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Show KusliinK the Work. w York, Dec. 2!). The Jf-rnld't Wafih ingtou correspondent asserts positively thafn orders have gone to the builders of the Monterey Mon-terey to work night and day to get her' ready for service at the earliest possible moment. mo-ment. Orders have just been issued to pre. pare iier two twelve-inch guns for shipment) to San Francisco. So anxious is the department depart-ment to expedite matters thut her plate will be shipped without awaiting the result of the tests called for in the coutruct. A larg quantity of ammunition for the rapid-tiro guns is contracted for and steps taken to sc.. cure the early delivery of thirty Howell ton pedoes. The, contractors for Whitehead tort pedoes are also unusually active, and thero is reason to anticipate the early delivery ot 100 of these torpedoes. |