The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-26
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 signal had been made from the flagship
 to disregard her movements and that
 she had gone eastward. I did not. of
 course, know why she had zone. l sat
 under an awning that we had put in
 position each day as the sun arose so
 that the officers might collect there. l
 think we also had one forward for the
 men. I came on deck with my glasses,
 after having gone below for a little
 while and whilst I was sitting abaft on
 hatchWay heard a call from the for
 ward bridge Tell the commodore that
 the fleet is coming out That was
 sometime after the men had been called
 to quarters, about 935 o'clock. The
 ship at that moment was lying W th
 her lead in toward the land in the di-
 rection of Cabanas, which was a little
 cove to the westward and cue of the
 marking points we used in maintaining
 our positions. looked over the star
 board side and saw the enemy coming
 out of the entrance of the harbor. I
 then looked eastward to see the order
 of the ships and I saw the Texas ap-
 parently a point or mo'e ahaft the
 starboard beam. My own recollection
 now, as near as can state it. is that
 the ships head was near nor'-nor'-
 west. The Texas appeared to ma to
 be heading on some one of the easter'y
 courses To the left of her was the
 Iowa She was~of course to tue easr-
 ward of the Texas. The Oregon was to the eastward of the Iowa. The in
 diana was eastward of that position and the Gloucester was lying iii under the land, thought in the neighbor- hood of Aguadores. The New York was out of sight and out of signal dis tance with glasses I looked at that i'll order to determine what my. position in the action was to be. If the vessel had not been out of sight I should not have made signal The moment l saw that I went forward onto little platform I had constructed on the bat tie tower as my position in the battle in order to be very close to Captain Cook. I had only been there moment or two wl.en Captain Cook joined mo. In the meantime MT. Hodgson. who was on the upper bridge, sang out something to the captain about being connected up and all ready and he at the same time said to me 'Cn,nrlc1oie. they are coming right at us We'll I said 'go right for them The helm was put aport The ship was started i ahead, first at perhaps half speed, do i! not recollect. She took her way very ! quickly and when we headed around | said to Captain Cook Go ahead, full speed and hoist signal to clear ship | {. Jn signal because there was around the | quart terdeck and forecastle of most or these ships little temporary railing | composed usually e oars and rope to keer people from falling overheard, l Generally an awning of some sort was i up. That signal was followed by Close up for close action The Brooklyn as well as the other ships of the squadron charged immediately into the entrance, in accordance with the organization plan of seeking the enemy's ships in the entrance or driving them ashore We continued directly for the head or the enemy's column the idea upper most in my mind being that if we could arrest them long enough for the battie- ships to close In and knock them to pieces that would be our best point of attack They continued on this course, and starboarding to meet the oe the leading ship, which I assumed to be the flagship from 2 flag at her masthead I suppose from the time we started we were ten to twelve minutes, turning first with port helm and then advancing direct to the enemy I saw the ships to the east ward and westward closing in. I said to Captain Cook. Close action or close up has been hoisted and it means to keep inside of thousand yards, out of their effective torpedo range. Cap tain Cook was standing alongside me and said Yes, we will soon be within he cross fire of these ships said Yes and I then saw we had advanced without firing. The first gun I think vas fired by Lieutenant Simpson al- most directly over the forecastle of the ship. I saw the leading ship, which