The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1889-09-05

The Presidents Hour at Home.
News About the GunbOat PetreI
and the Cruiser CharIeStOn-The
CsaIena at st. Nicholas Mole.
WASHINGTON, September At is un-
dcrstood that meeting of the members
of the Cabinet will be held at noon Sat
urday next. The subject of an extra ses-
sion of Congress will probably be dis
cussed then and a decision reached
Bond offerings to-day aggregated
100000; all accepted, at 81 .2S for four
per cents and $1.05al for four and halt
per cents.
A cablcgram received at the Navy de
partmcnt to-day announces the arrival
of the Galena, under command of Com
mandcr Sumner, at st. Nicholas Mole
Hayti. Admiral Ghcrardi on the kear-
sarge, is also at st. Nicholas Mole, III
communication with the Navy depart .
ment. 1t is probable that the kcarsargc
will come North soon, but that Will DC
left largely, if not entirely, to the ADM
rails discretion.
President and Mrs. Harrison, accom-
panied by DR.. Scott and private secretary
Halford arrived at the White House to-
day at as p. IN. from Deer Park. The
party looked rather weary and dusty.
Postmaster General Wanamakcr was i'll
waiting, and Secretary Proctor was I'M
mcdiatcly summoned. There was ne
regular Cabinet meeting, but within his
hours stay at the White House the Pres
idcnt managed also to see Secretary
Tracy, Attorney General Miller, and
Assistant Secretary Batchclcr, and thus
gather an idea of the course of business
i'll most of the departments. NOappOlnt-
mcnts were forthcoming as the result Of
these interviews; and a few minutes be
fore + o'clock the party again entered
their carriages and were driven to the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad station,
where they took the train for Phiadel-
phia.
Treasurer Huston to-day signed two
warrants tsaggrcgating$ $3S, ,O0O, 900. They
were drawn to ocovereXpcnditurcs already
made by him.
The Surgeon General Ofthe Marine Hos
pital service this afternoon received the
following telegram from Fcrnandina,
Fla:
"Thc schooner Parkhurst from Mobile
is in quarantine with four men sick. The
health officer, who has been aboard for
two days, says they have malarial fever
which yielded promptly to quinine. All
are free from fever now; one died on the
passage. Judge from the Captains de-
Scription of the symptoms and appear
ance of the body, that he died of conges-
tive chill The vessel put i'll here in dis
tress, and will be kept under strict quar-
antine until departure"
The Secretary of the Navy has notified
the president of the Columbia Iron
Works, of Baltimore, to have the gun
boat Petrel recently tried by an official
board painted and cleared ready for final
inspection, This is taken to mean that
the vessel is satisfactory and will be ac-
ceptcd by tae government Pending final
action, however, the Secretary is conSid-
ering the claim by the company to the
effect that they were ready tor trial
thirty-thrce minutes before the board be
gan to take the records of the engines
which were during that period at their
best. When the test was actually began
the engines had begun to fall off and be
fore the end of the run had gone down
quite low. They argued that they were
entitled to credit for the performance OF
the ship thirty-thrce minutes before the
records were taken, and that an equal
amount of time be taken from the end oi
the four hours. In this case their indi
Gated horse power would be very near
100, which is the requirement This
claim is likely to be allowed, i'll which
case the penalties from this cause wl'
not amount to much. She has, howc'er,
earned large sum for the govcrDnlent III
time for penalties.
,aIf f,Nf IL
rcau of Steam Engineering OF the Navy
department from one ol thclnspect"rs on
the new cruiser Charleston, built by the
Union iron WORKS, of San Francisco, for
The poyernrrent, states that the horse
nowcr developed by the shipn her recent
nIfcial run will probably not be reported
above 6 200 by the trial board i'll their
official report. The vessel worked beau
tilully, every part of her machinery NOV
ing in perfect order without the least
heating. She was run six hours instead
of four, as stipulated i'll the contract,
and she worked better in the last two
hours than she did at first, thus proving
her excellent staying qualities. Her
speed .Guring the six hours averaged
about 1874 knots. Ii this be confirmed
by the official report the ship will have
lullGO " llltthS lllS SOllllttNI lN'I
of 200 horse power by 300 which will
subject her builder to penalty OF $50 900.
The boiler performance i'll this ship
has been in excess of that of the York
town in proportion. The contractors
did everything in their power to meet
the requirements of the contract, import
ing hand picked Welch coal for use on
the trial. The vessel was built on the
plans of the Naniwakan, an English
designed boat which had about twenty
four trials before she was accepted. 1t
is believed that the contractors will go
to congress for relief from the penalties
on the ground that the plans for the
vessel were defective.
The Secretary of the Navy this morning
ordered that the officers and men of the
receiving ship New Hampshire, now at
Newport, X. l., be taken from her and
put in camp on the island while'the ship,
which is in very bad condition, is being
overhauled, cleaned and repaired
DEFLECTIVE ARMOR