| Show DEWEY BEFORE MANILA I I Wore a Duck Suit and Golf Cap and Worst Said Was Damnable I San Francisco Kramlnpr nn nm Lieutenant Charles G Calkins who I navigated the cruiser Olympia the flagship flag-ship of the United States squadron Admiral Ad-miral Dewey and his fleet to their immortal Im-mortal victory at Manila on the morning I of May 1 arrived from the Orient on Feb 2 I and went at once to his Berkeley home I will not try to tell you how many times I have bsen asked to describe how Admiral Dewey looked and acted and spoke on that occasion said the lieutenant lieuten-ant Still it Is a story that Is always pleasant to recall I I had known Admiral I Oth t f1 r Dewey for thirty years and I cannot say that his demeanor that morning was greatly different from what It always is I Always he impresses one as I man who knows himself who knees what he has to do and who means to do i Such was I Admiral Dewey then He was cool alert intense and for the most part silent Xo I cannot recall any particularly Immortal words on his part He observed I closely the movements of the fleet from stoodMuch the light compass platform where wo Much has been made about the attire of the admiral that morning A popular monthly pictured him In a long frock coat I twining about his legs Another magazine maga-zine hastened to correct this by describing describ-ing Admiral Dewey as wearing shoulder straps gold lace on his sleeves and three Inch stripes on his trousers Some of these latter Items are correct for the occasion oc-casion of full dress but as a matter of fact the admiral mounts them once or twice a year At the battle of Manila ho wore a white duck uniform and a coif I car His manner did not noticeably chance i all through that morning He showed the I strain perhaps but very slightly I was however more like n stroll than one of the battles of history The shots did not come near enough to worry us or when I rt they did come near we were too busy to pay them much attention People who I are pretty busy have no time to heed trifles I Swear Well no not exactly The I nearest that Admiral Dewey came tot to-t swearing during all that engagement was I when we were coming out of the battle i for the third time I think I remarked to tho admiral Its damnable that we have not done them moro damage I think Itl 19 damnable lieutenant ho replied with quiet emphasis There Is one story by the way that I would like well enough to run down It cropped up for tho last tIme three or four days ago In the smoking I room of tEn steamer Coptic It was that we hau an English pilot to take our fleet Into Cavlte That story is of a piece with the onethat popped up In London that we had English gunners One was just as true as the other YC had no English pilot and our gunners were Americans Then I may say there was no truth In the reports that wo got information about the hydro graphy and the defenses of the harbor from the consul there |
