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Show I l'l II I I mWWmWW1l I HI I II mm WAS SAMPSON WARNED? made its d.ish twit of the bay it was 1 Gen. Shafter. mho commanded the Fifth Army Corps, which raptured common talk round On. Shafter' Shaf-ter' headquarte s fr,t the Fren-h consul in Santiago had been told by an officer of Cervera' fleet that the Spn- WW r-antiago In the ummer of xai j nn an enthu.ias- j V'c e.'mlrer of Ad- j yniral S hley, and . proi-ably la now. If j hi" ran recall all , that happened just and jaunty in their fresh-laundered white suits, came into the parlor of the governor 8 palace In Santiago. -where Shaftir had his h-adquarters. ' The army oSi-fn, dirty and yellow, ' their thin fa.ea showing the effect of fever and hardships and lack j of food, fiH ked around Sehle-y. j Admiral Sampsoa mood al- j most alone at one end of the long room, hut Schley was the center of an enthusiastic croud. He was congratulated congratu-lated again and again. Generals, colo- ( nets, ms )nr. captain and lieutenant 1 pressed 1 is hands They threw their arma around him and told him he wa j a (treat n an. Of course every army of-flier of-flier paid hi re-spects to Sampson, but most of them did it in a convent. onal way. There was no warmth to their greetings. It in not until we reached Mon- tank Point, that we learned that the i lirooklvn s loop I !sh admiral would Kear-Ailmiral V. leave the harbor at T. Sampson. 9 o'clrx k the following morning On that day J was told by officers that the French consul had t !d MaJ. Nolile that Cervera was getting ready to leave and would make the attempt the next morning. None of us believed that the Spanish Span-ish admiral would attempt such a d' s-perate s-perate movement. We were told that day that the news was wig-wagged by order of Gen. Shnf te-r from the shore to Admiral Samp-on. If this was done Admiral Sani s n did not believe be-lieve that Cervera would make the dash, for when the Spanish ships left : the hartnir. Sampson, aboard the New j York, was steaming toward SiUmey to ; hold a conference with Gen. Sha.'ter. i About 9 30 o'clock on the morning of July 3 we heard several of the navy ' gun roar. No one In the trenches of j San Juan bill raid any particular at-i at-i tentlon to the booming, for we thought the warship had begun their dally I bombardment of Morro castle and the , other batteries. But the heavy cannonading grew stronger and we could hear the Span- 1 was held up a-I a-I e t 1 d e n c e ha: i Schley was fant hearted, even cow ardly. Put at San tiago, on Pan Juai. hill, at Siboney am in the trenches no Gen. Shafter. before and after 1 verrera fleet dashed out of Sanltago , bay to its destruction he would be Well i 'equipped to play the part of a star j witness In the coming Sampson-Schley j Investigation. He did not seem to re- ; gard Sampson as a great fighter in ; those days. j We who were with the doughty ' Shafter have very lively recollections of the general's bringing hi huge fl-t ; down up m the quivering camp table to ! emphasize the string of characteristic strong words he used to express hi 1 opinion of Admiral Sampson. "Why doesn't he force his way Into the bay?" said the general. "Is he afraid of scraping some of the paint from the bottom of his ships? This was after the Spanish fleet had been destroyed. There were no warships war-ships flying the Spanish flag In the bay, but It was said then that the channel waa mined and that If any hostile craft attempted to force an entrance en-trance it would be blown over the mountains. Gen. Shafter was a rank skeptic about the mines. The Cuban had told him. and their report was partially corroborated by same refugee, that any mine or torpedo which had been laid in the channel had been there go long that It would not explode. .They said the only dinger to an American ehlp was In the shore batteries. Lieut. John Mlley, who was Sha't-er's Sha't-er's executive officer, but who hn aince died In the Philippine with the one had even hint- Major Noble, ed that Schley was a coward. , The boys bo had faced Spanish j shells and Mauser slugs, who had fought while fever burned their blood, who knew what fighting meant, seemed seem-ed to hold a contrary opinion to that entertained at Washing-on. They ald: "Schley did it. Sampson wasn't In it It was Schley who licked the Span-lards." Span-lards." MALCOLM M'DOWELL. lsh batteries open-I open-I Ing tip. In a few minutes a rontlnu-! rontlnu-! on roar came over the hills; the Indl ! r dual booms m ed to be lost in the concert, and our men began cheer- Ing. They thought Lieut. .Mlley. ; the fleet was moving Into the harbor. : The Spaniards opened up all along the line about that time and we were ome-what ome-what busy ourselves, yet we kept keen ears In the direction of the bay. ! The heavy booming seemed to move i eastward, and finally the voice of the : great guns grew fainter and at last I died out. Even then we did not think rank of lieutenant-colonel, lieutenant-colonel, told m that Shafter often declared that a I team launch or a torpedo boat with only a one-pounder rapid-fire gun on the Spanish fleet had gone out, and It was not until noon that word came from Gen. Ludlow, mho was north of the city, where he could see, the bay. that the Sj.nieh ehips apparently had gone out of the hariwir, for none was to be seen. At la.-t we received definite news of the great vi.tory and then the m.-n In the tr-n.-hes gave voice to their enthusiasm. en-thusiasm. The neit day we got tsw details, arid It is Interesting to recall the fact that no one then had a whisper whis-per against S' hley. "S hley did It." S.hley mas the hero." 'The llrnoklyn did most of the work" mere the comments com-ments heard then , The army ofTWr .'eclare that the celebrated loop which the Hr.-s)V.In made was a great maneuvers-tl at Schl-y proved himself : to be a great sea fighter. I S. hley's name was on every tongue. ! Sampson mas only mentioned In word Rear-A.imlral deck could force an Schb-y. Immediate u r-render r-render from Gen. Toral, who com- man. led the b-l.-aiuered Spanish force, if It coteld Hk up a po it'on ; crposlte the city of Santiago. He ; ureed Sampson to mnke the attempt, j but the commander of the American fleet did not seem to see It that way. ' Then It mas that Sha'rer declared that he would do It. Capt. Stewart ; Price, son of the late Senator Calv.n Price, one of Shaf-r's military fam- Ily. and Col. Cteighton W'.-t.b. inspe-- ; tor-general of Gen. U'l"n i division, and other adventurous officer came ; to Gen. Shafter w ith a s. heme for the army to do what the navy seen d to be afraid of doing. Th.y plannel .ailing .ail-ing for volunteers to man an a uy transport, putting on the vessel a b .t-tery .t-tery of field guns, and with It force an entrance to the harbor and take up a position behind one of the Islands in the bay. where they would be out of the line of fire from any battery and yet be In position to rake the city. Shafter t.ok kindly to the plan, which was kept a deep secret, but. like all secrets, the scheme leaked out and score of officers mere eager to volunteer, volun-teer, some of them offering to go as private. Hut Just as the s h. me was taking tangible form Gen. Toral m-. I It known to Gen. Shafter that he was willing to "come In." and l.o'h r.g more was done w.th the trans; o-t proposition. The day before the Spanish fleet He was censured 1 for taking the New York out of lin-when lin-when he could Jus as well have ma b I the trip to Siboney on one cf the ni"-i ni"-i quito fleet or in a steam laun. n. ""o '"- The army offlcers t.M.k particular ! pains to let Schley know that they gave him the credit of smashing the ' Spanish fb-ct when ' Sampson snd I Schb-y came a.-hore to call on Shafter I after we had entered Santiago. The I naval R.-ers. clean and trim, well fed |