The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 25, 1898, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, APRIL 25, 1898. REMAIN AT CAPE VERDE Spain’s Vessels Have Not Yet Received Orders to Sail for America. Oregon and Marietta May Be in| Danger, but Na the Battleship Will Not Be Easil yrighted, 1598, by James Gordon Bennett. ST. VINCENT, Cape de Verde Islands, April 24— was iIn- d to-day by a naval of’cer, ch that in- ng from him may utely reliable, on for the de- squadron - - Cop - - 5 -> W > - - > -+ B - + - LR R ms the denial terday of the e crew and vessels had nt also told other of- expecting for a kept bar s all preparec bein; ir utmost this h morning is The and that m up si of activity on aken as indicating likely to sail to-day. It 2T € € that the Span- I Y ndertake to give battle-ship whien thi. vic United State t roa to gi d tta have not evideo. Sub- hich have niards here are Among the nchmen and Red Cross arie t an epared to send an The Herald cor- Janeiro informs icans there have ex- go as sailors on when she starts The battalion rds now includes pril 24.—The Wash- t the Herald forn at S fleet » destruction p_Oregon and tta. unt of ‘n the ies had n greatly A t there is danger of a . ‘of this fact, the old by a member of f Spain before his will cable to his Governmment the arriv. arture of American ships, in will be abl ments of her fleet with a view to the prompt interception of vessels flylng the stars and strips. The report that the Navy Depart- was advised by cable yvesterday th s0 T at Punta Arenas is without foun- In the first place, there is no n with Punta Are- . the authorities son to believe that the Oregon ed through the Straits of Ma- d is now on her way up the to Rio. The fact that the in- given to the Oregon and quired them to meet at ita Arenas may have given rise to » report of the arrival of vessels T ill be able to.take care of her- that the Marietta will assist ery noble duty. 10uld be found that Minister imable to obtain sufficient » for the American ships col- e sent down to the West In- IAVANA CABLE I1AS BEEY CUT Continued from First Page. 1b between that point and Ja- maica, thus entirely severing 'telegraphic between Cuba and the out- side world, except such mat- tersas are sent through the med the Spanish com- | | Colonel MacArthur, chief of and de- | to gauge the move- | of the arrival of the Oregon and Mari- | communication | ISLANDS val Officers Say y Taken. | This censorship has already | been rigidly established at Key West. The Government has seized the cable office at that point and discharged all the operators except one, who has been put under oa'h not to reveal any matter sent from the fleet to Washington. | Besides this he is closely watched to prevent his com- municating information to correspondents. A detail of marines is constantly on guard at the cable office. It is said the censorship will be extended to Punta Gorda. Orders have been issued by the Navy Department to]| prevent newspaper boats | from following the fleet, thus | doubling the difficulty of ob- taining accurate information, | as weil as greatly delaying it. | The officers and crew of | the captured ship Buena Ven- tura have been given their| liberty after a consuitation of | the navy and army officers at Key West. ' The captain and purser, as well as the| crew, were compelled yester- day to shovel coal into the Helena notwithstanding their strenuous objections. They were not held as prisoners of war, because they were cap- tured on the high seas before war had been formally de- clared. General Wade’s staff, to-day THE BLOCKADE OF CUBA. Birdseye View of the Western Half of Cuba and the Adjacent Waters, Showing the Disposition of the American Fleet, With Current Incidents of the Situation. flags. on that side of the west half of the i The blockade, as establ On the left watching the coasts about Matanzas and Cardenas are the monitors Puritan and Amphitrite with the cruiser Cincinnatl and the As may be noticed, the coast land on the south side from Cape San Antonio west to Cienfuegos is low and swampy, y light draught vessel hed, shutting, as it does, all the ports connected with Hav: sland admitting an but ve VENTED RAGE ON OUR FLAG Spaniards at Guantanamo Pelt Old Glory With Mud. Show of Anger When Ameri- can Refugees Sail Away. Consul Triay and Party Reach King- ston Safely on the Steamer Ely. Copyrighted, 1898, by James Gordon Bennett. KINGSTON, Jamaica, April 24.