The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-29

fuegos, contemplate sending one or tvs
of your larger vessels back to Key Wes1
| for coal?''
| II think I contemplated sending some
| of the ships back if we should be unabl'
| to coal within week.
Eat what time did you learn definite
ly that the Spanish fleet was not IL
| Cienfuegos?''
Upon Captain McCa1la's return abou
| p. M, May 24.''
What time did you sail for Santi
ago?"
My impression is that we formed
| column between and %. M. and stood
| off on course south by east and ther
| stopped, leaving the Castine in front o.
the harbor. BY or o'clock we got
under way, laying our course southwest
by SOUTH
When his attention was called to the
fact that he had in report said that the
departure was timed at 5:15 a. m. he
said that not having the data before
him, when he made that statement. he
had taken the informal ton from Cap
tain McCaIla's report That's correct
he said, referring to the time of the
formation of column, ''as regard that
as a preliminary step to getting off"
Were there any SignalS?"
There were.''
WAS it dark when you got under
way?"
Il don't remember entirely, but it
must be borne in mind that dark comes
early in that vicinity. 1t was, however,
dark enough to read the Ardois signals.
1 can't say just what the hour was, but
the signals were used up to 1925 =. m.
You were ordered to mask your
movements. were you not?''
Yes; that is We were so ordered, if
we should proceed in the day time.
tOur directions in dispatch No. were
to bear in mind that vessels could be
traced by their smoke for 80 or 40 miles.
1 believed that we were so far away at
that time the people on shore would not
i =
signalling, even if they did see.'
1.-THE Ardois' code is not a secret code
is it?'
Ordinarily it is practically so. It is
a code of letters. 1 don't believe they
could be translated by foreign people"
did you use a key in employing them
on this occasion?"
81 don't recall"
you remember that you were near
enough to the village of Trinidad to see
lights on shore there that night, do you
not?"
Il only saw the loom of the lights in
the clouds there. The lights themselves
might have been seen from the bridge
of the vessel but did not see them
when you left Cienfuegos where did
you think the Spanish squadron was 2"
asked Capt Lemly.
II did not, of course. know. exactly
where it was. If I had. 1 would have
gone straight for it. According to the
information which came to me, I sup
posed that if it was not at Santiago il
was somewhere in the neighborhood,b but
my impression was that it had come
out as this information from the admir-
al had indicated, but just where it was,
of course. 1 could not decide"
did you give any special instructions
to your captains while making this pas
sage from Cienfuegos to Santiago in re-
gard to looking out for the Spanish
fleet 2"
Il did not give any special instruc-
lions. They had their general instruc-
tions.''
AS TO THE ADULA.
referring to the Adula, which Cap
tain Cook said he regarded as a sus-
picious craft. Do you know she was
afterward captured and condemned as
a prize?"
Il do not know whether it was the
same vessel or not I never saw her
afterward. There certainly was moth
that indicated that she VIZ a suspicious
ship. She was duly certified by our
state department to enter the port of
Cienfuegos.'
municattons of May q to the depart
ment that the weather was boisterous
since leaving Key West?"
Yes
The judge advocate then asked the
witness to examine that log of the
Brooklyn from the 10Th to the 9th He
read to the court the entries. Going
back to the Adula incident, Captain
Lemly asked if she had authority from
the state department to enter Cienfue-
gos. The witness replied that she car
ried an authorization from Consul Cen
eral Atkinson.
You testified that on the journey to
Santiago, the Eagles forward compart-
ment filled with water. When did you
learn this?''
81 do not recall exactly. 1t is pretty
hard to differentiate what I knew then
and what I learned later
But wou have testified that you had
pretty good recollection and very little
imagination"
II did,
"And that your recollection was bet
ter than Folger'S?'
Eyes, think it was upon that partic-
ular point
1.-The point is did the fact that her
compartment filed with water have
anything to do with your sending her
away?"
81 do not think it did; it was her coal
supply that governed