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Show ! I ARMY AND NAVY MANEUVERS END IN j ADECISIVE VICTORY FOR THE NAVY The greet (am of war, the flrml (ever played by tha army and navy, practically ended Hcpt. f by a spectacular spec-tacular attack on the fnrla guarding the entrance la Narraganaett bar. : Three hattlcahlpe and cruisers ran ' the (una of Fnrla Adama and Wether- getting llhln broadside range for all their (una before they war discovered. t Tbe exploit wa so daring, ao reck- j Inl (theorotlrallyl. and o well ri- , willed that It la (h general opinion that Kar Admiral Hlgglnson la en-I en-I tilled to tha credit of winning bril liant victory. Tha army and navy experts declsre that nothing ahurt of arlnal war could ba mora apectarular than Hear Ad-antral Ad-antral lllgglnaon's attack on tha Nar-raicaneett Nar-raicaneett forts. Ha had been defeated de-feated In a well planned attack dur-lux dur-lux the afternoon. Tha army looked for a eecond attack, but waa not vi-pectlnit vi-pectlnit It ao early In tha night. Tha acarchllghta wera kept at work j In tha perfunctory way, however, and 1a little before 10 o'clock they picked up the ahlpa standing Into the harbor har-bor under full head of steam. They enma In by the Nnrragansett I'ler, 5 , and It waa not until Ihey had panned j Heaver Tall point Iliac Ihe furta picked i ' iaru up. j Tha Brooklyn, whkh waa auppnacd 1 to bava been seriously Injured by i , striking an ohatrin tlon In New lied- j ford harbor the other day, waa lead- Ills'. Ilehlnd came I ho fnmous Olym- pla of Manila daya. Then followed a ' tha Kcarsargo. Admiral lllgglnaon'a flagship, ilehlnd the Kcarsargo waa I tba Alabama, one of lha moat em j ) clent of tha big flghtera. and tha !: Maaaachuaetla, which throughout tha naneuvera haa mail a proud racord ( for Itaolf, brought up tha rear. They J war atramlng at belter than ten knota, which perhapa accounts for tha abaanca of tha Indiana from tha column, for that battleship la not In condition to maka any apeed. At top apeed they came on. and held their Bra until tha forta opened on them, Instantly tba llrooklyn replied with Ita forward turret guna. Tha ranga waa than 8.000 yarda. It waa Juat 10 o'clock. Tha forla Bred with tremendoua rapidity. ! ' Each ahlp came Into action aa anon j aa tha furta opened, firing with the I atarboard battery at f"nrt Adama and ' with tba port battery at Fort Wether- fact that heretofore the enemy bad concentrated their efforta upon the race off Fisher's Inland, the weak point In tha defense line. It waa 2.10 p m. when the Brnt gun waa ftred from the Marhlehead. which, with the Mayflower and Scorpion, Scor-pion, took up ponlflon A1) yards off tha algnal atatlon at l'rl e'a Neck. It waa aeen that an attempt waa lo be made to land and dentroy the elation. ela-tion. C'apt. Jackson, In charge of the v r- - ' V Target Practlca With Disappearing Quna. ell. It waa a clear night, with a heaven full of atara, and Ilia play of tha llghta and tha flashing of tha (una made It a beautiful picture. With almoat Incredible apeed the ahlpa cam on, and tha roar of tha flKhl filled the city. Tha forta wera Bring with all tba apeed they could muater, but tha game at aurh abort ranga waa agalnat them, for Ihe ahlpa had them at great advantage In tha Dumber of their guna aa well aa In the calller. It waa evldenre when the ahlpa got ao rloaa before being Bred upon , that they had won the victory, fur with their tremendoua preponderance of Bre polnla they could have both the forta put out before the forla could acore enough to atop a alngla ahlp. Tha ahlpa came through the pane between the furta at their tremendous tre-mendous clip and ateaoied atralght on up the bay. Aa they passed beyond the forta, one by one, they ceased Bring, Br-ing, tha Alabama being the laat to quit hammering at tha forta. la lesa than twenty inlnutca It waa all over. When they got up Into the w bay tha ahlpa turned no their running ' " llghta agalu and began playing their narcbllghta. They went above Co-nanlcut Co-nanlcut laland and there made a turn, coming down the bay again, and ' puaed out again by tha forla they bad Juat run ao aucceaafully. but thla ' . time there waa no allot Bred. Not only waa thla the uiont during and apectacular vihlliltlon glveu by Admiral Hlgglneon squadron, hut 111 success waa audi aa lo Justify the 'belief that the forta bad but amall chance to escapo deatrucllou under she same clri-umatancee with a hostile hos-tile Beet occupying the position of Admiral Wssllisoii. ' There was no danger fittm mines, aa a squadron of small Vessels had been Bent Into the harbor the previous lilKlit to countermine Iho harbor and prevent o.nmug to any of Ihe ahlpa f'-oui that aourco. Fort Adums olnne Bred forty-eight ralvos from the tncrtar batierlen, but Ike sl.lps ware so soon byond the Dilalniutn effective range o1' Ihu mor-tnrs mor-tnrs that moat of the sulvoa were probably useleKa. The alternoon attack uiMin New-aort New-aort waa fully expected, lu view of the rollege and revlewg of the umpires and oliservera are received. The Indications In-dications are that neither the army nor Ihe navy will be entirely eatla-fli'd eatla-fli'd with the decision, and It la believed be-lieved that at aome time In the future there will be another