The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 13, 1899, Page 29

THE SUNDAY CALL. 27 The New Kearsarge Will Be the Next Ship Completed. Will @ontaip Forty-Right New Uessels e ! A e set down at d the torpedo in the case are for- under construc- it an expendi- obably much ght of these battleships, any afloat In any navy 1d; sixteen are torpedo boat with an average speed of ; eighteen are torpe- r cruiser to the are heavy har- tions of the ad- been made in the of fighting ships may be > Maine, the Ohio and the ¥ remarkably fine ~tors will take ad- experience obtained e war and some of the > a that have heretofore peen restricted to foreign warships &:il] be embodied in them. These ad- Fokok ok kK K Wk ok &k will be shown In the epeed armament of the vessels. essels that are about ready and they arrived amid the roar of cannon, for service i{s their low rate of speed. There are war vessels building for for- elgn powers that will show eighteen o Savannah’s entertainment was the tugboat ride. cannot exceed sixteen knots. In ths eighteen knots, Maine and her sister ships, however, that defect will be obviated and they more knots, whereas our new vessels too will be able to steam at the rate af to maka machinery ca sh It Is Nipety-Two Per Cent Finished and It Will Be the First Ship of “The New Navy.” r innovation, which practi- es her value as a fighting , is the Introduction of smckeless P Fokdok] Just after the close of the Peace Jubilee at Atlanta last winter President McKinley and his party, consisting of Major Generals Wheeler, Shafter, Keefer and Lawton, left for Savannah. The entire route was ablaze with national colors while the air of “Dixie’”’ was as frequent as that of ‘‘Yankee Doodle.” of the most enthusiastic receptions that the President received on his Southern trip, and among other enjoyable features of Tremendous crowds lined the wharf as far as eye could reach, and to please the committee of entertainment the distinguished guests posed for this photograph, published exclusively in the Sunday Call. ¥ WWWWWWW}!;!}}¥¥¥}¥}}¥¥!!fl}§¥flwwwwwwi * * * * »* It was one x ~ * * X All Now ip Qourse of Qopstruetion powde rapid- guns that will length and will s at the muzzle o the same vel the 6-inch r: energy of foot-tons D other refused to se to the terr The Nictheroy was made a part of the deal and she became Buffalo, fully worth ever) $575,000 that was paid he Amazonas, which had just been com- oSt us $1,42: but as the New she was of great va b an warship pr powder for all b: Her sister ship, the Almira now known nothing more t castle-on-' s cheerfully paying the $250,000 and there i n to t the craft, recently 1 s0 more t for, the will have become a pc geas instead of being relegated secondary position that she has occu- pied for so long. With th naval programme completed w be close behind Russia. in to placement and fighting efiici jumped ahead of ing the activity in mari- recently developed by the Kaiser, who in one year has doubled the personnel of his service, raising the number of officers and men from 12,000 to_25,000. When the fact {s considered that it was-but a few vears ago that this coun- try was actually Inferior to China in its strength on the seas, the wonderful progress that we have made can be bet- ter apprecfated, and the fact that our navy is so new means that it is prac- ticaily quite up to date, and this alone i{s a great advantage in time of conflict. There i8 no reason, therefore, why we should not feel encouraged to believe that with our_great sea-fighting serv- ice of men and ships we would be able to hold our own with any power in the world.