Show A QUID OF TOBACCO now a small thing stopped on a great war ship emile duboe duboc tells tel amusing ant ing story of an event which he hersay say tt cert cerr thinly led to the downfall of oi hydraulic machinery in the french service A arv w years ago the authorities of a gp creasi ilund iL 1 altu uld h W i ig I 1 irm were cr m r A r zua cf v leu the itlie the drefs refs ofa of u I 1 new cw battle theares the pres nee nce of the committee appointed to tare take tvr r the chip were fal luTes apayor Ada aday ar two before everything had gone satisfactorily facto rily but now the aurre turret after ome slight movement stuck jast fast the gauges gouges indicated the normal pres su aure re there was nothing wrong aia the turret or with the racks rachs tor fr i ing ng it there was no perceptible percept iole leleae leakin in any of the pipes and it was wag so im 1 possible gozs I 1 ble to assign any reason forace behavior of the turret that the cam committee had to go home without seema it t revolve re velve that evening and the fol fal lo 0 g day a complete cons pi etc 0 overhaul lul was made ade of the system of piping audit and dt vae vaa then discovered that one small but important amport ant pipe was completely choked by a quid of chewed abac tobacco which a workman vor lanan had doubtless let fall into it inadvertently when this was removed the turret worked as well as ver but the disquietude caused caus edby by the want avant of success of the day before was mily anly increased when it was discovered A abow insignificant the cause had been prom from that day the naval authorities decided dec c ded that in future wherever ale able the power for battle ship operations should be carried by a wire instead of a steam pipe |