The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-11

| fin the Navy Department, was the next | witness He was a member or the boaro | of Navigation which prepared tne o.heiai | chart of the positions of the vessels en- | gagged on both sides in the battle or July | a and Judge Advocate Lemly asked him concerning the report made oy that poaro which accompanied the chart. The Wit ness said he had not been satisned "ith | the report.
 l that report, it being inaccurate, but was finally persuaded to do so oy the senior | member of the board. Commander Wain- | wright, who thought that was the pest | we could do even if we stayed there untii | doomsday and I signed 1t under protest | My first objection was that the chart | was inaccurate. That the position of the l Iowa plotted on this chart gave her too
 "In order to keep the Iowa in relative | nositions to the other ships for certain | distances she approximately appeared 10 | be making IS knots when she was making l to 10. Another objection had was the | initial position of the Brooklyn when the | Spaniards left the harbor. l contended | that the Brooklyn's position was too close | to the mouth of the harbor; that she was | not in her regular position. She was l south of it. I based that opinion upon tne | fact that when l first discovered the | Standards coming out of the harbor l | l left and the Brooklyn was very nearly abeam of the Iowa. The Iowa was head ing north directly into the harbor. l Commander Schueze was asked In re- gard to his observations of the Brookiyn | in the battle of July 3. He replied: | q saw the Brooklyn at the beginning of the action about port abeam or the | Iowa. I saw her some minutes after | ward. when she appeared to be headed | a little to the eastward of north IL IS | dificult to tell because she was nearly broadside on. Soon afterward saw ner headed to the eastward. about due east
 should say. That is the last l saw or
 her"
 | Captain Lemly: "I want you to state
 whether you saw the Texas about this
 time? How was she located relatiVe to
 the Brooklyn? Did you notice anything
 particularly as to the speed or maneuver- ing of the Texas?
 .When I first saw the Texas she was
 heading to the eastward of north. Soon | afterwards I noticed her again ana sne l was headed to the westward and appa- rently lying dead in the water. caiieo
 Captain Evans's attention to the fact that she was in our way; that she was lying , | dead in the water and cautioned the cap tain that we would probably run into her if we kept on the way we were heaoing. : She was then on our port bow. We were trying to get close into the harber and | steamed at first directly for the mouth ; | of the harbor. As the Spantaros turned , to the westward we turned in the same
 direction and in this maneuver we were hindered by the Texas" Captain Lemly: Tt is in evidence here that the Brooklyn crossed the bow of
 the Texas. Have you any personal knowl- edge of that?"
 No sir
 On examination MT. Raynor ques-
 tioned the witness in regard to the offi-
 cial chart of the positions of the various
 ships in the battle off Santiago.
 ''Why did not you state this chart IS wrong and I won't sign?
 "I did"
 ''Then why did you sign?' , Because I was persuaded by the other f members of the board that that was the
 best we could do. and they wanted to
 | come to an agreement. That was com- : | promise"
 l, Then, really this chart was signed for ll the purpose of coming to an agreement
 and not for the purpose of showing any
 actual results. was it?" l. That board was ordered to show accu 2. rate results, but it was an absolute i'm :, possibility to make chart of that kinc '" showing accurate results. There never
 was a chart drawn of any battle in the l, world that Is correct" r. q am not familiar enough with the bat d ties of the world to know as to that. u 'I am."
 Why did you say in your report tha
 you could not with any reasonable de l. gree of accuracy fix the positions of these z. vessels and that therefore you would no Is make any chart? Would 1t not have beer peter to have made no chart at all thai
 to have made chart that appears to b'
 as radically wrong as this chart appear: l. to be?'
 hn0fl hntfa r Is my mind"
 IS ''Then you think 1t Is better to make 2
 chart that is incorrect and wrong than tC d | make no chart at all?'' q 'I did not say that. I said this is 2 d | compromise chart. It was the best w l. could do so long after the battle" e The court put a number of questions. 'f How did you determine the distance o
 the Iowa from the shore while blockad ls ing Cienfuegos?"
 is I've did not determine the distance a n all, except simply by bearings occasional d ly. There was not any regular effor le made to mantain any particular position. m m,,. Were the vessels nearer to or furthe
 from shore at night at Santiago?"
 At what time of the bockade?" ly Captain Lemly: Prior to the first O T.. June?"
 Ut "Abuot the same distance day and nigh 1d | is my recollection; about eight miles," d I The court then lOoh TeCeSS lO he luncheon.
 When the court convened after luncheo
 Lieutenant Commander Schuetze contin ne ued his testimony. In response to a ques dI tion by the court he said that he ha st determined the position of the Iowa a TAO o'clock a. m., on May 2Sth and tha 10 it's distance out was seven miles. He als l. said that the bombardment of May 31s d had developed that the Spanish shore bat
 teries were extremely weak. He haC # seen no evidence of a disposition on thu Ie part of any of Cerveras ships to ran h any of the American vessels. IS By the court: Was your position dur IS ing the battle of July Sd such as to enable 'e you to observe clear the relative posi- 's tions and movements of the different
 ships?"
 No, sir, I never observed the relative m positions of all the ships on account oi st the smoke and the attention we were pay :" ing to our own ship in the fight" to By the court: When you say you were le seven miles from the entrance at "A ee ee o'clock May 2Sth. was that distance a as daylight, or had the ships steamed of ys shore after daylight" so My impression is we had headed di " rect course for that position during thu Ns night or early morning" S Commander Schuetze was then excused ca and Lieutenant Commander Albert w i'd | Grant, who was senior watch officer ol ne the Massachusetts during the war witt is Spain. was called.
 er- Asked by Captain Lemly concerning