The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-25
|SCALEY ON TKE STAND
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EN (Continued from First Page.) \ Key West three or four hours. It wa then that he met Captain McCalla il *Rc1arge of the sub-squadron with tn ' 'N1arblehead at It's head which had beel &ssdoing duty on the Cuban coast nea x sCienfuegos, whither the commodor, with his flying squadron was bound He related how. in accordance with tho $susual custom when a naval office fmeets his superior in rank at sea, Cap $ttain McCalla had asked permission tC pass on, and told how McCalla had sen SSIhe Eagle to communicate with the fly sing squadron. Admiral Schley alsC Nmentioned that the Scorpion had beer
 sent to intercept the Eagle for the pur. gpose of securing whatever information Nshe might bring. After little," he 'Ssaid, the Scorpion returned and re- Eported through the megaphone, I think sidentically as is reported in his log Which was all the informatio he gave gus. The Eagle afterwards passed close Senough to the Brooklyn to hail her by the megaphone and repeated that there SWas no news. I was on the quarter Edeck The thing seemed to be almost hhurned into my mind but after what l have heard begin to think that maybe sI was mistaken
 The admiral also related his meeting the Cincinnati and the Vesuvius the
 next morning off San Antonio. Captain sEhester, in command of the Cincinnati, came aboard the Brooklyn, remaining for about three-quarters of an hour. 4yftFta a iro1 toI Iato of hie ac0nversation with Captain Chester, isaying that they "threshed out good many subjects After mentioning a humber of these subjects which did not bear upon the present inquiry the ad- snniral said that Captain Chester ex- |Tressed himself as especially desirous Rof Joining the flying squadron with his chip, but said that his coal supply was Iso limited that he would be compelled Sto Sgo to Key West at very early date 'to Nreplenish it. ! Admiral Schley said
 that he terminated this part of the con
 Versa ton by saying to Captain Chester that as his ship was not in his 2(Schley's) command he could not at- |tach him to the squadron. In the
 same connection witness said that Cap tain Chester asked permission to coal
 the Cincinnati from the flying squad
 ran collier, but he (Schley) declined
 tiiis proposition.
 Continuing his report of this conver- Sation the admiral said: T then asked
 him if he had ever cruised in the West Indies, as I had never been south of Cuba, and if he knew of any place that
 would be favorable for coalng where fairly smooth water could be expected. He said nothing more than the infor- mation given me by the charts and Sugegsted some thirty miles to the east ward on bank or to the southward on another bank, coaling upon which would be problema tical and dependent entirely upon the state of the weather affd the sea-.
 < 1T do not the admiral added, 'recol- lect just at this moment any other except Captain Chester's disappointment that he could not join Iily squadron, which thought extreme Iy praiseworthy.
 $ In response to a. request from MT. E{ayr1er the latter said that one of the places which were recommended by .antain Chester for coaling was to the
 Award of Cienfuegos in the open 5ea. VI did not agree" he said. that that would be a good place to coal be- ,ause the conditions in ordinary sea Would be aggravated in shoal water"
 Admiral Schley placed his arrival off yienfuegos at near midnight of May 21. FIe told of hearing guns early that eve- ing while still thirty or forty mics iistant from the Cuban port. Describ- nE this incident he said:
 isToward sundown of that afternoon was standing on the bridge of the Brooklyn and distinctly heard six or ;even guns fired with the cadence of a IaIute. The fact of hearing these guns xas undoubted, so much so that the of icer of the deck spoke of it. I hap ,ened to be there at the time."
 He said that the fleet stopped for the | light ten or twelve miles off shore off | sienfuegos and that he sent the Scor ,fon on ahead of the fleet as patrol, | md that toward daylight on the follow n,z morning, May 22, all the ships had 1
 feaned in close to the harbor ent- ance.
 x My recollection now is, he said, that we went within mile to look t the harbor. But owing to trees and
 it was impossible to see tfo the harbor I never saw any tnokestacks, and I was very close watcher on deck, generally from s { 'clock in the morning until 12 or l sclock at night. There was scarcely
 circumstance of any kind that escap- d me."
 The admiral said that after this in- pection of the harbor he took a posi- lon with the fleet three or four miles tut. 1T generally he said. gave the