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Show NAVAL GUNNERY. Some daya ago, before the Economic club of New York City. Mr. Meyer, secretary of the navy, said that in 1898 the percentage of hits at the battle bat-tle of Santiago waa 3ty per cent, while today it ia 331-3 per cent, though the range haa increaaed from 3(XX) yard to over 10,000. Thoae figure are fine, but then there may be other difference. "We once aaw a dead bear in a wagon. A man came along, glanced into the wagon, then turning away, said : "That 'a not much of a bar." The man who had killed him replied : "Stranger, it make a powerful pow-erful difference in the" size of a bear, whether you see him that way or whether he ia coming for you with hia mouth open and his ears bark." At Santiago the "bar" waa coming out of Santiago San-tiago harbor with hia mouth open and hia ears ba;k. However, there ia no doubt that the gunnery of warships haa greatly improved aince 1898. Another statement made by Secretary Meyer waa that in 1898 the great guns fired one shot in every five minutes min-utes ; now tl)ey fire two shots every minute, twelve hard red times better than waa done off Santiago, which ia most remarkable. . According to that, one ship like the Delaware would h more effective than the combined fleets of Sampson and Schley were at Santiago. The navy ia evidently keeping up ita old prestige. |