| Show lUsn DAY OF THE WAR Anterlequ tlet lo I n or tho Itntter Al e nt nOn n-On ills Ptagshlp New York oft Ita Yona r April t 10 pin The secondday lit ina saws has com lo a close and the fighting Tiii0 no casualties to elm After the excltctr nt this morning over the Italian manowOr onot the capture 01 1L sehoonr by the torp 21 ° boat Port muffling occurred to mar the Peaceful frouthre Opinion a to the Ingth at time the blockade vill t continue Vftecs It va r Ousts al fM One to FIX week Admiral Saint 0 00 ima go It evinced no disposition I take the offensive against the Spanish batteries Ill Certain that the luau gents Are hy 710 man Inactive at this betwft till al I14 Naval engagements the ormlahle Heels would be mUh to the IIkluC ot the n officers 01 the iit t Its i a holy Ill eY ore anxious to lout to the ll thousands of theories to Whkh they have I been devoting their tJme Liln entering the naval aJaxlemy otarl tram the fact that their fighting blood w4rk Is 11 trom up A llOlOe I blockade In I poor vlw a Professional point ot dplt the excitement dt occa tonal chase Many or the naval hi officers maintain that a land bs ot 01rallo4 In Cuba rSiSv nt Ie scurM before the Spanish K arrlveo Pon at asA Tile central Idea In I that Mil endaor to rocu etti u it Rt Thoms tram the rtPCt I A s V yalrs hHore c rg I A th to lIa After the Dauntless had towed the Prize behoaner away In tMumph this 0 bl = nod Ion her way goril e West the lint I wis a extended Tho ships L It were mostly separated by several miles of water making a formidable semicircle frcA ur trerT orr circle arount LI Morre 15 miles from point to point The entire blockade line stretches for about 120 miles from Marlol sixty miles west ot > Ito I-to Car lemas sixty miles cant ot the eIIFy1 sIa sI bcleiiRUrcd city These distances are approximate M The Iowa was tht only one of the ships mound JI I Morro that remained fallly stationary today She stood away out to the northwest The In it I airs ntrolt 1 and MaYllowCr cruised around In that viol nitsjo while the Wilmin ton and Mnrdblchcad kept to the northeast Th tug Algonquin which Arrived today from Key West and the torpedo boat Dupont kept close 1 to tho Iowa The New York crLlsed round 100 In shore For two bour I his altenoon site was within easy range of the Cojlma battery No2 to the eastward of HI Mono with Its 12 inch guns but the Spanlads apparently apparent-ly thought It hopeless to shoot at a distance of live miles It was hard to realize while the flagships band plod operatic airs luring dinner that a straight shot from a Spanish fort might come hounding out and make in uric ut another kind Few believe however that the gun can carry with any accurracy the distance they tire 01IId un I paper The III Inactive arrived from Iy West this V ulng It was reported that the I Maytower had stopped I I a tramp I llC about ten mile north west of 11 Morro and that the steamer was allowed I to proceed so It Is I pro sumed she belongs to a neutral na lion Several shots were It Is I sold flrOi nt her When darkness cam to night after glorious sunset the smlclrole of blockndlng ship oloe1 In roonsid era lily In order to Irevent anything slim Ing In or out of Havana harbor Not alight a-light I was shown The torpedo boats Porter and Dupont kept up I a censele 1 s nt nntrol Th > were quite Invisible The Irreprcssslbls spirit of daring of Lieutenants Fremont and Wood their respective commanders probably took the llnik filers to within a remarks blv short distance at nt Morro When the rrlrmon picked up her small prize last evening she was only two mile from the Spanish boiler The day has been n busy one for the I officers and men and the slight relax 1t10U tit In ntternoon ws very accepts ble Admiral Sampson and Captain Chndwlck have been on the after bridge moot of the time both always rim 001 o Thn former nlte hs fiftyeight years Is as ener retle as tit ijuuet man all Ward Ile areaut lo hove on eye for every onr and a grasp 01 detan that Is I as founding 11 Is I hardlj thought that the stean er Pama the much hopedfor prize will arllve before tomorrow Sunday |
