. The chicago Record's war stories : by staff correspondents in the field ; copiously illustrated. g held up. ,Men who have grown gray-haired in the navy say that never has ablockade been maintained with such markedsuccess. It is skiff-proof, for several timessmall rowboats have been picked up bythe searchlights and rounded up. The line of blockade is of such length thatthe newspaper obeservation yachts can seebut little at a time. The panorama must betaken in sections, and while a dispatch boatis at one end of the line the warships at theother end may be fighting duels with Span-ish men-of-wa
. The chicago Record's war stories : by staff correspondents in the field ; copiously illustrated. g held up. ,Men who have grown gray-haired in the navy say that never has ablockade been maintained with such markedsuccess. It is skiff-proof, for several timessmall rowboats have been picked up bythe searchlights and rounded up. The line of blockade is of such length thatthe newspaper obeservation yachts can seebut little at a time. The panorama must betaken in sections, and while a dispatch boatis at one end of the line the warships at theother end may be fighting duels with Span-ish men-of-war, unnoticed by observing non-combatants. When a prize is captured it is taken to theflagship New York and reported. Then it isbrought to Key West to lie alongside theother ships which did not pass in the prizes are known in Key West as re-concentrados, and the name is well given,for the United States must feed the crewand passengers until they can make arrange-ments to leave the island. The people aboardthe prizes are not held as prisoners of war; THE CHICAGO RECORDS WAR STORIES 129. ?3*Er SPANISH STEAMER PANAMA—A PRIZE SHIP. they all could leave on the afternoon boatbut for the quarantine regulations and lackof money to pay transportation. A captain of one of the prizes burst intotears when the ensign in command of theprize crew clambered aboard the capturedship. Then he fell on his knees and beggedpiteously to be spared. It seems he wastold last week by a Spanish officer that if hewere to be taken by the American hogs heshould commend his soul to the saints andprepare to die, for the Americans at oncewould cut him open. A member of a crew of another prize at-tempted to commit suicide when he saw theshipping at Key West, for he imagined hewas to be taken ashore and hanged. Theprize masters, as the officers in commandof prize crews are called, have much dif-ficulty in convincing the affrighted Span-iards that they are perfectly safe and needhave no fears as to thei
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