—On the steamship Ely which arrived hers from Cuba was Alfredo Triay, United States Consul at Paracao, for whosa safety fears have been expressed. With Mr. Triay were his wife and two chil« dren and several other foreigners, mostly Cubans. By request of tha United States Consul here, Mr. Dent, the local government released the Ely from quarantine. She came up the harbor at 4 o’clock this afternoon. Among her thirty-one passengers wers Mr. Branet, a naturalized American, of Branet & €o. of Guantanamo, and his | family. Of the Cubans aboard the prin- cipal ones were Senora and Senorita Brooks, relatives of the head of the firm of Brooks & Co. of Chilbos. ‘When the Ely reached Guantanamo |on Firday morning Brooks & Co. chartered her, cebling to bowring & Archibald of New York and paying | $1000. The Ely left the same evening at 8 o’clock. Spanish officials made no opposition to the departure of the refugees, but the populace was angry. There were demonstrations and crowds paraded the streets shouting “Viva Espana,” drawing American flags through the mud and pelting them with, dirt and stones. The passengers lef¢ | without passports. The adjacent town and ports of San. tiago de Cuba have been evacuated and all troops have been concentrated | in Santiag net says that < some e ed with the mines may stiil be left in Santiago, but they in all probability sailed on the Juragua Company's steamer, which, it Castine. Across the island to the south of the important port of Cienfuegos are the Nashville, Machias and Detroit. | is expected, may touch at Porto An- About Havana and to the west along the Mariel Cabanas and Bahia Honda coasts the main body of the fleet, including the New York, Towa and | tonio. Two English steamers from Indiana, under Admiral Sampson's immediate direction are maintaining a close watch. In the immediate foreground the speedy flagship New York is Mo o W Sxpected o Jonn shown overhauling a Spamish merchant steamer, while the swift little Ericsson is on the wing as it were to the cable office at Key West with dis- A e i patches. Away in the distance, near the Isle of Pines, is the Mangrove on her way to cut the cables running from Santiago de Cuba to Jamaica and vty Do DA bhoa by th other points. On he land to the lefi is General Gomez with his army covering the country to the east of Santa Clara and Cienfuegos, and effectually Spanish i \tiago in preparing de- blocking the way of communications with the eastern half of the island. fenses. The Spanish are drafting The principal towns and cities held by the Spar.iards. of which almost every one is a “reconcentrado” station, are indicated by small Spanish troops there to go to Havana. Two boats were to leave with regiments on April 21. * The refugees will remain here for the present. The British war vessel Pallas arrived at Porto Antonio this and that port is the only one and is therefore the only one requiring any special attention. ua by rail, is as effectual as if the whole island were in like man- ner encompa sed with war s evening, and Porto Antonlo reports that no vessel has arrived there to-day B from Cuba. WILL RETUR WITH PRIZES Mission of the Cruisers Minneapolis and Columbia. Sent to Sea to Prey Upon Spanish Commerce and Act as Scouts. Will Not Return to Port Without Some Captured Craft to Pay for the Voyage. inspected the Plant line| steamers at Port Tampa. At | | present the Olivette, Florida ' and Margaret are lying there. As soon as the'Mascotte ar-| rived this afternoon she was | boarded by officers and thor- | oughly examined. Colonel| MéacArthur expressed himself | satisfied with all the vessels | for transportation purposes. | A large number of refugees | came over from Key West on |the Mascotte, swelling the |large colony already domi- | ciled here. Matters were quite quiet fout at the big soldier camp to-day. General Wade vis- ited and inspected it, and issued the first general orders. | A quantity of commissary and quartermaster supplies arrived. Work may begin on an extra warehouse at Port Tampa at once. Thousands of citizens took advantage of Sunday to visit the camp. In the forenoon religious serv- ices were held. More citi- zens than soldiers attended. Many officers went to Port Tampa in the afternoon. In the evening there were sa- cred concerts by regimental bands. General Graham, commanding the Department of the Gulf,arrived from Key West on the Mascotte. He | | linited States censorship. feft for the North to-night. |HOW ENGLAND WILL Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, April 24.