Show INTEREST IN THE RALEIGH A Logan correspondent desires mfor matlon concerning the Raleigh and her part in Deweys victor He also asks why so much more fuss is being made over this than all the other ships Jut together According to the best information at hand the Raleigh Is an uneamorsl cruiser of 3213 tans whose only protection pro-tection Is a two antI 0 halfInch steel covering for the deck She was built by the Norfolk nay yard and launlh ed In 1892 It was on April 17 laO that she was put in commission and was at once assigned to the North Atlantic At-lantic squadron During the Armenian troubles she was stationed at Smyrna and in 1898 was ordered to join the Asiatic fleet reaching Singapore about the time the Maine was destroyed The Raleigh carries one sixinch and ten fiveinch guns In her main battery and has a secondary battery consistiiig of eight sixpounders four onepound ers and two machIne guns Her 1111 mal coal supply Is 350 tons and her full complement 01 men 314 She bore a conspicuous Dart in tHe battle 01 Manila bay To the Ralcmgh was given the honor of firing the first shot in anger on the American side In the engagemenl and to the shot from EI Pralle one or hcr fiveinch suns made answer In the ensuing battle the Raleigh was third in line the Olympia Olym-pia being first and tIle Baltimore see ond Five times the line swept by the Spanish fleet In this order the ltaicigh I receiving a tremendous fire from the enemys ships and forts and with her own guns dealing out deslruction She was third in line when the fleet ye turned to finish the work It was the Raleigh which received the caJitulu lion of Corregldor Then when the German cruiser Irene went to Subfg bay and refused to let the Filipinos attack at-tack the Spanish garrison there the Ralelzh and Concord were sent by Dewey to call the Germans to order The two American ships entered Sublg bay cleared for action As they came in the Irene put back to Manila un era er-a full head of steam But the principal reason the Raleigh was so royally received in New York the other day Is because she is the fillSt vessel of Deweys fleet to return nome |