declaration of war. With tha rloee of hoatlllttee all animosity ani-mosity was burled and the battleships passed In review before all Ihe forta from Newport to Oardlner'a Point Then Ma), (ten. MacArthur visited Rear Admiral lllgglnson on board the Kearsarge, and there waa aa exchange ex-change of compliments. Damage to the Brooklyn. Acting Secretary of the Navy Parting Part-ing received Ihe following telegram from Hear Admiral J. H. Coghlan, second sec-ond In command on the north Atlantic atatlon, giving a report of the accident acci-dent to Ihe crulaer llrooklyn In bus-tarda bus-tarda bay. "While withdrawing from maneuver attack here the llrooklyn alruck and rau over an uncharted obstruction, anamination of Ihe ahlp ahowa that about all frames under A!) and ADD are bent Inward, Inner bottom platea making aome water; also under No. 1 (Ire room, port aide, framea bent Inward In-ward from all Inches at frame No. 3d to V at frame No. 6, but only mak ing Utile water at frame No. 37; br-Inas br-Inas taken and position accurately determined de-termined every few momenta. Do not consider blame attai hea to any per. son concerned. Itecommend that ahlp go to navy ard for docking and si. amlnatlon. Have ordered Inveallga-tlon Inveallga-tlon and Informal the commander In. chief. H mil proceed to Mlock Island, and If he (Itear Admiral lllgglnaog) cannot be found will go lu Tompkins-vllle Tompkins-vllle for orders." I Old Fort Trumbull. Near New London Harbor, One of the Chief Points of Attack. station. Immediately sent word to Fori Adams, and three batteries of artillery under MaJ. Kyor were rushed to the scene. When Ihe ahlpa had got In position well In shore Ihey opened Are on the station, and after p short engagement two boata from the Mayflower searted for Ihe beach and landed on Iho rocks In front of the life saving station. Aa thoy came In the two galling guna were brought Into play, and the troopa gave the landing party a Bank Are from ahore. The marines, 100 In number, landed. In spits of Ihe heavy Bre and went through the movement of cutting tha cables and destroying the searchlight. After all waa over Ihe umpire, l.leut. John 1. Ptircell, II. 8. N., decided that the landing party hail been repulsed. Moatllltlea ended officially at noon Sept. . The distribution of glory will come later, when the board of arbitration meets at the naval war Orders wera sent forward to the Prooklyn to proceed to Iho New 'York navy yard, where the eitentof thednm-age thednm-age could be ascertained definitely. Without a belter deflned Idea of the character of Ihe Injuries, naval officials offi-cials were not prepared to give an estimate of Ihe time during which the llrooklyn must be laid up or of the cost of repalra, but It waa thought that the cruiser would be In dock anywhere any-where from three weeks to two months and that the cost of Ihe accident ac-cident probably would total upwards of l.'iO.OiiO. The big cruiser already had an on-enviable on-enviable record for atrlklng anags. While the north Atlantic aquadron waa lying off Cuba It alruck a rock near Uuantanamo. When hardly out of Ita bulldera' hands It struck In tha Delaware river and punched a big hole in Ita bottom, and once again on tha Kaat river the veasel encountorod an unliMiked for obatructlon. The presence of the llrooklyn In the engagement, off . Newport cauijl , army oltlceia to d lare that the lu-Jttrlea lu-Jttrlea to the ship had been eiagger-ated eiagger-ated In an attempt by the navy men to doculve their opponents on shore. A Big Plgaon Ranch. Thero are eight acres of aandy ground near lxe Angeles, Cel.. dovoted lo pigeon raising. Fifteen thousand plgenua cover the ground and the lm-nienae lm-nienae plReon loft. If the demand fur plgeona should full, lha owner of this ranch would have In two years 1.U00,-000 1.U00,-000 birds on his bands. Fortunately fur him the demand la greatur than Ihe supply, and the pigeon ranch aenda out about 4U.0H0 suuaha a year lo market. The estimated output of the ranch for the month la 3,000 birds. The average price per dnesn for birds ranges from three dollars up lo ten dollars. The birds are fod three tlmea a day, each meal coating about five dollars. The food consists mainly of wheat screenings, boiled meal and slate bread. The dally consumption la about twelve sacks of screenings, eight sacka of wheat and many gal-lona gal-lona of boiled meal. The bread la an additional fattener given at Intervals, Champion Woman Rifle Shot Mlsa Minnie Bcbeurk of Williams. port, Pa., la declared to he champion woman rifle shot of Ihe world, having lust established a record of twenty consecutive bull's eyes at 2uo yards. Mies Bchenck, who usee a 3!-callber rllle, la a terror to aparrowa. Out of .fifty nix shots at these marauding blr.la In one day recently she did nut miss once, using a 22 caliber rifle. Haa No Uee for Shakespeare. From a lecture at the University of Chicago: "Hhakeapcare and Homer are not Immortals, and I should bt bitterly disappointed if they were. I hope that In Ihe near future tha human race will ao Improve In Ita taatea and accomplishments that Hhakspeare will be held uullt to read." , UNITED STATU ARMORED CRUISER BROOKLYN. ' Flagship of Admiral Coghlan Strikes an Uncharted Rock Off Vaasachusetta, I u ,.,... , |
