Show GAPTu COGHLAN HERE Famous Naval Officer Visiting Visit-ing Salt Lake J HEALTH NEARLY RESTORED n o Brave Commander of the Ralcigb Manila Whoso Station is < Now tat at Pugot Sound Naval Station is Seeking Seek-ing Health in the Mountains Hero of tho Hoch del Kaiser Incident Talks Entertainingly of Affairs in the NavySays a Good Word for Utah Batteries I Capt J B Coghlan the brave commander com-mander of the United States warship Raleigh and the hero of the Hoch dor Kaiser Incident oC pyrotechnic memory Is at the Knutsford with Mrs Coghlan from Colorado Springs With them are MaJ and Mrs J 13 Wheeler of Now York and Editor I N Stevens of the Colorado Springs Gazette Ga-zette The party arc here for a short trip expecting to return to Colorado tomorrow Capt Coghlan left his vessel ves-sel of Manila fame in June 1800 at the Portsmouth N H navy yard where extensive repairs were ordered Including Includ-ing enlargement of her coal bunk ij cy l r 9wt I 1 I IM i J iimiI S4i 4ktIV icJ 1M2 7 1 I I Capt J B Coghlan qrs and improvement on her engines Ito hasvBlhce beenIn command of the naval station on Puget sound but for the last three months has been troubled with pleurisy so that he has been off on sick leave and enjoying Colorados Rocky mountain climate Capt Coghlan said yesterday that ho lad so far recovered as to expect in a few weeks to return to active duly Us vessel the Raleigh fired the first shot of the war In the Philippines ho shot being thrown Into a Span Ish fortification but the Olympia Ired the first shot of the naval engagement en-gagement that destroyed Montljos fleet The Captain remembered Lieut Pearson Pear-son of this city well particularly as the alter returned to the United States on his vessel lie said the Lieutenant was In command of the Zafiro In the relief section of vessels which were or bred to remain in readiness just outside out-side the line of fire so that in case of disaster lo any of the American easels ea-sels the relief ships could come to their assistance Capt Coghlan feels proud of the American navy and the Admiral at tho head of It and remaiked that It was tho constant aim and purpose of the Navy department to embody the latest and most effective Improvements in each vessel as It Is built There has been a scarcity of Junior officers in the navy but that will not make necessary any shortening up of the course of study at the naval academy The Cap aln did not think any further attempt would be made to pave the wreckage i Cerveras fleet off Santiagos shores or the Maria Teresa at Cat Island I and they would probably be familiar objects for the next thirty or forty years Capt Coghlan in referring to characteristics char-acteristics of the naval service said that the high degree of efficiency the various branches of the service la because of rotation In office An officer Is detailed for Instance as chief of ordnance He remains In this position four years when another man lakes his place although an unusually goodman good-man may serve a second term The result Is that the desire to make a good record keeps a man ever on tho alert and then he knows that the guns he Is making he may later have to fight behind Consequently the navy has good Hung The Captain while on three years duty at Washington look a law ourse In the Columbian university with time degree of LL B and has been admitted admit-ted to practice In several States He remarked that a knowledge of law stands a naval officer in very good stead Capt Coghlan has a good word for the Utah batteries who cooperated cooperat-ed with him in lighting at Manila The Captain lit l a jolly good fellow evidently ready for a Joke at any time he has all the backbone of a I sea fighter and has the reputation of being a model olllccr |