The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 6, 1897, Page 1

« . The ‘. GREAT BRITAIN’S VOLUME LXXXIIL_NO. 6. SAN FRANCISCO, MON DAY MORNING, DECEMBER 6, 1897. ——=¢ PRICE FIVE CENTS. WARLIKE PLANS IN THE NORTHWEST Increasing Her Naval Strength and Coast Defenses to Keep Pace With the United States. e Py P i VICTORIA, C., Dec. 3.—With all the ity po-sible without exciting sus- n Great Britain is increasing her 1 strength in these waters. Not that trouble with her American expects 1 Ask any officer, civic service in I Iassure you that relations between the two countries never more friendly; that a ruptare the last ing to be thoughtof. He draw your attention to the arbitra- on treaty, (o the ostentatious considera- 1. at in ajest tion sho he United States di matic corps everywhere in the mother country and the attentions shown the British ative at Washington, and conclude with at dear old thread- bare ement about blood being thicker than w ese friendly sentiments, ws that while the heads of nments are hobnobbing v never a thought that e best of feeling can ever e on thie northwest cor- h ent, this almost forgot- s offspr.ng of the British lion is enac at 1ls unsuspecting b just »ss the straits of San lel Fuca, egged on by the parent. This snarling has not vet attracted any attention, bat cannot continue much nout being notic d, and when once the ntion o!f the American Gov- ernmentisdrawn to it there is certain to be a demand made for an explanation. The cause not difficult of solution, and in fact was candidly admitted by an officer of the British Columbia militia, which has charge of the fortifications in this vicinity, two days ago. ngland is alarmed at the awakening of the United States to the necessity of pro- tecting it«elf against possible foreign in- | vasion, and with each step the Americans take towar.i sell-defense Britain intends to take two. Sue professes to have no fear, but she does not intend to allow even her friends to plac2 themselves on an equal footing 1if she can prevent it, Years before the United States made any move toward guarding its western coast, plans for the protection of Vascou- r Island and the mainland of British Columbia were prepared. Successive boards of army engineers were sent out from England with instructions to revise and improve upon the reports of tieir predecessors, until it was thougut that a perfect system of defense bad been pre- pared. This included fortifications on McC Lors of Victoria and Esquimalt, and on the west shore of the latter harbor sweep- ing around Royal Roe Otber batteries we be placed at points along the strai.s to Cape Beale, the southwesterly point of Vancouver Island, to prevent the landing of bostile forces and an attack from the rear. These plans were adopted about ten years ago and the work of construction almost immediately ecun, Esquimalt is the British naval station n the Pacific. Here the largest drydock on the coast is located. It is built of stone and is capable of holding the great- est battle-ships. Its length to the gate is 450 feet on a level with the keel blocks. The width of the gates are 65 feet, while thedepth oi water varies from 27 feet to 6 at the springs, according to the sea- son of the That portion of the British Pacific fleet not on duty on the uth Ametican coast is usunally rendez- voused in the land-locked litile harbor, and in consequence E:quimalt was the first 1o be foruified. v Point, that separates the har- | former ‘years a battery had been planted on the open bluff at Victoria, four miles from Esquimalt, but the guns had become obsolete and the location being 100 much exposed the battery was aban- doned. McCauley Point was chosen for the ini- | tial work and on the extremity sweeping | the entrance to both harbors and facir the American shore, 27 miles to the south, a battery of three 6-inch rifled guns, with an | effective range of 3000 to 4000 yards, was | planted. This completed, another battery | of two guns similar in every respect to the first was planted on Rod Hill, on the west | side of Esquimalt harbor. Botu batteries were mounted o: disappearing carriages and commanded every inch of the ap- proach to the naval station. In addition to these batteries the outer harbor was carefully charted for a system | of torpedoes, and a large number of these | deadly submarme mines were stored at | the station with their anchors, ready to be | placed at an nour’s notice. i Not content with these defenses a sur- reptitious invasion of American waters | was made and soundings taken and charts prepared of the inside passage