The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 29, 1898, Page 2

2 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1898. STRENGTHENING THE NORTHERN PATROL SQUADRON Will Be Prepared to Meet Any Spanish Fleet That May Come Across the Ocean. W YOR pril 28.—A Washington special to the Herald says: wder Howell’s command, officially known as the northern patrol -on, has been further increased by the addition of. the ram Katah- din, which is now at Provincetown, Mass. As at present constituted, the sts of the cruiser San Francisco (flagship), the the ram Katahdin and the auxiliary cruisers Yan- atrol squadron consi: Vew Orlean kee, Dixie, Pra and Yosemite. On account of the pocr condition of the defenses of the harbors of chusetts, there is reason to believe that the Katahdin will re- in these waters, for the present at least. e flving squadron has received an addition in the shape of the converted yacht Scorpion, formerly the Sovereign, which will serve with Commadore Schley command. In order that the magazines of such ships as may participate in the bombardment of any Cuban port all be fully charged, Captain Charles O’'Neil, chief of the Bureau of Ordnance, has given instructions for the collection of ammunition at New York and Norfolk, from which pcints be shipped to Key West for distribution to the vessels of the Atlantic squadron. unt of the necessity of fitting out the many auxiliary men-of- rchased, it has been found impossible to collect the smaller cruisers’ guns, but there i{s an am- m hand for guns of 8 to 13 inches caliber. rs of the Board of Constructions have.finally determined up-= 3 battle-ship to construct in accordance with authority anted under the pending naval appropriation measure. A circular 1l be prepared which will require that bids be submitted within three of the date of its publication. The vessels will be similar to those Illincis class and their completion will be required within three The! peed will be sixteen knots each and their batteries will in- -inch and fourteen 6-inch rapid-firing guns. tion fo; wi @ ® ® & atch describing the fight from the bridge of the New York. It is a far cry from Matanzas to Key West against a strong north- i C00000000O0C0O000CD TORPEDO FLEET TO SAIL TO-DAY. west gale, and the Somers N.|@® Copyright, 15, by James Gordon Ben- = | nett. Smith sailed most of those eighty- ST. VINCENT, Cape Verde OO0000000O0O000O0ID000000 Islands, April 28.—Spain’s fleet is still coaling here, but it is now probable that at least several of the ships will sail to-morrow. The vessels which compose the fleet are the torpedo-boat de- stroyers Proserpina, Osada and the' torpedo-boats Roamosa, Hudam and Orion. The paymasters of the boats have been settling up accounts to-day. |G20000000000000000 story of two cadets. Their names are Boone and Pettingill. They were graduated from the Annapo- |lis Naval Academy ahead of time, five ful miles under water. | While she fairly tunneled her way | the Herald-Call’s reporters penned the story as best they could, an 1 (New York time) thi morning found them filing abou 4000 words at the cable office. drea o’clock S t| The wires were clear and that is why the readers of the Herald-Call had the news of this most impor- tant event since the blaw- ing up of the Maine before them at their breakiast table. [ the flagship. Cadet Pettingill took Some of the newspapers |alarm at the prospect of the New here who did not cover|York being ordered out of these things thoroughly and waters and fearing he would then knew nothing about the | miss thefighting asked to be trans- engagement learned of the ferred to the event through the indiscre- tion of a telegraph messen- ger. These papers hastily faked dispatches, which were printed in New York as having been written by correspondents on the spot. At 3 o’clock this afternoon not a newspaper in the United States except | the Herald and The Call| had a single line about| Tne jesson the artillery experts Matanzas brought in from | graw from the engagement is that the fleet by its correspon= dents. Puritan. | Boone remained on. board the New | York and it was he who fired the | first shot in yesterday’s bombard- ment. Cadet Pettingill was in the fight too, on board the Puritan, and had the pleasure of sending | the shell into the Spanish