’ 0N Million ion.
aOur Flag lloubtless Floats Over
Another West Indian Isle.
_—.-
MILES TO DEBARK SUNDAY-
‘Porto Rico Troops That Have‘Gone and
Are Going. The KragJorgiensen Rifles
and Smokeless Powder to Be Supplied.
The Invading Army Will Be Large.
.. _ ._._. .. ...... _.
__Troops Sighted ofl‘ Haytien Coast.
Washington, July 25.--Major General
Miles has not reported to the war de—
partment his arrival at Porto Rico. The
officials .expect,*however, that he reach-
ed his destination some time Sunday.
Miles’s army Was expected. to arrive
off the coast Saturday night. The orig-
inal plan was that he should leave Gu-
antanamo at.3 p. m. on Thursday.
which would bring him ‘off Porto Rico
Saturday at 3 p.. m. He was delayed,
however, at Mole St. Nicholas, by the
non-arrival there of his tugs, lighters,
barges and snag boats. He waited
there to get news of them and from the
fact that the war vessels passed Cape
Haytien only Friday night, it is calcu-
lated that he was delayed about four
hours at Mole St. Nicholas.
One ofthe navigation bureau officials
stated that if General Miles intended
to land so small a force as 3,400 men,
he had selected a place where very lit-
tle opposition was anticipated. In that
event 'he would not be embarrassed by
the absence of tugs and lighters. .He
could at least land his infantry in the
barges of the convoy, as was partly
done at Baiquiri.
The plan appears to contemplate a.
bombardment by the monitors and Mas-
sachusetts of San Juan at the approxi-
mate time of Miles’s landing and a feint
at one or more places, as was done at
'Aguadores and Cabanites when Shaf-
ter was landing. The places named for
the landing are Guanica on the'south
coast and Fajardo on the east coast,
and also at Vieques.
Troops A and C of the New York
volunteer cavalry and three troops of
the Pennsylvania cavalry left Camp
Alger shortly after two o’clock Friday
morning for Newport News. These
troops left for Porto Rico last even-
ing with Major General Brooke and
the 'brigade commanded ’by General
Haines. .
_ The troops now under orders for Por-
to Rico or en route to "that island form
what is known as the first detachment
of the Porto Rican expedition. There
will be one and possibly two more ex-
peditions.
The soldiers who are- with General
Miles are the Sixth Illinois, Sixth Mas—
sachusetts, Batteries C and F of the
Third artillery, B and F of the Fourth,
B of the Fifth and 275 recruits.
The troops embarked from Tampa are
the Nineteenth and Eleventh regular
infantryq, Troop B of the Second Uni-
ted States cavalry and Batteries C and
M of the Seventh artillery.
The remainder of the first detachment
consists of Troop H of the Sixth Uni-
ted States cavalry, ‘Comp'any F of the
Eighth infantry; General Ernst’s bri-
gade, which is made up of the Second
and Third Missouri and the Sixteenth
Pennsylvania; General Hains’s brigade,
consisting of the Fourth Ohio, Fourth
Pennsylvania. and Third Illinois; Gen-
eral Grant’s brigade, organized to have
the First and Third Kentucky, and the
Fifth Illinois; the five troops ordered
from Camp Alger, which are A and C
of New York and three troops from
Pennsylvania.
These troops are all either On their
way to Porto Rico or under orders to
proceed as soon as transportation can .
be furnished.
An official of the war department who
stands high in authority says that the
entire Porto Rican army of infantry
would be supplied with Krag-Jorgen-
sen rifles and smokeless powder. These
rifles will be sent to Porto Rico imme-
diately. ,
Owing to the wish of every regiment
to go to the front, the president will
send a larger army to Porto Rico than
is considered absolutely necessary. He
is desirous to give every regiment ser-
vice; at the front.
Orders have been sent to Major Gen-
eral Shatter directing him to immedi?
ately send to Tampa. transport ships
suflicient in number to carry 6,000 men.
He was further directed to send all oth-
er transports under his command to
large body of troops will embark from
New York for Porto Rico.
New York city. This indicates that a
It was stated in the dispatch to Gen-
eral Shatter that the government in-
tended to bring the'entire Fifth army
corps from Santiago to the United
States for rest as soon as it was con-
sidered safe.