be- tween Vancouver land as near to the American shore as it was dared toapproach from the boundary line between Washington and British | Columbia south toward Marrowstone | Point at the entrance to Port Townsend | harbor, and then west along the s | Cape Flattery. These soundir | charts are now in the possession of the British authorities ready for use in case ot emergency. Shoud there be an out- break between the two countries the Brit- ish could plant torpedoes well over on the | American side at short notice. | Wit the completion of this work there | was a cessation of preparations, ber ’ Majesty’s war and naval leaders believing | that it would be many years before the United States could hope to cope with such a complete system of defense. But while Uncle Sam paid little or no atten- tion to shore batteries, he was putting up | some marine engines of war that, when completed, brought the British to a sud- den realization that their much-vaunted fortifications were of as little use as Island and the main- | THE BRITISH CRUISER WARSPITE in the Stone Drydock at Esquimalt, the Largest | Structure of the Kind on the Pacific Coast. { iIn | McCauley | | capable of going to sea and would only The completion of the coast-defense vessels Monterev and Monadnock, with their 10 and 12 inch guns, capable of throwing shells from beyond the line of the inner system of torpedoes clear over Point to the naval station, caused tue first feeling of unrest, but the British contented themselves with the thought that the monitors were not L L L R L L L L L R L L LR R L L L R R R L R LR R R R R R L LR R LR L R R R R R LR L] WW“D serve to guard San Francisco harbor. When, however, not only oue, but both, made the cruise to Puget Sound and proved themselves to be most excellent sea-going craft, tha uneasiness deepened | into alarm, whicn was by no means less. ened when the great battle-ship Oregon was added to the American fleet in Pacific waters. But this was mereiy the beginning. Congress, in addition to providirg for more ships for the Pacific fleet, thought it high time to offset the British naval sta- | tion by establishing a similar station on Puget Sound. It cast about for a suitable ocadon, and finally selected Port Orchard, well within American territory and far beyond any danger of attack. Here the initial step was taken by the building of a big drydock, and plans were prepared for a fully equipped navy-yard. Before the full significance of tk1« move dawned upon the British authorities Con- gress began an elaborate system of coast aefense, and in pursuance of this jast plan decided to plant a powerful battery under the very muzzles of the guns at Esquimalt. Marrowstone Point, at the entrance to Port Townsend harbor, was selected as the site for this battery, and a better choice could not have been made. Barely thirty miles from Victoria, this battery, when completed, will not oniy zuard the entrance to the harbor, but will | effectually block any attempt of a hostile fleet to get up the sound to the Port Orchard Navy-yard and levy tribute on the rich cities of Seattle and Tacoma. It also goards the inside passage and the siraits as well. W has been begun on this fortifica- tion and will be pushed to rapid comple- tion. A battery of 12-inch rified guns, mounted on disappearing carriages and manued by three companiesof troops, | INNER HARBOR AT ESQUIMALT, mistress of the Great Northwest to second place. But England is determined that her western province shall not be completely at the mercy of the Americans, itwould take many years and immense and, as WWKKBHKEKEK!KBID NEWS OF THE DAY Weather forecast for San Fran- cisco—Cloudy Monday, probably rain; southeasterly winds. FIRST PAGE. England’s Northwest Strength. SECOND PAGE. Epidemics of the Y Pro-Cuban Poli Corbett and Fiiz M Try to Biackmail a THIRD PA McKenna to Be No Congress Ready to Comptro'ler Eckels Revorts, Mother McKinley’s State. FOURTH PAGE. Leprosy Spréading Death of Judge Ry Russia's Power in t Vessels in Heavy Gales, FIFTH PA Yorke on the King Baseball Hapuenings. SIXTH PA Editorial. Congress and Business, Unsettled, but Fav The Letter-Carriers’ Bili, The Pure-Food Crusade, Germany and Hay The Coast Press, News of Foreign Navies, R cord-Breakng a Personals. SEVENTH P. Elks' Lodge of Sor: Turner’s Lots of M EIGHTH PAGE. Paulist Fathers Fight Vice, Jurors Saw & Wide-Open Town. News of the Water NINTH PA News From Across TENTH PAGE. Notes of the Natio; ELEVENTH Births, Marriages, TWELFTH PAGE. Pickpockets Attend Church. Ordination at Gree Queries. ar. Backed Up. av Fight. Millionaire. GE. minated. Meet. Here, land. he Orlent. GE. 