The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 19, 1901, Page 27

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 19, 1901, PRESIDENT McKINLEY GREETS THE SOLDIERS ON THE SHERIDAN ON HIS WAY TO LAUNCHING R Government Tug Slocum Carries the ChiefExeeu- tive to the Launching Many Are in the Party and the Voyage Is a Triumphal Proeession guests oard, steamed L 8 from the Folsom-street wl o’clock erday hes nd turned her prow The < gracious Those who d and tk Sheridan. changed his of going Worl in blue delighted prow mounting toward ealized v and cheer from along to starboa the soldie sudden corncentratic on t ¥ m was un- of the men jungles of far lusty and spon- cheer as ever rose from the triumphant soldiers. An Inspiring Scene. McKinl bowed, his head His features took on a seri- ful expression. His mind was far away, his thought with the vho fought and bled for the stars hen he looked upward and e to the transport that the s could see the play of ought on his features. An- upward. At ‘this round the Sheri- From west to ted as the noise of President end 1 As the m rounded the Sheridan and again aded for the scene of the launching McKinley wheeled around and wistful look backward. The si- lence was unbroken after that for several en the Slocum rushed into the sput- g fire of the salute from the men-of- President and all turned toward ess of the day. ——— Will Not Pay Jurcrs. torney Louls Boardman presented a 18 yesterday to Auditor Wells s made out in favor of J. R. Pow- e being for services rendered as a trial ome time ago. Wells holds, as in se of the Panhandle Appraisers, that ilis of one year cannot be paid out of ear’s funés. Boardman expected e Auditor would not sign the de- d, and he will take the matter to determine the validity of tne law the Legislature providing for mpensation of jurors. There is scme $ nvolved in the proposition. e e S sed o Golden Gate Circle. Circle of the Women of arranged for an open hall in the Odd “elliows’ riday night for the pur- ning the friends of mem- programme of varied instrumental and vocal n prepared. ————— Vermonters’ Picnic. The annual picnic of the Native Sons of will be given on Saturday, May Fernbrook Park, near Suncl. In the and notably on “Dewey day,” tke picnics of the Vermonters have been en at some of the grounds in the Santa Cruz mountains, but as they now wish to have thelr guests enjoy more hours at the by has past grounds and be worried with fewer hours of travel, they have selected a nearer vc- The Ve epa gramme for sort. d an PRESENTS OHIO WITH BATTLESHIP PAINTING Manager of Call Sends to Governor Nash a Souvenir for A SPLENDID souvenir of the launching of the great battle- ship Ohio has been presented by W. S. Leake, manager of The Call, to the State after which the vessel was named. The souvenir is an oil painting of the battleship by W. A. | | Buckeye State. | l Coulter, The Call’s marine artist. The following letter accompanied the painting, which weas sent to Governor Nash: SAN FRANCISCO. May 15, 1001, Hon. George K. Nash, Governor of Ohio, Palace Hotel, San Francisco, Cal.—Dear Sir: The building of the new United States navy began in San Francisco with the construction of the | Charleston. Here was built the Oregon. the best ship up to her time that was ever wedded to the waters. We believe that the lengthening list of ships of the line, produced by the skill of our mechanics, has now had added to it the ranking war craft of the world in the battleship Ohio. We Lnow the State for which she is named. Can its story ever fade from history? From its rural homes Cadets Grant and Sheridan went to West Point on their road to an unexcelled fame, and by Ohio firesides, trained by good Buckeye mothers, five Presidents of this republic were pre- pared for the most exalted station in the world. California has keenly enjoyed the presence of Ohio’s Presi- dent of the United Statcs, her Governor and her Congressmen, and the representatives of her press, to attend the launching of a great ship. Your State was once a frontier. Where you are now is to be always a frontler. Here the greatest continent and the great- est ocean meet. Man changes the condition of the land; tames and tills it. He plants forests where none grew before, and de- stroys those which nature planted; so that, as the ages roll by, the primitive and natural is displaced by the artificial. But not ®so the ocean. No hand restrains its tide. Its great currents flow unchecked and the tempests rage themselves to exhaustion; and man is helpless while they are abroad upon the waters. To those who live by the sea and those never reached by its ever-sound- San Francisco Call. A. Coulter. ing voice, its mystery and romance are everlasting. | That you