The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 6, 1898, Page 1

Tall = to be taken from . ' the Library.**** 5 VOLUME LXXXIV.—NO. 6. SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1898. PRICE FIVE CENTS. WAR MAY BE CARRIED INTO SPANISH WATERS DONS NEED dLL SHIPS AT HOME Uncle Sarm May Extend Operations to Canaries and Spain. Talk of Forming a Flying Squad-| ron to Threaten the Cas- tilian Coasis. g NEW YORK, June 5.—The Herald’s g o Washington correspondent teiegraphs: o g Spain’s offensive naval power is effectu- g‘ o ally broken, as the resuit of the closing of © ,S the net around Admiral Cervera and his 8 .g men-of-war, and naval officers are sure g o another week will witness the capture or o g destruction of the fleet now awaiting the 2; o inevitable in the harbor of Santiago de g f-_j Cuba. Ip anticipation of the release of the © o armor clads blockading that port the Naval 3 g War Board is collecting valuable informa- © g tion as to the condition of the Spanish re- g & serve squadron, and is employing it in the $ g Ppreparation of an elaborate plan of cam- © o paign which may extend to the Canary 2 S lIslands and Spain herself. o Spain’s armored force, ly as- |as a result of the bottling up of the Cardinal Cis- | Cervera’s fleet, is reduced to two neros, Cataluna and Princess de | vessels, both inferior to the Am- | \sturia, armored cruisers each |erican battleships, one protected slightly heavier than any of the cruiser, some small, antiquated vessels cooped up in the harbor | cruisers, two torpedo gun vessels of Santiago de Cuba, cannot be and four torpedo boat destroyers. completed for some months. The advantage is so pzx)[;abl,\: Hitherto the officials have been |with the American navy, and the proceeding on the authority that | prospects of its triumpf] in both | hese vessels were ready for serv- |the Canaries and even Spanish ice, but the information received |waters themselves, that navy offi- | within the last day or so is so|cials do not believe that 'Spaiu’ thoroughly reliable that they |will be so eager to continue the have accepted it without hesita- |war. tion. Furthermore, it has been| In view of the condition of the definitely learned that the ma-|Spanish fleets there is renewed chinery of the battle-ship Pelayo, | talk in naval circles of the advis- | the armored cruiser Carlos V |ability of forming a flying squad- and the protected cruiser Alfonso |ron immediately after the de-| XIII is in bad condition, and al- | destruction or capture of Cer-| though every effort is being made | vera’s men-of-war and of dis- to get the ships away from Cadiz, | patching it to the eastward for it will be some time before they | the purpose of carrying the war can be put to sea. This informa- ‘im() Spanish waters. tion came to-day and set at res&} It will be recalled that before the minds of officials, who were | hostilities were actually declared | disturbed by the previous reports |the Naval War Board p-launed the | 1as been definite that the Spanish fleet at Cadiz|formation of such a squadron, | had left and that its destination is | consisting of the armored: | “the Philippines. ~ With Cervera’s | cruisers New York and Brook- fleet effectually disposed of and |lyn, the protected cruisers Minne- | with a knowledge thatthree ar- lapolis and Columbia and the | mored cruisers cannot be got |auxiliary cruisers St. Paul, St. ready for service for some time, | Louis, Harvard and Yale. On| naval officers say there need be jaccount of this action of tne'! no further apprehension of dan-i“'fi'panish Government in dis- | { mander of Admiral Dewey’s splendid | in the service for distinguished gallan- THE LATE AL | | Call Office, Riggs House, Washington, June 5. Captain Charles V. Gridley, com-| mander of the cruiser Olympia, and one of the heroes of the brilliant victory at | Manila, is dead. The announcement of | his death was received by the Navy De- | partment late this afternoon in a cable- | gram from Paymaster Galt of the navy, | dated at Kobe, Japan, June 4, and di- rected to Secretary Long. The dispatch contained this simple statement: ““Cap- tain Gridley died to-day. Remains ac- company me on the Coptic.” Captain Vernon Gridley is the first American officer of great prominence whose death is a direct result of the existing