's Highway. GE. orable. ti. t the Mint. AGE. row. any Owners. Front. GE. the Bay. mal Guard. PAGE. Deaths. k Churcb, 3 a 3 ;% % ; é 3 s 3 | a ; g 'fifl‘, " “ outlay to remodel the fortifications she thought were impregnable, she is doing now what the Americans did in the be- cinning—strengthening her naval fleet. Hitherto one modern vessel for the flag- ship and a few ships that were of little or no effectiveness were considered suffi- cient for the British fleet on the Pacific station; but be ore long Rear-Admiral Henry St. B. B. Palliser, the commander of the fleet, will have a poweriul squad- ron of large and small vessels under his command. At present he has the Imperieuse, a first-class twin-screw armored cruiser of 8400 tons register end carrying fourteen guns, which is his flagship. She is at present lying at Vancouver, but is ex- pected at Esquimalt any day. Besides, there is the Amphion, a second-class twin- screw cruiser of 4300 tons register and carrying ten guns, and the steel torpedo boats Nos. 39 and 40, that are housed-in 2t Esquimalt but ready for instant service. Built for great speed, these little craft are capable of inflicting fearful damage toa hostile fleet. While these are all the ships actually here, heavy re-enforcements are on the way, and may drop anchor in the harbor any day. These vessels are the Leander and Phaeton, sister ships to the Amphion in every respect; the Pheasant,a first- class screw gunboat of 755 tons, and the Sparrowhaxk and Vira:o, twin-screw torpedo-boat destroyers, making in ail a most formidable fleet. Several 9-inch rified guns, with a range of four and a haif miles, have recently been delivered at the Esquimalt naval station, and it is purposed to replace the 6-inch guns mounted at McCauley Point and Rod Hill with these in the near future, The two shore batteries are in charge of sixty men of the Royal Marine Artillery and forty men of the Royal Engineers. They are drilling the provincial militia in the use of ihese guns, and in case of emergency the latter would be called upon for service. The two foriifications are most jeal- ously guarded and no civilian is allowed to approach anywhere near. A heavy barbe gy ire fence entirely surrounds both batteries, and within the inclosure a line ot sentries sitand guard day and nignt with loaded rifles to keep trespassers away. Such a thing as a camera is not toler- ated within gunshot of either post. Even at the naval station the utmost care is manifested that no objectionable person enters the grounds. At the gate one is met by a jaunty sentry, who, upon hear- ing request for permission to visit the grounds, disappears in the barracks and soon returns with a register in which the visitor must write his name and address. Another marine is summoned, and taking | though they had been demotished by an | will soon be in position, and will reauce | Footpads at Work Again. the visitor in charge conducts him to the enemy. | British Columbia from the position ot| qumx.unuw quarters of the commanding officer, where { | - + — | % oy A guen Tl | © A (&o‘g‘;‘tfi"v 2oL a0 v E B G Fibaigs . e B 5 | ¢ Pt & P | & IRE S ) | fl} &Q\G D | O N\ - EsqummT T GBS ) o §e’z-'a. xS Dy e ny ST S e Y g .9 .%'i\k,‘s‘,z., witlEA ead” % 1 35 2144 ¢ Catver i syv{f‘" : B ¥ race Rocke % : »* Bbr L TETYeG L = T,o >_Iu¢":"' At r Lt e 4 5 7 *us,_) S K b % & gt SR, - NAUTICAL MILES L0k SR eath 34 gorT NSENGS 2 {\3& MAP OF VICTORIA AND ESQUIMALT HARBORS, Showing the Location of the Different Batteries, the Torpedo Surveys and the American Battery on Marrowstone Point. With the British Fleet on the Pacific S Acluding guns for the ation Lying the register is inspected and permission to go through tbe station i1s granted or | denied. If granted, the visitor is con- ducted by the marine around the place, but is never for an instant left to himsel?, | and any attempt to make a note of what | he :ees or hears means his instant expul- sion from the grounds. Not until he | passes through the outer gate is tne vis- itor left to himself. And when one has made a tour of the | station be has seen but little, not a tenth | of the interesting things to be seen at | Mare Island Navy-yard. A few low brick | structures, which he is told are the maga- | zines and where the sub-marine torpedoes are siored, the officers’ and men’s quar- ters, a number of guns of assorted caliber, a small wharf projecting into one of the loveliest little bodies of water to be found anywhere and tbe great stonedrydock are the main attractions. Esquimait consists of