batteries. | They were both very happy ‘“‘wa- ter babies,’” as their friend Captain Goodrell of the marines calls them, but Cadet Boone 1s the happier. | the Spaniards have no batteries that cannot be destroyed by an attacking force. To be success- | fully defended the Spanish must :‘have recourse to their favorite weapon—the submarine mine. No shots were fired from shore yesterday from larger guns than 8- inch. /A very few shells were fired. Most of the missiles were solid shot and came from the guns of 4or 5 caliber. At the time the New York began to fire the Span- | lards were mounting some 10-inch cannon, made at the Hontoria Gun Factory. If these can be got in position the Spaniards will have some really serviceable weapons against our cruisers. The Spanish cable announcing the total of the casualties of the enemy as one mule was read to- day with a smile of incredulity. Those who witnessed this engage- ment are satisfied the Spanish suf- fered great loss. The famouslong shot from the Puritan was seen to dismount the gun that fired the last Spanish shell, and everything The behavior of our men-of-war in action was splendid. The news got from the flagship that the men were just as cool as though they were at target practice. This is also true of the Puritan and the Cincinnati. It is also true, however, that the men on the Puritan and Cincinnati wept during the ten minutes when the New York was engaged alone, while they had to wait for orders. Then, while the Puritan engaged and there still came no orders for the Cincinnati to fire the grief of Captain Chester’s crew was al- most unbearable. Finally, when the Cincinnati got orders toengage, she steamed at first broadside on and then took a position where the Rubal Cava batteries could not strike her, She fairly enfiladed the batteries and her men exclaimed with every shot: 5 around flew into fragments from .Ta!(,e that for the lthe bursting of the monitor’s mis- Maine. sile. There was no rejoicing, no : S THE HERALD-CALL BEATS THE WORLD. The Only Legitimate Story of the Bombardment of Matanzas Gathered by Correspond- - ents on the Ground. NEW YORK April 28.—The Herald will print the following editorial to- morrow: “The Herald yesterday was able to give not only the reading world, but also the Government at Washington, the momentous news of the day in the only account that was or could be pub- lished of the bombardment of Matanzas. “This brilliant achievement is due to cheering. Everything was carried out with an earnestness of pur- pose which showed a sensation of ‘which joy was nota part. The men feit the pleasure of conflict pulsating in their veins, but not the pleasure of Kkilling for Kkilling’s sake. Too much cannot be said of the gunnery of the men on the ships, nor can too much be said in praise of the discipline which prevailed. dust here I would like to tell the PPOPPPPPPPPIPPPIVPOPOPVOOPPIPPOPPODIOO SO0OCCC00000OCO000000 e PERHAPS THIS DISASTER IS DUE TO SPANISH SPIES Powder Works at Dover, N. J., Blown Up, Six Men Killed and Buildings Wrecked. - EASTON, Pa. April 28.—The town of Dover, in Morris Mounty, N. J., and the country within a radius of twenty miles was startled this afternoon by a series of terrific explosions, the first of which occurred at 2:10 o’clock. The explosions occurréd in the Atlantic Powder Com- pany’s w-- and the plant is now a mass or ruins. Six workmen were killed and four others were sericusly injured, some probably fatally. The remains of the dead have not yet been recovered. The dead are: ALFRED RARICK, CASPER RA , DAVID SCHEER, WILLIAM HAYCOCK, ELIAY A_ERS. All the killed were married and leave families. The works were situated in an isolated spot seven miles from Dover, in a rough country. There were ten buildings in the group and all have been destroyed. The first explosion occurred in one of the pack- ing houses. The concussion set off the explosives in another packing house near by. Debris and burning timbers of the wrecked buildings were carried high into the air and fell in a shower ovc- the remain- ing buildings, setting fire to the main factory and the other five pack- ing houses and the two shell houses. In a brief time the explosives in these buildings were set off and left death and destruction in their wake. The works have been running