The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 24, 1901, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JUNE MONDAY. JOHN D SPRECKELS, Proprietor Aédress Al Communications to W. 8. LEAKE, Mavager MANAGER'S OFFICE e ‘Deltvered hy Carriers. 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies, 5 Ce Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DATLY CALL (ncluding Sun.ay). cne year.. DAILY CALL (including Sunday), ¢ months. DAILY CALL dncluding Sunday), 3 months DAILY CALL—By Single Month WEEKLY CALL. One Year .. .. . All postmasters are anthorized to receive subscriptions. Sample coples Will be forwarded when reéquested. Ml wubecribers n ordering change of address should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS In order %o tneure & prompt and correct compliance with their request. OAKLAND OFFICE.. 1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGTESS. Mazsager Ferelgn Advertising, Marquette Building, Chieago (long Distance Telephone “Central 2619.”) NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT €, C. CARLTON..... Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. 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A FINE SHOWING FOR SUMMER.! trade has ive business of the shows an in trib ctually cular] both whe good vorting while all over obbers report an active oad lines are said to of merchan- than cver before; sustained, while not a n this respect 1901 re- thwest increase, parti the land gher clas: aries les s continued active all over i 1€ extent that many w es did ne se down as usual The vy scem to be in particularly good ¢ tt vhich has lagged so long, is rep nproving. and the demand for woolen s bett ar me months. Ship- n continue far in CXCess O r rs, though the output of the factories has falle some ¥ and new orders are especially quieter. Leather to the decreased orders of the wck continues firm, owing to are fir verywhere, and are markets. Clothing manu business and express confi » the firmness ir number of advances up its record and, like the rts large shipments and new orders for for Building demand all over are scarce in first seems to be slowly though ff somewhat hardware rr the count hands. T and wire tion, toc improving e veek: very little is heard now of new k 1d those aiready on are being steadily settied. t gratification of all classes Wheat seems to be the only laggard in the proces- <ion of prosp Continued brilliant crop pros- pects have resulted in a <hrinkage from the advance noted several weeks ago. and for some days the tendency in prices has been downward. But some foreign countries are reporting a poorer crop out look, notably France, which 2 < coming forward as very heavy purchaser. the prospects there being de- cidedly unfavorable At the same time, however, the exports of wheat from the United States are ahead of those for the corresponding period last year. The minor grains, on the contrary, are ruling firmer, with better prices for corn and oats. Operators on the Chicago Board of Trade are advising their customers all over the country that they see no present reason 10 expect a bull market. nor, in view of the needs of France, do they look for any pronounced deciine The feeling in Wall street has been quieter and easier during the past week. Prospects for another great railroad deal are apparently dwindling away, and the public see no particular inducement to re-enter the market at present. There has been no liquidation, however. The July interest and dividend payments are expected to be iarger than ever before, and as money even now no stringency in funds is expected. The impression is that times in the street will be quiet for some weeks to come Our local markets show no changes worthy of note. Business is reported good in almost all lines, and is casy there are no failures of sufficient size to cause com- | ment. Crop prospects continue good and collections sre normal. The volume of busiress throughout the country, as reflected by the weekly bank clearings, was 59.5 per eent larger last week than during the same week in ¥900. All the large cities except Minneapolis and St. Paul showed a gain. The failures were 188, against 167 for the same week last year. — Only a short time ago Senator Hanna was made a member of the Grand Army, and now he has be- _ eome honorary member of a fire company; so it Jooks as if he were working up a boom for something. .Telephone Press 204 | MURDER RAMPANT. HE country is in another epidemic of the mur- Tdcr of women by men, for various alleged causes, principally erotic. Young men are kiling maidens to whom they are engaged for the offerse of speaking, more or less i to