might take back to your distant people a slight re- | minder of the ship you will launch, it has been thought well that you carry back with you this painting of the great ship Olio, which I take pleasure in presenting to you on behalf of the It is the work of our marine artist, Mr. W. He was a sailor, and in that life of hardy adventure which he followed wherever on enough to float a ship and wind enough to fill her sails, he ac- quired that Lknowledge of marine architecture and of rig, and of the moods of wave and weather, which puts the charm into his painting of ship and sea and sky. This painting will be seen by the people of the rugged old the globe there was water Buckeye State of Ohio, and if the flag be threatened and this steelcind defender meet an ememy’s fleet In battle and survive or perish in the shock, they will make pilgrimage to this, as to the portrait of one of the warrior wons of the State, and nurse their patriotism upon the story of her achievements. Yours sincerely, W. S. LEAKE. T T R . % S S R A T e L B The train carrying the Vermonters and their guests will leave this city at 9 a. m and return at 5:30 p. m. Sullivan’s Forgeries. A third charge of forgery was filed in Judge Lawlor's court yesterday against Daniel J. Sullivan for forging the name of Judge Cabaniss to an order on the Treas- urer for $1610 ball money. He was held to answer on the charge by Judge Conian, Two indictments had been previously filed against him in Judge Lawlor's court by the Grand Jury for forging the name of Judge Mogan to orders on the Treasurer, at the request of the defendant’s attorney the Judge fixed the bonds on each case in DESCRIPTION OF THE LATEST NAVAL TERROR Ohio Will Be One of the Most Formidable En- gines of Destruction in the World’s Navies HE Ohio is a’sister ship of the Maine, now building 2t the works of the Willlam Cramp & Sons Ship and Engine Building Com- pany, and of the Missouri, build- ing at the vard of the Newport News Ship Building and Dry Dock Com- pany. The hull, which is divided like those of the most recent battleships, is built of steel and is unsheathed. It is 338 fect long on the load-water line, 72 feet 215 inches extreme breadth and, at a mean draft of 28 feet 6 inches, displaces 12,230 tons. The hull is protected abreast of the beil- ers and engines by a side armor oelt ex- tending 3 feet € inches above the load- water line and 4 feet below it, .aving a thickness of 11 inches for a depth of 4 feet 6 inches, tapering to 7% inches at the bot- tom of the belt, and by the casemate armor € inches thick, which extends from the side belt to the upper deck and is worked from the center of the forward to the center of the after barbette. At the ends of this casemate armor alagonal armor, 9 inches thick extends from the sides of the vessel to the barbette armor. In the casemate thus formed are placed ten of the 6-inch guns. Above this, on the upper deck, four of the é-inch puns are placed, in the vicinity of which 6-inch armor is worked far enough forward and aft to afford protection to the crews of these guns. Vitals Amply Protected. Protection is afforded the vitals of the ship below the water line by a protective deck worked flat within the casemate, and with slopes forward and aft of it. The deck is worked in two thicknesses of plat- ing, the total thickness on the flat being 2% inches, while that on the slopes for- ward and aft is respectively 3 inches and 4 inches. Cofferdams are built on the pro- tective deck from the diagonal armor bulkheads to the bow and stern in the vicinity of the water line, and on the berth deck for mearly the length of the vessel. All of these cofferdams are filled with corn-pith callulose. The main battery of the ship consists of four 12-inch breech-loading rifles, placed in two balanced turrets, and six- teen 6-inch rapld-firing guns. The turrets are turned by electricity, and the motors used for this purpose can revolve one of these great turrets through 360 degrees in one minute. The armor of both the turrets and barbettes 1s 12 inches thick. Ten of the 6-inch guns are within the casemate, as before stated; two others are on the berth deck forward in 6-inch armored sponsons, and four are on the upper deck. Those in the sponsons for- ward and two on the upper deck can fire There are two military masts fitted with the usual signal yards, tops and topmasts; two tops are built to each of these masts. The foremost is located in the usual way over the forward conning tower, the foundation of the tower forming the lower part of the mast. The armor of the for- — A WILL HANG IT ATIONG GOVERNORS’ PORTRAITS Painting of the Ohio to Have Honored Place in Gubernatorial Office. MAGNIFICENT oil painting of the battleship