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Show than to occupy one of the alleged "conCould Bo Flttod for Action. ning towers." Attention has been attracted to the The smoke pipe passes up through merchant steamships that are classed WHAT A REAL BATTLESLIP IS the center of the tower and receives as auxiliary cruisers to the navy, and LIKE. protection from it The smokeplpe Is which could be fitted out in a short utilized as a mast, and carries the usual time so as to serve most effectively as fighting top and signal yard. The top commerce destroyers or as speedy An Officer of n Monitor la Responsible of the smoke pipe is 100 feet above the transports for the handling of troops. for n New Design That Ha; lie of water line, and as the fighting top is The available steamships that could be Greet Value to the Karr Not n fifteen feet below the smoke outlet, the utilized by the government would conmen at the lop guns ought not to suffer stitute a big fleet, and experts believe Thing of Beautj. any discomfort from smoke. The bar- that It would prove of great service The accompanying sketch was made bettes and conning tower rest on the in the event of war with any country. by a naval officer who has had some main deck, which is two Inches thick. The four big steamers of the American experience on the larger monitors. It The side armor is continuous and has a line, the St. Louis, the St. Paul, the New York and the Paris, are the largest represents In a general way his con- mean thickness of twenty Inches, twenty-four inches to tapering amidships, of All Ideal the ception ships of the number, and besides these battleship. ships are compromises, and this de- sixteen Inches at the ends.( The depth there are the steamships of the New of side armor is six and one-hafeet. sign departs materially from the and approved monitor type in The thickness of armor on turrets, barhaving a superstructure forward. This bettes, and conning tower is twenty feature enables the ship to maintain inches. The length of the vessel on water line is 300 feet; beam, seventy feet; draught forward and aft, twenty and lf feet; displacement, about tons; twin screw; indicated horse power, 6,000; speed, about thirteen and lf knots per hour; coal capacity, 500 tons; main battery, four twelve-inc- h and six four-inc-h guns; secondary g battery, six mm. Hotchguns and two thirty-seve- n kiss revolving cannon. The sketch represents the ship cleared for action, the boats at other times DESIGNED TO FIGHT, JUDGB ADVOCATE MARIX. her speed In a head sea, which is whol- being stored on the superstructure. The ly Impracticable with the ordinary presence of a superstructure amidships (He Carried the Report of the Maine Inquiry to Washington.) monitor, although a sea abeam has but adds much to the comfort of a monlittle effect on the speed of this pe- itors crew and does not increase her York and Cuba Steamship company, culiar craft For about of size as a target, as bridges and other and the Mallory, Morgan, Red D and Its length the design presents a free- gear would incumber the Bpace between Panama lines. All of these vessels board of only thirty Inches, which may the turrets and give the enemy as good could be fitted out and prepared for be considered the monitor standard. a mark as does a superstructure. This duty In a very short time. They would The freeboard at the bow is ten feet point is Illustrated by a comparison of be supplied with guns of the The twelve-inc- h and IIotchklBB guns are well located the Minantonomah and the Amphitrite, pattern, for sea work, being eighteen feet above the former having no superstructure. which are designed to throw a large the water line. The turrets are housed The model of this design is necessarily number of small projectiles with great In barbettes. The height of each bar very full, otherwise the enormous ar rapidity. Naval officers do not be DESIGNED TO EIGHT. lf well-kno- one-ha- 8,-6- 00 one-ha- r m o o two-thir- er rapid-firin- ds Driggs-Schroed- er PROSPERITY RECORD. CONTRAST THE FACTS WITH THE RANK CLAIMS. ruld Typo the News Calumns of the Tlutorratle Tress Kspuse the I'gly Ktslulrs People Who Haven't Received Their llish of Prosperity. Im It is pleasant to read in the editorial columns of the city dailies that good times are here at last, and every human being in this country would be glad to believe these editorials to be true. Unfortunately, the news columns of these same papers, censorized as they are, contain facts enough to prove the ghastly falsity of the prosperity claims. Here are some random extracts from the news record: MONEY A CREATION OP LAW. fn The 1'tlMhoodi of tho Gold T nut's Literature. The gold trust is flooding the country with false literature. There is not a