The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-10-29

| should be y absolutely and unre-
seryedly to the cause that we WERE
| both representing.
Captain Chadwick who was present.
! I o remember whether all the time
or not, said. of course, Commodore,
any one who has known your charac-
ter would know hat it would be inn
possible for you to be otherwise than
loyal
81 asked the admiral If there had
! been established any means of COM
m~unicating with the insurgents;
whether there were pilots or whether
any locality was known where they
were to be found. He told me that he
did not know, but that when he got the
situation better in hand, he would
communicate with me. and that he
thought it would be better for me to
proceed to The blockade of Cienfuegos
as soon as possible. I said: Very well,
/ am prepared, of course, to go any
where"
HE SAILS FOR CIENFUEGOS.
The admiral aid that he then left
the New York and went on board his
own flagship, in order to hasten the
operation of coaling. Later, the Al
gonQuin came out with an order from
the secretary of the navy to Commo-
dore Remey directing the witness to
proceed to
<1diAlti III ONAAN SD
miraI Sampson and the latter said he
understood hat his (Sampson's) COM
ing to Key West modified his (Schiey's)
orders and instructing him to carry
out the plans agreed upon.
The admiral then read the order I'M
der which he had sailed from Key West
In this order Admiral Sampson had told
Commodore Schley that he should es-
tablish blockade at Cienfuegos with the
least possible delay and had said that
after he had the situation more in hand
he would write the commodore.
That same night he had fallen in witt
McCalla and his squadron. McCalla
had sent the Eagle to intercept him
and had himself asked permission TO
pass on. He had sent the Scorpion to
meet the Eagle and the former vessel
had reported, as was recorded in its
log. That" he said, "is all the infor-
nation she gave us. After this the
Eagle came within hail, telling us that
there was no news. The thing seems
burnt into my mind, but after what !
ave heard 1 begin to think hat may
be I was mistaken"
Relating the particulars Of his meet
ing with Captain Chester, of the Gin
c~innati, he said that the captain was
anxious to join the flying squadron
The admiral said hat was not FEAST
BILE. When questioned as to coaling
places the captain had suggested one
or two banks on the Cuban a at
he thought coaling would be pos
sible. Still is was problematical, as it
would depend upon h weather and
the. sea.
After Chester left the admiral said
the squadron had continued it's voyage
Cienfuegos where it arrived on
the night of May 21st.
Toward shutdown that evening, I was
standing on the bridge when we were
thirty or forty miles out. I heard six
or seven guns fired with h cadence
a salute. The report was so distinct
that the officers on deck spoke of it.
"The next day in the early morning
the fleet a steamed IN n ook into
the harbor. but it had been impossible
to see in. I never saw any smoke
stacks there and I was a very clear
from z to s o'clock in the
morning until II or 1 at night. Very
few circumstances escaped me-"
Towards 9 o'clock of the 22nd he said
the Dupont brought to him h now
Dear Schley' letter. In
obedience to this dispatch he had sent
the Scorpion east to communicate with
the scout boats, las I was very doubt
of their being off Santiago, as I
think the admiral was He recalled
arrival of the Iowa, but he did not
SCOllSSl lIdl IL 1ooSll ohy l1liIlS ~
him in the way of dispatches. Speaking
of the blockade at Cienfuegos, he said
the line was three or four miles out. 1T
was closer at night than in the day
he said, land that was the rule
always both at Cienfuegos and San
81 believed at that time" he said, |
from h sound of the firing and the |
conversation I had had with Admiral
Sampson that the Spanish squadron
was in C~ienfuegos. The line of forma- |
ton was kept ready for any emergency
and was never abandoned. During the
day we feigned a little disorder in |
hopes that we might invite those peo-
pie out. We knew there would be diff
Guilty in getting in, as the flagship was
1f great draught, as were most of the
other ships. The channel was very
and our only wish was that
hey would come out. The movements
IF the squadron were rather an invita-
ion for them to do so. That was what /
during all the period of the block
Lieutenant Wood has testified to a
conversation which he said he had a
With me in relation to the delivery of
dispatches, which, for the life of me, 1
annot recall and 1 have a good deal of
Lieutenant Wood, when
&c came on board was almost pros
rated. His condition to me was pitia-
lie. Mo- from fear, but from the eX-
of torpedo BOAT service, and
told him when he came over the sid
hat if 1 were king I would promote
very torpedo boat officer five grades
/ could. He handed me the dispatch.
think he did me an injustice when he
poke of my speaking disrespectfully Of
Sampson. I used no such
erms. There was no reason why I
nould have done so. I invariably spoke
{ him as Admiral Sampson and I do
OF recall one word of the conversation
'hich he r%ecites: not one word, and I
.ecollect a good many things very
The admiral hen told of the arrival
: the Hawk on the morning May 23rd,
dispatch No. s. This is the
from Admiral Sampson which
rought the information that the Span
h fleet was probably at Santiago and
which Commodore Schley had been
I'D that eff satisfied they were not at
ienfuegos to proceed with all dispatch
Santiago"
In this dispatch was enclosed the
TcCalla memora ndum saving that a