The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-08-23
NO SIGN OF PILLSBURY.
DAY OF LITTLE MOMENT WITH
 DEFENDING SQUADRON.

Kearsarge, Massachusetts and Alabama Anchored i'm the Same Position Occu- pied for Twenty-fOur HOurs-Steam Up and Everything in Readiness to Get Under Way.
 On Board the Flagship Kearsarge, off Rockport, Mass, July 22.-To-day has been one of little moment on the flag ! ship Kearsarge. Together with the Massachusetts and Alabama, this bat tleship Avas anchored in the same posi- tion it has occupied during the past | twenty-four hours.
 l The flagship holds a position about one mile off Straitsmouth light, and the other two ships are close by. Matters aboard are certainly on a war footing, as has been the case since the anchors were first dropped here. Steam was kept up in the boilers during the entire day, and everything was in readiness to get under weigh at a moments mo- tice.
 The morning was given over to drill and to rifle practice on the port for ward deck. The thick fog was source of some worriment on board, and if the enemy is sure of his position and the fog does not lift tonight it would ap- pear as an excellent opportunity for rush to port.
 About o'clock ths afternoon the tor
 pedo boats Riddle and Bagley came in I nI onabnTad ahead of the flagship. Conjectures as to the whereabouts of the White squad
 ron are as many aboard ship as on land.
 Rockport Mass. Aug. 22.-Command-
 CT Pillsbury and his fleet of three aux
 Hilary cruisers are still at sea. Unless
 he makes an attempt to reach harbor
 within the next sixty hours from mid night his efforts to win victory in the
 game of mimic war win fail, for theo-
 retically it will be considered that his ships have sunk, @or he has found that the blockade established by Admiral Higginson from Portland to Cape Cod cannot be broken. It is only fair to say that naval experts believe that Admiral
 Higginson's defense is good. Every 1 LklIklE lO~udyI GCl 4ofoiSa NAA } tack by the enemy, but no scouts of the , Blue squadron reported signs of Com-
 mander Pillsbury's fest, Fog and storm swept the coast during the afternoon, ; and while for time tonight the sky was clear, the haze on the water con- } tinued.
 3 Tonight Admiral Higginson's three 3 battleships were still at anchor off
 Thatcher's Island and beside them were
 two torpedo boats, but a nasty sea was
 running and the lightning occasionally Elighted up the bay. At midnight the a flagship s launches found difficult work
 in making landings and incoming craft
 reported a wild sea outside. On the l battleships the men~ara wide awake, as
 every one expects to get word of the
 enemy before daylight.
 Washington, Aug. 22.-The artillery
 companies stationed at the defenses of Long Island are to be given an oppor- t tunity to brush up on their marksman- l ship just before the naval attack of the North Atlantic squadron under Rear
 Admiral Higginson begins. During the
 interval between August 25-the closing
 day of the naval problem which is now S in progress-and Sept ember 1, when the n joint maneuvres are scheduled to begin,
 extensive target practice will be indulg-
 ed in at the defenses named and also
 at the other forts along the New Eng = land coast. The principal feature of the practice at the Long Island forts
 will be firing at moving targets, pEofi- l. ciency in which is particularly needed IT in vote of the impending attack of the u war vessels. The targets are rigged in U various ways, some of them being fash II toned to represent a warship. They
 are to be drawn past the forts by small
 tugs.
 l. In the afternoon the weather condl' "A tions again were changeable. :" At 8 o'clock the fog deserted Rock
 port and passed far out beyond the bat :, tleships, hanging away in the east more Il in the form of smoke.
 Prof Straithmouth Point the trio o1
 war vessels could be discerned very
 plainly. Then suddenly it seemed a:
 if the bank of fog were engaged in 1t race to the coast line again. The bat
 tIeships could now no longer signal eacl . other and the stations on Pigeon Hill u and Straitsmouth were rendered for thu B time being out of action.
 '- During the time that the fog prevail e ed the steel fighters remained motion e. less. Then confronting Admiral Hig al ginson and his co-workers was the dan ,r ger in navigating their vessels. n In this, however, the admiral concern k ed himself with the more consequentia le possibility of Commander Pillsbur.
 taking a position in some one of tn d coast harbors unobserved.
 An hour later the fog again lifted an' Id piled up on the horizon, finally bein'
 broken up by strong east wind. Thel t. black clouds covered the sky and thun T. der crashed. The anxious watchers ol
 shore believed that the long waited fo t. battle had actually started. Then de
 veloped on land several rumors almos C. distracting in their nature to those wh r. placed in them anw form of credence t. One of these was that there had bee
 an accident on the eKarsarge and thi
 was promptly denied from officia he sources.
 he The storm continued until dark whe ae &o eroi iy, tha weather changed and tn