New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-09-26
majority o, the new House Of Commons Is hostile.
AFFAIRS At TIE NAVI YARD.
UNPLEASANT RUMRs ABOUT THE CRUISER
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BALTIMORE DIsCREDIrED.
The red nag was flying from the foretop OF tho
cruiser Boston yesterday It the Navy Yard, as sign
that something was being done with her powder. Tho
ammunition was removed from the magazines ana put
Into canalboat which Is to be towcd down to Fort
Wadsworth to-day, where II will be unloaded and
slowed away The Oh wooden ship Minnesota, now
used . training ship, Is to have . roof built over
her like that on tho reoeivingshp Vermont. The
forty eight trial Of the vesuvfus's dynamo was
successful The work tho evaporator ana ost'iler
II to be finished and few other jobs DONE and II Is
expected that the vessel will leave the Navy Yard
October to report TO Rear Admiral Ghcrardi for
orders. 1t is probable that some practice with the
three big dynamite guns will be held In GARDENERS
Bay, and that the vessel will then 20 to Newport to
undergo tactical and speed trials Probably no charges
will be fired In the trials with the guns. but some
practical tests Of the working OF the pneumatic ap
paratus will be made. The ammunition was removed
from the cruiser Dolphin at Fort Wsdswrth yestcr-
day, and the vessel is to come to the Navy Yard TO be
repaired to-day. The work Of tearing down the old
ship house in which the unfinished York stood for SO
long completed at the yard yesterday.
The dlsQuieting reports published about the cruiser
Baltimore yesterday, that she had proven herself an
utter failure warshp, and had been ordered to 90
from Stockholm to Kiel TO 60 into dry dock and thence
to New.York without delay, commented upon as
Of those yarns which cooked up In the galley
The nineteen days she consumed in going from New
York to Stockholm with Captain Encsson's body was
long voyage only in the minds Of those who were n0t
acquainted with the fact that she ordered to mako
no more than halfspeed-ten knots-on the voyage or
that the vessel encountered fogs on the trip which
caused some delay 1t is tho belief that after she has
been docked at Kic and her hull thoroughly examined
she will 70 to Lisbon and there await orders nom the
Navy Department This was the programme laid out
for Captain Schley before tho vessel left here
rsport received at the Navy Yard to the enect
that Secretary Tracy and Commodore Ramsay CHIEF OF
the Bureau Of Navigation, had concluded not to send
the sloop-ofwar Richmond to q foreign squadron and
that the Secretary had ordered her to duty in the ap
prentice training squadron at Newport She Is ordered
to he at Newport to meet the training ships jamestown
and Portsmouth. The former at Fenechal Madeira,
on August o. and the Portsmouth arrived at Plymouth
England on August -. Both are expected to arrive
here within the coming week, and will go to Newport
It was first intended that the Richmond should take
relief crew from here to Colon for the Swatara, the
first orders TO which wero TO proceed from Chemup0,
Colea 10 Panama but she is ordered TO proceed TO
Mare Island to be repaired and RENTED lot anothe'
cruise.
of East Twenty -eigtl-st.. on "Wednesday evening,
and was so badly injured that she filled with water
and sank. Mrs. Stubs. wife OF the captain OF tlie
lighter drowned before the boats OF the Dolphin
were lowered into the water. Captain Stubbs ana
his two children were saved.