Show ME Jy COSTLY TH1 Na rASHINGTON A cal f W J culatlon of tho nn anal cost of main V tain I ng Individual V Y types of craft In tho British navy was ro entl made by Admiralty Secretary dmund Robertson By this It Is hown that It costs 1157500 to keep nrltlsh battleship In commission ono A destroyer Involves an annual rear itorp 0 uttay ofi1S3 5OO a torpedo boat 30 i 00 It was with cable brevity that these gores were transmitted Tho enormous enor-mous sum required to maintain a bat Whip for a year makes one wonder f there has not been some error In nsmlsslon That a vessel costing ay 6000000 should In tho course of ess than six years equal Its entire irlglnal cost In the mere matter of nalntenancc would seem Inconcclv ble at first glance Hut when one ompares the figures given with our wn expenditures In this direction the filiations do not seem to be so inch astray Tho flat cost of main Inlng nn American battleship In com Isslon In no Instance equals or near equals the sum which the admlr jty secretary finds Is necessary for he maintenance of a British battle hip But It Is likely that he has In laded In this estimate the cost of the istablislimcnt which maintains the Wps No mathematician has yet fig r red out the cost of our ships of war Vie n i lines which would Include the cost r yards docks etc If this were one It would bo found that under our I resent very absurd system or rather n try absurd lack of system in con I uctlng naval affairs the cost of main fining a British battleship would be a tat por cheap and tawdry thing in com Prison with the cost of maintaining American war vessel of tho same pe peOver Over a Billion Since Spanish War I The new navy which dates from tho ML u L n Jpanlsh war has cost to date 1244 51000 Of this sum 309000000 has en expended on ships The rest has ne to the maintenance of tho naval jstabllshment Tho cost of tnalnten Ice of Individual types IB shown in arles a-rles of tables prepared by the bu au i of supplies and accounts and in rporated In the annual roport of tho P master general of the navy Dur r g the flsral year ended June 30 Oi the cost of maintaining tho 16 BUIeshlps which are now In the Pa fie was as jllows Months Coat of In Name Maintenance Com abama > 2O32M9e 12 Irwls 4914 12 at8arl fi10Mlll 12 > > Mucky C2013rt7S 12 ft Nslana r GiO4SIG5 I 12 l unfis7i2 11 ale lalana I 1 520b30CK I 12 rgtnla fil230 SS 12 sour DGS1S3J7 12 w Terse 5702fl i 41 12 nn nnoCticUl firo4sicr > 1I t jjinoctlcut 41053102 9 orgln i 3259152S j 9 8 87S78SO a nnoatn 13085080 4 nntaoln 14715503 3 These figures show that It costs plderably more than 500000 a s ar to keep a battleship In commls gBf f a Tho Connecticut flagship of the iitj Al i et may h chosen as an example the various directions In which tho ltd i 11 Is expended During tho nine lp I l wnths of the fiscal year the main 3 tll fiance of that vessel cost 11053102 this amount 23271988 was for the of hor ol1lcorll and crow Com r L uted rations amounted to 1887690 F Pllotag and at postage tho sum o elrt 61711 MU1 was expended The value of girl Ires expimncd In tho t ill0111011 various depart tts Was as follows Ordnance I Kin mK 64SOI Motion and repair eon C2 > Meiim 31 engineering a < nirt BM5 P Bd d45 accounts qUllBnl 728709 supplies counts 1223345 repairs toe to-e hull machinery and equipage 51 9GO29 Gun Practice U Coolly The 1161509 expended for ordnance ord-nance was mainly for tho powder and shell used at target practice A correspondent corre-spondent who is with tho fleet estimates esti-mates that tho cost of the ammunition expended at target practice in Magdalena Magda-lena bay alone foots up to a total cost of 160000 That expenditure ho says In giving the views of tho officers offi-cers Is not expensive On tho contrary con-trary It Is the best money spent by tho United States navy It Is tho premium pre-mium of Insurance paid annually for efficiency and It will prove its value If these ships ever get Into war Therell bo no hit or miss or reckless helterskelter shooting then Congress and the navy Itself have long been divided over the relative value of the battleship and the armored cruiser Jn spite of much opposition op-position on tho part of those who be Hove that battleships vessels which cost but little more to build are infinitely In-finitely superior to the armored cruiser ten vessels of this type having been recently added to the American navy Tho opponents of the armored cruiser can now point to the vast i A1Ao D CRUIcSdR JffiRYLAND 7YP Dz6 ROY 0 czi iuR C sums which It requires to maintain them The tables prepared by the paymaster general show that while tho battleships average a little more ban 500000 a year the armored cruisers average more than 700000 The squadron of this type which is under tho command of near Admiral Dayton and