Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 28 December 1900 — Page 7
U. S. CRUISER YOSEMITE
History of the Vessel Lost In a
Typhoon at Guam.
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The United States cruiser Yosemite, •which was sunk in a typhoon off the island of Guam, had been recently the station ship there. She madu /requent trips to Manila and was the only regular means of communication between our little I.adrone colony, with its small American force, and the rest of the world, says the New York Journal. After her last trip she left Manila for Guam on Aug. 22.
The Yosemite was one of tho fleet of merchant ships that this government impressed into service for the war with Spain, equipping them with coats or gray paint, as many machine guns as their crews could handle and plucky sailor men who would have fought as long as they had a deck under them.
The Yosemite was originally the Morgan liner El Slid. She ran from New York to New Orleans with freight for C. P. Huntington's Southern Pacific railroad. She was of 0,179 tons burden, and her engines could drive her at 15 knots an hour if the sea didn't get too much in her way. She changed her name and from a freightship became an "auxiliary cruiser." She was then fitted out and became one of the large squadron of tugs, ferryboats, lighthouse tenders, ocean greyhounds and steam colliers that went out so intrepidly to do battle with the superb fighting machines of the Spanish dons.
She carried ten inch quick fire rifles and a crew that included the naval reserves of Michigan. She was a sister ship, in point of size, equipment and crew, of tlie cruiser Yankee, Commander Brownsou, which carried the New York naval reserves ami which steamed into the Cuban harbor of Guantanamo, exchanged shots with a bit of a cruiser there and leveled a blockhouse on the top of a hill so that it would not be in the way of Colonel Huntington's and Captain McCalla's marines and their big American (lag.
On the Yosemite were many Detroit "dudes." There were, for instance, young Pingroe, son of tho "potato"' governor, who swabbed decks and polished brasswork with a relish that showed he liked it a young man named Davis, Lieutenant Wilkes, Streathern Ilcndriek and Lieutenant Lathrop, a leader of cotillons in the west. Tho auxiliary cruiser, with her crew of "dude" firemen and deck swabs, made better time than site ever had done while bringing cotton and California winos from New Orleans to Manhattan. She sniffed tho Spanish fleet in the offing. On June 25, 1S9S. she arrived at St. Juan, Porto Rico, where she went to relieve Captain Sigs'oee's St. Paul.
Now that the war is over and the information cannot help the Spaniards, it is safe to admit that the Yosemite, navally considered, was as rank a tub as could be sent into action. Any properly equipped warship should have been able to handle her with its secondary batteries. Yet the Yosemite. making a magnificent "bluff," showed her teeth when a small Spanish squadron tried to drive her from her position of commanding San Juan harbor. There were four Spanish ships, the Antonio Lopez, Isabel II, Alfonso XIII and the Concho. They steamed gayly up to tho alleged cruiser. To the surprise of the Spaniards the Yosemite, instead of making her escape, manned her guns, filled them with shell and blazed away.
Spain of course had one of her many Morro Castles close at hand, and this and the Porto Ilican squadron returned the fire. But the Yosemite was shooting to hit, and she drove the Antonio Lopez ashore and chased the other three back into San Juan harbor, where they were glad to find a refuge. The Yosemite was in charge of Lieutenant Commarjer W. II. Emory.
The cruise*- did aborts of blockade duty on the south side of Cuba and assisted at the incidents around Quantanamo, in which Captain McCalla of the Marblehead plucked so many laurels. After the Spanish war the Yosemite was fitted out for service not often performed by an American ship. We had acquired the island of Guam among the Ladrone islands, where the Yosemite was lost. These islands are 5.G89 miles southwest of San Francisco and 1,700 miles from Manila. Captain Richard P. Leary of the United States navy was appointed governor general of Guam, and the Yosemite was fitted out as his floating executive mansion.
She carried to Guam, besides her crew of 285 men, a force of 125 marines as garrison of the island. Her cargo included a distilling plant, horses and carriages, a printing press, buoys for the harbor, garden seedij, chickens, cows, pigs and a bull. Carpenters worked upon her so effectively before she left that she was really a floating executive mansion. There were a large banquet hall, a jail and a courtroom on board. The cruiser left for Guam in May, 1899, in charge of Commander George E. Ide. The marine governor's guard was in charge of Lieutenant A. C. Kelton.
