Evening star., 1901-10-29

inside, of course.
Q. How far inside? A. think perhaps
a mile
Q. Do you think that ;comports strictly
with the entry Of the log? A. 1 should
think so.
Dfstanee to Santiago.
@. Look at testimony on page 1851, refer
ring to the war bulletin of the 10Th Now,
that bulletin stated that on the 2oth the
Spanish squadron sailed from Santiago A
Yes, on the goth; that vas the war bulle-
tin published that they had sailed.
G. About how far away was Santiago
then in time, thirty SIX or forty-eigtt
the speed Of the squadron.
O. Giving it a good range? A. should
have said that if the squadron had been in
condition perhaps twenty-four hours or
twenty-five hours, or twenty-sx hours.
Q. But you said on that same page the
distance was thirty-six or forty-eight
hours A. I was thinking of my own move
ment I understood you to ask me what
ron reasonably clean and making pretty
good speed could have got there. The
thirty-six or forty-eight hours I referred to
was the time 1 myself could have gone.
@. Would not run of thirty-six or forty
eight hours time have thrown the Spanish
squadron into Cienfuegos after you had ar
rived? You stated you did not think the
entrance to Cienfuegos practicable at night.
A do not understand that stated that
time would apply to the Spanish squadron,
but to my own squadron under the circum-
stances.
Now" said the Judge advocate, 'T invite
your attention to that part OF your answer
to the question about the Adula's signal
lights. You say he reported that on the
10Th, in Jamaica, there was a bulletin that
they (the Spanish ieeD had arrived in San
tiago. but there was also a war bulletin
published that they had sailed
Then he quoted from Admiral Schley as
follows: THAT taken with the matter of
my report, the distance being about thirty
six or forty-eight hours led me to believe
that the Spanish squadron was there"
"You saw" he asked, that that does not
refer to the time Of the Spanish feet?" A
I say when I made that statement I had
in my mind my own squadron.
or CienfuegOs.
O. Look at page 134S. You say that the
blockade was maintained at distance of
three or four miles off shore. How was this
distance obtained? A. By obtaiping point
on shore at one place and then at another
and finding the distance with the compass;
also by the appearance tof the surf and
land, which seemed to confirm the distance
as correct.
@. That is what you referred to as four
point bearing. A. Yes, the hearing of any
one point on the shore, and taking the dis
tance Of time until another point was
reached and the distance carried out by the
compass by the bow and beam system.
This is the common way.
@. These distances were not made then
matter of record. A.. Oh, mo. / did not
know that they would ever fhecome a mat
ter of such great Importance, or l should
have plotted them and made memoran-
dunn, as 1 should have many other things,
if I had known they were to become SO i'm
portant.
@. You say you were a close watcher on
deck, remaining up until about midnight.
xyn,.c crtty,I hoo M zfT,tr Of f1a
harbor at Cienfuegos? A. don't remem-
ber, although 1 have distant recollection
of mast or top of pipe, seen between
the trees. But there was no appearance Of
an auxiliary cruiser
Q. Ny question referred to a gunboat. A.
l do not remember seeing gunboat
Q. And to an auxiliary cruiser. A I did
not see one.
Admiral Schleys testimony that at Glen
fuegos a current tended to set the vessels
in shore, and that the steaming out daily
was in order to regain their position had
the witness read from the log of the Brook
lyn. in order to show that the squadron
steamed both in and out while off Cienfue-
gos and in various directions.
The witness read line of data from the
log book of the Brooklyn as follows -Four
to am, May %, vessels steamed in in the
morning watch. Column steaming toward
Cienfuegos-6:25 am, stopped about three
miles off the harbor. May "a, vessels steam
ed in in the morning.
@. (by the judge advocate) How do you
reconcile these entries with your state
ment that the current was setting you in
all the time you were at Cienfuegos? A.
Simply from the fact of my own observa-
ton during the day and night that it did
do SO.
@. You stated that the blockading squad
ron was always closer IN at night than by
day both at Cienfuegos and Santiago? A.
True.
The judge advocate called attention to
the record in the Brooklyn's log of May %,
from to pm. This showed that at e
o'clock the Brooklyn set it's course at south
west by south. Also that: Steamed in col
umn west by south unit $3.50, and stopped
at harbor entrance about six miles off"
On the 23d, from to 3 a.nn.. note indt-
Gated that at 6 a.m. the vessel was going
north by east; at O'clock, various" at
O. clock, various thisS referring to the
ed slowly steaming toward Cienfuegos. At
6:25 stopped about three miles from en-
trance to harbor.
Q. (By judge adyocata9: Is that correct?
A. 1 assume that it is.i
The judge advocate then read from to
p.m on the same day, showing that at 6:25
the Brooklyn started ahead slowly, stopped
at Z, started at 7:15 and stopped at 7:2o.
He said that in the log of the Brooklyn, at
6:40 pm. the 23d, the Brooklyn gave sig
nal to the squadron .'south by east course
Then stopped. May "a. 4 to am. at 5:20
Castine and Dupont returned from picket
duty and squadron steamed in until four
miles from entrance.
@. Now, do these various entries, or do
they not Indicate that the vessels on the
Cienfuegos blockade steamed both in and
out and in various directions? A. 1t does
show that, but it does not show the dis
tance.
Q. 1t shows the time OF steaming, does it
not? A. But unless we know what speed
was being made we do not know what the
distance was. The speed was usually as
slow as possible, and that would perhaps
be three miles an hour-something like
that
Quexti0ns Of 0fInstructiOns.
Q.I should like TO ask yen II Cervera's
fleet had appeared FIRST coming out of the
harbor or sighted going in from seaNard on
one Of the nights wfiIe youzwere blockad-
ing the port at CdenfueGos what under your
instructions would have bean done by the
fleet? A. I guess we sHeuld have Knocked
them out
@. What were the Instructions? A. The
instructions were to fellow the flag.
@. Where did you give this instruction?
A. I gave it at Hampton Roads.
Q. Any written Instructions. A. do not
see that the regulations or astom requires
that written inst rupf inns Sfoalld he given