other young men. In other cases mur- der is committed because the girl declines the at- tentions of the murderer, preferring another. | procession is plentifully sprinkled with husbands who | kill their wives, after married life together ranging | from a few months to past the silver wedding. Some- times, and not infrequently, such murderers kill their whole family, including father-in-law and mother-in- law, and usually end where they should have begun, | by killing themselves. | During the past year murders of this kind have outnumbered any other special class of homicides. Women have been the victims of more fatal attacks from those to whom normally they should look first for kindness and defense than in any similar period of time in the past. Hard times usually promote crime. They furnish the pretext of despair, of hard drink and other ex- cuses which weak humanity gives for its offenses. But the murders of women during the last twelve months are not traceable to hard times, for the times have been good. T this special class of bloodshedding continues we may expect the society reporter to say that when the beautiful and charming favorite of the exclusive set, whose engagement is announced, received the pro- | posal of the happy party of the second part, she was guarded by three policemen in plain clothes, while her father stood guard in the cupboard, armed with a sawed-off shotgun filled with slugs to the muzzle, | lest the candidate for his daughter’s hand should be seized with a desire to cut her throat The same caterers to polite curiosity in reporting weddings may yet have to describe the bride's dress as made of beautiful, polished bullet-proof moire an- tique steel, cut low, revealing a chemise of mail, of a beautiful fishbone lace pattern, fastened with gold wire. The groom may yet be referred to as armed to the teeth, with a cartridge belt under his Prince Albert coat and a bowie-knife in his right hand. ; To enlist in matrimony is getting to be as danger- ous as to go abroad as a Red Cross nurse to work {in a yellow fever hospital. Then there are other crimes of which women are the victims that are not adequately punished. A jury in this city has recently failed to convict the de- ceiver who entrapped Norine Schneider into a mar- riage by forging a telegram from her mother, though he boasted in his testimony of deceiving a Canadian lady into a mock marriage, and explained gleefully and in detail his despicable crime On the murder side of the docket appear a very iew murders of men by women. Mrs. Kennedy has just been convicted of shooting her husband to death in Kansas City. The jury had no compunctions about convicting her, but about the same time Dr. Kennedy escaped conviction in New York City for the killing of Dellie Reynolds, so that the Kennedy luck is a tie, the woman getting the worst of it. There are occasional variations. One young man in Pennsyl- vania was murdered by a rival and left on the door- step of the young lady. Ages of civilization seem to have merely hidden the barbarian under the skin of the race. Perhaps worse may be said, but the barbarous ages hardly | equaled this in this kind of crime We may believe that the law should deal more sternly with that erotic insanity which causes so many of these murders. When a man threatens to kill a woman for non-subjugation to his will in anything, ii she cannot get the drop on him a male relative should be called in with a gun. Such threats almost always end in the murder of the woman, and yet if a man is arrested for making them it is treated rather as a laughing matter than as a most serious peril for the threatened woman Senator Platt has announced his intention to re- tire from the Senate at the close of his term in 1903, { but at the same time he has been careful to add that he does not mean to retire from politics. It appears then there will be a Senatorial vacancy to be filled, the right of but the boss will reserve to himseli naming the man to fll it THE VALUE OF GOOD HARBORS HILE our own harbors are under consider- ation by the Committee on Rivers and Har- bors it should not be forgotten that while | the purposes domestic harbors they are served also by good and sther countries with which we have We have trade now, and hope to safe harbors in maritime trade increase it, with the west coast of Central and South America, but it is hampered by the lack of good har- bors. South of Acapulco there is not a land- locked harbor in use on that coast The recent accident by the swamping of boats in the roadstead of Acajutla, Salvador, calls pointed at- | tention to this condition. As the Pacific end of an isthmian canal