war with Spain. As the com- flagship and one of the admiral's chief advisers, Captain Gridley achieved dis- tinction at the battle of Manila Bay, | and added to his previous laurels by | winning high praise from his superiors try and ability. He fought his ship from the conning tower, while Admiral Dewey directed the movements of his squadron from the bridge of the ves- sel. It was not known for several weeks after the engagement that Captain ~ger from Spain’s navy. The information contained in Lieutenant Caranza’s letter that the Cadiz squadron was intended to “bombard Boston, Portland and Long Island,” will doubtless cause a rearrangement of plans .on the part of the Spanish Gov- ernment, the department offi- cials say, as it reveals Spain’s secret, and, furthermore, gave the nited States warning, which wouid have been taken advantage of had not Admiral Cervera been so effectually 1 chinery of the squadron is shortly placed in satisfactory order, the American fleet at Santiago will not have much trouble in dispos- “)atching Cervera’s fleet to this |side of the Atlantic the project was abandoned. In any event it |is doubtful if the Harvard and | Yale could be placed in such a squadron at this time, as neither has any offensive armament. The St. Paul, hawever, has an excel- lent battery, and the St. Louis twelve six-pounders, which could {be added to it in short order. The departure of such a fleet would not embarrass the opera- |tions of the campaign against Cuba and Porto Rico, as battle- tranped. Even supposing the ma- |ship-monitors will be depended upon to protect the blockade and coast and to bombard Havana and San Juan whenever the army attempted to occupy, them. g | Gridley had suffered from it; and even | now the precise nature of his trouble | is not yet disclosed. Upon the arrival | of the Zafiro at Hongkong on the 20th of May, the Navv Department was no- | tified that Captain Gridley had been | condemned by a board of medical sur- vey and “Invalided” home. Subsequent advices received by the department in- dicated that Captain Gridley was suf- | fering from the effects of a rupture supposed to have been received durin:' the battle at Manila, but no details } were given. It was not supposed that his illness was very serious, as the de- partment was informed that the cap- tain, in company with Paymaster Galt, would leave for home as soon as pos- | sible. On the 28th of May they left Hong- kong on the steamer Coptic, one of the vessels of the Occidental and Oriental Steamship line. It would appear that Captain Gridley died about the time the ship reached Kobe. It is quite evident now that he considered his case serious, as be did not communicate, so far as is known, with any member of his family after the battle of Manila. Captain Gridley was not & “dress J ONE HERO OF MANILA BAY IS SUMMONED parade officer.” Among the older of- ficers, however, especially among those with whom he served, he had the repu- tation of being one of the best-equipped officers of the navy. He was regarded s one of the best navigators in the service, and his thorough knowledge of all its details and requirements fully justified the remark of Admiral Ram- sey that “‘Gridley is one of the brainiest and pluckiest officers In the naval serv- ice.” Dispatches from Manila concerning the battle indicated that Commodore Dewey had the utmost confidence in Captain Gridley; that he never inter- fered in the slightest degree with his management and handling of the ship; that he told him to fire whenever ready, and that the broadside which sunk the flagship of the Spanish admiral was Gridley’s own conception and act, and, in fine, that throughout ‘the entire battle the Olympia was handled superbly. The distinguished bravery and ability of Captain Gridley were recognized by the President, and had he lived promotion doubtless would have been his substantial reward. Captain Gridley leaves a widow and three children—two daughters and a son—who are now residing with Mrs. Gridley's father, Judge Vincent, at Erie, Pa. His mother, Mrs. Ann Eliza Gridley, and his brother, Lucius, reside in this city, the former being a clerk in the Patent Office and the latter an employe in the Treasury Department. Captain Gridley was born in Logans- port, Ind., in 1845, and appointed to the Naval