fetish worshiper of gold, from Sherman down to little Eckels, who does not assume that bullion is money and argue that the most costly bullion Is the only material fit for coinage. Some of the most distinguished hypocrites or financial Idiots, as the Silver n classifies Harrison, Cleveland and the loquacious Gage, speak of the Intrinsic value of gold. If they are Knight-Watchma- really so Ignorant that they do not know that the Intrinsic qualities of a thing do not constitute its value, they must admit that everything having intrinsic qualities will always be of the same value ao long aa it possesses the same intrinsic qualities, and that there can be no fluctuation in the price or value of commoditiea having intrinsic The 5,000 operatives at the Atlantic and Pacific cotton mills, at Lawrence, is only those blind teachMaas., have decided to accept the 10 qualities. It who are employed for gold monopers per cent reduction in wages, which oly that believe value is intrinsic in went into effect on the 1st ult. anything. The great masses of the people unThe annual report of the board of derstand this question very much betstate charities of Pennsylvania reviews ter. They recognize the fact that the the work accomplished by the board value of a thing is what somebody will within the last year. W. B. Streeter give for it; is other words, it is what tells of the g work that is it will fetch. understand very now being carried on under the direc- well that the Theyor value of a price tion of the board. The special effort is fixed and determined when twothing parof the department, he says, is to find ties exchange a commodity for money homes for children on farms. The re- or one commodity for another; and port of the board on outdoor relief for that value is the comparative worth of the poor, based on the returns made the two artlclea as estimated by the by township trustees, shows that withbuyer and seller in making a contract. in the year one person in twenty-seve- n In the board of brokers the value of a received public aid. The total number railroad stock is determined from day of persons aided within the year was to day by what the buyer will give and 82,312, as against 67,414 the previous what the seller will take. When the year. Of the number aided 76,899 were minds of the buyer ana seller come towhite and 544 colored; 56,340 were gether the pries or value of a thing, is Americans, 1,865 Irish and 3,795 Ger- determined. This being the case it is man. In a majority of cases aid was insulting the good sense of Intelligent extended on account of sickness or people for the great hypocrites of the death in the family. The total amount gold standard to assume and declare belief within the that the value of gold Is intrinsic, expended in year was 1389,693.57, as against which is equivalent to saying that if all the mountains were gold an ounce during the previous year. of gold would buy the same amount of The employes of the Wheeling steel wheat as it now will. It would be well plant In Benwood, W. Va., about 500 if the country would treat these hypoIn number, have been notified of a sec- critical or Idiotic teachers occasionally ond reduction of wages within twelve to a cold bath and bring them to their months. The present reduction affects senses. all employes, and runs from 12 to 25 . per cent Free Collage of BUtot. The phrase "free coinage" of silver Seven years Is an early age at which has ne reference to the charges at the to experience the irony of fate. But on bullion deposited for coinage, mint little Willie Rodney, aged 7, knows the Silver Knight-Watc- h man. says what a grimly satirical person destiny the mints of the civilised Ordinarily Is. Willie is a boy orator. During the world have charged for converting campaign which resulted in McKinleys bullion into coin a sufficient amount to election he astonished and delighted the absolute cost This charge is all San Rafael, Cal., with his speeches pay made for melting, refining ordinarily about Republican prosperity. Worthy and preparing bullion for coinage. members of the g. o. p. regarded him as Is sometimes a profit also In tho There and even stanch demthe object being to make used, alloy ocrats were shaken in their faith by mint There has althe Willies speeches. Out of the mouths been a strong objection to makways of babes, they quoted and felt that a charge for stamping or coining Willie Rodney must have prophetic ing metal after it has been prepared the sight when h'e pictured open mills and for that purpose. When no charge is d larders and hapbusy folk, made for the stamp and coinage It is py families as a result of McKinleys called "free coinage, and inasmuch as election. Now Willie Rodney lives In a been has there generally no