The sun., 1890-01-26

hour for distance OF quarter of q mile II
the Maine got within 400 yards OF an enemy
she would Shoot torpedoes at her.
toapsso boa H viii 81
launches fitted with the most powerful engines
Gnd"r sH some @ " S M Il Would be per:
fectly feasible to drop these little hornets into
the Taser and eId them Ssanst an snsm St hs
with the big ten inch rifles. In fact, the smoke
Of the big guns might serve as an Admirable
6St tho can IN the old days viii
be replaced by the call for the crows OF the tor
pedo boats In the modern sea duel
TO DRIVE THE SHIP.
The Maine will be driven by twin three
bladed screws fifteen feet In diameter turned
by triple expansion engnes. A bulkhead di-
yldes the engine room. SO that each engine Is
ter respectively. and the stroke is So inches.
boilers Il feet inches in diameter and 10 feet
long. and each has three furnaces. The total
sealing up The engine rooms and pumping air
into them the air to force the drauRht pipes
bs S eaa 5G .9s sTe
feet rer minute to the furnaces. and II this
doesn't make Il fire TO curl the CRATE bars noth-
ton @ S Of boiler coal. and wind will develop $3.50
horse power in the engines and a speed OF
seventeen XII Is hu uOuT III tuo bulV u
run OF sixty-eiRht miles and that's the I'm
portant consideration for the owners.
se WIN Sns she has her &
the taxpayers have no occasion to wcrry mean
time. The officers apont the navy yard say to
neWs Se1 Tor the he taxPsyer % en- The ships dssiSned
With With each t trial % than they did % in the trial be-
fore. Secretary Tracy. whose manaRement of
the NayY DepartmeDt is about the only work
OF the Harrison Admins ration TO which the
XIII point With hbcb ae If nGt
to his reputation. The most important part OF
the work on the Maine will be CT s sHited to him.
seventeen knots an hour.
Seventeen knots is q remarkable speed for a
cd sSa craser % Not only can she steam faster than
anything Of her size. bit she Is about equal In
to the best battle snip aoat 6 cyor sSy the
On ''' ept. g. 1888, the sansparei had a trial Of
four hours under natural drauRht. and covered
hours rsT run mo On the ed with a forced draught.
she covered I7.75 knots. The Trafalgar, an
eight runs over the measured mile on June
26, 1889. was able TO run at the, speed
f Fo1s6 s2 a3 HRs R0 RSqndabss RS Ps e aS
16.2 in a four-hours' run last March The
Le auto. q l5o09;ton \, monster OF the The Italian Liam
most interest ing TACT In connection with speed
trials OF foreign naval ships is that the ships
uhN0 uoN0! IOuo bO HolI nb thoy
did on their trial trips, while In the great North
American republic the naval s. Slips s 80 tar @ put
Another portant feature of the Maine rs
her coal capacity. She can take In. al told:
ten knots an hour for 4,250 miles. She, could
not go to Europe and make IN extended cam
pRign on that amount OF coal. but she can pa
troll the American coast.
HER CREW.
The Maine will carry 800 men. She isplanned
for a flag ship and Z she were now IN com
would be in a terrible stew until 1t was deter
mined WHICH ono should have her. The caoips
are are IN e The a @ at The other @ % o
GERS OF the ship are provided with dining
room and Sitting rom @ ana eEhtSen ~ zee ttn stnte
room; Tho dining room + lIx3S ieet large.
the size being worth mPnentioning men because i
dered because IN the old shigs they always J,.
heads on the deck beams when tween decks.
viii feel Ct bone d on ss M%ns eat The t6S
Inches When Jack lines up for, Inspection on
Sunday morning. with a black eye the old
yarn about humping himself on hammock
hook won't work.
THE PRESENT CONDITION OF THE MAINE.
How much OF the work to be done before
she is really to launch Is now compleledT was
asked h6n, o. one me OF n1Ss t9S constructors
When do YOU expect TO launch her2'
Next fall some lime. II we could get the
material as fast as We needed II and the Secre-
tary desired to push the work, she might be
launched as early as July 4. but there Ia no
present hope Of getting material fast enough
to warrant the expectation OF launching her
The ship is an interesting. spectacle as she
looks like a ship. and to the eyes Of one accus-
toned to ships she looks like mighty power
ful ship To an ordinary observer she look
toned that the eye Is deceived; II the stranger
will go on board however. and go down inside
the hull Rmidships and will look toward either
end. the stem and the stern post will seem to
The Chief recsnt delay has been with the ma
terlal for the tubes or tunnels through when
the wheel shafts are TO run; The whole alter
end Of the ship is much behind Ihe the bow; Ihs is
that the capacity OF the American steei-p pro
ducinR works where metal oil the proper quail
ity can be made is mol large enough 10 iurn out
the first plate OF the keel was stretched along
the blocks to this time there have been contin-
pous and often vexatious delaYsi ana yet
SSripS the sixteen dSsr mS1tns srmaTsad @ Ss MSs
Z uI low eTslssrS building: il e true; e;
suPDosinG there EAsS Sa.n sqdSsn bosE hssd eSt
from the Sandy Hook bar. where would the
two years to launch little armorclad. and me
steel producing works OF the nation are 4roWd,
long will 1t take 10 build enough war ships TO
project a coast line $4,000 miles long ana
twenty important seaports ana II navy 10
WorIh hayIng how long 9pSs' 6a SesiHl nnS and The
ship be delayed .,,..
be inviteI to assemble at the brookiNn navy
Yard to see the new shIp launched The seo:
rotary of tha NavV and a great many Officers OF