Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-02-18
NAVAL EXHIBIT At THE WORLDS FAIR.
interesting Features Of the Collections to be
Made by the Navy Department.

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feature of the naval exhibit at the Column
bian Exposition will be the representation
of an actual man-of-war, which will be fur
nished with all equipments of war vessels
The most interesting exhibit on the man-of-
war will be that sent by the bureau of con-
struction AM repair, which supplies the
furniture for the captain 3 cabinet and one
ward room, each to be- fitted up exactly as
those apartment are on real ships of war.
The bureau will also furnish "A complete set
of small boats, including steam launches.
hich have already been constructed at the
Boston navy yard.
An important feature of this bureaus ex-
hihit will be the models of the new vessels
which have been constructed on a minia-
ture scale with wonderful exactness at the
Washington navy yard. Expert workers
have been engaged for months on these
models, which contain all the features of
the big vessels, even down to the ropes and
halyards. The work is very fine, and the
models, resting in large glass cases, are
said to cost in the neighhorhood of 5000
each. These are to be mounted on the
berth deck.
The bureau will also send a series of
handsome water colors of each of the new
ships that are in course of construction.
Those who like 10 delye into technical min
utisp will be Interested in the detailed plans
of the various types of ships which are to
be exhibited by the construction bureau.
One of the staterooms of the ship will be
fitted up with the exhibit from the Naval
Academy at Annapolis. The founlng.
development and management of that insti-
tuition will be illustrated by plans AMI pho
tographs of the grounds and buildings and
descriptions of the course of study.
The exhibit of the bureau of equipment
will consist of the fittings of the slip. such
Is the regulation search light and the
anchors, which have been made of wood to
save the expense of transporting these heavy
articles to Chicago.
Another room on the berth deck will he
fitted up tn the stores and clothing usual
" issued TO crew in the navy, and there
will be an illustration of the financial man
igement of the navy in the exhibit of the
bureau of supplies and accounts The
bureau of medicine and surgery will have .
room fitted up as a di.pensary and sick bay
showing how the sick and injured are cared
for in the navy. The bureau of yards AMI
docks will illustrate its business by models
of dry docks an3 pictures of buildings at
the different navy yards.
The ordnance bureau will furnish the
thirteen and eight inch guns, which are to
be mounted in the turrets. There viii be
also siX-iuch guns and a secondary battery
of six Founders, oue-pounders and GatliDg
guns. The secondary battery is that in
tended for the battle ship Oregon. Tic
heavy guns will be OF wood, and sufficient
of the mechanism Of the turrets and wrap-
ous will be sho" to illustrate the metho'l
of working. The means of storing ammu-
milton anil tae ways of handling 1t will also
bc shown There will he a torpedo tube in
the bow as for actual service. Other tubes
viii be dummies. Samples of torpc,iecs
and models OF the abandoned types of gun
will be shown on the pier,
1t was originally intended 10 exhibit two
arn0F plates, one representing the II l-2
( inch curvei plate of the Monterey, we Ching
81 .~ip pounds, and the other the li-lneh
diagonal armor Of the Oregon, weighing
5000 pounds, but the expense OF trans
por'sng these hinge pseces of steel Is so
great tiaf they may be omitted from the
ordnance i'1reau's exhibit. ~
The Hydregrapitic "fti'r viii send plaster
models os the bottom OF the Atlantic ocean
and the great lakes. Less important feat
ares viii be the Instruments for making by
Geographic .iisyeys AMI the p hot charts.
The Naval Observatory VIII sen'i instru-
meI''s which VIII he put to Practical use aud
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