. Major General Coppinger, command-
ing the Fourth army corps, has been
directed to send the Fifth Maryland
First Florida and the Second Georgia:
regiments to Santiago de Cuba. These
regiments will assist the immunes in
keeping order in the territory surren-
dered by General Toral'.
. General Shaffer has cabled Secre-
tary Alger that he can send three
transports each day to the United
States. This was in answer to the or-
der directing General Sh'after to send
all the transports under his command
to Tampa and New York city.
Seen Passing to the North of Hoyt],
Washington, July 25.--General Miles
and his troops are now off the coast of
Porto Rico, unless the ships convey-
ing them have met with delay. This
cablegram from Cape Haytien, Hayti,
dated yesterday, shows that the fleet
of transports was making good time
when last signalled.
“Four large American warships were
‘ sighted off the harbor at six o’clock
last evening. They were going in the
direction of Porto Rico.
”The German bark Carl, Captain
Vols, arrived here to-day. Her com-
mander reports that he saw eight Am-
erican warships last night at nine
o'clock off the coast of Hayti.
“He had a se-archlight on his ship
and tried to make out the names of
the Americans, but they were too far
away.”
The following table of distances
shows upon what basis the statement
that the fleet is off Porto, Rico is made:
Santiago de Cuba to San Juan,
Porto Rico 575
Key West, Fla, to San Juan,
Porto Rico . 1,000
vnp‘uvwwlxu GAZETTE _;-Ma
Tampa, Fla, to San Juan, Porto
Rico ...... ' .. ...... . . ............ . 1,200
Charleston, S. C., to San Juan,
Porto Rico 1,190
Newport News, Va., to San Juan,
Porto Rico . 1,280
New York to San .Juan, Porto
Rico ............................ 1,420
"The quantity of artillery taken to
Porto Rico by General Miles and the
character of materials called for by him
strongly suggest the kind of campaign
that will be carried out in Porto
Rico.
It is to be an artillery fight, and the
plan outlined by the war department
is that the artillery be put on the many
hills Commanding the city, the fortifi-
cations and the harbor. 'This will be
done at leisure .and effectively.
Miles Has Begun Blockade.
St. Thomas, D. W. 1., July 25.-—The
German steamer Croatia, which arriv-
ed here to-day, reports that she was
fired upon thrice last night, about eight
miles from San Juan de Port-o Rico, by
a ship said to form part of theAmeri-
can invading squadron. '
The Croatia was boarded by an offi-
cer, understood to be from the United
States cruiser New York. She was al-
lowed to proceed to St. Thomas.
' entered the bay, took three forts and
The Croatia had no intention of en- _
tering San Juan, her captain says.
Oarsmen at Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, July 25.--The second
and last day of the annual regatta of
the National AssOciation of Amateur
Oarsmen saw What were probably the
finest series of races ever seen at a na-
tional regatta. In three of the events
only a few feet separated the first and
second crews. The most sensational
race of Saturday, the closing day, was
the eight-cared shell race which the
Pennsylvania Barge Club’s champion
eight captured from the Argonauts of
Toronto by a few feet, after a grand
struggle.
Between 30,000 and 40,000 persons con-
gregated along the river to watch the
races. Two of the championships were
captured by Philadelphia crews. Ten
Eyck won the senior singles champi-
onship, while the Western Rowing Club
of St. Louis carried off the honors in
the intermediate four-cared shell race.
The Argonauts captured the senior in—
ternational four-cared shell event, and
Amos Kubic of Springfield, Mass, won
the intermediate single scull race. In
the intermediate four-cared shell race
the Seawanhaka crew of New York
was ruled out for not properly turning
the three-quarter flag.
The President Takes an Outing.
Washington, July 25.--Secretary Long
gave an excursion Saturday evening
to the president and several of his ofli-
cial associates and members of their
families. ‘
_ They left the Washington navy yard
on the United States tug Triton, ran
down the Potomac to Mount Vernon
and returned to the yard at 7.30,‘ when
dinner was'served in the house of Ad-
miral C. S. Nortonl the commandant.
Object of Robson’s Visit.
Washington, July 25.--Lieutenant
Hobson’s visit is expected 'to bring
about an enlargement of the plans for
saving the wrecked Spanish
Cristobal Colon and some of the other
stranded ships of the Cervera squad-
ron.