is approached there is not a safe har- bor on the entire coast where ships can lie to a dock and receive coal or a cargo. The entire traffic has to be done by lighters, in open roadsteads. Such are the seaports of Acajutla, La Union and La Libertad, Salvador, and all the rest. ernment made a hydrographic survey of a land- . locked harbor in a bay on the coast of Salvador, but the offered facility for commerce seems not to be {available, and our trade with that republic is carried 'on in the costliest and clumsiest way, in roadsteads that are exposed to gales and offer but indifferent or unsafe anchorage. For, this reason Salvador, in many respects the richest in resources of any of the isthmian republics south of Mexico, remains unde- | veloped and we are deprived of a trade that would be | profitable to both countries. | Upon such problems the commercial opinion of the | world should be brought to bear. Nations agree upon many policies, political and administrative in their nature. They have postal, commercial, extra- | dition and expatriation treaties and agreements, in i o | the execution of which they co-operate and agree. | Why not by similar means agree upon furnishing the very best facilities for mutual maritime commerce? For instance, it should be casy to make Salvador see that such an accident as that at Acajutla is inju- rious to her trade, by exposing hér lack of safe ‘har- bors; and an agreement to send the steamers of an American line, carrying mails, and merchandise for | exchange, and facilitating the social and business in- tercourse of the two peoples, to a safe harbor when constructed, should stimulate her energies to attend 1o such an important matter. 1f the Pan-American Congress is held this is a sub- ject that might well be discussed for the mutual bene- fit of all the nations represented. The internal wealth and prosperity of each is promoted by facilities for external commerce, and as the public welfare is the The_ »f our commerce are served by good | Some years ago our Gov- | first concern of all government, it should be secured by making good harbors. It is probable that the commerce of Salvador, its coffee, rubber and other productive interests, would be vastly multiplied by attention to this one need, and it is certain they are all held back and injured by the report of such affairs as the wreck at Aca- jutla, Captain Merry of this State, United States Minister to Salvador, is a sailor, long interested in deep water commerce. Perhaps he could mak&valuable sugges- tions to our State Department on this subject, which lies so well in line with his experience. * A BENEFIT TO ALL. R. McADIE, of the local weather bureau, in M commenting upon the dispatch from Wash- | ington announcing that Secretary Wilson will authorize the Weather Bureau to install a wireless telegraph service at the Farallones “‘as soon as there is any system suitable for installation,” announced that he intends to go East this summer for the pur- pose of studying the system which the New York Herald has established at Nantucket. The statement is gratifying. It is an evidence that the officials of the weather bureau are not going to sit down and wait for somebody to bring a system to them. Mr. McAdie is going forth at once to find the system | that will be suitable for installation, and there is | every reason to believe the search will be immediately ! successiul. It is to be borne in mind that this is not a case in | which the Government will have to expend time or | money in making experiments. Wireless telegraphy |is¢now in use by the British Government not only | at the ports of the home islands, but at the principal | | ports of the wide extended empire in all parts of the | globe. So extensive have been installations of the wireless system that when the Duke and the Duchess | of Cornwall set forth on their tour of the empire it was found worth while to equip the royal vessel, the | Ophir, with an apparatus for wireless telegraphing; so that as it approached any of the great harbors of | the empire messages might be sent and received while the ship was still far out at sca. In fact the first experiment made by The Call in obtaining an announcement of the approach of the | Sherman proved the availability of the Marconi sys- tem for practical use in the transmission of news. Since that time it has come into such general use that the great steamship companies are equipping their Atlantic liners with the apparatus, and all along | the stormy European coast France, Holland and | Germany have established stations either upon land | | or upon lightships, end their value has been again | and again