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Show " "Nautical Novelties" The Atlantic end cf the-Panama Canal is westward of the Pacific end. The general direction of the Canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific side is outh-east. The tide at the Pacific side ol the Panama Canal averages about twelve and cne half feet rise and fall; on the Atlantic, end the ris? and fall averages only about one foot. The quantity of ult in the .ocean varies from four to six percent. Every State in the Union benefits bene-fits from U. S. Naval shipbuilding Men from 125 trades and professions profes-sions are employed and each state furnishes, materials. Utah supplier copper, silver, lead, zinc and wo;l; Idaho furnl.hes lead, silver, zinc, mancanese and lumber; Montana copper, zinc, silver, manganese, leather, lea-ther, wool and lumber; Wyoming iron ore, wool and fuel oi. Official U. S. Maps give the name Hispaniola to the island of Haiti. Hi.Tpanicla was the name originally original-ly given to the island by Christopher Christo-pher Columbus when he discovered it on December 6, 1492. Commodore Esek Hopkins viixs the only officer to hold the rank of : "Commander in Chief of the Navy" in which he war, commissioned commis-sioned by Congress on " Decembei 22, 1775. Only three officers Fav-ragut, Fav-ragut, Porter and Dewey were commissioned as "Admiral of the Navy." At pre;ent the . senior .officer aflr.at in the U. S. Navy has th;: title of "Commander in Chief of the United States Fleet?"; he is Admiral David F. Sellers. The Bureau of Fisheries has determined de-termined that ;a chip at sea from six to eight months accumulates p. erowt.h of barnacles finn erass on its bottom of from two to three inches and weighing from fifty t' a hundred tons. This growth accumulates accum-ulates faster in the tropics than in colder waters, and more rapidly when a ship is at anchor than when she is steaming. The growth does not accumulate in rresh water. No alcoholic beverages not even beer are permitted to be uced on board ships of the Navy except under un-der the direction of the Medical Officers. In other words, the Navy is still dry. U. S. battleships each displace a-bout a-bout 30,000 tons, of wmch about 8,000 tons is armor. Heavy cruisers displace about 10,000 ton:, light cruisers about 7,500 tons and destroyers de-stroyers about 1,200 tons. Marine detachment are maintained main-tained on 39 vessels of the U .S. Navy, Na-vy, totalling approximately 117 officers offi-cers and 2500 eniisted men. The legation guard at Peiping, China, consists of about 540 United Unit-ed States Marines. The above "Nautical Novelties" were furnished by the U. S. Navv Recruiting Station, Salt Lake City. |