The department already had acted
on the recommendations of Admiral
Sampson, but these, coming by mail
and telegraph, necessarily were limited,
while the complete information brought
cruiser -
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EWithin 4,000 yards
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i
by Lieutenant-Hobson, based on per- I
sonal observations
knowledge of conditions, enables the
department to get a much more thor-
ough idea of the scope of this wrecking
project and the possibilities of saving
the ships.
To Pay for His Snn’s Plunge.
Chicago, July 25.--Seven mortgages,
aggregating $2,000,000, were filed for
record Saturday by Levi Z. Leiter.
They run to the Northwestern Mutual
Life Insurance Company, for ten years,
with 4 per cent. interest. The prop-
erties mortgaged are in the heart of
the down town district, among them
the Grand Pacific hotel. Revenue
stamps to the amount of $996 were on
the, papers.
This is to secure the heavy loan con-
summated by Mr. Leiter in order to
-carry his son, Joseph Leiter, through
his disastrous wheat speculation.
Jimmy Michael Redeem: Himself.
-New York, July 25.--Jimmy Michael,
the little Welch cyclist, me‘t Tom Lin-
'ton of Wales on the Manhattan Beach
cycle track Saturday afternoon in a
twenty-five "mile paced race and re-
deemed himself by beating his oppo-
nent in the presence of more than 15,-
000 people.
Polavieja Sees the Queen.
and an expert’
. now done, except for; a. search for two
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THE “will AT Mill
The Fight Was Short. Sharp and
Decisive. '
FOUR SMALL SHIPS DiDALL
Full Details of Thursdays Battle. Every-
thing Went Our Way as Usual. The
Fine Cuban Harbor of Nipe Now Open ’
'to Our ‘ Fleet. 'rne Forts Find and ;
Mines Were Exploded but No Damage '
Was Done to Our Ships.
Key West, July 24.-—The cruiser To- ,
peka arrived here Saturday morningZ
from Nipe, Santiago province, with de-
tails of the fight of Thursday, July 21, I
in which four small American warships ;
sank a Spanish gunboat. ,
The Wasp, Leyden, Topeka and An-
napolis had been blockading the coast
about Nipe for a week or more. Ad-
miral Sampson for some time had had
his eye on the harbor, which is ten
miles long and four deep, has deep wa-
ter and} will make an admirable base
for colliers and warships. On Thurs-
day he issued orders to take the har-
bor. '
The entrance is narrow and protect-
ed on the western side by a small fort,
where there is a signal station, from
which it was believed mines laid across
the channel were to be operated. On
the eastern side was another small
fort. ,
The Leyden led the way, followed by .
the Wasp, Topeka and Annapolis. As
she passed through the narrow channel
entrance into the harbor two mines!
were exploded near the Topeka. One
blew up a. column of water one hun-
dred yards ahead of her and the other
was two hundred yards on the port
quarter.
As soon as the forts at the entrance
were in range the ships opened on.
them with all guns. They replied, but
their shots were wild and ten minutes
of American gunnery drove the men
from the batteries. They could be' seen
scampering in all directions to get out
of range. Both forts were deserted by
the time the American ships were in
the \channel, and the little squadron
passed into the harbor safely.
Once in the broad bay they saw the
Spanish cruiser Jorge Juan lying off.
Mangle Point, on the eastern side of the
harbor. The American ships circled
around the western shore, and when;
range, opened oni
her. She replied wildly for a. few min-
utes, but her crew were unable to
stand the rain of shot and took to their
boats after a. battle of fifteen minutes’
duration. ' ‘
Their ship was then settling in the
water, and seeing that she was aban-
doned, each of the American vessels
sent boats out to her. By the time
they reached her the cruiser was on
the bottom, with only her upper works
above water. The V’Vasp’s men got the
Spanish colors. The sunken cruiser
was a vessel of 960 tons and carried
three 4.7-inch guns, two 2.8-inch guns
and two small rapid fire rifles. She
was 203 feet long. Her whole how had
been torn away by the American fire,
but whether her sinking was due to
her injuries or to scuttling is not now
known.
Beyond Mangle Point is Point de la
Mercedes, on which are a small town
and a fort. Having finished with the
cruiser, the Topeka landed two shells
in this fort, and the 'shots were an-
swered by a white flag. The work was
small gunboats, mounting one gun
each, which the Cubans said were in
the harbor. The W’asp and Leyden
went in search of them in the inlet.
The Topeka left for Key West at 3
o'clock, and up to that time the gun-
boats had not been found. It is prob-
able that they ran up the Mayora
river.
