Show I 1 flavy N AVY IN 1 tha WORLD 1 s f I 1 I 1 11 1 1 I 1 tile the secretary of the navy and the naval I 1 board of construction sire are entitled to she tho appreciative thankie of the nation thoy they hae aae so eo far as the character of 0 tile tho 1 in 14 concerned adopted exactly tho the rc shags t course courno in providing for enlargement ot of t the he navy tho the proposal to build six teen knot perhaps in the ery ry yard in which an knot ship la Is being built for an allen alien ponca merely or the sake of at avoiding tho the bother slight light expense and immaterial delav of 0 crepe r ing ab nb now plans has been abandoned instead n tho the department wilt mill ask ark congress for authority and meant means to build ships of more than nineteen knots speed cheso taso will bo be gi gantle carrying uio the heaviest pos possible biblo armor find and the most efon efficient focient 9 guna sh ships aps one A third hird in larger an and one fourth swifter than tho the oregon Or cKon and as strong in armor and ardam armament ent mill indeed be 1 tho I most farril formidably datil light fight ina machines afloat three such auch tile tho d department part art ment i 3 to build remembering tie the iho sherb work of the new ew york and sid t iho he brooklyn tins tile boand of con istra ol 01 1 on rightly thinks the navy should h some g me more mom touch mich ships but it right to ly thinks th that a they can bo improved eps on so it 1 li p la for three cruls front from one third to ono one half larger than those great creat ships and at lenat t two a knots f n ter that Is IR to say eay swifter than even t tho is is Colum columbia Columb bla ln and antl minneapolis and as a strong as n tho the new york find and the th brooklyn Uro Lo oklyn nor Is tho the sup superb erb clym pla forgotten it Is proposed to bull build I 1 three ii ot of her class clasa but far larger ne r more powerful 0 r ful and of 0 s gd and d more till anally lly x alx fl lx x am lice cruisers crul sera to midway between tho the boston unit and tho the carble 1 I head of 0 about tile ra MO slit ed an n the ormer former or a little faster sixteen knots but of enlarged coal capacity and cruising radius in fact all these wilt will havo extraordinary odeaus endurance the smallest cruises cru leiB a n mill ill be able to so go soon choti and knots recasting tho the second cleas crul cru laera sors nearly an I 1 far ar the nit firlit class clam crul beril ton toil th thousand litsa ad knots and oven even tho the ponderous pondo roun not lyn bliss than eight thousand knots A battleship facto powerful power lul than I 1 iho ho ore agn capable of steaming lot loin n now york to liverpool and back and t loon bon down to VArlin doest or from now nom york to bombay without stop topping for coal tit ill be thu the stopping CIng most bolst bormida lo 10 vessel tho the acas havo have over ever borne in brief tho the department proposes to add to each of four classes or of ships ind and t to 0 do so in qualley AS well ell BJ an in quantity it takes taik for its models tho the very best eat vessels lie I 1 a of their respective classes and proposes to improve upon them it euans n s t thac each ach nw now ship that hat la is bu bulu fiffe ahall hot mia b be superior in bome ns essential to its P r 0 o not ot onla will it not submit it to an any atso I 1 no behind d other na nations tiona la but ut it log Insl fils u upon 0 o their boxt accle amt the h arelita russion kushlon battle batile ship ehla now being b built aro are to have a speed of eighteen anista knista ours are to have a of nineteen they will thus be almost as aa large and fully as powerful QS a adv battleship li in any navy in ill the iho world and at least a knot flo aling fortresses as is iw tit an any anny out ui the VM Z V cruisers crul nors our now crul met fit bo be larker larger and ot stronger ronger anti and P than ats any others othera in the iho world that means th that yi alp for ship alp our navy in to be b flu au perlor to all others othera and that ollie this nation nailon which for a hundred years hall haa taught the whole world i ever everything thing it il han I 1 learnt earned in 11 nanal science blence la Is y ILI 11 to sal maju falls maln lla its aroud proud I 1 alro wo eminence that la us im it ought to ho r a tho the U united states may never havo have tho the big keat but it should have tile the bar t navy ast n the a wo we believe it has hae that today axe B believe that such ships s a ai tho the oregon Ctr co tho the brooklin Brook tin n told and t the e olem rim pla KW aro today unrivalled in their res respective flair ec lineses by chips under any othor other nat we believe bellevo bk t that at ahlfs in n r skill of officers offles and valor of men inon in ili accuracy of aim and perfection faction of discipline the tb united states slates naw Is today tho the bout beat in the ora horld but it will not remain tho the hope it if it reals is rut eat failed with past achievements other naval a axe aro learning learn lne our lemons prof rinse by our prience ence and example end and opting adopting our improvements they are moving ahead and we wa too loo mut must move or we shall ahall not only last our lead but actually fau fall behind it was in con r t of lh that t L t fuel tho the tribune protested ne ido tj g abnot L the h elect building of knot batt battleships leoh and started the cam pa palan or ships of at least eighteen knots a now crowned with complete success Ruc apor for wo we have no doubt that thai con press fread reas will promptly sanction tho list plans of fhe iho 4 apartment c jid and that ano no nation wilt will add its ita cordial approval new york tribune |