The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-09-27
CLEVELAND BAKING POWDER co.
 NEW YORK
information at any time?"

information at any time?"
 Nothing"
 Mir Rayner continued his questions, [ devoting himself especially to the sig
 mailing between the Yale and the flag
 ship, The witness said he was sure
 that on May 26, when he hailed the l Texas, he had not passed within hail.
 ing distance of the Brooklyn, being a
 mile and one-half distant. l MT. Rayner read from report made
 on May 30 by Admiral Sampson, In
 which he stated that Capt Wise had
 told him that he believed Santiago har-
 bor to be strongly fortified "Is that
 true" Mir. Rayner asked | Tt is,' was the reply. | Capt. Wise said In reply to questions by Capt. Parker that he would at any | time when off Santiago have been able l to signal any information he might | have had in regard to the situation. He had seen the masts of a vessel, and i thought it to be a small military ves- | sel. He had gone near enough to ob- serve the land batteries. In reply to an inquiry from the court | the witness said that the land batteries did not fire upon the Yale while that vessel was reconnoitring the harbor He also said that even though he had been the senior officer while off Santiago prior to the arrival of Capt. Cotton, he had not commanded Capt. Sigsbee to give Commodore Schley the informa- ton which he (Wise) had given to him (Sigebee).
 The questions by the court and the replies to them were as follows:
 Did the batteries at or near Santi- ago fire upon the Yale while she was reconnitring?"
 Not at all."
 Who was the senior officer off San tiago prior to the arrival of the Flying Scuadron?'
 'I was senior officer until Capt Cot ton came on the 23d He was there un- til the 24th, and I was senior officer on the 18th, and the squadron came there on the 26th"
 Did you not direct Capt. Sigsbee to tion that you had received from the navy department with regard to the whereabouts of the Spanish squad ron?''
 'I did not"
 At this point Capt Wise was excused and Rear Admiral Cotton was recalled to make verbal corrections in the tes- timony previously given by him. He was questioned concerning some points of the Santiago campaign. He said that on the morning of May 31. after arriving from Kingdom, he had gone aboard the Brooklyn with dispatches for Admiral Schley.
 Asked by Capt. Lemly to relate his conversation with Admiral SchIey on the occasion of that visit, he said:
 "He informed me that it had been ascertained that some, at least of the ships of Admiral Cervera's squadron were within the harbor of Santiago; that they had been seen and were In sight, and, as matter of fact one of them was then in sight at the entrance to the harbor In language as nearly as I can remember, he said After din- ner I am going to hoist my flag on board the Massachusetts and take her and the Iowa and go in and have pot shot at those fellows"
 Lemly-"Anything further?"
 There was, os course. some further conversa tion. cannot recall the WOrOS, nor, dSlue ITOI1l WHdl l nave mentioned, the particular subjects"
 William c. Gray, who was chief ma chinist on the Texas during the battle off Santiago on July 3, testified that on that date he had been on duty at the throttle of the starboard engine of the ba attleship. He said that when he went | to the engine room the vessel was go- ing ahead "The next signal he said, twas to stop, and minute afterward | to reverse. The engines were then re- versed."
 The witness said that the reversal l was very brief, the revolutions not ex- ! ceeding 100 and the time being short. l He had, he said, heard aferward that | the reversal was because they were | passing the Brooklyn.
 Lieut.. Spencer S. Wood, who com | manded the dispatch boat Dupont dur ! ing the Spanish war, was the next wit ness.
 He related the particulars of his mis- sion as a dispatch carrier from Admiral | Sampson lying at Key West to Commo- dore Schley who was off Cienfuegos He had left Key West on May 20, car rying dispatches, of which the Iowa carried duplicates, and had reached Cienfuegos several hours in advance of the Iowa.
 "On my arrival the witness said. "I went aboard and personally delivered the dispatches which I carried from Admiral Sampson to Commodore Schley in his cabin at g o'clock. He asked me Admiral Sampson's idea about where the Spanish squadron was. told him