According to the Cubans the harbor
forts were garrisoned by 500 soldiers.
Our loss was nothing. How many.
Spaniards were killed is not known.
On the way to Key West the Topeka
passed the Puritan, Terror, Cincinnati
and Montgomery. These vessels signal-
led that they were going to Nine.
After the fight it was found that the
~ 'channel was well sown with mines.
The Wasp and Leyden are now at
work taking them up to allow of the
entrance of the other vessels without
danger. 4
While about the Jorge Juan the Am-
erican jackies dived to the cabin and
brought up a number of souvenirs. One
was a board on which was painted the
: motto “Be brave and you will get back
Madrid, July 25.--Genera1 Polavieja.‘
had a. long conference yesterday with
the queen regent.
is maintained as to its purport.
ON THE DIAMOND.
Games Played Saturday.
At New York:
NewYork.. 0 0 2 1 2 1 1 1 ’--8
Baltimore... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0--0
Umpires, Lynch and Andrews.
At Brooklyn:
Boston...... 2 o o o 0 0 o 1 1-44
Brooklyn.... 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0--3
Umpires, Swartwood and Wood
At Philadelphia:
Philadelphial 0 0. 3 0 0 0 2 ‘--6
'Washington. 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0. 0--'2
Umpires, Snyder and Connolly.
At Pittsburg:
Cincinnati.. 0' 1 0 '0 0 0 0 2 0--
Pittsburg... 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0--
Umpires, Gaffney and Brown.
At Cleveland:
Cleveland... 1 0 0 O 1 0 2 0 *-- 4
Chicago ..... 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0--2
Umpires, McDonald and O’Day.
Standing of the Clubs.
Clubs. Won. Lost. P.C.
Cincinnati 56 28 .667
Boston 53 29 .646
Cleveland 50 31 .617
Baltimore .............. 47 32 .595
New York ........ .. 44 37 .543
Chicago .. 46 39 .541
Pittsburg ... . . . . 43 39 .524
Philadelphia; .. .. .. . . . . . 37 41 .474
Brooklyn .. . . . . . . 32 47 .405
Washington . . . . . . . . . . . 30 51 .370
Louisville .............. 28 55 .337]
St- LOUlS noel-0000.00.00. 24 61
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to Spain.”
Thirty Tons of Gold llIoved.
New York, July 25.--One of the larg-
est transfers of gold ever made in this
1 city took place Saturday, when $9,000,-
i
:
.282 ' ever saw the letter.
000 in gold was transferred from the
vaults of the clearing house into the
strong boxes of the sub-treasury.
This transfer was made by the clear-
ing .house as the representative of the
associated banks, and was the final
payment of deposits aggregating $16,-
000,000, representing in weight thirty
tons of the precious metal. These de-
posits were all made during the week.
Where to Land Prisoners. -
Washington, July 25.--The following
dispatch has been received from Gen-
eral Shafter:
Santiago de Cuba, July 22.
H. C. Corbin, Adjutant General, \Vash-
lngton, D. C.:
I am just in receipt of a letter from
General Toral, saying the Spanish sec-
, retary of war desires the troops landed
at Vigo, Coruna, on the Atlantic and
at Santandar. in the bay of Biscay.
. SHAFTER,
Major General Commanding.
Garcia Never Wrote It.
Santiago de Cuba, July 25.--It now
turns out that the letter addressed by
General Garcia. to General Shafter com-
plaining of the treatment accorded the
Cubans and advising General Shatter
of General Garcia’s resignation, was
prepared by a newspaper correspond- ‘,
ent named Arms, who has been acting
on the staff of General Castillo.
It is not clear that General Garcia.
.tachment on shore.
"
WASHINGTON NOTES.
Special Correspondence.
It is doubtful whether the list of.
endeavors to elevate the lives of the
poor and the unfortunate contains the
record of any institution which ac-
complishes more in proportion to its
means than what Mrs. Anna LoWell
Woodbury modestly terms her “school
of cookery” in this city. Mrs. Wood-
bury is a niece of the late James Rus-
sell Lowell, and it is her two brothers,
001. Charles and Lieut. James J.
Lowell, who heroic deaths are com-
memorated with those of four other
young men, in the soldiers’ field at
Cambridge.
