor,
pedo officer five grades if 1 could
Continuing the admiral related how
! Lieut.. Wood had handed him the dis.
patch, and added:
Il think he
Did Me Injustice
when he spoke of my speaking disre-
| specially of Admiral Sampson as Capr.
Sampson. used no such term. There
SO: L Invariably spoke of him as Adj
m1ral Sampson and 1 do not recollect
one word of the conversation which
Lieut.. Wood reiterates, not one word. and
| recollect a good many things pretty
well, ! am glad to say, and very little
from imagination.
The admiral said the Hawk arrived
Sbout o'clock on the morning of May
%. This vessel, he said, had brought the
dispatch from Admiral Sampson which is
DESIGNATED as No. 8. This. is the dispatch
in which the commander-in-chiefn notified
the commander of the flying squadron
that the Spanish fleet probably was at
Santiago, and directed him IF satisfied
that they are not at Cienfuegos to pro-
coed with all dispatch to Santiago The
witness said he had received duplicate
copies of Dispatch No. sand said he i1en-
titled the copy brought by the Hawk as
the first received by marginal notes
which had been made on the copy. He
also said that a copy of No. T. the Dear
S %dHeyy letter and also a copy of the
by the Hawk, saying that these facts
were fixed in his mind by the circum-
stance that on that date signal had
been given to the squadron notifying the
vessels that there was a rumor that Ger
Vera's fleet was at Santiago. That" he
said, lis fixed in my mind, because if 1
made the signal to the squadron, as my
habit was, to keep them all informed.
Relating the fact of the arrival of the
Castine and collier on the 23d, Admiral
ton with Lieut.. Hood, which, he said, sis
one of the other conversations [ do noC
remember. l think" he went on, that
/ can show you by a memorandum of
Mr.. Hoods that if he had any verbal or
cers he forgot to report Them
Hoods Evidence Impeached.
The admiral then referred to a mem
orandum of the Dolphin published in
the appendix to the report of the chief of
the bureau of navigation. reading as fol-
lows:
1.-The Hawk has just reported from
C1enfuegos with dispatches from Schley.
don't believe the Spaniards are there at
all, although they can only surmise.'
That, remarked the admiral, "woul1
go to indicate that Mr.. Hood was not
had brought any verbal instructions to
me, that he failed to report the fact to
the commander-in-chief. Below it also
is a piece of informa ton which / should
have been very glad to have had. Mr..
Hood got into the anchorage, 1 think,
some time about s o'clock The Aduld
fuegos before 10 or IL o'clock. Lieut..
Hood did not board that ship in my pres
ence. She had already been boarded. If
he boarded her and got this news and
mitted an indiscretion, for l was the Sc
nior officer and he did not know what I
was going to do with her. and I should
have been very glad to have had his in
Formation So that with this note and
this information 1 think Mr. Hood re-
membered good deal of what he said
to me, but he forgot a good deal that he
should have done"
Admiral Schley gave further details
concerning the blockade at Cienfuegos,
telling how he had observed men laying
mines across the river, and how he had
established a 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 reported, only five or six tons
aboard He also told of the difficulties
experienced in putting a few additional
tons aboard the torpedo boat, and in
this connection said: 1.-The work struck
me as being one of such difficulty that
boats would not only be very exhaust
ing and fatiguing, but almost impossible
beyond a day or two"
The incident of the arrival of the Brit
ish ship Adula was related in much de-
tail, the admiral telling how he had her
boarded, and how she had brought in
formation In the shape OF a war bulie-
tin, which had stated that the Spanish
fleet had arrival at Santiago on May 29.
and had left there the following day.
The admiral then related how the
commander of the Adula had been al
lowed, upon specious promises, to go into
the harbor, and had not come out on the
following day as he had promised to do.
Admiral Schley said that on the night
of the 23d he had seen three horizontal
lights to the eastward and to the west
ward of the harbor at Cienfuegos. THE
one to the eaStWard,'' he said, was in the
mountains, and l should say ten miles
from the coast and certainly 500 feet
up The others to the west were about
five or six miles in on the beach, but
back of it on the highland
He said that while the squadron lay
off Cienfuegos the winds were fresh, and
there was quite a rolling swell to the
sea. In this connection Admiral Schley
referred to the fact that he had not
been informed that there was any sys-
tenn for communicating with the insur..
gents Continuing on the subject of
ccaling Admiral Schley said:
After we got hold of golfers we were
much better fitted to resist shock a.
well as to deliver this coal rapidly. Per-
haps, with the later experience of the
war, I might have coaled on days with
accidents about which no mention has
been made, because they came after the
period of time. One of the GOLFERS had
to go to New York absolutely smashed
in The Merrimac herself had several
Holes Punched Through Her,
and my impression is that a portion of
the top works of the Sterling was injured
in some way, but we managed with
more experience to do a little better
than at first There always was at Glen
fuegos a rolling swell, and vessels with
projecting Sponsors or projecting guns
were always in danger. 1 recollect in
one case that one of the six-pounder
guns of the Brooklyn was bent at an
angle of thirty degrees by coming into
collision with one of these Golfers. or
, course twin screws made it extremely
dangerous to coal except under the most
favorable conditions: The task pre-
the problem of coaling, which has dis
turbed the naVieS of the world for fifty
years. I think we accomplished this
reasonably well under the circum-