Show NAUTICAL NOVELTIES 4 all of 0 tho the following items concern the U S S arizona ono one of our older battleships she was built at the now new york navy yard and launched on juno june 19 1915 she carries a complement of 88 officers and 1206 enlisted men it takes approximately two dundr hundred ed and fifty gallons of antl anti chroal paint and two hundred and thirty gallons of antifouling anti antl fouling paint to paint paini her bottom when she goes into dry dock and about ono one hundred and seventy five gallons of groy grey to give her one coat above water line it has been estimated that after j a ship has been in comIs slon two or three years the weight of the point paint on her alone la Is five hundred tons that it Is admitted with a blush Is quite a lot of paint for a lady to wear ivear i around the horsepower of her engines Is it you fou took tho the horses necessary to push her aroun around dand and hit hitch h ed them up in four horse teams one in front of the other they would 0 stretch tr 0 t P h more than thirty throe three alloa that Is allowing twenty feet space for each team of course it if you wanted to crowd your teams together more you might be able to cut that down to twenty seven of twenty eight miles she has haa tanks sufficiently large to enable her to carry one million seven hundred thousand gallons of 0 fuel oil during the last six months the crew alone consumed pounds of coffee pounds of irish potatoes gallons of tomato catsup pounds ot of evaporated milk pounds of popper pepper pounds of sauerkraut pounds of sugar pounds of salt eggs and pounds of meat in spite of all this seemingly enormous of food the men are fed on an average expenditure of only forty cents a day in the ships hake bake shop the average dally daily turnout ol 01 0 bread for crew a and n cal officers messes Is between eight hundred and nine hundred 1 pound loave leave dally daily in adrion adlon ad lon to whatever baking of plea pies cake or rolls there Is to be done f tor or the day chaj Is done dona in three electric ovens each containing six racks dough Is mixed by an electric dough mixer in the ships canteen during last quarter a total of candy bars were sold during the same period a total of bars of toilet soap I 1 were sold |