Waterbury Democrat., 1901-10-25

Captain Chadwick, who was present
 I don't remember whether all the time or not-said, Of course, commodore,
 any one who has known your character would know that it would be impossi-
 ble for you to be otherwise than loyal.'
 s.I asked the admiral if there had
 been established any means of commu-
 nicating with the insurgents, whether
 there were any 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 sit
 uation better in hand he would commu-
 nicate with me, but that he thought it would be better for me to start as early i as we could get away and blockade Ci-
 enfuegos. I said very well; that was i prepared. of course, to go anywhere. The next move on the part of the fly ing squadron. he said, was from Key
 West to Cienfuegos, Cuba, and the ad-
 miral told how, as the commander in 1 chief of that squadron he had the yes i sels coaled so that at or o'clock on the morning of May 19 all the ships of l the fleet turned their backs upon Amer i ican soil and laid their course for the southern coast Of Cuba. This, he said, was done under the order of the com l mander in chief, Admiral Sampson. At this point the witness quoted Ad-
 miral Simpsons order No. 5, not fail | ing to point out as he went along that l in this order the admiral had said, '.I | have the situation well in hand, and I
 will write you and give you any infor-
 nation that suggests itself"
 The first event of note on the voyage l toward Cienfuegos occurred, Admiral 1 Schley said, after he had been out | from Key West three or four hours. l It was then that he met Captain Me ] Calla. in charge of the subsquadron, with the Marblehead at it's head, which l had been doing duty on the Cuban l coast near Cienfuegos, whither the 1 commodore with his flying squadron l was bound. He related how, in ac
 cordance with the usual custom when
 a naval officer meets his superior in
 rank at sea, Captain McCalla had ask l ed permission to pass on and told how l McCalla had sent the Eagle to comnu-
 nicate with the flying squadron. Ad- l miral Schley also mentioned that the 1 Scorpion had been sent to intercept the l Eagle for the purpose of securing what l ever information she might bring. l '.After a little,'' he said, ''the Scorpion 1 returned and reported through the meg ] aphone, I think, identically as is report 1 ed in his log, which was all the infor-
 nation he gave us. The Eagle afterWard i passed close enough to the Brooklyn to
 hail her by the megaphone and repeated l that there was no news. l was on the 1 quarter deck. The thing seemed to be ] almost burned into my mind, but after
 what I have heard I begin to think l that maybe was mistaken"
 The admiral also related his meeting the Cincinnati and Vesuvius the next 1 morning off San Antonio.
 Captain Chester, in command of the l Cincinnati, came aboard the Brooklyn, 1 remaining for about three-quartefs of an hour. He then related the details of
 his conversation with Captain Chester,
 saying that they had ''thrashed out l good many subjects"
 ] Admiral Schley placed his arrival off ] Cienfuegos at near midnight of May { 21 He told of hearing guns early that evening while still thirty or forty miles 1 distant from the Cuban coast. i He said that tGe fleet stopped for the 1 night ten or twelve miles offshore off
 Cienfuegos and that he had sent the ! Scorpion ahead of the fleet as patrol 1 and that toward daylight on sthe fol 1 lowing morning, May p, all the ships 1 had steamed in close to the harbor en- i trance. My recollection now is" he ! said, that we went within a mile and l looked at the harbor; but, owing to ] trees and Instructions, it was impossi- 1 ble to see into the harbor. I never saw ] any Smokestacks, and 1 was a very 1 close watcher on deck, generally from l 8 o'clock in the morning until 12 or 1 1 o'clock at night. There was scarcely
 circumstance of any kind that escaped
 me-
 At 9 o'clock of the evening of the 22d ] the torpedo boat Dupont, the admiral
 said, arrived with a dispatch from Ad-
 miral Sampson. The dispatch referred
 to was the Dear Schley" letter. Re
 ferring to this dispatch, the witness
 said:
 II did not remember the fact until
 within the past few months because ! there were duplicates of that letter,
 but I now recall it from the fact that I
 sent the Scorpion to the eastward in 1 obedience to the injunction contained l in that letter to communicate with the
 scouts, about whose presence off San
 tiago I was very uncertain, as 1 think | the admiral was, on account of orders | having been sent directing them to
 proceed i'll the direction of the Spanish main to look for the squadron. The | admiral was not certain whether they
 bad ~c+ hack, nor was I. Therefore I sent the Scorpion east, and that fact
 fixed the receipt of that letter."
 Coming to the blockade of Cienfue- gos, the admiral explained the forma- 1 ton of his fleet there, saying that the
 steaming which had been mentioned in the logs was for the purpose of over coming the effect of a current which set directly into the blight. He said the
 ships were constantly setting into the
 beach and were obliged almost every
 hour to steam for a mile or two. And that" he said, accounts for a good
 deal of what is stated in the logs about steaming."
 In this same connection the admiral said that he had fixed the position of
 the squadron every morning and every
 afternoon by what is known as the four point bearing.
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