proven even during the comparatively short ‘:time they have been in operation. | | As Mr. McAdie has pointed out, the new system | of telegraphy promises to be of exceptional advant- age to San Francisco by reason of the prevalence of fogs. “Very often,” he says, “a vessel arrives in a dense fog and cannot be seen by the lookouts at Point Reyes or Point Lobos. Wireless telegraphy would | solvq.tn problem. Vessels equipped with the instru- | { mentsWould report in to the Farallones when they were many miles out at sea, and if aid was wanted in case of accident word could be sent to the city at tonce for tugs. It requires no stretch of the imagina- | tion to picture the many advantages that will follow | the installation of wireless telegraphy here.” It is hardly necessary to add further arguments | upon the feasibility and the utility of the new system. | Those who were incredulous a year ago are now fully ! convinced of the merits of Marconi's great invention, | Even the yellowest of journals will never again call him “Macaroni” for the purpose of discrediting the | ! enterprise of The Call. We have now a promise of | | the permanent establishment of a wireless news serv- | tice between this city and the rallones. The local | | weather bureau officer shows an ecarnest zeal to | | promptly provide it. He should have every assistance { and support the public can give him. The movement | | has been well started. Let us see that it keep mov- | ing until the end is attained. [ | | | | A GLIMPSE OF OLD MEXICO. i URING a vacation of six weeks spent in the | D mountains of Mexico, James H. Wilkins, | editor of the Marin County Tocsin, contrib- | uted to his paper a series of letters descriptive of what | he saw there, and giving his impressions of the char- | acter and conditions of the people and the prospects | | of the mining industry. The lctters were collected | 1and published in book form by the members of the | Tocsin staff during the absence of the editor, and the work constitutes a really valuable contribution to our knowledge of the affairs of our southern neighbor. | Mr. Wilkins did not go to Mexico to find fault with | everything that is different from our own customs, | manners and civilization. e went as an impartial student of the country and its people, and soon be- came a sympathetic as well as an intelligent observer. The consequence is that we have in the letters as | accurate and as instructive a summary of life and labor in Mexieo as cculd be expected from a work written in such a casual way and designed only for newspaper reading. Indeed, the letters are so excel- lent in many ways it is something of a matter for regret that they have been published in the book form exactly as sent to the Tocsin instead of being extended and elaborated by the author. t The letters are the more important because there is an increasing need of a better understanding be- | tween ourselves and the Mexican people. Mere works of tourist travel full of picturesque descriptions will avail nothing, and volumes of criticism upon the shortcomings of Mexico are worth less than nothing; but such studies as these letters show Mr. Wilkins to be able to make would be highly beneficial. Their very friendliness would help to win us the favor of the Mexican people and do much to promote trade, travel and all forms of intercourse between ourselves and our neighbors. The Marin County Tocsin Press is to be congratulated upon giving to the State a book which though slight in form is by no means slight in interest or in value. C—— A search of the trunks of a young woman student at the University of Nebraska resulted in the discovery of twenty-four. pairs of kid gloves of various sizes, four pairs of mittens, twenty-five handkerchiefs, ten veils, four fountain pens, seven pocket-books, a va- ried assortment of stockings and a considerable num- ber of other articles. The authorities are in doubt whether to lock upon her with scorn as a thief, with pity as a kleptomaniac or with admiration as a col- lector. P Ve A fond parent in Missouri has just had his boy christened Funston Aguinaldo, but it is not clear whether he intends to make him a sprinter or a brigadier general. S The Virginia constitutional convention has not at- tracted as much attention as that of Alabama, but it is making about the same kind of record in a quiet way. . 24, 1901 APROPOS OF BOOMING LA THE EAGER CANDIDATE UUCLE SAM: sun hain’t set yet?” “Don’t you gosh darned chumps know that the Rl u‘}}/\# '/,f///v/}?:?