two harbors, the outer and inner. The outer harbor is commonly called Royal Roads and is little beter than an open roaastead, but lying close up under the high shore of the island is sheltered from the west and north winds. The inner harbor is reached by a narrow passage between McCauley Point and Rod Hill, and, though small, isaecep and af- fords perfect shelter for a large fleet of ships, which from present indications Great Britain seems determined to have stationed here within a brief period. For while the United States is serenely pro- tecting its coast from a long-standing menace, its neighbor, chagrined at not | being permitted to ve alone in making warlike preparations, displays its fangs and growlsan idle threat which it knowe will be of no avail. —_ FOR COAST DEFENSES. Leading Congressmen Who Favor Ccmplation of the Work of Erect- ing Needed Fortifications. NEW YORK Dec. 5.—The Washing- ton correspondent of the Hera!d tele- graphs: The libsrality heretofore shown by Congress in providing for the navy | and coast defense will probabBly be lacking during the coming session. Members of both houses with whom I have talked be- lieve the increase of the navy will be lim- ited to one battle-ship and a few torpedo boats, and some, in view of the armor controversy, think even a battle-ship wiil not be authorized. Leading members of the House believe the expenditures for coast defenses should be reduced on the ground that the receints from’ the Ding- ley law will not permit of large appro- priations. There is no doubt that two regiments will be added to the artillery arm of the military service, and it is generally con- ceded that 1000 enlisted men at least will be added to the navy. It is not likely | that al! of the docks recommended bv Secretary Long will be authorized. It seems improbable aiso that an armor | plant will be established. Senator Hale of Maine, chairman of the Senate Committee on Naval Affairs, said to-day: “‘The armor plate contro- versy will have a discouraging effect upon appropriations for the increase of the navy. We must effect a settlement of that question durine the coming ses- sion and appropriate sufficient money to procure armor for the battleships Ala- bama, Wisconsin and Illinois, now under constracticn. Treasury receipts are low, and this, of course, wili tend to cause Congress to make comparsatively small appropriations ‘or new naval structures, 1 think we will authorize one more battie- ship and several torpedo-boats and tor- pedo-boat destroyers.’” Senator Chandler, a Republican mem- ber of the Senate, said: “I am not for building any more battleships until we can buy armor at reasonable cost. 1 am opposed to the establishment of a Govern- ment plant, but I will strenuously fight any proposition to give the armor com- panies an unreasonable price. Our battle- ship building has come to an end. We need torpedo-boats and there should be liberal appropriations for ordnance, in- at Anchor Near the Drydock. American line. I tavor liberal appropria- tions for coast defenses.”” Representative Cannon of Dilinols, chairman of the Appropriations Com- mittee of the House, saii: ‘‘Wherever there are great blocks of povulation on the coast, and in the event of war black- mail could be levied, protection has been or will be vrovided. This can be done without very great additional expendi- ture.” Senator Hawley, chairman of the Sen- ate Military Committee, said: ‘A liberal appropriation must be made for coast de- fenses. I think $5,000,000 for engineering work will be appropriated, and adequaie appropriation for the building of guns ba made. In addition, some 160 ariilery- men are absolutely needed to take care of the high-power guns now being erected.” Senator McBride of Oregon said: *“In my judgment the policy for providing for coast defenses should be continued. [ believe it would be a wise policy to au- thorize contracts and make appropriae tions sufficient to complete the entire sys- tem of coast defenses hitherto projected, | and to authorize the President, in his dis- cretion, to cause work to b done as rap- idly as he snal deem nece-sary.’’ MARTIAL LAW EXTENDEL. Besides the City of fio Jansiro It Now Covers 1hree States of Erazil. Copyright, 1897, by James Gordon Bennett. BUENOS AYRES, Dec. 5—In view ot the present distuibed condition, says the Herald correspondent in Rio Janeiro, Brazil, the order of martial law, which was intended only for the city of Rio Janeiro, has been extended and now em- braces the States of Rio Janeiro, Parana and Sao Paulo. 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