Show NAVY IK IS PREPARED PIPED fOR EMERGENCIES SECRETARY DANIELS SAYS OUR NAVY IS IN THE BEST OF SHAPE IN CASE OF WAR Two Iwo Hundred and Twenty five Vessels Vessel Now In Commission One Hundred Hundred Hun Hun- dred in Reserve and 77 i Under Construction Washington Secretary Secretary Daniels on Sunday made public a letter he has written to President Garfield of Williams Wil Wil- tams hams college detailing the work In Inthe inthe inthe the navy during the last two years Mr Daniels wrote in reply to Mr Garfield's Garfield's Garfield's Gar- Gar fields field's request for material to meet statements that the United States is unprepared for military emergencies I Secretary Daniels says there are arenow low now in active service fully commissioned commissioned commissioned commis commis- vessels of all characters which is thirty six thirty more more than were were fully ully commissioned commissioned when when he became secretary There are also vessels of jf various types in reserve and in ordinary ordinary or- or and capable of af rendering service in war We have under construction and authorized seventy seven vessels nine dread- dread twenty-three twenty destroyers thir thir- ty-eight ty submarines ines and seven auxiliaries auxiliaries auxiliaries as compared with four fifty-four vessels five fourteen destroyers twenty-three twenty submarines three gunboats and nine auxiliaries which were under construction on March 1 1913 All the vessels enumerated those In active service and those in reserve are ire supplied d with munitions of war No navy makes public the quantity of ammunition and torpedoes mines and other ather implements of naval warfare which it keeps ready The personnel of the navy is at present composed of line staff and warrant officers and enlisted enlisted enlisted en en- listed men Increases in the number of officers is dependent almost entirely entire entire- ly upon the output of the naval academy academy academy acad acad- emy admission to which is restricted by statute The number of enlisted men also is restricted and the navy is today recruited to the maximum strength allowed There are now with the colors more men men men-an an in in- crease of 12 per cent than there were on March 1 I 1914 I |