/a - | tat DEVELOPMENT OF THE NAVIES OF THE POWERS A school will be openec at Kiel on Octo- ber 1 for the instruction of naval em- gineers in the higher grades. . s . Turkey is scattering her shipbuilding favors Indiscriminately In all countries Italy has the largest orders for repairp of obsolete vessels. Krupp at Kiel n.-Z\.o some large orders for guns and repairs of ships. Cramp's at Philadelphia is build- ing a small cruiser, and it Is said that Elswick Is to build a large battleship tor the Ottoman, the Sublime Porte, ete. of Turkey. . 0. The German naval maneuvers shortly to take place in the North Sea will be on the largest scale yet attempted. There will be forty-four vessels In all, consisting of fourteen battleships, three armored and several cruisers and two torpedo flotillas of destroyers, division-boats and torpedo- boats. Admiral von Koster will be in chief command and Prince Henry of Prussia will be In charge of one division. , . e Japan Is getting ready to bulld a factory | for armor and other shipbullding material at Kure, and $3,780,000 was included In the navy vote for 1901-2 for that purpose. The Minister of Marine pointed out that there would be a clear saving of $1,000,000 in the cost of building and bringing out a ship | like the Shikishima from England if Ja- | pan could produceher own armor and oth- er ship material and build its ships at home. . At the recent target practice at Bermu- da against the old ironclad Scorpion twen- ty lyddite shells were fired from the Cres- cent’s 9.2-inch guns. Only three shots hit the ship, and the idea of the terribly de- structive effects of lyddite appears to have been somewhat exaggerated, as one shell was supposed to have been sufficient to destroy the thip, whereas the old Scor- plon was still afloat when the firing ceased. ¥ The Czar has lssued a ukase upon the advice of the Minister of Marine directing that hereafter all naval ships are to be built of material of Russian manufacture. No foreign firms will receive contracts —S8t. Paul Pioneer Press. DEATH GULCH OF YELLOWSTONE PARK WHERE WILD BEASTS PERISH Earth Emits Poisonous Vapors That Slay More Animals Than Do the Bullets From Hunters’ Rifles. —_— N the northeast corner of the Yellow- stone National Park, in Wyoming, is a ravine which Is fully entitled to its grewsome name—Death Gulch. It is a V-shaped trench, cut In the mountain side, and begins about 250 feet above Cache Creek. Apparently it forms a nat- ural shelter for the beasts of the forest, as food, water and shelter are there, but entrance to the gulch means death to any animal, for the poisonous vapors that rise out of the ravine are more deadly than the bullets of the huntsmen, says the Laramie (Wyo.) correspondent of the New York Press, Various expeditions under the direction of the United States Geological Survey have reported as to the characteristics of Death Gulch, the last being by Harvey W. Weed. He sald that he had tested the hollows in the gulch for carbonic acld gas without proving its presence. The atmos- phere in the guich, however, was oppres- slve. There was a strong smell of sul- phur and he suffered from a choking sensation, although a strong wind pre- vailed at the time. At the bottom of the gulch were the carcasses of many ani- mals, some of which had met death but a short time before. These carcasses were of bear, elk, hares, squirrels, etc. Mr. Weed examined the body of a grizzly which evidently had dled but a day be- fore, as Its tracks were quite distinct and the carcass perfectly fresh. There was some blood under the nose. Nothing mare. Later on Charles E. George and a Mr. Everett of Boston visited the gulch and made an extended examination. They de- clare the gulch is a death trap which while different in many ways from the famous Death Valley of Java {s as cer- tain In its effect. At one end the guich is comparatively open and the wind aweeps through, but at the other, where it forms a ravine, the gases accumulate and asphyxiate all animals that come within the walis of the rock. When Mr. George and Mr. Everett entered the gulch the eous fumes were s0 oppressive that L 2 e Y ) PERSONAL MENTION. W. M. Burckhalter, the Truckee lumber- man, I8 at the Lick House. Mr. and Mrs., James 8. Rice of Tustin, Orange County, are stopping at the Grand. N. E. de Yoe, a prominent Modesto merchant, I8 stopping at the Lick House. Percy L. Schuman, a mining man of Chittenden, and Mrs. Schuman are at the Palace. W. H. Storms, a well-known mining man of -Sutter Creek, is registered at the Lick House. F. L. McConnell, a_prominent merchant of Omaha, and Mrs. McConnell are guests at the Palace. James H. O'Brien, the well known con- tractor., of this city, is spending a few days at Santa Cruz. W. J. Martin, business manager of The Call, accompanied