The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-25

receievd by marginal notes which ha | been made on that copy. He also sai | that copy of No. z, the Dear Schley letter, and also copy of the Mccall memorandum, had been received b,
 the Hawk, saying that these facts wer
 fixed In his mind by the circumstanc that on that date a signal had beei given to the squadron notifying thu vessels that there was rumor tha
 Cervera's fleet was at Santiago
 That" he said lis fixed in my minc
 because if I had got it the day before
 I would have made that signal to tn,
 squadron as my habit was to keeI
 them all informed"
 Relating the fact of the arrival of the
 Castine and collier on the 23rd Ad.
 miral schley referred to his reported
 conversation with Lieutenant Hood
 which, he said, lis one of the other
 conversations I do not remember.
 think" he went on, that l can show
 you by memorandum of MT. Hood E
 that If he had any verbal orders he for
 got to report them,''
 The admiral then referred to memo
 radum from the Dolphin published in
 the appendix to the report of the chief of the bureau of navigation, reading as follows
 The Hawk has just reported from Cienfuegos with despatches from schley. Hood says a good many of the officers don't believe the Spaniards are there at all, although they can only surmise."
 That, remarked the admiral, would go to indicate that MT. Hood was not very certain in his own mind or, if he had brought any verbal in structions to me, that he failed to re- port the fact to the commander-in- chief. Below it also is a border infor- nation which I should have been very glad to have had. MT. Hood got into the anchorage, think, some time about s o'clock The Adula did not get into the anchorage at Cienfuegos before 10 or Il o'clock. Lieutenant Hood did not board that ship in my presence. She had already been boarded. If he board ed her and got this news and failed to deliver it to me, then he committed an indiscretion for l was the senior officer and he did not know what was going to do with her and should have been very glad to have had his information, So that with this note and information I think Mir Hood remembered good deal of what he said to me but he for got a good deal of what he should have done"
 Admiral schley gave further details the blockade at Cienfuegos, telling how he had observed men lay Ing mines across the river and how he had established picket line inside the main line of blockade. He again re- 'erred to the arrival of the Dupont, which he said was very short of coal, having, as was reported, only five or six tons aboard. He also told the diAi- ,ulties experienced in putting a few additional tons aboard the torpedo boat md in this connection said:
 The work struck me as being one of uch difficulty that any attempt to coal l larger vessel byNboats would not only 'e exhausting and fatiguing, but al- most impossible beyond day or two.'
 The incident of the arrival of the British ship Adula was related In much letail. the admiral telling how he had lad her boarded and how she brought information in the shape of war bull etin which stated that the Spanish leet had arrived at Santiago on May 9 and had left there on the following lay. Remarking upon the report con- aimed in this bulletin the admiral eaid:
 That of course. taken with the man. Ter of my approach and the distance 'eing thirtysix to forty-eight hours way, lent a good deal of color to the elief which I entertained, that the panish squadron were there as the ob- ective of the most reasonable point to ischarge what they had on board
 The admiral then related how the commander of the Adula had been al- owed, upon promises, to go into the arbor and had not come out on the day, as he had promised to o.
 Admiral Schley said that on the night the 23d he had seen three horizontal ghts to the eastward and to the west
  ne to the eastward" he said, Twas in he mountains and I should say ten liles from the coast and certainly five undred feet up. The others to the est were about five or six miles in on he beach, but back of 1t on the high lnd."
 He said that while the squadron lay f Cienfuegos the winds were fresh and lere was quite rolling swell to the "a. In this connection Admiral Schley aferred to the fact that he had not cen informed that there was any sys- m of signals for communicating with le insurgents, and he said that he did ot know that there were any insur- ants to the westward of Cienfuegos his fact, he said, together with the rcumst ances that the Adula had not me out, that Lieutenant Southerland