charge In back room In a San Francisco tenefor this country atamping and coining ment, with his mother, who has wash- either or the term free silver gold ed clothes until she can wash no be properly used. In comcan coinage longer, and knows what it is to be mon parlance we call it free coinage very hungry. They havent tasted when a person can take his bullion to meat In weeks. Crusts are a luxury to and have it coined into standmint the them. Willies clothes are patched without any charge for tha ard money from head to foot. actual coinage, and only a sufficient for preparing the bullion for About forty employes of the bleach- charge to pay actual expenses. coinage ing department of the American Printuse of the phrase free The popular ing company, at Fall River, recently means the unlimited silver" of coinage struck because of an excessive reducexact equality with terms of on tion in wages, which they claim has coinage conditions applied to the coinage the been made. of gold nothing more and nothing gold may The police stations of both Pittsburg less. A person now and Allegheny, Pa., are liberally pat- take it to the mint and have it coined ronized these nights, but Allegheny after it Is prepared for coinage withcentral station acommodates more out charge. He will be charged for lodgers, perhaps, than does the safety melting and refining, and the governLast night, says a Pittsburg ment may also make something on the palace. alloy, but we call it "free coinage of paper, up to 9 oclock twenty-seve- n men had applied for and received lodg- gold. All we ask for silver is the same uning at the north side station. Of these kind of "free coinage, which is at two metals of the limited n twenty-sevecoinage twenty were skilled 16 to 1 without discriminaof ratio of the had work lack whom workmen, finally driven to the necessity of be- tion against either. coming a public charge. There were blacksmiths, carpenters, engineers, maMunicipal Ownership. and one or chinists, The employes of the Brooklyn Bridge two other trades in the list, including corporation have short hours, fair a printer, a painter, a tailor and a wages, and free uniforms. This Is mur. The employes of nicipal ownership. elevated have long Manhattan the Fifteen hundred suits of clothes were and have to pay wages, scanty hours, contributed by the mail carriers of for their uniforms. This la Chicago to the destitute miners at high prices These two comprivate ownership. Ladd, 111. illustrative of simare fairly panies conditions the world opposed New in The labor trouble England ilarly has grown more acute but it Is not as- over, and the people are almost conan opponent of musuming a phase favorable to the men. vinced. Scratch and you find an inownership The present status is, in fact, distinctnicipal salaried or terested representative of women for and men the ly gloomy who wear away their lives in the monopoly. But the people will soon mills. The prospect is that there will awaken and claim their own. Charles be no great rebellion on the part of the S. White in American Craftsman. for our working people have grown so accustomed to ill treatWith the witnesses who were summent that they have, in many cases, moned to testify in the Hanna bribery lost hope of doing anything to better case, silence is golden. Fhoenlx their condition. child-savin- out-do- or 1355,-255.- 29 ( heaven-inspire- d, self-sustaini- well-fille- hatg bridge-builde- glass-blowe- bette above the deck is twelve and one-hafeet A leading feature is the conning tower, which is a tower in fact as well as in name. It has a height of twenty-seve- n feet above and feet in the water line, is twenty-fiv- e diameter, and twenty Inches thick. There is nothing equal to it now afloat The conning towers on most Bhlps are mere death traps, and many commanding officers say they would rather take their chances on an open bridge lf one-ha- lf mor weights could not be borne. The absence of eight-inc- h guns means a sacrifice of offensive power, but there is a corresponding gain in armor protection and in general simplicity. The ship can be commanded by one man and handled by a small crew. The designer believes that this ship, although costing not over two- - thirds as much as the Indiuna and being much cheaper to ' maintain, would be more than a match for the pride of the Iloosier state. lieve that all the available merchant steamships would be called upon to do duty as commerce destroyers. They believe that half a dozen of the fastest ones would be more than enough to wipe Spains small commerce from the seas in a comparatively short time. The navy yard at Brooklyn could accommodate ten large steamships at one time if It were necessary to fit them out at short notice. wage-earner- rs |