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Show j NAVTICAL :- ; .. .. NOVELTIES : -; j The following "Nautical Novelties" are furnished by the U. S. Navy Re-cruitinj Re-cruitinj Station at Salt Lake City: The Civil War introduced many new ideas in naval construction and ordnance. These ideas were developed develop-ed by all nations except the United States, which for 20 years did not bu'ld any new ships. The wooden hulls of the Civil War ironclads soon rotted and these ships had to be scrapped, leaving the navy with nothing no-thing but worm-eaten relics of the Civil War days or earlier. These ships were unarmored and for the most part mounted smooth-bore muzzle-loading cannon. On March 3, 1883, congress authorized the construction of 4 modern cruisers. Difficulties were experienced in building these ships due to lack of manufacturing facilities for making armor and guns and due to the fact that during the past 20 years American inventors had been forced to sell their naval patents to foreign countries as there was no market for them at home. The new ships were the Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, and Dolphin. They were known as the "A, B, C, D, of the Navy," Na-vy," and the initial letters of their names appeared to bear this out. This act was known as the "birth of the new navy." The allies sunk only five German submarines in 1914; 19 in 1915, and 22 in 1916. But during 1917 and up to November. 1918, they sent 132 of funds appropriated for the purchase; of naval vessels and aircraft go di-. rectly to laborers who handle the material ma-terial for our men-o-war. This in turn is distributed through practically every state in the union. The crew of the repair ship U. S. S. Medusa bought and sent away 206 money orders, totaling $4,847.87, to banks and to their families on the July 20th payday, which was 40 per cent of the total amount of money drawn. them to the bottom, or one every 120 hours. During those last two years, how everf Germany was making them at the rate of one every 90 hours, an astonishing production schedule for ' such a large and intricate piece of machinery. During the world war, German submarines sunk 2677 Bri- j tish ships, or an average of one every 12 hours. ! On the United States navy airplane carrier U. S. S. Lexington, there are 6,000 lighting fixtures, 700 electric motors, nearly 600 automatic telephones, tele-phones, and 300 loudspeakers with microphones for verbal orders and bugle calls. United States navy pigeons, on June 15, 1935, won a gruelling race, taking first and second places in the 400-mile heat from Danville, Va. One thousand birds were entered in the. race. The navy's winning bird averaged averag-ed 1360.76 yards per minute. About eighty-five per cent of all |