by his wife, left Satur- day night for a trip through the Yosemite. Captain George A. Nihue of Nevada City is at the Lick ifouse, returning from the National Guard encampment at Santa Cruz. H. Watanabe, a former member of the Japanese Cabinet, Is registered at the Occidental. He was a passenger on the China. A. L. Farish, deputy and office clerk for the United States Marshal, has gone on a two weeks' vacation with fe to Yolo County. Roy Fryer, a former University of California athlete, now vice prineipal of the Santa Rosa High School, is a guest at the Grand. Captain Robert Wankowskl, who was in command of Company A of the Seventh Regiment, California Volunteers, I8 reg- istered at the Occldental from Los An- Beles, Charles L. Falr and wife leave July 3 for a trip throughout Europe. They sall on the Deutschland from New York July 11. They will visit Paris, London and Carlsbad. Ex-Governor Ernest Casey of Connectl- cut, whose resklence ls at Hartford, ar- rived Saturday from Los Angeles, where he has been transacting business in con- nection with ofl land claim: Brigadier General J. F. Weston of the Commissary Department of the United States Army returned yesterday on the China from a tour of inspection in the Philippines. He s registered at the Ocel- dental, with his wife and daughter. ———— The Brooklyn y showing her little nlece through the art gallery, *'Oh, 1ok, auntle, at the woman with~ t any arms!’ , dearle, that is an ancient god- [ I didn’t know they had trolley cars in those day, auntle!"—Yonkers Sta n. | they had difficulty in breathing, yet they entered at the end where the gulch is| practically open. They lit a wax taper and found that when placed more than forty inches from the ground it was ex- tinguished. This proved the existence of | carbon dloxide gas. | The bed of the gulch and ravine was | littered with the bones and skins of ani- | mals long since dead. They found twenty- three carcasses of bears, one big cinna- mon having his nose between his paws just as if he had fallen asleep. | The two men dldn’t dare to go into the | ravine. What exploration they made re- | sulted In headaches which stayed with them for hours and pains in the throat | and lungs, which did not subside for a long time. For ages this death trap in the Rocky Mountains has probably been luring the | inhabitants of the forest to their doom. With the rains of spring the bones of the | dead of the preceding year are carried down to the creek and the gulch cleared | for the death harvest of the summer and | the winter. i ‘What impressed the visitors most out side of the horror of the gulch was the | danger to visitors who might uncon-| sclously enter the guich. There was no | difference in the appearance of the gulch | from other gulches above and below the | mountains, and there was nothing to! warn a camper. For man to enter death | gulch to camp means that he has camped in eternity. The geologists say that the lavas which | fill the anclent basin of the park at this place rests upon the flanks of mountains | formed of fragmentary volcanic ejecta. Gaseous emanations are given out in great | volume. These come, the sclentists say, from deposits of altered and crystalline | travertine mixed with pools in the creek. | Above these deposits the creek cuts into a | bank of sulphur. In the bottom of the | Rully is a small stream sour with sul-| phurie acld. No wonder the poor animals seeking helter In the gulch meet death there. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. “KID"—C. R, City. The word “kid" applled to children i SILVER DO . 8. L.. Santa| Cruz, Cal. No premium is offered by d=al- \ ers for dollars of 1571. They offer to sell | such at &n advance' of from $1 to $2. | There is premium of 10 cents for Colum- | blan half dollars of 1882, but none for . such fissued in 1582 MENDOCINO—-E. G. M.. Healdsburg, Cal. Any of the United States Land of- fices will furnish a plat of United States lands in Mendocino County, which will show what lands have been taken up un- der the homestead laws. The Land of- fices have maps which show what vacant lands there are. The Government charge for such maps is $1. SILVER DOLLARS—Inquirers, City. The first sliver dollars of the United States were coined In 174 under the pro- visions of the act of April 2, 1792. Such dollars welghed 416 grains (317% of pure silver and #43% grains of alloy). For such a dollar there {s offered premium varying from $14 to $20. A dollar of 1799 commands a premium of from 15 cents to $ 50; one of 1800 commands a premium of from 20 to 50 cents. The dealers’ selling price for dollars of 1799 is from $2 to $6 50 and for the issue of 180 from $2 75 to $3 50. R. 8. V. P.