known as tho Big Four Is composed of the West Virginia the Colorado tho Pennsylvania and the Maryland For tho fiscal ended June 30 the West Virginia cost 753151 47 the Colorado 70003716 the Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania 73511149 and the Maryland 68552606 Cavalry of the Navy The armored cruiser has been compared com-pared to cavalry A distinguished naval officer says that it Is not com 1 parable to cavalry Moreover uu adds no one has proved that a navy needs anything comparable to the cav to the cav airy It is not comparable airy for the reason that it has not speed relatively to nearly the same the other vessels of a fleet that the cavalry has to the other branches of and because It has not near an army offensive either power ly the same or defensive relatively to the oilier ships that the cavalry has to the other branches And a person would have to labor hard to prove that a needs something comparable to navy the cavalry for how can ono find on open sea and within the restricted space which oven the largest enemy opportunity for fleet can cover any those quick surmises or those sudden exposed lines of communt attacks on cation stretching away for miles which Is one of the principal employ of cavalry and can ono even ments squadron of armored imagine cruisers making a a charge In battle battleships at all comparable against which charges of cavalry to those o In history have been again and again hurled with irresistible violence I against a vulnerable point I wish to be nils not officer does understood the useful 1 undorstood as questioning cruisers ho merely ot armored ness of an oftro logicalness questions the lIut lit the same argument pealed ho well to It may time hu says 110 can find a though Ilolnt out that crultel now that armored for our use nevertheless It 110 them yet 110 havo Instead or our ten had ten instead our armored cruisers our fleet would be much stronger Cost of Establishments said no one has yet figured As has been cost tired out just what our shlp9 Is cost establishment when the cost of tile ncludea The rmo who Tins made hlT nearest approach to It Is Pay Inspector John A Mudd In a paper which Is publlsliea In the naval institute this distinguished ortlcor says that or the hundred ralllloua annually appropriated appropri-ated for tho navys support 18000000 In round numbers Is spent to pay tho wages of labor In navy yards This amount says the pay Inspectors Inspector-s nearly equal to what It costs to support sup-port tho fleet In commission Tho accounting ac-counting for tho actual disbursement if these eighteen millions Is thorough too thorough perhaps Tho accounting for why tho money was spent Is simply the unregulated and generally unexamined show of results with lit tle or no proof that the results equal m the values expended For tho fiscal year of 1906 ho adds that the cost of maintaining all ships then In commission was 2365595041 Returns for this year show that thero was spent for repairs to hulls machinery ma-chinery and equipage of the ships 555030901 Thus tho total cost of the floating part of the establishment during the year excluding cost of new construction 3176455058 alone was 2920625942 It cost during tho same fiscal year to maintain all tho navy yards and other shoro stations 1111508081 Besides this there was expended for buildings chattels etc and for machinery at these places tho sum of 958918309 making the total of the mal maintenance cost of tho shoro part of the establishment 20 09420390 Of course this latter figure fig-ure does not Include the work done at tho yards on or for ships It Is solely tho cost of keeping tho yards In such shape as to fit them for doing their work for tho floating part of the establishment estab-lishment This cost alone of maintaining main-taining the shoro plant was moro than twothirds tho cost of the floating part the fleet Extravagance of Shore Plants Enumerating the various other expenses ex-penses of tho yards and stations tho pay Inspector makes tho flat assertion that over half of tho total appropriations appropria-tions for the navy arc absorbed by tho shore plants Of the finished product the warship In commission and beyond be-yond the control of the land establishment establish-ment force there Is he says little to say Admitting the absolute necessity for that product finished as It Is today to-day Its administration away from the 1 navy yards Is apt to bo economIcal enough comparatively speaking It Is about the accounting for the necessity for the expenses of the huge establish Ime tit another yard not many miles away and with the same resources at n cost of 125070 Where ono yard was able to make 808 ditty boxes for 1S9977 was It Just to the Money for tho Navy to spend 425966 at thou same Umo at another yard In