The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 12, 1919, Page 15

a ented _caecameaee a : . . . _ —_ ee): sim tw |The Seattle Star =" «) | SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1919. : ‘ “q } ‘ ’ Whole Department Store AS ‘OLD A. C. 6’ THEY ° _ LIKE RODMAN BEST board Each Battleshi oda. C. 6" Tt ls one of the many nicknames of Admiral Hugh Rodman, the one the gobs Any one of the seven capital ships|its ice plant, its fire fighting ap- | Bi, a like best because it carries with riding at anchor in Elliott bay today | paratus, its court, its telephone | —; er as pr it respect and comradeship, lepartment store. switchboard, its galley or kitchen, its | ~ = : ~ ‘A. C. 6" translated into land~ purchase ything you| bake shop, but shop and its| ~ ities lubber, means “admiral com- n a paper of pins to a pair) luck t for lost Bon x e manding sixth battle squadron.” right ¢ ao prt | — 7 “ This was the squadron of n some There ever naginable activit | —— American dre nughts that co- “, an the more t b 1 meone —_ operated with th British grand Urry morejon board a battleship and someone | ¥ than $1,060,000 { supt |who is responsible for each. There | : “ " aes fleet in ign waters, Rodman In the ship's nm are 15 ari 'th e hou ekeever who must see} = comman it. — which ma _burchased. The that the ship is kept clean, painted penae, fn S0mt Die per cent. The|and in repair, There are buyers and Serta, yes into the crew's en-| bankers and postmasters and book piste fu epers and stenographers and po The gob can get hin shoes mended |iicermen and professional men ga on board his ship, b t pre tore on hy ; face shaved ar In fact, while every man on board 4 rip taht neluding r Ever man. «© is not a van of the thing the cost plus 15|days of yore. This ts the day of ivi \ a de ents t ultimate of #pectalization.| gy, aboard the flagship, folks,|is it. Driven by electricit The prope z machinery of the; trically driven | From 20 to 25 per cent fewer) four propellers. The operator at the it t " " J There are a thousand jobs to b supposing you're a landlubber ectricity we also pre Ne Mexica consist of but two The New Mexico ts of 32,000 tons!men are needed to put the New| SWitchboard in the bath at abo: ty fone and a specialist for each | you'll exclaim It's the only motor battle rn urbo-generato’ 0 ow|displacement and cost the trifling] Mexico thru her paces than on ves-|2I¢ to regulate the speed of the \ bare “apts \7o ‘ ae Line tee cen etha ida aot 1in turbo-generators, if you know |d mer r ing | Mexico thru her pa than or turbine: wiih drives the Benes Oe andthe us. p What~a-a—battleship | what they are, with their conden-|sum of $15,000,000. Her maximum] sels of the other form of drive. Hait| (ut M¥ect ‘the anced hnay alae , on: § t paper ts| Pais Ship Sank But | And this from his gobship proud | ; a it + see one oa “ oh ¥ ve tora, oe ele ge Hs sPOmnIAe. “cate :{® dozen men in the S mast} room| tion of the motors. He gets his sig- printe we Rie in, reply t is said to be the forerunner of | for each propelle 1 ne secret| briny may be vague magined!can get the big vessel under way| nate rom the hp orcad ‘ ? e: hristy, com-| motor battleship afloat!” electrically pants-pressed ships. The| world, whether you understand it or|third of her botler power and only | ° 2 nil bey Kel pert 7 : si hopind ; You stand aghast contemplating] New Mexico, Admiral Hugh Rod-/ not. This is § to be a great ad-|one of t two main generators | Operator Governs Speed The commander of the New Mex- P. tre, it id yt eet e was in command of the|thia great big gray monstrosity of| man's flagship, is the ship All| vantage over other vessels of the| working she maintained an aver-| Steam for the two turbines which|{co is Capt. J. & Evans. The New brig on boar " monet id haere Mi ns Beatie Uncle Sam's new armada, the Pa-|ships, and has proved so successfull old steam-drive type. Jago rate of 12% knots an hour from | drive the generators ts furnished by| Mexlog, did not participate in the called t Reiki ager gl er egg Bo cifle fleet Ithat all contemplated s#uperdrend-| Altho the superdreadnaught Mis-| Hampton Roads to San Francisco| oll burners, The power thus gener-| work of &ncle Sam's fighting ships A Wn Grawihe | cccountes da utinne TOY aan eae oe ol You mean," you stammer in an-|naughts are to be of the electric|sissipp! is known as the er ship|a few weeks ago, It was the cheap-|ated ts led to a control switchboard| “over there” bat was sont to Brest i kept or ee ae 01 TAA, ote tne New erline sup.|swer to hia gobship, “that the boat|type. It has been demonstrated that|of the New Mexico, ft { rely alest. cruise ever made by a ve and there switched to four motors of |after the armistice was signed and er og Midise 5 BS Oe ee ee esas nalts einen be ana the electricdriven battleship ig the |step-sister, according to the gobs|of anything like the New Mexico's |about 7,000 horsepower each, each|has never tested het — fighting office a : . pln 10 ye tne ee a¥eusit—inu'um—," says be “That| most economics bot th Mexico, It tn't elec- | size stor being a driving unit for the| strength fy battle on the high seam