New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 26, 1916, Page 10

Photos by American Press Association. 1—Deck view of the battleship Oklahoma toward the Brooklyn navy yard immediately after her completion. One of the fighting towers. 4.—Battery of five fourteen-inch guns. Another deck view. T is not possible at this time to get a line on the comparative strength of the navies of the world, as neither England, Germany, France nor Russia has made known the number of vessels that have been added to its fleet since the outbreak of the war. There is no doubt that the strength of the different navies has been greatly increased, and it is said that this is especially true in Eng- land’s case. There is little possibility, however, that any foreign nation has built a battleship that equals in size and equipment the new United States| superdreadnaught Oklahoma. This | . battleship cost approximately $15,000,- 000. She has a displacement of 27,500 tons and an armament of ten 14-inch guns, twenty-one 5-inch guns, four 8-pounders, two 1-pounders and two 8-inch fieldpieces, two machine guns and 21-inch torpedo tubes. Her length is 575 feet, with a beam of 95 feet, the portion below the water level being 28 feet 6 inches. The battleship is man- ned by 63 officers and 1,009 men. The contract called for a speed of 203 knots an hour. The Oklahoma is fitted only for the burning of oil fuel, and for this reason 2—~The dreadnaught steaming B B there is a vast saving in the space usually required for coal bunkers. For this reason also only one smokestack is required, and she forms a striking contrast in appearance with the oth- er dreadnaughts now in service in the United States navy. The Oklahoma represents to a greater degree than any of her predecessors the united experlence and thought of the variolis branches of the naval serv- ice, and the officers of both line and staff unite in the belief that she is the most powerful vessel yet completed. The following table, covering the Oklahoma with the other modern American battleships in commission, shows the steady progression in bat- tleship construction in this country. Laid Ship. Tonnage. Guns. down. South Carolina and Michigan .. 16,000 Delaware and North Dakota Utah and Florida Arkansas and W ming 3 New York and Texas Oklahoma - and Ne- vada ..... 00 10 14-inch 1912 The weight of the projectiles fired in 8 12-inch 1906 10 12-inch 10 12-inch 1907 1909 20,000 ,003 12 12-inch 10 14-inch 1910 1911 26,400 27,000 NEW. BRITAI$ DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1916. would be 124,000 pounds, of whic forty 14-inch guns would hurl and the eight 12-inch guns pounds. The principal interest of the new ship lles in her great defensive power. Not only does she carry a much greater weight of armor than has been car- ried by any ship built, but the armor has been disposed to greater advantage. The chief duty of a warship is to main- tain her stability and her mobility and at all times present a completely pro- tected emplacement for her guns. In other words, she must not only carry her suns into the fight, but she must the a broadside from these twelve ships nurse them through all its savage | hammering effectually that shall able pour shells into enemy until they have silenced or him to the bottom. In the c of the | armor belt thirteen | inches thick and the casing of the | barbettes thirteen inches. In the tur-| |rets the armor varies from nine to | elghteen inches in thickness, and the armor of the conning tower and tube | The covering of the inches thick and they the sent be to o is Oklahoma the and one-half |is sixteen inches. gun deck three that of the protective deck two inches. | An important feature of the side armor of the Oklahoma is the way in| | which the plates are attached to thel | which the older ships the inged horizontally in two with a continuous horizofital seam, is slightly above the water line, between the upper and lower strips. This arrangement ous point of weakness near the water line at a most vulnerable point. In the new ship the armor plates are laid vertically and extend the whole depth of the belt. in America May Have Greatest Navy. It will world there impossible that America have the greatest n in the after the present v Should be several decisive sea battles is not presents a continu- | jand a large number of German and British vessels are sunk it would place America fir England has suffered more naval losses than any other coun- try, having lost a total of forty-four warships, with a total tonnage of 284,- 504. Germany has lost sixty-nine ves- sels, having a total tonnage of 238,904. Principal losses of British naval ves- sels to date are as follows: BATTLESHIPS. Audacious Bulwark . Formidable .Irresistible . .Ocean Goliath Triumph . Ma King Ed’d VII CRUISERS. Aboukir Cressy Hogue Hawke ... Good Hope . Monmouth LIGHT CRUISERS. Amphion >athfinder . Pegasus . Hermes . SUBMARINES. Sept. 14. Oct. 18. Nov. 3 De April 17 April 30.. AUXILIARY CRUISERS. Oceanic Rohillo 1,408 Vikno 384 “lan M'N'g'ton 4,088 Bayano .. . 