Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1901-10-12
CORRECTED TESTIMONY.
Capt. FOlger COrrects and Adds to
His Testimony Before the
Schley Court Of Inquiry.
WHAT THE BROOKLYN'S LOG SHOWED.
The New York showed similar Com
ditions, Hut Capt. FOIger was
Compelled 10 Admit That the
Brooklyn Had Made All the Speed
Necessary,


Compelled 10 Admit That the m
Brooklyn Had Made All the speed nj
Necessary. tC
81
Washington, Oct. S.-After the usual d.
preliminaries in the Schley naval II
court of inquiry the proceedings of CT
the day began by the recall of Capt.
w. NJ. Folger for the purpose of cor a
recting his testimony of Monday. Ad- h
vantage was taken of his presence to a
ask him further questions concerning
the blockade of Santiago, Among
other questions, he was asked by Capt.
Lemly if he had had any conversa-
tion with Commodore Schley during
the blockade. He replied;
Toward the evening of one of the
days, the seth, there was an extended,
very severe rainstorm, so severe that
! feared Ccrvera had gotten out, as it
was sufficiently long to have permit
ted him to do so. | went on board
the flagship the next day, thinking 1t
my duty to tell the commodore what
| had seen as to the blockade as kept
by the Japanese off the port OF WEI
Wei, where similarly an enemys fleet
was within a fortified harbor. ! said
to the commodore that the adoption
of the tactics of the japanese, form
ing circle directly in front of the |
harbor, would, in my opinion, be pre-"
ferabc, as then it would be difficult
for anything to get out
Judge Advocate: WAS there any
reply by the commodore
II can not testify exactly as to his
reply. l would prefer not to do So"
, Judge Advocate; give the sub
! stance"
He did not agree with me as to the
necessity for that"
:. "Was there anything further SAID
9 by him?"
|. "Nothing further that l recollect."
Capt Folger also asserted that he
t. had 70 recollection of picket hne
n ON the inside of the American heet'
i At the request of Capt Parker OF
,. counsel for Admiral Schley, the WIT
ness examined the log of the New or-
If leans for May 80 and 81, 1889, for the
Ii rrrnose of determining accurately
,e tbe state of the weather, but he de-
d. clined to modify his statement tha'
the weather on those days was bad
r. Capt. Folger was then excused ah'
a Lieut.. Dyson was called. lie was
N, questioned by Capt. Lemly concerning
is, the steaming condition of the BROOK
lyn on July 3.
he The Judge advocate asked; VIVA
in does the Brooklyns steam log snow
to as TO the number of engines couple
,es nm and the boilers in use July o lo'
Ith rs compared with the total engine an
boiler power of the vessel?"
a, The reply was; "The Brooklyn n,
M four main engines, two to each shal
connected together by coupling On
Sc has seven boilers, five main ana wv
ouxiliaries. On the morning OF Jul
q botb forward engines we're I'll
coupled: there were banked hres u
the dor +bree of the main boilers. IL
-rg' other boilers were what we call uea.
the ro steam in them. Judging from u
ned time it took to start hreS III inc
low boilers after the Spanish fleet car
son ont of the harbor, ! should say "
for furnaces were not even prlmeu' d
sur two of the boilers had to be run
ac- 60 tho sea-steaming level 1t to'
DR.. tror, .35 TO 10 o'clock to start nre
erts In response to other questions, .
Jhat ,.;tress detailed from the log Oh
OBJ Drooklyn all that was done on u
ge1- vessel to get up speed
own Mr.. Rayner asked if it was not n
'rla' essory to stop the ship to coupie
oled uncoupled engines, and the witn
DR.. san1;ed that the ship could have p'
'aal' kept going with one engine whl'o ..
'erV- o,ber was coupled. The engines "
assigned, he said, to be kept coup
ence drr;np war. Discussing the speeu
COM ,ho various vessels of the heet on d
Bo- o' .ho witness said that the oret
OF got up a speed about equai 10
Sep Brooklyn on that day. notwi'hsN M
that 49,. tha+ IN her trial trip the BIC
oting ,rn made over q knots to the
glass CONS II knots. He called a'Ceh
ed to A., foct that the New YORK
very ,,odo 16 or II knots speed on
day of the battle. In response 10 q
tiers I t;nn, from Capt. Parker, he said
Lord tbo New York had not hao hel
enc cines coupled on the day Oh va
md a nd that the Brooklyn had mao'
d ao- the speed necessary
their After Lieut.. Dyson was eAo' w
y;out Commander Hodgson was
Dr. na1,ed for the purpose OF corre'
com e". .ans in his testimony as print'
nsvaal A. omcial record. He took occ'
u Da'''' to change some OF 'he n lane ~ oe
his previous testimony one oi
nhonges was made in response y
LED. ,aat;ors asked Monday, as to WI
,,vr had designated as "a l.al 40,
/, blackguard' the eo.'o, .;,,+e
p"n which had originally printe
pr p,,eged colluquy between himsei
@ @aumodore sehley. He SAID d
Of Inc ,ired 10 alter the reply that N
OF v,' 1no Yesterday given to this interrog'
forH uo said, u am, of course very
'ad oc' ~. -. 7 aver so far forgot myself
'skany' , ,.rite a letter containing su'
-Four ..mnerate language. II was no'
wreck to ton sxactly for publication ou,
,, Great ore provocation at the time :.
'ollidea Liter ..tter | did not accuse TINS h'
cross , ner of lying for printing 'nas ,
is caus' nsrt pe. In fact, it was to aos'
ter sror, living that l gave the pal
IL four ,,o, ,sority 40 use my name for II
Ks were % .aotness of the gist OF tha'
went, The lying was on the
S. - the fact that the commoo.
oi ,,rs1 s such trepidation and G
9 indus. p.s' i"s on the Brooklyn the day
which Sa,tIe ~. that he ran from the sp
nd even and and took the Brooklyn 70 IN.
,hooner ,nara amu and away from the iign.
Chicago asr to detract from the creai' ~
o"e uer ~ ..,oodore in TIL