Ohio will have a place among the portraits of the Buckeye State hanging in the office of the Chief Executive of that commonwealth. Governor Nash states in the letter in Governors of the which he accepts for his State the painting of the war vessel pre- sented by W. S. Leake, manager of The Call, that it will have a place of honor in the State gallery, where it may be viewed by the In his letter Governor Nash says: PALACE HOTEL, SAN FRANCISCO, May 16, 1901. Mr. W. S. Leake, San Francisco, Cal—My Dear Mr. Leake: I am in receipt of your esteemed favor of the 15th inst, in which you commission me to take back to the people of Ohio, on behalf of the San Francisco Call, a splendid painting of the battleship Ohio. For them I beg to thank the proprietor of your paper for this souvenir of the Izunching of this battleship. It will be placed in the Governor's office in the Capitol at Columbus, where it will be preserved among the portraits of the Ohio Governors. The people of Ohio appreciate most highly the great honor conferred upon them by those in authority in permitting this de- fender of the nation to be christened with the name of their State. They will forever love her, and if her ofiicers and men are ever put to the supreme test of battle, their hearts will be made brave and their arms will be upheld by the earnest prayers of more than four million patriotic people. I wish to congratulate Mr. Coulter, the artist, on his skillful reproduction of the Ohio. ‘With kind regards to you personally, I am, faithfally yours, people. directly ahead, and the other two on the upper deck directly astern,-in addition to having a broadside fire. The secondary battery consists of six 3- inch rapld-firing guns, eight 6-pounder rapid-firing guns, six l-pounder rapid-fir- ing guns, two Colts and two 3-inch rapid- firing field guns. A new feature iIntroduced in the of- fensive power of this ship is the sub- merged torpedd tube. While submerged torpedo tubes are not mew abroad, Ger- man warships having been equipped with them for a number of years, the Ohio and her class are the first battleships of our navy to be supplied with them, though prior to her construction many vessels of the United States navy were fitted with torpedo tubes above the water line. The Ohio will have two of these tubes, one on each side of the vessel, situated about fifty feet from the bow and about ten feet six Inches below the water line. The magazines and shellrooms of the ship can stow 240 rounds of the 12-inch ammunition, 3200 rounds of the 6-inch am- munition, 9600 rounds of the 6-pounder and 4000 rounds of the l-pounder. The for- ward magazines are located immediately forward of the dyvnamo rooms and the after ones just abaft the engine rooms. * ward conning tower is ten inches thick and that of the after or signal tower is eix inches thick. A steel tube twelve inches in diameter inside and seven inches in thickness extends from the forward conning tower down to the protected Ceck and protects the voice tubes and tel- egraphs from the commanding officer to the important staticns in the vessel. Carries Fourteen Boats. The| Ohlo carries fourteen boats, of which one is a 40-foot steam cutter and another a 36-foot steam cutter of the us- ual navy type. Over each end of the boat deck two small upper bridges are located, on which is placed a portion of the sec- ondary battery. The boats are handled by four crancs, all operated by steam, the engines for this purpose being located on the working platforms of the cranes. Each crane can lift the heaviest boat that it has to handle at the rate of forty feet per minute, and can also be revolved by its hoisting engine at the rate of a revo- lution in one minute. Bilge keels to reduce rolling are fitted to the vessel. Experiments in recent years in our own and foreign navies have dem- onstrated the great efficiency of these keels in preventing excessive rolling. The Revenue Cutter Golden Gate Takes a Large Party to the Scene Many Oakland Soeciety Ladies Are Among the Fortunate Passengers HE guests who were Invited aboard the superb revenue cut- ter Golden Gate were afforded a fine view of the launch of the battleship Ohio. F. S. Stratton, Collector of the A Port; E. B. Jerome, deputy col- lector; W. B. Hamilton, cashier of the Custom-house, and Captain Cushing. com- mander of the speedy craft, entertained thelr visitors in a style highly creditable to their sense of true hospitality. As fore- shadowed by the press, the cream of Oak- land's refined soclety was largely repre- sented in the company aboard the Golden Gate. It was noted by impartial observ- ers that this incident added delight to the occasion and contributed intellectual pres- tige to the event. The cutter left