New-York tribune., 1901-10-30

before him when he MADE tndl statement, ne
had taken the information from Captain Nc
Calais report. That statement" he said, re
ferred to the time OF the formation Of column, as
I regarded that as preliminary step 10 getting
off"
Were there any sgnals?"
There We're"
WAS II dark when you got under way"'
L don't remember entirely, but it must be borne
in mind that darkness earlier in that lati-
tude in May than in this. 1t was. however dark
enough TO read the Ardos signals. I can't say just
what the hour was. but the signals were used up 10
9;25 p. m
You were ordered to mask your movements.
were you not?
Yes; that is, we so ordered if we should
proceed in the daytime. Our directions in dispatch
No were to bear in mind that vessels could be
traced by their smoke for thirty forty miles
believed that We far away at that time
that the people on shore would not know what we
were doing other than signalling. even II they did
see"
The Ardois code is not a secret code, is it?'
Ordinarily it Is practically II is a code of
letters don't believe they could be translated by
foreign people
Did you use a key in employing them on this
OCCASION"
II don't recall"
You remember that sou were near enough TO
the village of Trinidad lights on shore there
that night. do you not?"
IT only saw the loom of the lights in the clouds
there. The lights themselves fnlShl nave Deeh seen
from the bridge of the ship. but did not see
them"
When you left Cienfuegos, where did you think
the Spanish squadron wss?
UNCERTAINTY ABOUT THE sPANIARDs.
..1 did not Of course know exactly where it was.
II had l would have gone straight for It, Ac-
cording 10 the information which came TO me
supposed that If it was not at Santiago II was
| somewhere in the neighborhood but my impress
sion was that IT had come out. this Information
| from the Adula had indicated but just where 1t
was of course. I could not decide
Did you give any special instructions 20 your
captains while making this passage from Cienfue-
gos to Santiago in regard TO looking out Tor the
Spanish feet?'
II did not give any special Instructions 1hey
| had their general instructions"
Referring 10 the Adula. which Captain Cook
said he regarded a suspicious craft, do you
know she afterward captured and condemned
as price,
Il do not know whether it was the same vessel
! or not never saw her afterward. There GER
| tainly was nothing 10 me in the examination OF
her that indicated that she was suspicious ship.
She was duly certified by our State Department 10
enter the port of Cienfuegos."
Did you say IN one of your communications OF
May q TO the department that the weather was
boisterous since leaving Key West?"
Yes"
The judge advocate then asked the witness TO ex-
anime the log or the BroOkAn lSlh 10
Z7th. He read TO the court the entries Going back
10 the Adula incident. Captain Lemly asked II she
had authority from the State Department 10 enter
! Cienfuegos The witness replied that she carried
an authorization from Consul Dent. st Kingston.
You testified that the journey 10 Santiago the
Eagles forward compartment hled with water.
When did you learn this2'
I do not recall exactly II is pretty hard TO
direrentiate what I knew then and what learned
later
..t9,,. o, ba,e testified that or1 had pretty good
recollection and very little Imagination"
Il did
And that your recollection was better than
Fogers'
Yes 7 think It upon that particular point"
The point is did the fact that her compartment
filled with water have anything 10 do with your
sending her awsY?'
'I do not think Il did IT was her coal supply that
/ governed"
You testified that southerland signalIed 10 you
! that he was dangerously short Of coal
'She reported 10 me. do not recollect whether by
signal or megaphone. She came u7 under our quar-
ter"
/ Did she not signal to YOU before leaving Glen
fuegos that she had ve days coal aboard. and that
IN six hours she could take on enough 10 last nine
( days?"
/ Without waiting for reply Captain Lemly read
signal TO this effect from the Eagle TO the Brook
/ Iyn; but in the Brookyn's log the answer was
recorded IN reply 10 the Brooklyus question as 10
! how much coal the Eagle had for stcaming AZ ten
knots: Mine days al ten knots" Captain Lemly
then read the coal report OF the feet for May "a.
showing that the Eagle that day reported 70 the
Brooklyn that she had twenty-eight tons.
Can you state whether the squadron made better
speed after the Eagle was sent away?"
| You asked me that question yesterday and said
| could not recall The wind had gone down. and
think had changed IN direction. and the possibility
| is we may have made a little more speed-perhaps
| not materially more"
In what way did Lieutenant Southerland make
known HIS regret that he had leave the squadron
for coal?'
BY megaphone"
You say he did not protest against leaving the
squadron
NO, no, he did not protest would have been
so extraordinary that would have remembered
that, sure. J do not remember, he testified
that he begged TO coal alongside. That would not
have been possible ! particularly directed by
the motion Of his vessel. A. that time she was
quite close under the counter.
| In reply 10 question the witness said that The
Merrimae had signalled her accident May 2s a
! 6l5 o'clock. and that that time he heading
! toward Santiago.
Referring to the beginning of the westward move
| ment that time. Captain Lenly called Admira
Schleys attention 10 the fact that he had said ir
| his testimony in chief that soon as the sea had
| calTned down he had begun to coal. considering
! himself better able 10 Judge than any other officer
| Captain Lemly then had the witness examine tn.
log Of the Brooklyn for the purpose Of bringing ou
the fact that during the day OF the 9th tn
| barometer rising, the breeze dying down anC
| the becoming calmer.
| Notwithstanding these improved conditions die
you not steam twenty-three miles TO the westward
| that day before attempting to coal?'
| After looking the log the Admiral said that ac
cording TO that memorandum he had steamed eigh
| teen miles. Thsy had been obliged 10 steam three
or four knots further than they would TO overtak,
| the Yale, which did respond the Brooklyn