—Subscr.ber, City. The let- ters “R. 8. V. P." on an invitation to a reception at the house after a church wedding Is the abbreviation of the French phrase ‘‘respondez, s'fl vous plait,” which translated s “‘please answer.” ¥t is in- tended to give those who tender the re- ception an opportunity to know how many to provide for. One who has re- ceived a large number of such invitations declares that the letters R. 8. V. P. are the abbreviation of the injunction, *Re- member, send valuable presents." VOTING QUALIFICATIONS-F. E. W., City. In twelve States of the Union, allens who have declared iIntentlon to be. come citizens of the United States, are al- lowed to vote at elections. The qualifica- tions of voters for all Federal as well as for Btate officers are subject to the con- trol of the respective States and they vary. TFor Instance, an allen resident of Arkansas who had declared his intention to become a citigen would have the right to vote in that State, but he could not vote In California, because in this State 3 no one vote unless a citizen by birth or by naturalization (ninety days before | ™! election). The fact that an allen who has declared his intentlon to became a citizen may vote does not guarantee him all the rights of citigenship. It 18 to guarantee him those rights that the allen, aftor making his declaration, must obtain hia second papers. without this stipulation, which practically shuts out competition of shipyards outside of Russia and will necessitate building the ships at home. The Engineering doubts whether the present state of Russian manufactures will make the Emperor's plans feasible. a The first torpedo-boat was the Rasp, built in 1873 by Thornycroft for the Nor- weglan navy. She is still in existence and is of 16 tons displacement, 58 feet In length, 7 feet 6 inches beam and 3 feet 11 inches draught, and had a trial speed of 16 knots. The horsepower was about 300. From this small beginning the modern and latest torpedo-boat destroyer has been developed in the Viper, a vessel of 312 tons displacement, engines of 10,000 horgepower and a speed of 35 knots. PR Two armored cruisers, Orlando and Nar- cissus, have been assigned as cruising gunnery vessels. They have the regula- tion allowance of officers and crew on deck and in the hold, except on the Nar- cissus, where there is not a single en- gineer officer. This singular omission wouid Indicate that Great Britain is about to try the experiment of the United States navy to leave the engine department in charge of warrant machinists, which does not appear to have resuited disastrously thus far after nearly two years' experi ence in our navy. . « . Rear Admiral C. C. P. Fitzgerald of the British navy advocates fast scouts as greatly needed in the navy, and Phillp Watts, constructor at the Elswick yard, has prepared Cesigns for such a vessel, embodying the ideas of the admiral. It is of 3300 tons displacement, with a normal supply of 500 tons of coal, 400 feet in length, 44 feet beam and 14 feet draught. The twin-screw engines are of 16,000 horse- power, caiculated to give a trial speed of 25 knots and a sustained sea speed of 23 knots. The vessel will have a protective deck two inches thick, and the gun posi- tions are to be protected by four-inch armor. The battery consists of six four- inch quick-firers and a dozen machine guns, and the coal capacity is 1200 tons. o< 61 The battle of the bollers in the British ! navy promises to be protracted, and it is belleved in some quarters that the old- style cylindrical boiler will again be adopted. The chief needs of a naval boil. er are reliability and abllity to raise steam quickly. The first qualification is met In the cylindrical boller, and the second requisite, it is claimed, can be obtained | by the application of the Howden system of forced draught. The Belleville boiler will raise steam quickly, but is unreliabie, and thé same is sald to be the case with all other water-tube botlers. The How- den system is used to the extent of 3,500.000 horsepower In trans-Atlantic steamers and it is argued that the system which proves efficient in the mercantile marine should be adopted for navy vessels. It is interesting to notice that England is the only naval power which shows so singu- lar a reluctance todepart from old usages, while all other navies are progressive and meet with good results, and the conclu- | slons to be drawn Irom this condition of affairs is that British box bollermakers alded by the Inability of British en- gineers and stokers to adapt themselves to new conditions. . 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