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Show Our Navy's Growth. Admiral Taylor, chief of the bureau of navigation, says that the American Ameri-can navy has grown to very respectable respect-able proportions, even if it is not the largest in the world. "I remember," said the admiral, in making good his assertion, "that one day a friend introduced me to a Con-cago Con-cago man. After commenting on the fact that I was an officer of the government's gov-ernment's sea-fighting establishment he sajd: 'By the way, where is the American navy now ?' I . told him, and it did not take very long to do It, ' either. Now if I were to attempt to answer that question offhand I believe be-lieve that I should make an awful botch of it. The American navy is scattered to the four quarters of the globe and it would take me two hours to read a printed report detailing the location of all the ships." |