Guam, it is estimated, has a population of 10,000 natives, of whom 6,000 live at Agana, the capital. Governor Leary's administration was largely educational. The natives he found amiable, but ignorant. His proclamations dealt largely with the propriety of tbeir wearing trousers.
French tenor to attempt that field just now. M. Van Dyck satisfies the dra-| matii.- requirements of v-.ose roles, and! Jean dc Kesj:ke. if he continues in good health, will be heard more frequently in the Wagner operas than in tho other works which he has formerly sung here. These three men are tho greatest in their field that the European opera houses possess, and the Polish singer is perhaps the greatest tenor the stage has known. It is interesting. in view of the degree to whieh the United States monopolizes the services of the great singers, that M. de lleszke since he first sang here ten years ago has appeared in Kussia only a few times and for a limited nnnil.-er of performances at the Covcnt tiardcu season. He came here a pour man and has a fortune now.
Both* .Mines. Kemlirieh and Melba, the two greatest eolature sopninos of their time. ire to be hoard hero. Mme. Soinbrioh. who represents tho art of song as it existed only in Adelina I'atti until her practical retirement began. will sing in song recitals and with her own company in tho Italian operas with which her reputation is associated. Tiic Polish soprano is the only woman who occupies in a way the same position before tho public that Ignac-e Paderewski does. Her song recitals as given in New York and Boston Inst winter require only her services and an accompanist. As the profits of these performances amount to $:'.,ooo on the avenge, she is to devote her time to th"11i and operatic performances in the cities not to lie visited by the opera company. Eminent with her in the light eolature operas is Nellie Melba. who remained last printer in Europe. She is the popular Marguerite and Juliette of audiences that are satisfied with the natural beauty of her tiutelike voice and the brilliancy of her vocalization in the florid music of these roles. Mine. Melba has. through the possession of these qualities in such a high degree, proved that a woman may come to great fame on the operatic stage without the gift of histrionic ability. She has come to fortune as weil during the ten years she has sung here. Mine. Melba made her first appearance years ago and came to New York in 189.'5. During that first season she sang for ?r00 a performance, and this year her compensation will be twicc that sum.
Milka Ternina is one of lie younger artists for America, although her fame ill Germany has been established for the last decade, and she came rather inconspicuously to the United States five years ago with one of Walter Damroseh's opera companies. Mile. Ternina is regarded today as the greatest of tile Wagnerian singers who are to carry on the traditions of the school of Lilli Lehmann. Theresa Malten and the great women who have left no successors in their own country except this soprano. She differs from them In that her style is less heroic and vigorous, but she is superior to ail in possessing a method of song more finished and artistic than any of them ever boasted. Mile. Teriiiua is now approaching the end of the thirties and is tints at the very height of her powers. Women as well trained as she sing better at the age of 40 and thereabout than when they are younger, and it requires indeed the full maturity of their talents to enable them to do justice to the great dramatic roles they interpret. Mine. Eanu-s has said that she will not attempt Isolde until she is 40, and that shows her conception of the difficulties of the role. Mile. Ternina is a native of Croatia, and her first language was Italian. Site has lived in Germany since her musical career began, and her oflnentinii fur the lyric stage was acquired from German teachers.
Mine. Schumahn-ITeink. the famous Wagnerian contralto, returns under particularly interesting circumstances, as it is probable that she will not be heard here after this season. Iler large family is kept in lier home near Dresden, and she must be separated from them during the greater part of every year. She is a member of the company nt the ltoyal Opera House in Berlin and lias to be released on long leave of absence to come here for her American tours. She has already told her friends that she intends to remain In Germany after this season and sing regularly in Berlin.
The other notable figures in this cohort of great singers are Edouard de Keszke. Pol Plancon, Antonio Scotti and Giuseppe Campanari. These four men lend themselves readily to classification. For natural beauty of voice Edouard de Keszke and Giuseppe Campanari would be named first, yet for tile highest finish and musicianship in their art Pol Plancon and Antonio Scotti are more eminent.
Of the most distinguished American singers, wiio are practically foreigners so far as their way of life goes and come to their native land only to fill their engagements and then return to Europe, llie most eminent will be missing this year. Mme. Emma Eames Is not in good health and will remain nt her home in Paris during the winter. Mine. Nordica is to be heard with the opera company, and it is rather against the tendency of operatic affairs that she is this year to receive a higher compensation than she ever did before. Mme. Nordica has sung in opera since 1S78, and it usually happens that the earnings of the women singers decline after a certain period. Mme. Nordica took to the heavy Wagner roles, however, and began five years ago an entirely new career, which has brought her more eminence than any of her previous efforts had. Her great success came late, and it Is for that reason that she is now receiving a larger salary than she ever did before. Probably $GO.OOO will be the extent of the profit from her year's work, and that is a sum that ought to satisfy any singer, even 'n flie United States.