Academy from Hillsdale, Mich., in 1860 by Representative Henry Wald- ron, the Gridleys having removed from Indiana to Michigan when Charles was only 3 months old. Under ordinary cir- cumstances the class of 1860 would have graduated in 1864, but the necessi- ties of the Civil War advanced it one year. On October 1; 1863, young Gridley was promoted to ensign and ordered to the steam sloop Oneida, then at the ‘West Gulf blockade squadron, in which squadron he remained until the close of the war. He was in the battle of Mo- bile Bay, August 5, 1864, where his cool- ness and bravery were noted. After the war he was assigned to the steam sloop Brooklyn, the flagship of the Brazilian squadron, with which he served until 1867, being promoted to master in November, 1866. A year later P2 he was promoted to lleutenant, and March 12, 1868, to lleutenant com- mander. In 1870 he was assigned to the steamer Michigan, (fourth rate), where he served two years. Early in 1873 he was asigned to the Monongahela (second rate), serving one year, andi in February, 1875, detailed as instructor at | the naval academy at Annapolis, where | he remained for four years, serving during the summer cruises of 1877 andf 1878 as executive officer of the practice | ship Constellation. In 1879 he was made executive of- ficer of the United States flagship Trenton on the European station, serv- ing from December, 1879, to November, | 1881. On March 10, 1882, he was pro- moted to commander, and during that 06 1 1 T summer he was on duty at the torpedo | o station. From October, 1882, to Feb- | ruary, 1884, he was chief navigation of- ficer at the Boston navy yard. In Feb- ruary, 1884, he was ordered to com- mand the training ship Portsmouth. From June to November, 1886, he was | senfor officer of the cruising training | squadron. In July, 1887, he was In-| spector of the Tenth Lighthouse Dis- | trict and stationed ‘at Buffalo, where he served until October, 1891. From | October, 1891, to July, 1892, he was as- | signed to special duty at the navy yard at Washington. In July, 1892, he was | assigned to command the Marion, and | on July 10 was detailed from that ship | as inspector of the lighthouse district | with headquarters at Buffalo. In| March, 1897, while commander of the | receiving ship Richmond at League Island he was ordered to the Asiatic | squadron, and July 18, 1897, was signed to command the Olympia. | | PROBABLE CONFUSION | OF TERROR AND FUROR. KINGSTON, Jamaica, June 5.—A dis- patch from Port Antonio says: “A vessel that has arrived here from Santiago de Cuba reports that the | Americans sunk on Friday night the | Spanish torpedo-boat destroyer Ter- ror.” The assumption, based upon dis- patches from Madrid, has been that the | destroyer Terror, after Jeaving Fort de | France wen to Porto Rico, and it is | probable that the Port Antonio dispatch | confuses her with her sister destroyer, the Furor, as has several times been done in dispatches from ot'ier points. |& BUT WAR IS NOT YET CONCLUDED Spain Is Now in Proper Mood to Ask for Peace. This Government, However, In- tends to Act Aggressively for the Next Few Weeks. ; Call Office, Riggs House, Washington, June 5. News from several quarters during the last few days strongly indicates that Spain is in a mood to ask for peace. The magnanimous action of Cervera in notifying Admiral Sampson that the prisoners captured on the Merrimac would be kindly treated and exchanged for Spanish prisoners at Fort McPherson is regarded here as a particularly smart thing for him to do. The wily old naval commander appears to be something of a diplomat as well as naval tactician. VOOV 0P90 e R R RNl [ 42 o El Epoca, published in Madrid, is #h close touch with the Sagasta regime. Its recent allusions to this “grand Government of the United States,” and its confession that “an inclination in favor of peace is predominant in Spain” is another circumstance that shows which way the wind is blowing. The sentiment here in Washington is unanimously opposed to | entertaining any peace overtures at this time. The Philippines and | Porto Rico must both be taken before any such proposition is con- sidered. : There is not the slightest doubt of the administration’s inten- tion to act aggressively for the next few weeks. There seems to be | no reason