—The Wash- ington correspondent of the Herald says: Spain’s commerce will suffer from the ravages which the cruisers Minneapolis and Columbia are expect- ed to make. I learned to-night on ex- cellent authority that the primary cause of the departure of these two commerce destroyers from Hampton Roads last night was the ascertaining of the whereabouts of Spanish men-of- war which were reported yesterday as having left St. Vincent, th destina- tion unknown. Minneapolis and the Columbia are in- strueted to capture any Spanish mer- chantman which they might chance to meet on their cruise. The immediate necessity of informa- tion of the location of the Spanish fleet has been obviated by reason of the fact that the Navy Department learned this afternoon from an official source at St. | Vincent that the report of the depar ure of any of the Spanish vessels w: erroneous. As to the length of time the cruisers will remain at sea the officials are silent, but it is generally under- stood that they will not return to port without having some prizes to show as a result of the voyage they are now making. The work which the Cblumbia and Minneapolis have been called upon to perform is work for which they were especlally constructed—that of scout- | ing and preying upon an enemy’s com- | These vessels are the swiftest | merce. of their class in the world, their triple- screw design being the suggestion of Engineer-in-Chief Melville. OBSERVE NEUTRALITY. LONDON, April 24—t {8 announced the Prince of Wales held a council yes- terday at Marlborough House on be- half of the Queen, for the purpose of approving the draft of the neutrality proclamation. It is supposed that the proclamation will be strictly in the line of precedents, calling attention to the | British foreign enlistment aet, etc., and warning British subjects against block- ade breaking or aiding the belligerents in any way. The foreign office will send to the treasury and the home, colonial and Indian offices the usual nctice prohib- iting Spanish and American ships the use of British harbors for warlike pur- poses. The coaling question will be met by a provision that belligerents would be supplied at British ports with no more coal than is sufficient to carry them to the nearest port of their own country or some nearer destination, and no more coal would be supplied to the same vessel within three months, ex- cept by special permission. Armed ships will be prohibited from carrying prizes into British ports, including those of the colonies. The commanders of the | STILES [T AN | ACT OF PIRACY Madrid Still Raging Over the Taking of the Buena Ventura. Press Warns the People Place No Credence in Rumors. to | Pnilippine Rebels Said to Bs Acting in Conjunction With Our ‘Warships. Epecial Dispatch to The Call MADRID, April 24—There were| slight demonstrations early this mnrn-i ing and again this evening, but they | were dispersed by Governor Aguilera. | |The one subject of conversation throughout the day has been the cap- ture of the Buena Ventura prior to a formal declaration of hostilities or the lapse of the time limit in the American ultimatum. The papers describe it as an act of piracy. Many rumors are afloat as to cap- | tures on both sides. The papers warn the populace not to be elated or de- pressed by such statements, insisting that many of them originate on foreign bourses for gambling purposes. The attitpde of the citizens of Madrid to-day is irreproachable. Several Amer- | ican correspondents left by the Sunday | express. Probably the fact that the Cabinet Council was held in the morn- ing instead of this afternoon, as had been arranged, means that news has been received necessitating prompt ac- | tion, but nothing has been divulged to | the public. | Advices have been received from | | Manila, Philippine Islands, to the ef- | fect that when news was received there | of the sailing of the American squad- ron from Hongkong an imposing popu- | lar demonstration took place, all classes | offering their property and lives in de- | fense of the country. The enthusiasm | s “tremendous.” % gfififffi’flfbemg circulated that the Philippine filibusters are co-operating | with the American squadron, but there is no official confirmation of them. | GOMEZ T0 DO MOST OF THE LAND FIGHTING. WASHINGTON, April 24.