Show OUR NAVY IN A NUTSHELL I = = j I Chicago Time Hera5d The tnf ted States is the lifth naval power in the world The navies of Great Britain Prance Riibsia und Italy rank ahead in the order named Germany and the United Unit-ed States are about tied Our present effective lighting force consists con-sists of four battleships of the first class one battleship of the second class two armored ar-mored cruisers IS cruisers 15 gunboats six doubieturreted monitors one ram one dynamite gunboat one dispatch boat I one transportand eight torpedo boats I The lotto weighs nearly liOOO tons and as 20 tons is the average load of a freight II car and 12 cars is a good load for a locomotive loco-motive engine Jt would take SO locomo tire engines U haul the great itfeel structure struc-ture The powder used Is brown and in chunks the size Of a CSTamet A charge for the biggest gun weighs 500 pounds and is hoisted to the breech by a derrick the powder belngtiewed upin burIal bags I Armor elates are tested by liming steel projectiles weighing from 100 to lyjO uoutick at them from guns charged with UK pounds 61 vowdcr and at a distance of about a city block Our battleships have a speed of from 13 to 17 knots an hour Cruisers make from 9 to 24 knots while the monitors can travel trav-el only llvo to seven knots The biggest guns in the navy are 43 feet long big enough for n man to crawl in to four feet In diameter at their largest part and weigh 135500 pounds or thereabouts there-abouts There are six rear admirals in active service The offices of vice admiral and admiral are unfilled so there Is no head of the navy excepting Secretary Long Barnacles form on the hull of a ship Impeding Its speed A six i months cruise will decrease the speed of a ship 15 per cmt and it must co Into drydock I Sixtyone I merchant vessels belong to 7af l gbstl the auxiliary navy These ships are subsidized I dized and by contract must be given to the United States on demand Some of the guns In the navy can fire a shot 12 miles tkrlher than a man can see for the IUDS ale aImed and sighted by machinery The amount expended by the navy department de-partment In 1S07 Was J34531545 This Is larger than has been expended in any year since 1305 In n lg ftOO the woodwork and all articles arti-cles of wood are tither stowed below or thrown overboard lest the men be injured by splinters The orlginof the navv department maybe I may-be said to date Irom Oct 13 1773 when j I congress authorized theequipment of two cruisers The fastest vessels in the navy are the torpedo boats Porterand Dupont each of winch can travel 215 knots an hour Battleships cost from 2SMuOU to J3750 eli a cruiser from GQOCHW to 3000 < jDO A good torpedo boat costs over luuWjO Battleahlps arc for heavy worK cruisers I crui-sers arc commerce destrojers monitors are useful only for coAst defense The Indiana could lay outside Sandy Hook and throw 120jiouid shots Into New York at the rate of four a minute Those artiste who show smoke in their pictures of naval battles are wholly wrong Smokeless powder is used All of the cruisers are named in honor of cities and the battleship except the Kcarsarge In honor of states The grog ration was abolished in 1MB and since then the crew has been forbidden forbid-den to drink while on duty Marines are the police on board ship Originally they were employed to prevent mutiny among the sailors The guns of a battleship can carry from six to 12 miles hurling a shot weighing half a ton Only 60 per cent of the enlisted men are Americans and a smaller percentage yet are native born Projectiles thrown by naval guns are shaded much as the bullets shot by tho ordinary nib A big battleship has on board an elec tric plant capable of lighting a town of 5000 Inhabitants Thu boilers of the Iowa have a heating surface of eight acres and hold l SO tons of water Great Britain has 2Sl tosedo and torpe doboat destroyers Undo Sam has only i eight I Five hundred and twentysir men and 40 I onicers are required to man the cruiser I New York i Battleships arts covered with armor of I nickel steel from Jive to seven inches thick I I We have four armored battleships the I Indiana Iowa Massachusetts and Texas A submarine toryedo boat to be known as the Plunger Is now under construc i tion tionAt present the total enlisted force of the naval militia is 3870 ofllcer3 and men I Behind the heavy armor there Is a pad i dine of either corn pith or corn busies It costs SvflO every time one of the big I vrJp ir 3 gun on board a ship is fired The Brooklyn I unit tho New York are our armored cruiser I I I I Sailors are paid from 9r 0 to 1250 per month and board An act of confess inlS7iabolished flogging flog-ging In tho navy < The American navy has practically all been built since 1SS3 I A captain In the navy ranks with l a colonel = col-onel In the army The oldest iron vessel Is the ilichlsan I built In 1MI tFIve battleships are now under construction I con-struction I We have the only mthe 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