Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-11-13
THE BRAZILIAN CRUISERS.
All the Officers for the FL Gid Are Now
Selected.
She Will BE Ready to SAIL in a Day
or Two - The Britain
las Force.

The selection OF officers for the Brazilian
cruiser FL Cid, fitting out at New York in
nearly completed. Her commander, Capt.
BAKER, VIII be placed IN command of the
meet after 1t leaves American waters so IL
is salo' with the rank OF admiral The
names of the watch and division ofaeers Of
the FL Cid are Macdonough Craven. t. II.
Spadling, ]. II. Conway H O. Binglinx
and A. T. Lowe. Craven, Conway ana
Ringling are graduates of the Naval Acad-
envy. Sparkling is an Annapolis man who
resigned shortly before graduating.
Who These OHicers Are.
Craven is a graduate of the class of 1881, ].
J. Conway Of the class OF 1852 and Bing-
ing OF the class Of 1850. Young Craven
halls from Geneva n. Y, and is a son Of
admiral t. t. Craven, who commanded the
Brooklyn, under Admiral Farragut He
stood at the head Of his class at Annapolis
In seamanship. After graduation he went
INTO civil engineering, and at present 10
employed on the construction of the Quaker
Br1dge dam at Croton Landing. Mr.. Sparl-
ing Is from the state of Washington. He
served In the Chinese navy in the war be-
tween TonQuin and France. Later he COM
manded a merchant steamship trading be-
tween San Francisco and Seattle, which
was driven ashore in a gale through her
machinery becoming disabled. He is now the
wire rope. at A. Broadway. Mr.. Conway is
member OF the same firm. He comes from
Norwich, y. Y. Mr.. Bingling resigned from
the service to enter the cotton business In
me south. He has an Office in Wall street,
New York
A. T. Lowe was recently a second neuten-
ant In the United States revenue cutter
service. He is a graduate of the United
states revenue marine cadet system, and
served for thirteen years as an officer in
the revenue cutter service. He resigned his
commission as late as last March. At the
time of resigning he was navigating officer
OF the United States revenue steamer
Woodbury..
About 800 Seamen.
About 500 seamen have already been Sc
cured for the FL Cid, nes rly all of whom are
men-of-war's men. 1t is reported that Mr.
Z. f. Miller, at present a civil employee at
the Brooklyn navy yard in the capacity OF
messenger to Rear Admiral Bancroft Cher
ardi. has been selected for one OF the gun
ner positions. Miller has to his credit the
taking of all gunnery prizes in the North
Atlantic squadron during a recent three
years cruise made by him in the home feet
At the time he was chief boatswain mate OF
the sloop-of-war Galena- He is also a sea-
man gunner OF the United States navy.
Capt. ZaIfnski TO Go.
1t is expected that the FL Cid will be ready
to start in a day or two. Her big fifteen
inch dynamite gun was mounted yesterday.
The gun. with its carriage. weighs nearly
forty-fve tons. Capt Z. L. Zalinski OF dyna-
mite gun fame is on his way to New York
and, 1t is said, he will take charge Of FL
Cid's big gun. For this purpose he has OBJ
tanned leave of absence from his regiment,
II is said, with permission to go beyond the
seas. Capt Zalinsk was recently IN active
command of a battery OF the nth artillery,
stationed at the Preside barracks. San
Francisco.
The Britannia.
The officer list OF the Britannia is about
made UP. She will carry. in addition to
Capt. Crossman, one chief executive officer,
who Will combine in his duties those Of COM
mander Of the ships battery. There will be
four watch and division officers. Ii is said
that Irving Blount, a six-year graduate OF
the United States Naval Academy. will prob
ably be one of the Britannia's officers. Mr..
Blount recently served on the United States
cruiser Philadelphia and the old corvette
kearsarge. Friends said that he was last
night on his way from his home in Indiana
to join the Britannia Mr.. Blount WAS grad
uated from Annapolis In 1891. He obtained
an honorable discharge from the navy last
summer.