YATE ALUMNI
WHEKLY
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CRUISE OF THE YALE.
[Continued from 13th page.]
July 1st.—Yesterday we were out of
sight of land most of the day and saw
no sail. This morning we have been
running slowly along beside the low-
lying keys of the Isle of Pines. We
have sighted a dozen or more small
schooners; but all have managed to
get in shallow water and the only one
for which we altered our course proved
to be a wreck.
EXPECTING TROUBLE,
July 2d.—Twice during yesterday af-
ternoon, the bugle sounded quarters,
the men ran to their stations, and we
were ready to give a warm reception
or a hot chase to the Spaniard. Un-
fortunately one vessel turned out to be
the U. S. S. Eagle, the other the
Hamburg-American Valesia. An of-
ficer was sent aboard the latter to make
sure she was not carrying contrabrand
of war. Our naval militia haven’t had
the training of a Yale crew. The officer
who was boarding gave the order,
“Back water, starboard.” Instead of
obeying, the port oars backed water
and the whaleboat rammed the Valesia.
Through our field glasses we could see
the Dutchman and his crew shaking
with laughter at the performances of
their captors. When the whaleboat got
back, the officer of the deck called
down: “Two of you sailor-men stay
in the boat to hook her on” and one
of the militiamen answered: “There
aren't any sailor-men down here, Sir.”
The few regular sailors on board had
evidently been guying the militiamen.
Later one of the whaleboat’s crew came
up to the officer and said: “Beg pardon,
Sir. If I stand on this end of the boat
(pointing to the bow) and look back
this way, isn’t my right hand the star-
board side?”
The weather is delightful, the. tem-
perature on the bridge eighty-five to
ninety degrees. A slight breeze is just
ruffling the calm blue sea, and the north-
western coast of Cuba, which we are
skirting, affords a succession of beauti-
ful views of. strangely shaped and
wooded mountains surmounted by vast
masses of white clouds. The sun is
- dazzling, but a glance around the hori-
zon generally shows several small rain
squalls sweeping. over the ocean. At
night the full moon is gorgeous: the
heat lightning flashes in the distance;
the dipper sinks below the ocean; the
Southern Cross is visible.
SENT AFTER MORE TROOPS.
Anchored off Charleston, S. C., July
5sth—Two days ago, when we were
anchored off Key West, we all thought
that we were to convoy four of the
prizes which had been brought in up
to New York. Each was to be under
the command of one of our officers and
I was going as chief officer to one of
these temporary captains. Three out
of the four invited me to come along
in this capacity. As the Spanish crews
are still aboard, it would have been an
interesting experience.- The Yale would
have been ready to fire into us at any
time in case of a mutiny. |
In the afternoon, several of us started
on a tug to go in from the Yale’s
anchorage, five miles out, and inspect
our commands. Before we reached
the shore, however, we were stopped
by the flagship at the station and sent
back with orders for the Yale and
Columbia to come here immediately
and convoy more troops to Cuba. At
that time Carter and three cadets were
ashore. The Captain said he could wait
only half an hour and fortunately just
before the expiration of that time they
returned. If they had been left, they
would have had to get up to Charleston
at their own expense. They brought
back the papers for the last ten days
but no letters.
July 6th—A party of us went ashore
yesterday on a tug. It was a ten-mile
sail through the jetties, past the new
batteries and the interesting walls of
Fort Sumner, up to the quiet and decay-
ing walls of the city. In the front yard
of the beautiful new Custom House, a
cow was enjoying the grass, feeding at
the public crib like a master. In the
quaint, roughly paved, narrow streets,
the buzzards were hopping about.
McCully had to see about some ammu.
Golf Souvenirs.
Small sterling silver prize cups,
gilt inside, including ebonized
“ase, $8.50, $10.00, $12.50,
$17.00, $22.00.
Golf score books, sterling sil-
ver with chatelaine chain and —
hook, $5.50. In assorted leath-
et bindings, without chatelaine,
$8 and $9.
Golf pins.—Gold golf sticks
with pearl ball, $3.25, $3.75,
$5.00. With pearl ball and
diamond in handle, $16.00.
