The age-herald., 1901-10-11

stadmer, whose accuracy ne nus ois- credited, is reliable within it's range.
 Judge Advocate Lemley then asked him: "Does what you have heard read from tbese reports made in 1s95, and which do not apuear to have been based upon &C., tual experience in action, change your views formulated upon your own practice with the stadimer and in action?'
 There is no change in my Idea of the stadimer. The stadimer is an instrument that Is accurate at short ranges, as stated before, and becomes inaccurate at higher ranges. believe that observa- tions taken in the heat of battle with all the smoke of battle are still more &C., scurate."
 Chart Inaccurate.
 Lieutenant Commander Schuetz. who. as lieutenant was the navigator of the battleship Iowa during the summer of 1898, and who is now superintendent of compasses In the navy department was the next witness. He was a member of the board of navigation which prepared the official charter of the positions of the vessels engaged on both sides in the battle of June 3, and Judge Advocate Lernley asked him concerning the report made by that board, which accompanied the chart.
 The witness said he had not been satis- fled with the report 'I protested" he said, against signing that report as being inaccurate. but I was finally persuaded to do so by the senior member of the board, Commander Wainwright, who thought that was the best we could do even if we stayed there until doom's day. and I signed it under protest My first objection was that the chart was inaccurate, that the position of the Iowa as plotted on this chart gave her too much speed. In order to keep the Iowa in relative position to the other ships for certain distances, she approxl- mately appeared to be making eighteen knots, when she was making nine to ten. Another objection I had was the Initial position of the Brooklyn when the Span- ish left the harbor 1 contended that the Brooklyns position was 100 close to the mouth of the harbor; that she was not in her regular position. She was south of it. I based that opinion upon the fact that when 1 first discovered the Spantards coming out of the harbor. 1 looked over toward the other ships on our left, and the Brooklyn was nearly abeam of the Iowa. The Iowa was heading north, di- rectly into the harbor." Commander Schuetz was asked in re- gard to his observations of the Brooklyn in the battle of July 3. He replied: "I saw the Brooklyn at the beginning of the action about port abeam of the Iowa. l saw her some minutes afterward, when she appeared to be headed a little to the eastward of north. It Is difficult to tell, because she was nearly broadside on. Soon afterwards I saw her headed to the eastward, about due east l should say That is the last I saw of her" Captain Lemley: T 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 to the speed or maneuvering of the Texas?"
 Texas Dead in Water. 'When first saw the Texas she was | heading to the eastward of north. Soon | afterward l noticed her again and she was headed to the westward and appar- ently lying dead In the water. I called | Captain Evans 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 probaly run into her if we kept on the way we were bearing. 1 She was then on our post bow. We were l trying to get close into the harbor and steamed at first directly for the mouth of the harbor. As the Spaniards turned to the westward we turned in the same direction and In this maneuver we were hindered by the Texas | Captain Lemley. "It Is in evidence here that the Brooklyn crossed the bow of the Texas Have you any personal knowledge 1 of that?'
 "No, sir"
 On cross examination MT. Rayner ques- 1 tioned the witness in reference to the official chart of the positions of various ships in the battle of Santiago. why did you not state this chart is wrong and I | won't sign
 q did"
 "Then why did you sign?'
 Because I was persuaded by the other me...A,.s If the board that that was the l best we could do and they wanted to come to an agreement. That was com promise"
 "Then really this chart was signed for the purpose of coming to an agreement
 and not for the purpose of showing any accurate results, was it?"
 'That board was ordered to show &C., curate results. but 1t was an absolute
 impossibility to make a chart of that | kind showing accurate results. There | was never chart drawn of any battle l in the world that is correct" 'I am not familiar enough with the
 battle of the world to know as to that "I am."
 'Why did you not say in your report | that you could not with any reasonable 1 degree of accuracy fix the positions of 1 these vessels, and therefore you would
 not make any chart. Would 1t not have | been better to have made no chart at | all than to have made a chart that ap- | pears to be as radically wrong as this l chart appears to be?'
 "No, 1t would not have been better to my mind.''
 "Then you think it is better to make a l chart that is inaccurate and wrong than 1 to make no chart at all?" l 'I did not say that. I said this is l compromise chart. It was the best we could do so long after the battle.' The court put a number of questions l to the witness.
 "TIow did you determine the distance | of the Iowa from the shore while block | ading Cienfuegos?'
 we did not determine the distance at | all, except simply by bearings occasion ally. There was not any regular effort made to maintain any particular posi- l tion."
 Were the vessels nearer to or further from shore at night at Santiago?" "At what time of the blockade?
 Captain Lemley: Prior to the first of June"
 About the same distance day and
 night is my recollection; about eight
 miles,"
 The court then took a recess for lunch | con.
 1 When the court convened again after l luncheon Lieutenant Commander Schuetz l continued his testimony In response to | question by the court he said that he l had determined the position of the Iowa | at TAO o'clock a. m- on May 2S and that it's | distance out was seven miles.