The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-11-09
All National Navy Yards Busy
Despite Sabbath.
PACIFIC COASTS RESOURCES.
HarbOrs, Even With Limited Protec-
ton, Could Withstand Attack.
Dom Pedro's Grandson Reported to Be
Moving Toward Brazil to Lead I'm
perialists-Mexico to Try Americans
Before Executions.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. S.-The fact that
work at the navy yards at Brooklyn and
Mare island Is being pushed both Sunday
and at night has created some excitement
here. The defenses of San Francisco
against an attack from sea are not espe-
cially good. There is not single modern
rifle here. The Fort point at the entrance
OF the Golden Gate has fifty eight-inch
muzzle-loading rifles, converted from iron
ten-inch smoothDores. On Alcatraz island
there are eight or nine more. There
are also large number of ten
and hfteen-inch smoothbores. 1t is
believed that these guns could delay an
enemy entering the bay for considerable
length of time. Only the extreme western
part of the city, where there are few val
liable buildings, could be shelled without
coming within close range of these guns.
The harbor is we'll protected by torpedoes,
of which there are 600 or 700 in position or
ready to be placed. All these are sta
tionary, there being no automatic tor
pedoes in the city. Two modern rifles
have been promised to San Francisco next
year and two the year after.
VALLEJO, Cal, Nov. 8.-There is great
activity in the navy yard. Machinists
were at work all day today on the Mohican,
and will work again tonight. kilograms
have been received in the yard urging
putting the vessel in readiness for sea at
once. All available workmen on the lists
have been sent for and hundreds of men
will be at work in few days.
There are now six wooden vessels at
Mare island, all of which could be ready
for action in five weeks. Each vessel has
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rifle and one sixty-pound breach-loading
rifle. The best of their main battery con-
sists of nine-inch smooth bores. OF these
the Omaha has ten Swatara, the Mohican
eight, the Adams and Nipsick six and the
Ranger four. Besides these is the moni-
tor Comanche, with two fifteen-inch
smooth bores, now ready for sea. ALI
these vessels have Hotchkiss revolving
cannon as secondary battery. There are
also at the island six eight-inch converted
rifles, four sixty FOUNDERS and large
number of surplus nine-lnCh smooth
bores
new YORK. Nov. S.-The Brooklyn navy
yard presented an appearance of activity
today that has not been witnessed since
the exciting times of the rebellion. The
hum and din of workmen on the war ves-
sells Miantonomah and Atlanta disturbed
the Sabbath stiffness as a body of 1000
blue Jackets marched across the yard to
divine service. Workmen have been busy
night and day for the past two weeks in
preparing the two vessels for speedy SER
vice at sea- Today the work of prepara-
tion continued, it being the first Sunday
since the late war that such thing has
happened. There are eighty men at work
on the two vessels, and all expedition will
be used until they are ready for service.
The navy yard officials denied the ru-
mored sinking of the Baltimore at Val
paraiso. 1t was said that the officers and
and crew of the Baltimore exercise the
same vigilance as in war times, and tor
pedo nets about the vessel would save her
from sudden attack. The unusual hustle
and activity at the yard, it is said, is not
due to the reported sinking of the Balti-
more, but it is conceded that the strained
relations between this country and Chile
has caused the government deep anxiety
to get all the war vessels ready for any
possible contingency.