Golf-stick pencils, silver,
$1.25,
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nition, Carter was to buy several thou-
sand gallons of drinking water. Mc-
Donald and I had nothing to do, so we
went and ate dinner.
I had missed both my breakfast and
lunch and after the monotonous heavy
English ship’s fare, things tasted fine.
Then we each did a dozen peaches and
a quarter of a watermelon. I bought a
key to lock my room in case we had
more troops, and a piece of floor-mat-
ting to put over my berth, as it is the
coolest thing to sleep on. At seven
o’clock the tug started out again and
the crowd of us demolished another
watermelon. Unfortunately, however,
for the five miles of our course, after
leaving the harbor, the tug encountered
a choppy sea which sent the waves over
her bow and made standing almost im-
possible. When we reached the ship,
the tug captain refused to go alongside,
lest he smash his craft, so the Illinois
sailors lowered a whale boat and came
over to us. Meanwhile, the ship’s doc-
tor, bar-keeper, chief steward, two
naval cadets and the blue jacket pro-
fessor had collapsed and were losing
watermelon at a rapid-fire gait. Greatly
to our pride, Carter and I stood out
successfully.
The militia, as usual, worked hard
and conscientiously, but if they had not
been commanded by efficient officers,
the whaleboat would certainly have
been capsized by striking the side of
the tug. As they were hoisting the boat
again upon the derricks, one of the men
had the end of his thumb ground off
between the boat and the ship’s side.
These sailors are boys from the High
Schools and clerks of Chicago. On
my watch the night before, it was my
business to see that they kept at work.
They were moving coal, hoisting it
from the after hold and wheeling it
along the decks to the chute for the
bunkers. They were naked to the waist.
It was hot’on deck and must have been
suffocating in the dust below. They
worked four hours on and four hours
off, the twenty-four hours round. I felt
a great sympathy for them when I
remembered that, if Yale University
had not sent me down to present those
guns, I should now be doing the same
thing. Surely such men can be better
employed by their country than in do-
ing work at which they compete very
poorly with the average day laborer.
It would take five years, the officers
say, to make sailors of these men, and
even then they would not be so good
as men who had been used to hard
physical labor all their lives. Their
spirit is fine, however. While we were
ashore, we got the papers, telling of the
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great victory at Santiago and the com-
plete destruction of Cervera’s fleet.
Our pleasure was only tempered by re-
gret that we were not there to see and
head off the Colon.
Headquarters of the Army,
t1th—On the oth, at Charleston, the
troops and supplies were brought out
on lighters and that night General
Miles arrived. We sailed at midnight.
The General is very quiet and stays in
his room most of the time. The troops
which we carry are the 6th Massachu-
setts. The 6th Illinois is on board the
Columbia, which sails with us. These
soldiers are well equipped by their
states, I believe, and are officered in part
by West Pointers. General Garretson
is in command of the brigade and is the
best volunteer officer we have had on
board. He is a West Point graduate.
These troops keep the deck clean.
There is a company of negroes in the
regiment, Boston waiters, barbers, et
cetera. They are the best behaved and,
I am told, the best drilled company,
but the prejudice of the white troops
against them is said to make the whole
regiment less efficient. When an officer
passes their place on deck, the first man
to see him calls “Gangway!” and all
the others jump out of the road. The
white soldiers do nct.
We are now passing the harbor of
Guantanamo, where the fleet which is to
go to Spain is coaling. If only we
could go along! But the navy has
turned us over to the army to act as
transport. Yet for three weeks now,
the fleet of transports has lain idle off
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Siboney. They could have brought out
20,000 more men if kept busy.
Off Siboney, July 12th—I have just
been talking with one of the regular
army officers from the shore. He didn’t
hesitate to criticise. Instead of follow-
ing a safe and easy plan of campaign,
the army, he says, has acted alone.
Had the original plan been followed
so I am told, both by navy officers
and by various regular army officers, a
column could have been pushed along
the summit of the bluff by the shore.
It would thus have commanded: the
lower country behind, have followed the -
route which the Spaniards had done
the least to defend, and the fleet could
have protected it with its guns. Morro,
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