Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1901-10-28

from fear, but from the exhaustion of
torpedo boat service and / told him when
he came over the side that If I were king
l would promote every torpedo officer
five grades if 1 could.
"HIeShanded me the dispatch. 1 think he
did me an injustice when he spoke of my
speaking disrespectfully of Admiral
Sampson. 1 used no such terms. There
was no reason why should have done so.
l invariably spoke of him as Admiral
Sampson and do not recall one word of
the conversation which he recites; not one
word and 1 recollect a good many things
very WELL"
The admiral then told of the arrival of
the Hawk on the morning of May 23d,
bringing dispatch, No. s. This is the dis
patch from Admiral Sampson which had
brought the information that the Spanish
fleet was probably at Santiago and in
which Commodore Schley had been told
that 'if satisfied they were not an Glen
fuegos to proceed with all dispatch to San
tiago".
"In this dispatch was enclosed the Nc
Gala memorandum, saying that a good
landing place had been secured ID IL
miles west of Santiago. With regard to
Commander Hoods testimony concerning
the testimony of these dispatches the adj
miral said he did not remember, land"
he went on, 81 think / can show you by
report that If he had any verbal orders he
forgot to report them. .,.. ..s...
This memoranda had run to the effect
that Hood had said: There are a good
many officers here who do not believe the
Spaniards are there
rTnat." said the admiral, "goes to show
that Hood was not very certain or that
If he had the information. he did not de-
liver it to the commander in chief. which
was an indiseretion. He seems to have
remembered a good deal that was said
by me. but to have forgotten good deal
that he should have done.
The witness also told of the arrival of
the British ship Adula and of his having
that vessel boarded and his allowing it to
proceed inside. He also told of the re-
port which the Adula brought to the effect
that Lie Spanish fleet had arrived at and
later had left Santiago. ws,ch he said
lent color to his own belief at mat
time"
The witness stated that he had seen the
signals on shore and explained his ex-
perience in this respect.
He said the surf was dangerous there.
in the day time. Continuing Admiral
Schley said:
"Not knowing whether or not there were
any insurgents to the west of this place.
I did not have communicated to me any
idea that there was system of signals
arranged with them, though L asked the
question. The withdrawal of the squadron
of Captain McCalla and the failure of
Lieutenant Sutherland to give me that
information was directly responsible for
the delay in communicating.
To risk boat through surf or coast
believed to be occupied by the enemy
might have repeated Captain McCalla's
experience. He found the coast pretty
well occupied. 1 saw cavalry on the
coast once or twice.
'They remained for a moment and then
got out of sight. / thought it was
waste of ammunition to fire at them.
wanted to save all the ammunition we
had for use against the enemy's squad
ron,j which I knew to be somewhere in
the vicinity. / did everything that was
possible during the time we were there
to maintain blockade as contemplated.
81 did all the coaling that was practical
bic or possible.
with the later experiences of the war,
after we got hold of golfers that were
very much better fitted to resist shocks,
as well as to deliver this coal rapidly
with that experience / might have coaled
on days of worse weather.
1--WE had a great many accidents of
which no mention was made because they
came after the period of time.
zone of the golfers had to go to New
York, absolutely smashed in.
1.-THE Merrimac. onhad several holes
punched through her and my impression
now is a portion of the upper works of
the Sterling weretinjured some way, but
we managed, with more experience, to do
a little better than we did at first
There was always at Cienfuegos
rolling sweI., and vessels with projecting
sponsors or projecting guns were always
in danger.
81 recollect in one case later one Of the
six-pounder guns on the Brooklyn was
bent at an angle of 30 per cent by coming
in collision with one Of these Golfers.
I'm other words the problem presented
to me at Cienfuegos," he said, was one
that had troubled the navies of the world
throughout all time"
He then spoke Of the arrival Of Cap
tain McCala on May "a, bringing infor-
nation concerning the shore signals from
the Cuban insurgents. He said that
when the captain came, aboard he asked:
Z" Have you seen any signals?
ct said: What do you mean"
"He then asked if l had seen three
lights at night and three horses in the
day time.
IT said I had seen the lights, and he
said They are trying to communicate
with you
Il expressed surprise, and asked VINO
had made the arrangements.