Los Angeles herald., 1892-10-10
AMONGST THE WHITE SQUADRON
A Herald Reporter Visits the
Two Fighting Ships.
Los Angeles on Wheels, Yesterday,
and Everybody at RedOndO.
The Ships to Sail for Panama Today at
Noon-A dmiral Gherardi Heists
His Broad Pennant on the
Cruiser Baltimore.

All the world and his wife were out o.
town yesterday and, If some thief die
not steal the city, it was not for the
want OF an opportunity. The earlies,
morning train for Redondo took out 0
lot Of people who had not swallowed
their breakfast before leaving, but had
concluded to patronize the restaurants
of that ambitious village, in the houi
that interviewed between the trains ar
rival at the beach and the time the two
ironclads (for the San Francisco is not
due at that place till IL a. m. today
were to be thrown open for the recep-
tion of visitors.
BARRIcADING THE WHARF.
To keep promiscuous crowd from
jostling and in every other way imped-
ing one another's progress, Mr.. L. j.
Perry had the wharf 80 arranged as to
leave one place for entrance and another
for egress; and even then it was un-
comfortable in the the extreme. Women
scrambled like men through the gates in
their hurry to get seats aboard the two lit
tie tugs, Warrior and Pelican and as for
the men, they got their hats smashed
and coats torn in their rude joetling for
places. Some idea of the vast crowd
that must have visited the beach during
the day, can be gathered from the fact
that by noon over 1000 people had re-
turned to the city on the two rival
roads, having seen all that there was to
see. The tugs conducted operations in a
very commendable manner and at no
time attempted to carry anything above
their legal quota of passengers.
ADMIRAL aHERARDI ARRIVES.
The Southern Pacific train on which
Admiral Bancroft Gherardi was to ar
rive did not reach here within two hours
of the appointed time, one of the loco
motives having blown out her cylinder
head while coming up the Tehachapi
pass in the early morning, but the adj
miral was met by one or two personal
friends at the station, and whisked over
to the Santa Fe road, by which he safely
reached his steam launch, at the side of
Redondo wharf, and soon was on board
the Baltimore. The boatswain's shrill
pipes announced the arrival of the
senior officer of the feet, and the broad
pennant that had been furled since that
gentleman left her in San Diego, was
run up to the mast head. The admiral,
who was never seen on shore with any
thing betokening his rank, slipped into
his bedroom and emerged in his un.
dress uniform, and there was something
ran through the crew like:
"we'll give loud cheers and a three times
three
As our gallant ship bounds over the sea-
With yo-heave h0 and off we go,
And hurrah for the hQm award 60undb -
A KINDLY INVITATION DECLINED.
Just before the admiral went aboard
the flagship he was met by Gen. Nc. D.
McCook, who had very pressing invi-
tation for him to make one of party for
q ride around the kite-shsped track of
the Santa Fe line; and the admiral &C.
cepted it conditionally that no new busi-
ness should come more than that of
which he was then cognizant. But on
his arrival on shipboard, there were
dozen OF letters and backload of tele-
grams to be answered; and so it was
that, at 80 p. m. he sent letter to
General McCook gratefully declining the
kindly offer. Owing to the admiraPs
inability to make the excursion, the
general invited him and his staff to
supper at the big hotel, which was
given in the style peculiar to that ex-
cellently conducted hostelry.
''I shall always regret this" said the
admiral, "for the reason that l have
read 30 much of the exquisite landscape
gardening about Los Angeles, Pasadena
and Riverside, that feel as tourist
would feel who had spent a week in
Paris and departed without seeing the
Champs Elysees or the Bois de Boulogne.
Well, it can't be helped; business is
business and the other ship will be here
by tomorrow, and there's no time to be
wasted between here and Cape Horn"
So saying, he rose from the table, gave
the reporter kindly grasp of the hand,
and called steam launch to set the
HERALD representative ashore.
THE ENGINE ROOMS OF THE SHIP.
These are study to landsman who
has had few years of experience as an
officer on inland river navigation and
Lieutenant Potter certainly was very
kind in taking this papers representa-
tive down below to inspect them. The
Baltimore is propelled by six engines, OF
the triple expansion pattern, set hori.
zontally below the water line 80 that no
shot can damage them. She has twin
screws and the forward set of engines
works the port shaft, while the after
trinity of cylinders serve to revolve the
starboard. This enables the steam to
be worked three times on each set of
engines and such is the economy of fuel
and water, that, if it were not for the
hot water withdrawn for lavatory and
culinary purposes during the voyage, q
ship like the Baltimore could come all
the way from San Francisco to this port
without pumping any new water into
her boilers. The steam which condenses
from the low pressure cylinder goes
back into the boiler at once.
THE SHIPS ARMAMENT.
The guns were what caught the eyes
of the grangers who saw modern war
ship for the first time in their lives; nor
was the reporter much more familiar
with the principles of naval gunnery
when he left the ship, than when he
first set foot upon her decks. The
breech-pins of the guns had all been left
out so that visitors could see the cork
screw patterns of their inner barrels
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