Show NAVAL STEEL BOARD Secretary Herbert Signs a Act Abolishing It I Washington Feb 18 Secretary Her berts final act before leaving for Charleston yesterday was to sign an order abolishing the naval steel board and transferring its work to the bureaus bu-reaus of steam engineering and raus construction con-struction This board which was constituted con-stituted by Secretary Whitney has been for nearl 12 years the source of continual trouble in the navy department depart-ment and the subject of drastic criti cism at al times Naval Constructor Dashlel was ordered to the construction construc-tion bureau and all matters pertaining to ships material were transferred with him Similarly Assistant Engineer Freeman was transferred together with all machinery and material matters mat-ters to the steam engineering bureau and the third member of the board its chairman Captain Coffin is to be given other duty |