The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-30

less led him to adopt a new course OF pa
tient waiting to the utmost extreme consist
ent with due regard to the dignity of the
United States, and SO far as eau be learned
it Is probable that no departure will be
made from this attitude before the re-as-
sembling of congress, unless further COM
munioation from the Chilean governments
should give a different aspect Of the situa.
tion. II the heads of the bureaus in the
navy department are TO be believed no ex-
traordinary efforts are making to put
naval vessels in condition for aotive hos
ilities.
WORK NOT BEING RUSHED.
In the construction bureau the officers in
charge say positively that no orders have
gone forward to San Francisco to hurry up
the work on the Monterey. As mat
ter of fact there are fewer orders passing
through the bureau at present than for any
date during the past month. In the ordi-
nance bureau it was learned that the turret
armor for the Monterey is ready for
shipment to san Francilco at any time.
her great guns are also ready, and
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company has
undertaken TO transport them across the
continent. The task is one of magnitude.
as the 12-inch rife without its carriage
weighs fifty-six tons and the carriage weighs
twenty-five tons. Specially constructed cars
are necessary for the transportation of these
great masses OF metal, and much nice cal
cnlation respecting curves tunnels and the
strength Of the many bridges between the
Washington navy yard and the California
navy yard were made to insure the safe de-
livery of the guns. These rifles are not
only intrinsically valuable but their loss at
the present time would be serious calam-
ity, as many months would be consumed in
the making OF guns 30 replace them.
ARMoR AND ToRPEDoEs.
Satisfactory progress is being made in the
production Of armor and torpedoes, but it
is insisted by ordnance officers that neither
the ermor plates nor torpedoes have been
nor will be accepted until they have been
thoroughly tested by the processes which
have heretofore been applied. A lot of
Howell torpedoes-about forty-are prac-
tically ready Ifor use, and the first
instailment of the Whitehead Eng
llsh pattern) torpedoes made In the
United StaJes will soon be delivered. I'm
provements have been made in the Howell
torpedo. which is an essentially American
invention, that will place it IN the front
rank of auto>Mobtle weapons, and it is
promised that the tarpedoes delivered to
the government will exceed the contract
requirement in speed aud accuracy.
NOT INDICATIVE OF WAR.
But according to the statements Of naval
officers all these things are being done with
out reference TO immediate war, and it is
said that they are simply satisfactory
results Of the energetic policy of naval re-
habilitation adopted by Secretary Tracy
long ago.
Matters in the war department were very
quiet, and even the Mexican frontier dis
turbance failed to furnish an item Of news
to-day. Gen. Schofield smiled at the, war
stories published in the papers and said that
Gen. Miles visit to Washington instead Of
being connected with war movement was
mission of peace, for he oaine to attend
the wedding of Rachel Sherman toImor-
row, at Senator Sherman's house.
THE CRUISERS ON THE PACIFIC.
SAN DIEGO, CAL, Dec. 29.-According
to Admiral Brown, who is now here with
the San Francisco, the cruiser Charleston
left Honolulu for Acapulco. Whether the
Charleston will come north or 20 south
from Acapulco, the admiral declined to say
Capt. Simpson says the San Francisco has
enough extra ammunition to fill up the
Charleston and Baltimore and put them IN
campaign condition. 1t is believed here
that the San Francisco has orders to remain
at this port until the diplomatic relations
with Chile take one turn or another. and
that her destination in the future will de-
pend upon the turn those diplomatic rela-
uons take. The Baltimore 10 expected here
about Thursday.