5,940 7,274 In addition to the foregoing list, ac- cording to press reports, possibly five or six more English submarines have been lost. Many tugs permanently or temporarily in the British navy service have been sunk, either while engaged in laying or sweeping for mines. England, France, Russia, Japan, Italy, Germany, Austria and Turkey have lost a total of 619,650 tons of war vessels, including battleships, crulsers, gunboats, submarines, and other types of naval craft. The large tonnage of warships lost by England, France, Rus- sla, Japan, and Italy during the first yvear of the war was 326,855, while in the same period Germany, Austria, and Turkey lost an aggregate of 262,791 tons. The recapitulation by countries follows: ENTENTE ALLIES Ships. Tonnage. England . 284, France 50 | Russia | Japan . Italy Total Germany . Austria . Turkey All the Nation Joins In Honoring Memory of William McKinley on Anniversary of His Birth N Jan. 29, 1843, William Mec- Kinley was born in the little village of Niles, O. He died in Buffalo on Sept. 14, 1901, as a result of a wound inflicted by an as- sassin. McKinley was the twenty-fifth president of the United States and at the time of his death had just started his second term. All the nation joins Ohio in honoring his memory on the anniversary of his birth. His native state has made the day somewhat of a holiday, and memorial services are held in many cities. McKinley is remembered as one of the most popular and loved presidents that the United States ever had, The Republ n national convention nomi- @ated him for president in 1896, and he William McKinley and Memorial That Is Being Erected In Honor of His Memory. was elected over Willlam J. Bryan in the November election. During his term the United States engaged in war with Spain and at its close entered on a new era of expansion. In 1900 Mc- Kinley was renominated and re-elect- ed, he taking the oath for the second time on March 4, 1901. Accompanied by Mrs. McKinley and a group of near relatives and friends, President McKinley, after spending a vacation at his home in Canton, went to Buffalo on Sept. 4 to visit the Pan- American exposition. While holding a public reception in the Temple of Mu- sic on Sept. 6 the president was twice shot by Leon Czolgosz, a Polish an- archist. He lingered for a week, re- taining consciousness to the last. Ad- vised that the end was near, he re- sponded: “Goodby, all; goodby. It is God's way; his will be done, not ours.” William McKinley was married to Ida Saxton, daughter of James and Katherine Saxton, in Canton on Jan. 25, 1871. They were the parents of, two daughters, Katherine and Ida, both of whom died in infancy. Mrs. McKin- ley died on May 26, 1907. Now in process of construction near his birthplace at Niles there is one of the most magnificent memorials to be found anywhere in the country. The memorial was provided for by an act of congress signed by President Taft March 4, 1909, and was the first act that he signed as president. An asso- ciation was formed to carry out the work, and Colonel Joseph G. Butler, Jr., of Youngstown, the boyhood friend and companion of Mr. McKinley, was chosen to take active charge as presi- dent. The memorial building when com- pleted will be valued at more than $200,000 and will stand in a beautiful park donated by the town of Niles, valued at $50,000 additional. The per- sonal relics associated with the career of Mr. McKinley will be here assem- bled. There will be a library, a relic room, a public auditorium and head- quarters for the Grand Army of the Republic and Spanish War veterans. The cornerstone of this memorial was laid on Nov. 20, 1915. Concerning the President Taft said: “William McKinley was a man whom it was a great pleasure and inspiration to know. His high patriotism, his steadfastness of purpose and devotion to duty, his gentleness, his cheering optimism, all endeared him to those who came into personal touch with him as well as to the gemeral public. who memorial former acquired their knowledge of him from his long service to the country. He was a man who rose to the exigency and whose capacity and greatness impress- ed themselves upon every one, even his intimates, as the crisis in the country's welfare developed. The demands of the Spanish war and the enormous re- sponsibilities that followed it called out his innate abilities and seemed to expand them in a marvelous way." Former President Roosevelt said: “Most cordially T wish to reaffirm | what I said at a banquet in Canton, O, | on Jan. 27, 1903, which v held in | honor of the birthday of the late presi- | dent: ‘It was given to President Mc- Kinley to take the foremost place in our political life at a time when our country was brought face to face with problems more momentous than any whose solution we have