why Porto Rico should not be in our possession by the end of this month. It is quite generally believed that General Fitzhugh Lee will lead the Porto Rico expedition and will be made military governor of the island. As for the Philippines, they are virtually in our possession now. A dispatch from San Francisco printed this morning indicates a doubt as to whether the Monadnock will be sent to Manila. The Call correspondent has positive information that this is the destina- tion of that vessel, for he has seen the orders issued to the Mare Island commandant. It has been decided to send more troops to San Francisco. This time some of them will be sent from as far east as New York. Orders will be issued assigning for duty in the Philippines the light brigade organized and equipped by John Jacob Astor, inspector-general, with rank of colonel on the staff of Major-General Breckinridge. The Nebraska regiment of which William J. Bryan is to be colonel has not yet been ‘mustered in, but there is no doubt that this regi- ment will be sent to Manila. Draper, the United States Embassador to Italy. ADVERTISEMENTS. flfiafififidfififififlflfififig CHIVALROUS 9 AND HIGH-MINDED &/ WASHINGTON, June 5s.—To the Editor of the % New York Herald: The & reported courtesyof Cer- © vera to Hobson and his men is most chivalrous @sand high-minded JOHN D. LONG, Secretary of the Navy. D OB NON RN RN CORRESPONDENTS WILL BE TREATED AS SPIES General Blanco Warns Foreign News- foReReRoRag-F.FoR-R- g0y o At _this moment thousands of men are standing at the cross-roads of Jife. Death in the guise »f a foolish ambition coaxes them ' take one road, while health and bappiness in the form of wife and babies coax them to take the other. For the sake of » few added dollars will they continue to over-work and neglect the commonest pre- paper Men Not to Enter Cuba. HAVANA, June 5.—Captain General Blanco has isued a decree in which he says: “Having an opportunity of learning of the great hindrance to the regular development of operations by the pres ence in this country of foreign corr spondents, and by virtue of the extra- ordinary faculties with which I am vested, It is ordered that no foreign journalist shall be allowed here or to pass through the lines. | “Every foreigner seized in the char- | acter of a correspondent shall be con- | sidered as a spy and judged as suvhi according to the military code.” | The British journalists, Robinson and | Whigham, were released yesterday, having been ordered to leave the coun- | try. They will leave on Tuesday next | for Jamaica on the Talbot. On leaving | Cabanas fortress the journalists called at the palace and saw Secretary Con- gesto, whom they thanked for having seen that they were treated well. A e Humbert Receives General Draper. ROMBE, June 5.—To-day King Humbert received in audience General William F. cautions for the preservation of health, ot will they listen to love and reason and draw back before it is too late ? A man may do wlmost any amount of good, hard work if he will take care of his health and when he feels out of sorts will take the right remedy, The great hiood maker, fleshiui.dev and nerve tonic 1= Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery It is the hard . workers’ medi- cice. It corrects all disorders of the diges. vion_invigorates the liver, purifies the blood akd lones and steadies the nerves. 1t makes the sppetite hrarly and brings refreshing slee, Thousands of haid workers owe tLeir jives t it and Lave said so over thele signatures. Druggists all sell it and all substitutes are fianda » 1 was taken with erysipeias in my hands and went \¢ the dortor,” writes Mrs Lens Baumgart- e of Joy, Charlevoix Cu . Mich " Te said he could not cure me He guve me medicine to case me bul the disease sprend all over my body [ 1k Lo bottle€ of the *Golden Medical Discov- ery and two of the ' Favorite Prescription * and am entirely cored 1 hiave n boy three weeks ol 1 was Lelpless tws or three months before c finerent, but after taking the * Favorite Presc: Uon 1 was able to do My washing three days Lefors )} was confined.” . There is scarcely a known form of ill. bealth that constipation will not canse op agktavate D1 Pistce's Fleasant Pelicts are ap antailing cure for constipation. One it tie " Pcilet” is = gentle laxalive.