Show NEEDS OF NAVY Station at Guam ia Very Much Desired Washington Nov 11the rcnQrt oC Admiral Bradford chief of the naval bureau of equipment records unprer codcntedly large expenditures by bruising bruis-ing ships during the last fiscal year and the disbursement of largo amounts for freight Involved In the trnnaporUi tlon of stores Admiral Bradford sets fOrth lie dc rjrablllty of a naval station at Gunmr > emphasizing the imporlanro oC lid < Island as a naval base lie also re counts rapid improvements In equip monl work nl the Cavlte naval slullon and time completion of a steel cold stor agehouse at PagoPago on the Inland of Titulla Samoa The amount of coal being consumed by the navy is increasing year by year and Its cost last year averaged nearly 2 a too more than during the fiscal year of 189S Admiral Bradford again renews hla recommendations for new naval coal depots The bureau rrcornmcnds the Instilln thin of the Marconi system of wireless telegraphy on board of several ships of the navy provided It can be done at a reasonable cost Experiments In this yysteni of signaling have proven successful In the main In the trials made by shlpa of the North Atlantic squadron although quite a serious de fect has been discovered In the event that two vessels using the system should altempt to signal a single port or vessel simultaneously tho receiving station or ship Is found to bt unableto distinguish between the message aont 10 it The report says the survey by the United Slates steamer Nero for a IrunsPstcitlc submarine telegraph ca ble between Honolulu and the Philip pine islands was most successfully accomplished ac-complished and that a aatlsfacolry route for an allAmerkan cable lo connect con-nect the Pacific coast with the outlying colonial possessions of the United Stales In the Pacific and with China and Japan has been discovered thoroughly thor-oughly explored surveyed and mapped The bureau In now ready to lay the cable at any Lime Two parties were Kent to the Held by the naval observatory lo whitens the total eclipse of the sun on May 28 1900 The result says Admiral Bradford was ns a whole successful there being however how-ever uoino of the failures with minor Instruments Attention IK called to the fact that another total eclipse of the sun will occur May 17 1901 which will bo re markable on account of tie long dura lion of lie totality and of the high alii ode of the sun An estimate to en able ito obscrvalory lo send an cxpcdl ilon lo witness this eclipse will be sub rn I I lcd |