Show GREAT IN DEVELOPING NAVY MA r p RECENTLY H Has as R. R Risen Isen in In R Rank an k fp Fr F Eighth Eight to Third Larges Largest in World I ISo So rapid a pace has been set act In the of at the United States navy naVi navy the outbreak of ot the w war r with wih f Spain Spate at ginning In 1808 M an and so io fO great a ahas mt has been accomplished In building world power navy in the Ideen j that have ha elapsed since then that nat j been the tho amazement of the world the chief pride of the American teop At the outbreak of the Ain Ar Arcan can war the navy of or the Uni United cd st St was wa el eighth hh in lu rank with wih ho the world o oera i ers erR Today Todar It i Is third in rank being in the tle number of or V ve vessels eis beli and and t na sage c b by anI only the navies n le of England Germany German When hen the Iho Maine a was sunk and was wag declared declare upon Spain th thc tho United St Si Sf navy navr comprised only four fifty v of all au ni t types t T lh an aggregate tonof ton torn of or t tons Our Navy T Today Y The Tho navy y t a has in total of of lf els ot of or all al types Hpe with will wih aggregate atc tOI ago of r The Increase in these these sixteen rear years vears not been limited alone atone to the tue ee seventy enty vessels and a tonna tonnage e of 86 ton tons but has lias been more Important t these figures alone would Indicate by son of the tho tremendous advance tha been made mae In that period In the tho mat ma of construction and the t types es of or v cs that are aro built bui today todar j The t type pP of esnel was wasa wa a visionary dream sixteen years vears a aeo o. o 1 Is a a tested realIty rea tOa today While Airier ATine has hag nine such toa today of or wh wb the Utah is one of the finest ex ni there were no tio such vessels afloat du duthe duthe dur the war with wih Spain There were only four vessels of thc type In commission lon duing t tar tl hp war ar while whilo today toay this country countr has twin len four warships of the dread naught t tIn I 1 In actual commission Add In i Efficiency The advance In the m matter ter of or cori lion Uon of guns and the discovery con of gns high power explosives far more d dand de and efficient than were ere In service du duthe dur the Spanish American war ar has n K more to the efficiency of the thc pre present ent navy than the average layman can d In gunnery the tho officers and men oP r f navy hold bold 1011 the highest records In In world worle for all al around efficiency under imaginable conditions Their has hs continued regularly and steadily a aing In ing all al the years year of pence peace so s that the for fight tight 01 0 saying Ready neady for fun frolic applies apples with wih greater force torce t I il ever before In the h history tory of or this coi cc c tr try Comparison of or Vessels A comparison of the vessels and th tonnage In commission In the navy too ted with th that t of Is Interesting a a I sno sho ho hoing Ing wih the marvelous strides that have have w bc b made since that period perio ff Ves Vessels In construction at outbreak Spanish American war I I BATTLESHIPS BA First class 4 4 Indiana Oregon an arid and cas Iowa Aggregate tonne Second class 1 I 1 Texas Tonnage M 63 Armored cruisers 2 2 Brooklyn and N York Aggregate tonnage 1416 1 Monitors Monitors' 6 6 6 trite Monterey Puritan and ana andT T Aggregate tonnage Protected cruisers 12 12 1 Charleston Columbia Minneapolis Ol Oh 0 i pla pia Newark San Francisco New No Ones Cincinnati Cincinnat Raleigh and Boston Boton A Agate Ae gate tonna tonnage c Z Unprotected d cruisers and gunboats I Detroit Marblehead Montgomery B Detri Concord Yorktown Topeka a Dj phin Wilmington Nashville Cast Ca ne 31 chias Annapolis Vicksburg Wheel Marietta Newport Princeton P Petrel Perel trel a aI tj Bancroft A Aggregate ato to tonnage n gc 2441 D Dynamite vessel 1 Vesuvius 1 I JP na sage Torpedo e. e 99 boa boats tf S Erck Bricks Foote Winslow jn low Porter Du Dc Morris Tonnage Total e Summary of 01 vessels of the nav navy nav Toni Tonni Battleships first class 4 U 4 Battleships second cass class 1 I 8 Armored cruisers cas 2 17 Monitors f j Protected cruisers 1 12 fl 1 Unprotected crul cruisers erR and batt battleships bat bat- f 20 J t Zi 7 Dynamite t e vessel cl I 1 J Torpedo boats S 8 I Total t 5 54 i 1111 1 i Vessels In commission in United t SUJ na navy V Ton Ton Battleships typo type 9 z Ba Battleships Battleship pre dread naught tlc type 21 i 31 Coast defense vessels e el 4 ii Armored cruisers 11 1 Crul Crullers Cruisers ers 1 C Torpedo boat boa t destroyers 4 46 I t Torpedo boats 1 IS 15 Total Slow cooking conking I is the best hest coking children's childrens hIldren food fo |