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

very glad to see me. and explained, to
him the situation. and the fact of the
reconnaissance. He seemed to be very glad
to find out the situation there and point
ed out to him the Colon lying ashore.
: Captain Lemley: eff the court pleases
we are getting beyond the courts direc-
ton of the. scope of the evidence"
+, Admiral Dewey: "As I understand, he
is turning the command over to the COM
mander -fn-chief. want to hear that.
would like to hear that part - Il s
Continuing. Admiral Sehley saAd;ar
ST handed him number OF dispatches,
explained to him the situation and told
him the form Of blockade that had
maintained and heard no word Of COM
plant from him. In fact. in view Of the
telegram Of congratulation 1 supposed
naturally everything was approved. Ad-
miral SIMPSONS relations and mine were
always cordial. never had any difference
with him." -s-t
Admiral Dewey: You have turned the
command over. Now go on"
IT turned the Command over to Admiral
Sampson and my squadron was not
broken up until the 18th or 18th of June
1 was still in command of the flying
squadron, and composed the left half OF
the blockading line at Santiago. or
course, 1 have no criticisms to offer;
merely a plain, straight story to tell OF
what it's operations were up to that
time"
Admiral Schley began his description OF
the battle of July 8 about 2:l5. He said
the day broke fair with pleasant land
breeze. - e',
1--WE were lying at that time possibly
three miles or little over from the land
and 1 wondered why the enemy permitted
us to remain so close without firing at us.
At a quarter to nine O'Clock an orderly
reported to me that signal had been
made by the flagship to disregard her
movements and that she had gone east
ward. I did not. Of course, know where
she had gone. 1852" 80
Describing the coming out of the harbor
Of the Spanish fleet, the admiral said:
ct was sitting. on deck on a hatchway
when / heard call from the forward
bridge to tell the commodore that the
fleet was coming.
.aThat was some time after the men had
been called to quarters. about 9:35 O'Clock.
"The ship was lying with her head in
toward Cabanas, little cove to the
westward and one of the marking points
we used in maintaining our position. 1
! looked over the starboard side and saw
the enemy coming out Of the entrance Of
the harbor looked eastward and saw the
Texas apparently a point or more abaft
the starboard beam. The Texas appeared
] to me to be heading on one of the easterly
The Oregon was to the eastward Of the
| Iowa The Indiana was to the eastward
of that position, and the Gloucester was
| lying under the land.
''The New York was out Of sight and
out of signal distance, with glasses.
looked for her in order to determine what
nv position in the action was to be. OF
course, If the New. York had not been out
of distance I would not have given or
made a signal. 1 had in the meantime
gone forward on a little platform that
had had constructed around the battle
tower. as my position in the fight / had
only been there a moment or two when
Captain Cook Joined me. In the mean
time Mr.. Hodgson, who was on the upper
bridge sang out something to the captain
about being connected up and all ready.
He, at the same time, said to me:
" Commodore, they are Coming right at
us
"'wen,' I said. go right for them, and
the helm was put aport The ship was
started ahead first at half speed. re-
member that 1t took her away very
quickly, and said to Cook:
{" Here's the signal, close in for action
Then followed the signal, CLOSE up
and the Brooklyn, as well as all the other
ships charged in for the entry according
to the original plan. We all moved d.
rectly for the head OF the column, the
idea being to arrest and knock them to
pieces as they came on.
1--WE continued on our course for ten
or twelve minutes he said, "and I saw
all the ships of our fleet closing in. One
thousand yards is the limit of effective
torpedo range and as We were approach
ing about that distance 1 mentioned
something of that sort to Captain Cook
at the same time saying to him, Much
will depend upon this ship today
Cook replied that we would soon be
within the cross fire of the ships. I saw
Lieutenant Simpsons first shot and then
/ saw the first vessel in the Spanish line
take a rank sheer to the westward, leav-
ing the Viscaya.
''Then the latter also turned to the
westward. 1t was not apparent that the
original plan of the Spaniards had faile&-
and were now entering on the second
phase. and that their new disposition
would control their subsequent course.
CaDtain Cook now gave the order to port