night and day, turning out rush orders for the Government and a large amount of ammunition ready for shipment was stored in the paeking houses. This, with all other WILLIAM STUMPF, | | about April .1, and hurried off to| Cadet | explosives, was.completely destroyed. The scene presented at the place was terrible. People who felt the shocks and saw the flames of the burning structures flocked to the place for miles around, but could ren- der no aid to the injured. The ple were terrified and held back in constant fear of other explosions. A few men.who were in the build- ing managed to escape and they ran about the country bewildered. They could give —o intelligent account of the cause of the explosion. When the familiés and relatives of the emnloyes of the factory ap- proached the burning building the scene was héartrending. It was nearly § o'clock before the ruins had cooled off sufficiently to be approached and before the onlookers could be induced to go near the spot. The bodies of the dead were terribly mangled. Many of the injured R R R R e R R e R R R S NP D R R R e S L e R T T P T R ORGP were cut and maimed so badly that some of them cannot recover. + The loss cannot be learned at this time. 5 + D R & b R R SR SR S SR S S P S UG the alertness and efficiency of the Her- | Q0000000 0000000000] ald’s staff of correspondents at that im- | (<) portant news center, comprising Messrs. | & SPANISH SPY [+) Harry S. Brown, Richard Harding | TO B © Davis, Hamilton Peltz, W. S. Merri- ig E SHOT. g, | wether, T. F. Millard, £. W. McCready | o 5 l 2 SB s % I NEW ORLEANS, April 28— | |and L. L. Redding, and to the fact that | Ganbal Gr i ll:ame 2l | the Herald dispatch boat was the only | g vessel in sight of Matanzas at the time | Q except the three ships of Rear-Admiral | © Sampson’s squadron that made the at-|© military commission to try John Waltz, the Spanish spy, cap- tured at Port Eads by a Govern- ment engineer officer. Several undeveloped films and maps de- scriptive of the river and the Government works at Port Eads were found on him. Major Quinn says the proef is conclusive and the-spy will be shot. This will be the first official execution of the war. tack. “The Herald's news, therefore, came from its own trained eye-witnesses, who had a splendid view of the whole scene from start to finish and were enabled to | give a graphic pen picture of all that oc- ‘ curred, with every essential detail. The | © news was brought with all speed by the | © . | Herald boat to the nearest wire at Key |90 0000000000000000 West, whence it was quickly flashed to | the press was shown by the eagerness | this office. It was the only account that | with which they all rushed to appro- was or could be received at Key West | priate it for ‘extras’ and ‘postscripts’ in | from the scene of the acaon, for the rea- | their “5 o’clock a. m.,” ‘5:30 a. m.,’ etc. son that the Herald's was the only boat to make the trip. “The only news our many contem- | poraries were able to give on going to press was a bare bulletin of the bom- bardment gathered from hearsay at Key West after the arrival of the Herald's dispatch boat. How quick they were to appreciate the value of the Herald's beat as soon as the paper issued from < ] [ [*] ] [ <o 00CO000000000 | editions. | "Of course the Herald was not men- tioned, though an honorable exception as made by the Evening Post in re- | printing the ‘eye-witness account’ in full | with dite credit to the Herald. “It goes without saying that the Her- ald’s graphic report of the first engage- ment of the war has been sent by wire | and cable to every part of the world. | l il ‘I‘ :‘ | that they cannot be dis It has not only been read with avidity by the general public on both sides of the Atlantic, but will be studied by na- val experts everywlere as throwing an important light on interesting problems of naval gunnery. S “This, however, is but one illustration, signal though it be, of the efficiency of the Herald’s war news service, covering the entire globe, and is what the public may expect from the Herald right along. Yesterday, for ‘example, we published also the latest and fullest reports from every stirring news center in the world, including timely special cable dispatches from Cape Verde, Hongkong, Cadiz, Gibraltar, Madrid and Paris, which shows that if you want the war news you must have the Herald.” = STORY OF OLD GLORY. 