The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-08
GUNS DID NOT
 STOP FIRING Lieut.. HOdgsOn Tells of Famous Loop. ABLY DEFENDS SCHLEY Capt. Folger Testifies as to
 the Signals. There Was Definite Plan of Action and the Battleships Were Order.
 ed to Clear Their
 Decks.

Washington. Oct. 7.-Lieutenant Con- mander Hodgson today again occupied the greater part of the time of the Schley court of inquiry as a witness. He was followed on the stand by Captain William L. Fofger, commander of tho New Orleans during the Spanish war. Lieutenant Dyson also was recalled to add some details of his former testimony concerning the coal supply of the Ameri- can fleet during the Santiago blockade. Commander Hodgson repeated and ex- tended his story of the battle of July B. giving the opinion that Commodore Schley's conduct on that occasion was should hive been. He also explained at some length his correspondence with Admiral Schley concerning the alleged coIloquy between them while the san- tiago engagement was in progress. He said he had had no controversy with tho commander. but he repeated that tha commodore had said: Damn the Texas' when told that that vessel was in danger.
 Captain Folger said that the bonn bardment of the cristobal Colon on May s1st had been eminently successful in developing the strength of the spanish shore batteries, and had shown them 70 be very weak. He also said that if the Spanish vessels had attempted to escape at night they could not have been seen by the blockading fleet in bad weather. The court of inquiry today entered upon the third straight week of the investiga- tion of Admiral Schley's conduct in the Spanish war.
 The crowd in attendance was as large l as at any previous time, indicating that | the interest In the case is unabated. It had been expected that the Navy De- partment would be able to complete it's presentation of the case by the close or last week, but when the court opened to- day Captain Lemly's list of witnesses still contained almost a dozen names. Promi- nent among them is Captain Chadwick who was Admiral Sampson's chief of stan and was in immediate command of the flagship New York during the Santiago campaign.
 The program for the day included in addition to those recalled for correction of testimony, the nameslof two new wit nesses and of two who have hitherto been on the stand. The new witnesses who were present when the court convened, with the expectation of being called to the stand during the day, were Captain w. M. Folger, who commanded the crui- ser New Orleans during the bombardmene of the Cristobal Colon on May Sist. in which that vessel participated, and Lieut. tenant M. l.. Bristol, who as an ensign was the watch officer on the battleship Texas in the Santiago campaign. Lieu- tenant Commander Dyson was also pre- sent with the understanding that he probably would be recalled during the day for the purpose of continuing his tes- timony concerning the coal supply of the Flying Squadron when it 1t first arrived off Santiago, and its capacity under vary- ing conditions of speed.
 The days proceedings began with the recall of Lieutenant Doyle and Command CT Rodgers for the purpose of correcting their previous testimony and when they had been excused Lieutenant Commander Hodgson, naval commander of the Brook lyn during the Santiago campaign, re- stunned the stand. This was his third sit- ting and when he began today's testimony the judge advocate had not entirely completed his questions. There were still few of the letters constituting the correspondence between the witness and Admiral Schley to be read and when they were concluded Captain Lemly and MT. Hanna proceeded with their questions. Hodgson is Recalled.
 When the reading of the Schley-Hodg- son correspondence had been concluded Captain Lemly asked MT. Hodgson whether his denial. of the colloquy be- tween himself and Commodore Schley had ever been published entirely. MT. Hudg- son replied In the negative, saying that the last paragraph of his letter of denial had not been printed. This paragraph referred to the enclosure of a newspaper clipping.
 MT. Raynor began his cross-examina- ton by asking MT. Hodgson whether the Marblehead had hailed the Brooklyn when the two vessels passed each other as the Brooklyn was on her way to Cien- fuegos.
 The witness replied in the negative.
 The examination then turned upon events about Cienfuegos and in reply to MT. Raynor's inquiry Hodgson detailed these at length.
 Commander Hodgson said in reply to these questions that he had seen the lights on the shore at Cienfuegos, which were afterwards determined to be sig nals. but he had supposed they were sig nals between different branches of the Spanish forces on shore. He added that when Captain McCalla arrived with infOr- nation as to the meaning of the signals he was immediately dispatched to tho shore to communicate with the insur- gents. He said that the progress of tha squadron was impeded between Cienfue- gos and Santiago by the heavy weather.
 MT. Raynor then asked: How far were you off during the blockade of Santiago. from the Morro. during the day and night of May 2S. 29, 30. S1?"
 In response the witness said: Early in the day time our habitual position was about six miles. In the night I think we steamed up and down in front Of the harbor, a distance of about six miles"
 He stated that the picket boats. the Marblehead and the Vixen. were inside the line of the fleet about midway be- tween that line and the shore lines. The witness then in response to request from Mir. Raynor continued his testi- mony. describing the naval battle of July