Show The Charleston a Great Credit Special to TIlE HEKALD Examiner Dispatch WASHINGTON May 10The trip of the Charleston to Santa Barbara which was telegraphed yesterday afternoon from San Francisco is very gratifying to naval officials of-ficials and others interested in the building of a new navy The ship under easy steam and in a rough choppy sea made fourteen and threefourths knots without a journal being heated The official trial will take place in Santa Barbara channel today when the ship will be sent to develop 7000 horse power according to the contract This the ship will exceed easily according to the opinion of all navy experts and from private telegrams received here last night from the engineers who ran the ship down the coast When the Charleston left for Santa Barbara it was the first time the vessel ever left her wharf This is considered con-sidered somewhat remarkable a the Yorktown York-town roently accepted the government went to sea five times before the contractors contract-ors were willing to submit to an official trial The ship was finally acci p ed by the navy department five months alter her first trip to sea The Charleston went right out from the wharf with the official board board without preliminary on boar any prelminarJ trip which is without a precedent in naval history |