2 in the world, writes M. C. Rayne in our first standard of independent rule be- f=g=R=RcR=R:RcRFeR RegegegRFeF=] -k S a natién we are the most pictorial the Chicago Times-Herald, and we began early to read from symbols, ing the design of a rattlesnake cut in | thirteen pieces, representing the thirteen colonies, bearing first the motto “Unite or Die,” and later the significant warn- ing, “Don't Tread on Me,” the rattl snake being typified in an attitude pre- pared to strike. Rude as the device wa. it had a terrible significance, but one in which. science, history and power held formidable parts, ana °* ‘was a motive of wise statesmanship that gave it as a warning to foreign pressure, when that pressure developed into tyranny. Dr. Franklin, seeing the emblem one day, wrote of it in tnis admirable expla- nation: *“On inquiry and from study I learn that the ancients considered the serpent an emblem of wisdom, and in some attitud of endless duration. Also that count are often represented by anim peculiar to that country, The rattlesnake is found | nowhere but in-America. Her eye is ceedingly. bright and without eyelic emblem of vigilance. She never begins an attack and she never surrenders—emblem of magnanimity ahd courage. She never wounds even her enemies until she gen- erously gives tnem warning not to tread on her, which is emblematical of the spirit of the people who inhabit her coun- try. She appears apparently weak and defenséless, but her weapons are never- theless formidable. Her poison is the en- cessary means for the digestion of her food, but certain death to her enemies— showing the power of American r sources. - Her thirteen rattles, the on part which increases in number, are di: tinct from each other, and yet 50 united onnected without breaking them to -ieces, showing the im possibility of an American republic with- out a union of States. A single rattle will give no sound alone, but the ringing of the thirteen together is sufficient to startle the boldest man alive. She is beautiful in youth and her beauty in- creases with age. Her tongue is forked as the lightning, and her abode Is among the impenetrable rocks.” This magnificent apostrophe to a rat- tlesnake reads like an improvisation from the Book of Job or the Psalms of David, and, connected as it svery epoch of American liberty, it should be as im- mortal in its sentiments as the Declara- tion of Independence. It will soon be the one hundred and twenty-first anniversary of the American flag, or rather its adoption by Congress, George Washington being = chairman of the committee which gave the order for the thirteen stars and stripes. The patri- otic women of that day did mét immor- talize themselves by making the flag with their own hands, but the expert needle- woman who drew the threads and did the fine _stitching on George Washington's shirts' made our first national banner, and within late vears her house, which is still standing, has become a resort for the pa- triotie. ¥t has long been designated “the Betsey Ross flag,” so it goes down to posterity with a woman's name dttached as a factor in its being, = t was succeeded by the flag of fifteen stars, which will come to be known : the *Francis Key flag.” our national them, “The Star-spangled Banner,” h: under its folds, or rat her it was the flag which Key saw while in- diting his poem. I have had the pleasure of hearing from the lips of one who knew the history of ing been written the name given to our flag in recent years, “Old Glory,” the incidents of the occasion. The narrator, George W. Bates of Detroit, Mich., a gentleman of unusual information on adl topics, and an ardent atriot, says that it was applied to the ag of the United States for the first time by ‘Captain Stephen Driver, an_old sea captain who was living in Nashvlille, Tenn., in 1862. In order to keep the flag, which had been presented to him while abroad by American friends, he hid it in a quilt and slept unaer its folds without its enemies being any the wiser. On awakening In the morning he would ascribe hfs good sleep to the concealed flag. which he called by the pet name “Old Glory,” and when the Federals en- tered Nashville: he flung “Old Glory” to the breeze and told the story evervwhere. The name is now as national as the flag. —_——— 1500 J03 pred oy asouy, . S1718 21aM YIIYM JO 69’y ‘SIBSI EUSEE pesows pry oy 38U} DApI0dAT BY UDIUM U] ‘AIm[p © 1doy 9y awp jey) SUMNQ )T SBM 8y eouls SEEKING SOME OF OCR SHIPS Mysterious Spanish Torpedo Boats at Algeciras. Doings of Looking for the Yacht Fleur de Lys and Vessels Laden W@v.h Sulphur. However, England Is on the Watch and Ready to Use Force to In- force Neutrality Laws. Copyrighted, 1808, by James Gordon Bennett. ALGECIRAS, April 28.