her station at pler No. 3, Washington-street wharf, a few minutes after 10, going directly to the Union Iron Works, in advance of the Slocum. A po- sition was taken which gave Captain Cushing’s passengers, of whom many were Oakland ladles, a fine view of the saluting squadron when the battleships . Jowa and Wisconsin and the crulser Phil- adelphia pald their compliments to John D. Long, Secretary of the Navy. Another plcturesque view was obtained when the warships, joined in the meantime by the McCulloch, fired a salute of twenty-one guns In honor of the President of the United States. A battleship presents an alr of brave beauty when Eer turrets and masts are wreathed with the smoke of powder, and a view of the scene from a point’ a few hundred feet distant is Inspiring. One of the points of inspiration yesterday was the deck of the Golden Gate when the Wisconsin, Iowa, Philadelphia and Me- Culloch were saluting. The revenue cutter took a position at the Union Iron Works wharf, immediately astern of the Slocum. The army boat General McPherson, with many ladles, of- ficers and veterans aboard, came along- side the Golden Gate. Later on the Har- bor Commissioners’ boat, the Governor Markham, wedged in to give the Gov- ernor’s staff a glimpse of the President. The guests all joined in the general ac- claim when the noble battleship Ohlo sracefully moved from the ways to the waters of the bay. @iminieinlscinieinininin dufuufeinh duieieiet @ forward bilge keels extend for a length of about eighty-seven feet, while those aft have a length of about seventy-five feet. Hydraulic gear is used In steering the vessel, and can put the rudder from hard aport to hard astarboard In twenty sec- onds when the vessel is moving at full speed. The valves of the gear are con- nected by an electric telemotor with the conning tower, besides the mechanical connection with the pilot-house. The electricity, both for lighting the vessel and operating the turrets and holsts and minor purposes, is furnished by eight 32-kilowatt generating sets, all having a pressure of eighty volts at the terminals. There are four dynamo-rooms, one on each side of the vessel just forward of the boller space, two generating sets being placed In each dynamo-room. Four pow- erful searchlights, two of which are placed on the top of the pilot-house and two on the mainmast above the upper bridge, will give warning of the approach of hostile vessels, and for night signaling the ship carries two sets of electric signaling ap- paratus. The normal coal supply is 1000 tons, and the capacity of the bunkers is 2000 tons. As In other ships of this type, the ar- rangements of the bunkers is such as to afford considerable incidental protection to the machinery . The Ohio and her class are the first bat- tleships of the United States navy In which water tube boilers were provided. Steam for the propelling machinery is supplied by water tube boilers of the Thorycroft type placed in four water- tight compartments. There are three smokepipes. The two propelling engines are rights and lefts in separate water-tight com- partments and are of the vertical invert- ed-eylinder, direct-acting, triple-expai.- slon type, having four cylinders. The diameters of the cylinders are as follows: 3.5 inches H. P., 53 inches 1. P. and 6 inches for two low pressures by 48 inches stroke. Has High Rate of Speed. e collective I H. P. of the main en- gines with their alr and circulating is about 10,000 when the vessel is making a speed of eighteen knots. It should be stated here that the Ohio ranks next to the Georgia class of battleships In our navy in regard to speed. The Georgia and class, which will have the greatest speed of any battleship yet authorized by Congress, are r‘eslgned to make rine- teen knots. A refrigerating room on the berth deck forward furnishes cold storage, and the ship 1s supplied with an ice machine of the dense alr tpye that can produce. the cool- ing effect of two tons of ice per day. Only such wood material as was deemed absolutely necessary is used in the con- struction of the vessel, and all of chis, ex- cept the armor backing, Is thorough fire- proof. The windlass, which is of the most mod- ern pattern, Is operated by steam, and can raise both the bower anchors at once. It is housed in an enclosure just forward of the forward barbette. There are four steam winches used for hoisting coal and general deck purposes. The construction of the Ohio and her class was authorized by Congress on May 4, 1895, when the Spanish war demonsirat- ed the wisdom of a much greater increase of the navy. The keel was Jald on April 22, 1899, and the contract price of hull and machinery is $2,809,000. Her complement is 35 officers and 511 men.