—Secretary Sherman said to-day that it was his | expectation that for the present and | the immediate future the insurgent army would do the greater part of the | fighting in Cuba. He added the state- | ment that there was.no intention of taking the militiamen and new re- cruits into Cuba until thoroughly in- ured to the ‘hardships of actual mili- tdry life, and that probably the regu- lars would be held in this country un- til later in the season. The Secretary expressed the opinion that Admiral Sampson’s fleet would take the first opportunity to form a junction with Gomez' army, and that | thenceforth there would be perfect co- | operation between those two organiza- tions in conducting the war against the common enemy. “The insurgents are the best men for this service at present,” said the Sec- retary, “and they can be trusted to do serious work when well armed and well clothed.” | | | | | | | New Fortifications to Bs Erected at | | man the Yosemite and Dixie, arrived respondent of the Standard says: “The Queen asked the blessing of the Pope on Spanish arms. His Holiness re- plied that he sent it from his heart d hoped to see a vindication of Spain’s rights, which had been tram- pled upon.” Cadets Soon to Graduate. WEST POINT, N. Y., April 24—The class of '98 at the military academy will not be graduated next Tuesday, as has been reported./ From official sources it is learned, however, that an early graduation is regarded as certain. NAVAL SECRETS 0 BE GLARDED Commodore Schley Has Issued a Practical Censorship. ADVERTISEMENT®. . Make Your Boy Prou of himself, his country, his flag, his clothes. Now is the time to fill him FORT MONROE, April 24 (on board | [ with the spirit of patriotism and loy- e alty. Make him happy with a new suit of clothes, and he will make you mation that might be of value to the | enemy Commodore Schley of the flying 5 squadron has issued a practical censor- | happy in return. hip over those in his command relative | to the divalging of the reason for any movements made or to be made by the | squadron or individual ships of the squadron. To more fully carry out that | § plan of protection to Government in- terests only commanding officers are made aware of such movements and responsibility is thus minimized. Sunday here passed very quietly. The Maryland reserves, who are to Only Commanders of Vessels |J to Know of Projected Movements. a Point Opposite Fort Monroe. Special Dispatch to The Call. by boat early this morning. The two converted boats will be ready in a day or two, being at Newport News yards | @ undergoing improvements. | When the Maryland reserves passed | the Brooklyn they cheered heartily. | The Sioux, a converted tug under command of Lieutenant Gherardi, and which mounts several rapid fire guns, left the ship and the men on board the Brooklyn gave her a hearty cheer as she passed out. The hospital boat Sol- ace left Newport News. for Norfolk, where she will take on medical stores. To-night the precaution was begun of putting out a patrol fleet of steam cutters fully equipped te fight and to | B Put such clothes as these on him and see him swell with pride. | Sailor suits in light blue with large square collar trimmed with red 3 and white silk, soutache braid; French cuffs; neat design on e it P Sy shield. Also, in plain square collar and shield trimmed with black m’}‘ie“zrox;il?ifl s?,lf,&?fefiynfllifigrh. |# silk soutache braid. Boys’ Middy Suits with red inlaid cloth on fications at Fort Monroe continued all | B vest and collar; trimmed with white siik soutache braid. All these e B e il suits have knee pants, with buckle and bow at knee, making very also the work of laying mines in the | harbor. Where the old eight and ten |8 stylish, dressy garments for boys 3 to 8 years. For this week the inch converted rifles used to stand will | price is i be mounted a battery of modern rapid | § fire guns, which are expected to com- . We've just opened our boys’ department —everything is new, fresh and bright, mand Hampton Roads and Chesapeake Bay, and make it impossible for a tor- just from the factory, and the best money can buy. pedo boat of the enemy to enter. These S. N. WOOD & CO., guns, it is thought, will be in fighting | 718 Market St. condition at the end of this week. | The work is not confined to the fort itself by any means, for active prepa- | rations for a possible conflict are being made at the “‘Pines Battery,” and on | the beach of Chesapeake Bay, midway between this battery and the fort. Here four new disappearing guns will be mounted behind breastworks of the most modern and substantial kind. In addition to this the immense bat- tery of smocth bore guns is ready for use, and at a range of one mile will prove terribly destructive. ‘At Willoughby Spit, opposite Fort | Monroe, and which point controls the .entrance to Norfolk, Newport News | [ and the James and Pctomac,rivers, a | board of naval officers has made an in- | § spection with a view of constructing a | fort to co-operate with Fort Monroe. Tt is expected that active operations on the fort will begin this week and be rushed to completion without delay. Sayu_i.ao Favors Spain. LONDON, April 25.—The Rome cor- |