Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-03-23

Jones, Hun md Laurence. 10y fonl', fuF-
rugut. Gushing and Niualnw No r. Keep
inc. 10 doesn't know whclhcr TINT Story
shall b. upheld when M allied ornot. And
Il would have been 40 child'H play 20
tackle the armament Of the illhpuiihn NJ.
public, Chill las worldwide fame behind
her pir'cnsions, although shc ~ rated Doe
low second class ~ naval power She
has tho blood % old BHtnHHi1 10 her llii.
o. too, a strain quilew legitimate os our
own AMI fully as likely TO give good &C
count NJ itself
The LIST OF her naval heroes reads Ikea
Page from English or American rccunlH,
with Is Pratt, COulull, Williams, ~.
wards, leighton. Thompson, Cos, Warner,
Eoecr, Lynch, Milaon, Smith anil Woo.
Hrr crack vessels bear names known 10
both worlds aud l1liug from somewhere
t,iwcln Lands End and John o Croatia
THlr1 are the tuuluN, the Lynch, The
Cochmuc tho OiliEgius agd tho new
masterpiece Whose completion Wus watched
with such unsigty during thr late war
scare, the lut, which is an English word
with its "ullh' taken away. Should tho
Pat on Pratt, prove worthy the uUut u
carries. our yorktown. Baltimore, ph.lu-
dclphin and Chicago might well look @
thclr luurgls. Chi, celebrates "l'rat Day
IN honor ~ one who Ia small way stands
for her Nelson. The little rtpuhlig hng her
Trafalgar NJ lqulquc, wllcre the naval
trilc OF her great rival, Peru. was taken
tlgn several pegs and tho man OF the hour
Va Capt Arthur Pratt, or Arturo pfai,
tho won't down i4i did Nelson at 'frlfHl.
pr, leaving 10 his followers memory ~
tne Incentive to DO choir duty pmtt'~"N'
pi0lt has b1on duly honond by the Hcleu.
tic world, but his uCunn3l herui,m Il,
Little known outside of South America.
When the war broke oit between Chili
and Peru IN April, 1870 tho former had hg
tiyautngr ,n uuaher- and tirouthu t slips,
but aashaudicuppedby having tnmnintaiH
E1l0gLadc. Her nr.t move was TO Gloss
llliluc, port In dispute. against tho
Enemy Al hernnyy lay In the hnrbor for
sime days, hut ON thc 10Th OF May tbrb
bring no Peruvian flags ia sight, tho aG.
, mlr1l. one Williams, with long Spanish
handle 10 hi, NAME took u notion 10 sail
away uoHhwRr In search VI adventure,
lie leit Capt, Pratt 10 blockade iQuiquo
with an Old wooden corvette manned with
twelve iOg uundoIs aud n wooden gunhuas
tarplug two 10poundcrs aud three small
guns. pmtt'a own vessel was tbo corvette
Emowlla, The gunboat. Coyndonga. had
commander with the Saxon name of Con.
dell
Now It happened that the gHmc day that
Williams sailed norihgard, bearing we'll
olttosc1 10 avoid the eyes OF his cncmics on
Lohollylln and Peruvian shores, the pcru'
Wan ileet set sail southwark, hugglng tho
coast and clonping the eyes OF the Chillan
lookous. The pcrHylans bad nll tho eyes
on the coast and In lquiquc in their favor,
inl soon learned that there was nothing
beiw1en them aud tho coveted port and
town except couple Of old wooden hulSs,
~ their crack vessels the famous llunscnr.
tmolcrn urmored tuvret ship built by tho
English Lairds In 1850, aud tho ironclad Ia.
drpendeucia, also Of English make, started
out tomake an early morning scoop u all
Chili held doar In the harhur Of lqulquc,
The llumcar Is goo feot long, with 200
horse power engines and carried thon two
l0lnrh a00poundcrs and two I0.pound
Whltworth guns The Independence was
10 feet long, with so horse power engines,
. and armed with twelve 50.pouudcr, two
: liopoundors, four 82-poundors and four
2 opounders. There were twonty-iiX guns
, against Pratt seventeen, iron sides against
wooden ones and the same odds all around.