making a similar number Prices Vary Greatly Tho boats for tho battleships arc built as to kind on tho same model and of the samo material Recently Re-cently at one yard It cost 189063 to make a 30foot turn cutter while at another not many miles away It cost f2684C2 to build exactly tho same kind of boat to put on board tho same kind of battleship A 30foot barge cost 67lOS at one yard and 1151 fit1 another Several 30foot cutters cost on tho average 59861 at ono yard and 84813 at another A 14foot dinghy cost 10408 at ono yard while at another the samo kind of boat was turned out for 15361 A 16foot dinghy cost 10417 at ono yard and 19634 at another pretty closo to twice as much It will be observed A 20foot dinghy cost 21789 at ono yard and 36244 at another A 30foot gig whaloboat cost 60938 at ono yard and tho same kind of boat for tho same kind of service was turned out at another yard for tho euphonious sum of 88880 Turning to furniture A mahogany desk for a cabin cost 13676 at ono yard whllo nt another ono made for a sister ship cost 190 there being no cents wasted on this latter prlco An oak desk cost 11207 at one yard and 16330 at another Toilet racks for officers rooms of which there arc more than 40 made for oach battleship battle-ship cost 1460 at ono yard whllo at another exactly tho same article was turned out for tho neat round sum of 20 Curious Variations In Price To muko and fit Into u battleship six galvanized boxes for fire clay 30x24x15 Inches cost at ono yard for tho job 10701 and at another yard to mako similar boxes and to fit them on board a sister battleship It cost 38412 These same boxes unflttod cost at one yard six dollars each nt another 847 and at still another 2084 The pay Inspector asks If a change In the method of appropriating money looking to tho Increased economical efficiency of the shoro plant would affect tho fleet and answers his own question In tho afllrmntlve Yes ho says materially perceptibly abso I 1 aw j J f ry iJr J rJ 1 Fxf s I e v r t of 1 r l + t 1 V aarrl Fr r a or rye rnvr Crass comrccrJc7 ryrE tUt 1 OF t I F r N J + 4 e ter T w r 4P g JilAlMARGJ RolJ lIINOM lJ1UlIJHIPr5 01 7Hl Y d or sa 139 ment that supports the fleet that there should bo concern The paymaster thus pays his respects re-spects to tho bureau system of the navy department The bureaus he says do apt represent principalities within clear uncrossed dividing lines There arc portions of the personnel resource re-source that directly or Indirectly are under the Influence of more than one bureau and there aro portions of the i money resource that cannot be expended ex-pended properly by ono bureau without with-out advice or suggestion from another This necessitates coordination in order or-der to accomplish What an acceptable accept-able InspirIng word coordination Is The mention of It brings ones thoughts to peaceful achievement to I modern triumph over that business demon waste In the navy it means something like tho general peace In Europe where the dusty boundary stone is not needed to murk division between neighboring mighty states tho demarkation being more clearly shown by unbroken lines of waiting bayonets Such is coordination today among the bureaus Defects In Present System Knowing that navy yard work even under businesslike administration administra-tion cannot be done with the neces methods to contend sary government with as cheaply as similar work In commercial shops let us be liberal minded Then also knowing that for every boat tlllor made there are thousands thou-sands of pick handles and lawn mowers mow-ers let us admit that the minimum price of boat tillers made at the yards one dollar is a Just and proper value for manufacturing excuse Does this give ing others at three dollars each 1 When 40 metal stateroom boxes for uniforms were made at one officers I yard for 567 was It good policy to 40 more at the same manufacture lutely at once Every time a navy > yard clerk bungles or shirks his work the fleet feels It every tlmo a navy yard mechanic goes to sleep In tho bowels of tho hull on which ho Is working tho fleet feels It every time a supervising authority on shoro Is overcome by a feeling of laissez falro the fleet feels It every tlmo two departments de-partments at a navy yard waste hours In friction in bumptious quarreling the fleet feels it The fleet is an a seismometer for Inetllclency on shore Tho shock of tho full pald workman Idle at his job may not attract ordinary or-dinary notice but It Is recorded thero just tho same and Its mark may bo deciphered by those who search and I weigh and measureN Y Times N t r fUNNY f r r I f l I h 6r 1 The Firemans Daughter For love of her n youth did burn Till llnnlly It blazed out She poured colil water on his tame And her father put him out Unltlmora American |