Cape Kiiiilei's Being Rapidly
Kiirlosnl 111 British (ien-
cralx Combination.
DISLOYALTY
Fear Kxprossed In London That the Whole ape May .loin the Rising
Civil railway Ira flic litis been suspended largely in all narts of the colony, and the movements ot both the Boers and tho British are almost unknown in Cape Town.
It appears thai olio Boor column attacked Steynsbnrg but was repulsed and tied, entrenching itself in the mountains. Another Boer commando captured a party of police at Venterstadt. Mounted colonial troops surprised .'too Boers 1." miles from l.urghorsdorp Dec. 'JM. and after a brisk interchange of volleys, retired with a loss of two men.
Tho Cape Town correspondent of the Times telegraphs that scarcely any Capo Colonists have joined the invaders.
A IJattle In Progress.
Cape Town, Dee. 20.—Fighting is going on near I)e Aar. Particulars are unobtainable. Two hundred Roers have left Rritstown, after commandeering all available supplies.
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Siffniticaiit Discovery In Kentuck.t State Capital Vault. Frankfort. Ky„ Dec. 20.—One of the clerks in the stale auditor's office in searching the vault for old records, found a cartridge box containing eight metal patched smokeless powder cartridges corresponding exactly to the bullet found in the hackberr.v tree and whieh was believed to have passed through Senator (loebel's body. Tlie significance of the discovery lies in the fact tlint Ilenry Youtsey, convicted of participation in the (ioebel assassination in October, was a clerk in the auditor's office at. the time of the assassination and had accoss to the vault when the cartridges were found, and that: George Barnes, another clerk in the office, testified that he saw Youtsey with a box of cartridges.,
I'rcs dent' \ie-e l»iTiel. Youngstown, O., Dec. 20.—Miss Mamie Stanibough, daughter of Colonel and Mrs. Daniel B. Stambaugh, and Philip (icrahl Cook, a prominent lawyer of Clarendon. X. Y.. were married yesterday fl.t the Stanibough home in this city. The bride is a niece of President McKinley.
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The Kehrllion Tit Tape Colony sinning More Serious Proportions livery Day.
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T.ondon. Pec. 2ii.--Tlie position ot Cape Colony is hanging in the balance. Aecordiim to Cape Town correspond once, everything depends upon th quantity ammunition in posse of the disloyal Dutch residents, of whom have joined the Boers in the Philiptown district' alone. Energetic measures have been taken to stem the, invasion, but there is unquestionably danger that parties of Boers will get through into parts of the colony and gradually raise the whole capo bellioii.
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none too soon. Most of the dispatches from Cape Town describe tho raiders as doing little harm and as being rapidly en-j closed by l.ord Kitchener's eombinn-! tion. I.ord Kitchener is in the heart of the disaffected districts. He has the advantage of being personally acquainted with local conditions. East March ho supervised the suppression of the rising which occurred then. He is bringing down thousands of troops from the north.
The Standard's Cape Town correspondent says tho loyalists demand that martial law shall be proclaimed throughout Cape Colony, but adds: "Such a step is now impossible owing to the lack of sutlicient troops to enforce it."
The correspondent of the Daily Mai! at Cape Town says: "The pro-P.oer press is singularly quiet. They have been made uneasy by the promptness and thoroughness of the military action. but reports from various parts of the western provinces foreshadow perilous possibilities. A responsible colonist who recently made a tour of the colony declares that 00 per cent of the Dutch are simply waiting l'or the appearance of a resourceful leader to rebel."
Yiiqiiis ltepel Troops.
El I'aso. Tex., Dec. 20.—Mexican troops in Sonora, Mex., were recently attacked by a band of Yaqui Indians and four officers and about oO men were killed outright and Colonc.1 Francisco I'einado, one of llie leading officers of tho army, was shot through the stomach and seriously wounded.
iJoutelle's Hesig-nat ion.
Washington. Dec. '_'(!. -The resignation of Captain Charles A. Houtelle of Bangor. Me., as a member of thv .:ouse for the r7th congress will be tendered about March 4. according to an understanding with President McKinlev
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