—During the early hours of the morning the torpedo- boat destroyer Destructor and the tor- pedo-boats Habana and Barcelona were sent away without a word of notice. We had left them moored within two hundred yards of our pier last night. When the earliest riser awoke they were gone. In the afternoon the two torpedo-boats returned, taking their moorings at Sandy Bay, about three miles away from here. In the evening they returned here. The Destructor was out all day re- connoitering. She has now her full complement of hands, two torpedo ex- perts and sailors having arrived from Cadiz yesterday. She has now been in- cessantly reconnoitering for two days. There is great curiosity as to her mo- tive. ‘Another Spanish cruiser passed | here at 3 o’clock this afternoon. It was probably the Alfonso XIII going west and surely bound for Cadiz. It is cun- firmed that the ship which passed last evening going that way was the Pelayo. Much excitement was caused here last night by a sudden call for the crew to join the British cruiser Charybdis. She promptly started out and orders | were given to get ready for action. The report was that an encounter was about to take place, the British being determined to manitain the neutrality of their waters. At the same time the special land guard was mounted and all preparations were made. Her guns | were trainedandthe Charybdisfired one | shqf to warn any trespassers happen- | ing to be about. The action of the two torpedo-boats and the torpedo-boat destroyer are the subjects of much comment here. " The latter keeps unceasingly reconnoitering on the other hand for the Fleur de Lys for a warship su, osed to have been purchased by the United States from | Ttaly, and also for ships carrying sulphur to the United States. Several of the latter have been instructed to al- ter their course so as to avoid all dan- ger. The Fleur de Lys, according to a no- tice received here, has put into Lisbon, having been warned of the danger awaiting her. It is stated that the De- structor stcpped several —merchant ships at the south of this point. It is said that an American merchantman is expected to run in here. If that is true, she will come in during the night. Once here or within three miles she is under British protection, which 'will be rig- idly maintained. . DOWNFALL OF THE PIRATE. (Written for Little Alfonso.) There was once a Black-hearted Pi-rate. He spoke on-ly in fierce Thun-der tones and he Kill-ed Lit-tle Chil-dren. He car- ried a Knife be-tween his Fe-ro-ci-ous Teeth, and he do-ted on Blow-ing up Ships 'in_the Night. Wo-men Trem-bled be-fore him, and when he saw that, he us-ed to Swell with Pride, and a-loud: “What a Great and Cru-el Pi I am. the Cru-eli-est that ev-er was. I am not a-frald of the babe at the mo- ther’s breast. T | But one day a it Cru-el Pi-rate by the neck and kick-ed him till he co-uld not see. Then the Cru-el j-rate drop-ped his glea-ming Knife and and screa-med: “I a e-uble. Will B! a_Poor Old ainst this Ruf-fian?" he peo-ple lau-ghed and said: Crip-ple a-; But all t “Kick him a-gain. And the Tall White Man was ve-ry strong and a.good kick-er, and when he had kick-ed the Cru-el Pi-rate a-bout three thou-sand miles there was a Great De-mand for Man-tel-nie-ces in Spain at Meal times.—New York Press. e To Cure a Cold in One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All drug- JoYows ® Uddq PBY (L JO 9 9U} I UOD | gists refund the money if it fails to cure. ho. -UOTT U} PAIP A[JUIIAL OYM UBWO[IUSS V| The genuine has L. B. Q. on each tablet, ADVERTISEMENTS. NEW ROUTE OPEN, ‘With many difficulties staring us i war, which always depresses trade an quate wages—all will have to se€ek a n comfort. We cannot all go to Klondi $12 a day. 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