Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-11-10
CAUGHT US MAPPING
The Demand Made on Chilli
 Couldn't Be Enforced.
WHY THE SHIPS ARE PREPARING
They Will Be Near Valparaiso When the
 Second Claim is Made

A Civil Reply Will Have to Come Then
 The Reason Why the Junta Was So In-
 sOlent in Its Answer-The Big Fleet
 That is Getting Ready to Sail for
 Southern Waters.
 WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.-The Secretary of the Navy, in giving out reassuring dispatch from Capt. Schley yesterday, which states that no threats had been made regarding the Baltimore, took pains to announce that there was no warlike significance in the unwonted ac- ti witty at the navy yards.
 It is not questioned, however, anon g navy officials and others who have fol- lowed the development of affairs that the rumpus in South America is the moving cause of the rapid repairs and speedy construction now going on.
 The Administration expects that the Chilian government will bring the pres. ent negotiations to a satisfactory con- clusion and has acted on that presump- tion throughout.
 Nevertheless it recognizes the fact that the weakness of our naval transport at the time the demand made for re- paration was originally made through Minister Egan told heavily against us and gave the foreign minister of the pert little republic to the South an oppor- tunity to send back a reply which could hardly have been more saucy without being warlike.
 In view of this experience it is not in tended that we shall be caught mapping again, and if it should become necessary to repeat the request there will be some thing decidedly more impressive than a navy on paper to convince the Chilians of the impregnability of our position.
 The immediate reason for haste lies in the fact that the inauguration of the new government in Chilli, which will mark the restoration of constitutional functions in that distracted country, will take place in the middle of Dec cem- Der. We shall wait until that time be- fore sending another demand in case the one already made fails to bring a satis- factory response, because there is no de- sire to place the responsibility for the affront received by our sailors upon any but fully responsible government.
 By the middle of December there will be such 8 force in the haroor of Val paraiso and on the way that the reply to any demand it may be necessary to make cannot but be prompt and exceed ingly civil.
 It is not believed here that there is any present intention of ordering the Milan tonomoh away from the vi cinity of New York. That boat is already in commis- sion which entails a large expense and, simply as 8 matter of economy, she should be put to sea at once. The Navy Department, however, are watching carefully for the interests of our Allan tic seaboard, and they see in the Milan tonomoh the most effective engine of protection which can be made available.
 At the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
 BROOKLYN, Nov. 10.-The unusual activity at the navy yard still con- tinues. This morning the scene pre- sented was much more animated than on Sunday, the full force of 2,000 men being hard at work. From the huge smokestacks of the shops and foundries there arose volumes of thick black smoke that must have been a surprise to the usually clear and quiet atmos- phere that hangs over that part of Brooklyn.
 Inside the shops hundreds of men are at work at forge and lathe getting the m aterial for the new war ships ready for use. In one shop parts of the Atlanta s ngines are repaired. In others the work | is for the Miantanomoh, Puritan, Maine and Terror. On the latter vessel the teak packing for her side armor is very nearly in place. On the Puritan the work of getting the sides ready for the armoris also progressing rapidly. These two will be powerful vessels.