The age-herald., 1901-09-24
SCHLEY'S ATTORNEYS ARGUE THAT SIMPSONS NAME MUST
 BE EBROUGHT INTO CONTROVERSY
Sharp Words Between MI, Rayna and ia ptdn Leney Judge
 Advocate Genera, Over Interruptions

much coal would the Massachusetts con-
 sume on a days run"
 My recollection is that we could make
 four and half miles per ton of coal. | That would be about 220 miles a day on | nifty tons, and this Is probably not for | from what was the case, .. 1 Lieutenant Commander L. O. Heilner,
 navigator of the Texas during the Span | ish war, testified that he had heard no | guns fired when the squadron approached | Cienfuegos. To his knowledge on effort
 was made to ascertain whether the Span ish fleet was in the harbor or to destroy 1 spanish works there. Nor had there | been any effort made to communicate with Cubans on short until Captain Mo
 Calla arrived on the Marblehead. Description of the Battle.
 The witness was then asked to describe the battle of July 3, and said: | The Texas had been heading about | east when the enemy was seen coming out of Santiago. Lieutenant Bristol who was officer of the deck at that time, rang 1 to go ahead at full speed and put the helm hard to starboard to make a turn. | When I got on deck he informed me of what had happened and I sent him be- low and assumed charge of the deck The | captain told me that he had eased the helm until he could find out which way
 
 | half speed. l suggested full speed. He | said the battery was not ready. I told | him it would be ready before the ship was in position to fire, and then he said: l All right and rang full speed When the second of the enemy's ships followed the first to the westward he put the helm hard to starboard.
 1 "I made several reports to him about the Brooklyn regarding her signals. He said Never mind I also referred to the way l thought the Brooklyn was standing l up to nght-very nicely The captain 1 said: 'Crackie, never mind the Brooklyn you look out for this ship. The Brook | lyn then was about on her port beam l So l said, All right, captain, I will look at the Brooklyn no more, and I turned l my back, looking on the starboard beam at the ships getting out. Position of the Brooklyn.
 After we sheered about and got to the westward, I suggested to hive her lit l tie port helm, to get closer in and he did. Soon after he gave her this helm he sang out through the sight hole to the men at the wheel, and the engine room indicator | to slow, and then stop, and I said: Cap tain. they will get away from us | He did not answer me, but imediately l stepped back, and then I said My Lord, Cmaptain, we are out of the fight He said: Look at the Brooklyn I turned around and right ahead of us this | big gray ship looed out of the smoke For second I thought my heart was in my mouth. We were steaming with a heavy helm and she steered by us. When I saw her she was practically ahead, of us, that is, the first saw She sheered off and went to sea about 200 yards and then | on westward. As soon as the Brooklyn | cleared us we rang to go ahead and start | ed up forced draft again. After that we simply followed on as l fast as we could on a line that was just l inside the line where the Oregon was en- gazing the ships. Just before this turn of the Brooklyn the Iowa and Oregon were both close to us on our starboard helm. | We contiued the chase until the Colon | hauled down her flag, when the captain gave the orders to stop forced draft" | Captain Lemley: How near was the l Brooklyn to the Texas at the time you | say you saw her loom out of the smoker" | q did not make any estimate at the | time, but came to the conclusion later 1 that she was between 100 and 150 yards | from us, which was a much longer dis tance than Captain Philip thought 1t was'
 Position of the Brooklyn. Captain Lemley Perhaps I should have asked you in the first place the position of the Brooklyn relative to the Texas just before going into battle. "She was almost astern of us; that is because we were headed almost east. She should have borne west by northwest. She was heading for the land and I thought she was standing pretty nearly on her north course. I did not see at first any indication of turning, and l thought she was going right in
 Did the Brooklyn give any steam whistle signal to indicate her change of course?'
 That do not know
 Did you hear any?"
 "I did not hear any"
 Do you think you would have heard 1t if there had been a steam signal?'
 NO. sir; we could never have heard it."
 "At what time during the battle of Santiago do you consider that the Texas was in the greatest danger?' asked Captain Lemly.
 MT. Raynor objected contending such opinions were shut out by a previous ruling of the court.
 MT. Hanna said there were many minor points on which the court must from time to time ask opinions of witnesses. The point was also argued on the one side by Captain Lemly and on the other by Judge Wilson.
 The court overruled the objection and the question was repeated. Looking back" responded the witness, "I know that the time of the greatest danger of
  ed up out of the smoke right ahead of us"
 | He said in response to questions that he | had never sailed with a man who had | quicker sight or who handled his ship | to better advantage than Captain Phillip. | He added that the captain had on this | occasion given successive orders and that | the Texas had backed until she was | dead in the water' He said that on &C., | count of this incident two or three min | utes had been lost and that fully three | miles were lost to the ship. A part of | this delay, however, he said had been | caused on account of the fault of the | ships blowers rendering the vessel slow l in getting up steam.
 | The witness was still on the stand | when at 1 oclock the court took a recess | for luncheon.
 Afternoon Session. When court convened, MT. Raynor con- | tinued the cross-examination of Com mander Heilner. He asked him especi- ally concerning the official charts of the brooklyn off Santiago, exhibiting the chart. The witness said he had been one of the board of navigators who had pre- pared the chart and that he considered the map inaccurate.
 MT. Hanna interposed to say that If the point intended to be made was that the chart was inaccurate the government would concede all at once that this was true.
 Tt Is great pity that you never con- ceded that before.'' said MT. Raynor
 MT Raynor then commented quite wig