Show SECRECY OVER A SHIP BIG SEA FIGHTER TO BE BE BUILT AT NEW YORK NAVY YARD Order Forbids Men Telling Anything About About New Ton Vessel- Vessel Keel to Be Laid Within a aFew aFew aFew Few Weeks New York In In an order which Is Isone Isone isone one of the most sweeping ever Issued at the New York navy yard all officers and men employed in the construction of the new ton battleship whose keel will be laid within a few weeks are forbidden to give out any information information tion whatsoever to the newspapers or orthe orthe orthe the public So strict is the wording of the order that the officers In charge of ot the department of ot construction and repair to whom It Is particularly addressed addressed addressed ad ad- dressed will not even glye the name of the author Rear Admiral Caspar F. F Goodrich commandant of ot the yard Is In Washington Washington Wash ington and it is believed that the order had its origin there One officer did venture the information that the contents contents con con- tents of the document would probably be made public within a few days William J. J Baxter naval constructor tor who will have charge of the building build ing of the ship refused to talk about anything connected with his depart department mentI ment I am shut up tighter than a clam he said cald Under this order we cannot give out any Information I cannot tell you when the keel of ot the new vessel Isto is isto isto to be laid The order wont won't let me say how many men are to be taken on or orlaid orlaid laid off otto All other officers connected with the department of construction and r repair repair re re- pair were as reticent as their chief At Atthe Atthe Atthe the office of ot th the labor board in the yard it was found that the order had produced an effect similar to that Inthe in inthe inthe the department of ot construction and repaIr re re- pair While some of the officers and men are of ot the opinion that the desire of the navy department Is to prevent foreign foreign for for- eign nations from learning of ot the Improvements Improvements' Im in the battleship others see in It the result of the struggle that has been going on on between the officers favoring the consolidation of the various various vari varl ous departments of the yard and the anti antl consoli The workmen at the yard are opposed opposed op op- op- op posed to consolidation and many i It cers are in sympathy with them for under the new order of ot things It will willbe willbe be practically Impossible for a workman workman work work- man to obtain promotion except by a competitive examination |