The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-08-24

back of them their sleeping apartments,
each with bath room. The stern is occu.
pied By the pretty library. All these are
finished in sycamore and the upholsterings
of dark green leather.
In the passage-way between the adj
miral's and the captains room is large
silver punch-bowl about two feet in diam
eter and foot deep. 1t was presented to
the vessel by the citizens of Charleston in
recognition of the honor done their city in
the choice of q name. 1t is exquisitely
wrought, and one of the most artistic
pieces of silverwork ever made in this
country.
Below the berth deck is the torpedo deck
riveted to the torpedoes and torpedo guns.
Under this is the protection deck OF steel
plates from two to four inches thick. This
deck. which rises from the side of the ves-
sci below the water-line, rises in the
middle. covering completely all the en-
gines, the machinery and the
magazine. This deck is ar
ranged so that during action
every opening in il can be closed, and
though the whole upper part of the ship
be torn away the screws can still be driven.
the engines are extremely interesting.
There are fifty-two of them on the Charles
ton. inclu ing those running the dynamos,
the ventilating fans, the pumps. and all the
other manifold parts. The Charleston has .
tonnage of $3.50, and is driven by two
screws and two horizontal compound en-
gines OF 7.500-horse- power. They can give
her speed of eighteen and three-fourth
knots an hour. Engineer Hollis told the
PosT-lSTELLIGEycER reporter the ship had
behaved admiral v. In the fourteen days
run from Honolulu the engine had not
stopped q moment, and not a single thing
had gotten out of order. The machinery
was about as perfect as it was possible to
make with human skill. There are three
boilers and two furnaces. SO arranged with
air-tight compartments that if one furnace
gives out another can be used, and If one
engine breaks down the other may still
work. The fire-room is duplicated, so
that should a shell break into the
first one, the second one will be available.
The alright compartments dividing the
whole ship into sections renders it practic-
ally impossible to sink her, or utterly dis
able her. Below the protection deck in the
bottom of the hold is the magazine.
ANY man who looks at this wonderful
ship, the Charleston. in her harbor holiday
trim. is likely to get enthusiastic over life
on a man-of-war. But in long cruise the
days are likely to drag heavily. The men
are in good health and high spirits, but
there is not woman aboard to soften the
corners of seafaring existence. library
and printing office, whist, chess and
other games help, however, TO relieve the
tedium.
The Charleston, the flagship of the Pa
cific squadron, has an unusually fine set of
officers, alert, active, intelligent, well-edu-
Gated and of high breeding. At the head is
Rear Admiral George Brown, the cam
mander-in-chief OF the Pacific sta
ton. His personal staff consists of
Captain George C. Remey, chief-of-
staff; George L. Dyer, flag Heuten-
ant; George P. Blow. secretary; and Naval
Cadet W. C. Cole, aid. The official staff
comprises Medical Inspector George w.
Wood. feet surgeon; Paymaster Arthur
Burtis. feet paymaster; Chief Engineer
Philip Inch, fleet engineer; Captain Will
liam S. Muse, OF the United States Marine
corps, fleet marine officer; and Chaplain
f. Thompson. The other officers are Lieu
tenant Commander Todd, executive officer:
Lieutenant w. Field, navigator; Passed
Assistant Surgeon E. w. L. Weber; AS
sistant Surgeon George Rothganger;
Passed Assistant Engineers Ira n. Hollis
and Frank w. Bartlett; Assistant En-
gineer III. W. Jones; Ensigns Creighton.
Churchill. Walter S. Burke and Elliot
Snow; Naval Cadets Alonzo GartIey.
Matthew w. Signor. Albertus w. Cailin.
Theodore vogelgesange, Thomas P Magru.
der, B. H. Fuller and r. F.. Carney: nav
clerk. John A. Murphy; feet pay clerk,
B. III. Bowley; gunner, William Walsh:
acting carpenter Osgood II. Hilton.