ever attempt- | | ed, save only in the Revolution and in | the civil war, and it was under his | leadership that the nation solved these | mighty problems all right. Therefore he shall stand in the eyes of history not merely as the first man of his gen- | eration, but as among the greatest fig- ures in our national life, coming sec- ond only to the men of the two great | crises in which the Union was founded | and preserved.’” | President Wilson sai “I am sure I am expressing only the feeling of the whole country when I say that such a memorial as is being erected to him by your association ex- | presses the deep admiration and affec- tionate esteem not only of the people of Ohio, but of the whole nation, for a president who did his duty with con- scientious solicitude and who lost his life in its performance. | “Cyclone” Wears a Collar | yclone” Davis, representative from s, has succumbed to the whims of zation. He startled his colleagues | v appearing on the floor of the house the other day wearing a linen collar and a calico shirt decorated with pink flowers. Davis explained his “change of front” | as follows: | “Kver since I came to Washington | my wife wept daily because 1 wa dubbed the ‘collarl congressman.’ | This morning when I had finished | dressing with my muffler buttoned in place she began to cry. I inquired the reason, and she explained to me. 1 purchased a collar and a shirt. | “I don’t know what my constituents | will say when they hear about this, but anyhow I am going to keep peace in | the family, even if I have to break my vow. This is the first collar I have | WOra in mare than twenty vears!” rAndWrew Carnegie; Who WIli Die a Poor Man, Enjoying Vacation on Houseboat Off Florida Coast who has past sev- NDREW CARNEGIE, been trying for the eral years to give of his money and who often expressed the wish to dle poor man, is greatly enjoying his win-| ter vacation, which is being spent on | a houseboat in the waters adjacent to| Florida. Mr. and Mrs. Carnegie and | a small party compose the inhabitants| of the Everglades, which is under com- mand of Captain A. S. W. Several weeks will be spent on the waters of the southland, where it is al- ways warm and where the sun always shines. The boat is new and has every convenience. Mr. Carnegie has a fortune today of only $20,000,000. Of the vast wealth which the ironmaster possessed when he started giving away his money in conformity with his principle of dying poor, that is all he has left. He is now far down on the list of America’s rich men Mr. Carnegie has given away about $350,000,000. If interest were to be in- cluded on some of the funds he has set aside the total would reach nearly $400,000,000. This sum he has given away in pursuance of his belief, as ex- pressed by Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, president of the Carnegic foundation, that the man who dies possessed of great wealth and who devotes no part of it to the public use has failed in life. The $20,000,000 which Mr. Carnegie has left he has devised in his will al- most entirely to charity. Very little| will go to his family. Thus, when his | will is made public, it will be found that he really made good his boast of dying poor. There is, strictly speak- | ing, no record like his in this or any other country. The actual amount of Mr. Carnegie's present fortune was disclosed by one| of the ironmaster's closest friends, a| man who has had the direction of the disposal of much of this great wealth. While preferring that his name be not used, this friend made it clear that he believed the time had come to make known the extent of Mr. Carnegie's wealth today in proof of his deep sin- cerity of purpose and of the manner in which he had carried out his formula of the responsibility of private wealth. | Mr. Carnegie's fortune ed| largely of the first mortgage bonds of | the United States Steel corporation. The price pald for the Carnemis Steal away all | Photos by American Press Assoclation. Andrew Carnegie, His Houseboat, the company was $420,000,000. Of this Mr. Carnegie and two relatives received $213,000,000. Before the Stanley com- mittee Mr. Carnegie testified that his personal share of this was $207,900,000 Naturally the inter on this accumu- futed fast in the years before Mr. Car- negie's largest gifts were made. Most of these gifts to institutions and for the founding of charities have been in steel bonds. Apparently he has given away nearlv if nat all of them. Everglades, and Captain A. S. Wallace Mr. Carnegle owns considerable redl estate. Besides the place on Fifth avenue, he owns the famous Bkibe castle with its large estate in Scotlagd and a place at Bar Harbor. The {a- come on his present fortune of $20,000- 000 is $1,000,000 a year, enough, he haf found, to live on and maintain thesi places, but small in comparison with the income of more than $10,000,000 which he received at one time from thd Steel bonds alome.