When Mrs. Woodbury came to
Washington after the war she saw the
tremendous need on the part of the
newly franchised colored people of
some domestic training. Their girls
[were growing up without the re—
straints and the instruction of the
slave regime, and the new civilizing
tendencies had not yet become opera-
tive. So, in fact of great opposition,
Mrs. Woodbury opened what is still
known as a “cooking school,” although
it aims to teach those things which
will improve the home life of its pu-
pils. Plain cooking, without refer-
ence to hygiene or chemistry, which
Mrs. Woodbury believes belong else-
where, and the elements of good
housekeeping are, of course, the fund-
amentals, although the school goes
much farther and aims to elevate the
intellectual and moral standards of its
pupils. ,
Army and Navy Letter-a.
There is a postal regulation which
has been in force for many years. It
provides: '
”Letters written by officers, commis-
sioncd or non-commissioned, and pri-
vates in the military, naval, or marine
service of the United States, to be
transmitted unpaid must be plainly
marked ‘soldier’s letter,’ ‘sailor’s let-
ter,’ or ‘marine’s letter,’ as the case
may be ,and signed thereunder with
his name and official designation by a
staff or field officer, post or detach-
mcnt commander, to whose command
the soldier belongs, or by .surgeon or
Chaplain at a hospital where he may
be; and .n the navy and marine ser-
, vice by the officer in command of the
vessel, or surgeon on board, or office:
commanding a naval hospital or de-
Letters so certi-
fied will be forwarded charged with
’ postage due at single rates 0111);, to be
collected on delivery.
This was provided to overcome the
3 difficulty in the field or on naval sta-
tions of getting postage stamps. The
provision for payment on delivery at
single rates is to overcome the statu‘
tory provision that all first class mat-
ter shall be prepaid, or else fully paid
with a penalty on delivery.
Second and third class mail will be
forwarded to soldiers in the same
manner as letters. Papers and pack-
ages willbe forwarded from place to
place until they reach the soldier.
' Senator Gormsu’a Future.
The Democratic friends of Arthur
Pue Gorman in Washington and Ma-
ryland have mapped out a future for
him. He is to be succeeded'on March
4 next in the United States Senate by
a Republican, Judge McComas. Some
of his old adversaries have believed
that with the advent of Senator-elect
McComas Mr. Gorman will be retired
forever from public life. The Demo-
cratic friends of Mr. Gorman say that
he has still 4a future before him, and
that he is too valuable a citizen in
public life to be retired incontinently. .
Mr. Gorman has been in public life
.since 1852, so that for nearly fifty
years he has been in public life.
His friends do ‘not believe that he
should now be retired. Already there
is a plan arranged to have him run for
Congress this fall in the Fifth Mary-
land district, to succeed Sidney Eman-
uel Muddi and if Mr. Gorman con-
; sents to the arrangement and is elec-
ted over Mr. Mudd, the Democrats
are determined to make him speaker
of the House of Representatives,
should the Democrats capture Con.
greSs next fall. This is a very pretty
plan all around and it has been ar-
ranged in order to keep Mr. Gorman
in public life. He has become accus-
tomed to Washington life and to af-
fairs of great public moment.
Senator German, it was
known, has the personal friendship of
Senator Murphy of New York and of
all the Democratic senators and Demo-
| cratic congressmen now in Washing-
. ton;
Senator Gorman also has the
personal animosity of some of the
friends of William J. Bryan of Ne—
braska. But animosities in politics
are very frequently changed in order
that victory may be accomplished, and
' the fact remains that the Democratic
friends of Mr. German propose, if he
will consent to the arrangement, to
have him run against Congressman
Mudd, and if the Democrats capture
the House of Representatives, and if
Mr. Gorman defeats Mr. Mudd, to
make him the next speaker of the
House of Representatives. —SEN non.
{ The Origin of Toast.
The word “toast,” used for describing
,the proposal of a health in an after—din-
'ner speech, dates back to med aeval
'times, when the loving cup was still
regarded as an indispensable feature
of every banquet. The cup would be
~ filled to 'the brim with wine or mead,
in the centre of which would be floating
a. piece of toasted bread. After putting
his lips to it the host passed the cup
to the guest of honor on the right hand,
and after it had circulated around the
table it came back to; the host, who
drained what remained and swallowed
the piece of toast in honor of his friends
a. the tabla—Chicago Times-Herald.
New Arrival (Dawson City)—~You
seem the only happy man in the town.
Native—I am, sir. I’ve got dyspep-
sia so bad I can’t eat anything—Judge.
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