Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-04-13
DEFECTS TO THE NAVAL REVIEW.
If Held in May 1t Would Have been Much
Bigger.


There is a discordant note sound
ing under all the iubilation over the
prospective great naval review III
New York on the 9th instant. It is
a note of disappointment, and is
sounded by those wide-awake naval
men who know the difference be-
tween what the review is going to
be aud what it could have beer.
The difference (indeed, the whole
subject), says a special to the New
York Sun from Fort Monroe, is ms
tensely interesting. Had the re-
view been held a month later it
would have been ten or even a hun
dred times grander than it is going
to be. In that event Russia, the
most friendly to US of the great
powers of Europe, would have been
delighted in sending US her most
gigantic and powerful battle-ships
her laundering leviathians that
ride the water like great mountains
of steel ahoat. She cannot do this
now because of the ice in the Baltic
that Jocks them in.
LAUNDERING LEVIATHANs.
A month later in the year they
would have been freed and they
would have altered the whole chars
acter of u great Columbian water
pagea, +. England would then have
felt G liged to seed her Dread
naugE and Thunderers of the high
est az, grandest type, and all other
countries would have been obliged
to follow suit. for no great pc We,
would haye fer an instant con
templated the idea of allowing any
of its neighbors to impress the
American people as better off thar
itself.
Instead Of a great mosquito fleet Of
commerce destroyers and swapping
greyhounds of the sea we should have
seen gathered at Hampton Reads ant
again at New Yo K the pride ane
heft of the most powerful nav
les of the worlds procession o.
miles of great movable fortresses o.
steel monsters, too; ed with thu
biggest guns that raval genius ha:
been able to float and to manipulate
We should then have had a nava
spectacle unequaled in the world
history and one which would hay
attracted the experts and the critic
and the pleasure-lovers of the worlt
to our shores to witness it.
MODERN CRUISERS.
But it is as we'll to make th'
most and best of what we have. AM
what we are to have is certainly {
remarkable and uncommon, if no
unique, occasion. 1t will be a grea
fleet of the most modern cruisers
protected and unprotected, and, a
the navy men agree, it will fool GU
own people if it does not fool anyon
else. Better yet, it will be apparen
to us Americans that in the displa
as it is we will show to better advan
tage than the great powers tina
have been spending billions of none.
upon naval progress during all tn
time since our Monitor days Will
we have been asleep, But for tn
new ship the New York the Brit
fish might appear to excel US wit
their protected cruiser the Blake
which is able to fight and throw
3So-pound ~projectiles as well as t
chase and to run, It is true that tn
New York, withwhich we will &c
the Blake, will not be fnishe
not be Government property, ant
will not be managed by naval officers
1t is also true that she will not b
equipped with real guns, and tina
painted wood to look like steel ma
form part Of her exterior, but th
great mass of people will not kno'
or appreciate this. They will nc
care whether she is the property G
her buffers and not yet accepted b
the Cove ,ment as long as she make
a good W on the water.
Noe &C TRY taking a place in th
water parade will make such
showing of tin de steele cruisers g
ours, for no country has such
battalion of what may be Gale
the cavalry of the deef. We wi
show all but three OF our new yes
sells. In the ranks will be the Ney
York, Philadelphia, Baltimore
Chicago, Charleston, San Fran
cisco, Yorktown, Concord. We
suvius, Atlanta, @, shing, Newark
Bennington, Bancroft, Miantono
mob, and Dolphin. We have eigh
teen in all, but the Monterey, wit
her poor boilers, and the Boston
now at Honolulu; will not be i
the display.
i. DIX EVTTI,E RITTER 49,