The morning call., 1893-08-21
Plates for the Monitor
rIOnadnOCk.
MANY MEN NOW AT WORK.
Effect of a Recent Decision by the
Secretary of the Navy-Per-
S0naI Matters.
Correspondence of THE MORNING CALL.


of the coming week and then go in dock to
be scraped and painted. The steamer
Thoroughfare. belonging to the Southern
Pacific Railroad Company. came up to the
yard from the city the fore part OF the
past week and by aid OF the large shears
landed several huge plates of nickel-ingot
steel, the first installment for the monitor
MonadnOck. The plates received weighed
41,000 pounds. Three of them, the larger
ones, weigh $4,000 pounds. while the two
smaller ones weigh 5000 pounds. They at
trac'ed considerable attention and were
landed without difficulty or accident. a
deplOraDle accident occurred Thursday
morning by which one of the yard en-
plOyes. jeremiah Mccarthy, lost his life
by the breaking of IA capstan-bar, which
hit and crushed in his skull.
A heavy piece of machinery was being
moved by means Of capstan and horse
power. Mccarthy was sitting near the
capstan taking in the slack of the rope.
The strain On the apparatus proved too
great and the capstan bar broke, causing
tie capstan TO reverse itself and the firmly
set broken end of the bar in its first evolu-
tlon struck the unfortunate man on the
side OF the head. crushing in the skull.
He was Immediately removed to the yard
dIspensary and from there to the hos rital,
where he died.
large force of men are engaged in
laying the bed plates for the armOr-plate
rollers. These are TO be located near the
drydock pumphouse. 1t is hoped to get
the rollers in position before the rainy
season sets in.
Quite force OF men are at work on the
MOnadnOck. The ship-carpenters are put
ting in the teek backing for the armor
plates. Lack of material causes the work
to proceed slowly. Bow plates are being
fitted on to break the water from
flowing over the decks. 1t is anticipated
that within the course OF couple of weeks
the shlp-ioiners will be at work in the
snrerstructure, when the buikheads are
nearly In readiness for them.
An important decision has just been
rendered by the Secretary Of The Navy,
he having decided that naval cadets,
warrant officers and paymaster's clerks
are officers and are entitled to sentry's
salute as required by the new regulations,
which declares that any officer or man, in
uniform or not, when meeting pa sing or
addressing, either ashore or afoat, his
commanding officer or an officer his senior
In actual or relative rank, whether In
Uniform or not, shall salute him, and that
an officer saluted shall return the same.
Personal salutes ana other marks of
respect due their rank shall always be ex-
tended to officers of the navy, army and
Marine Corps. The department having, il
Is reported, decided that boatswains
gunners carpenters and saIlmakerS who
are warrant officers have relative rank in
the service, they shall, under their
supeTiOrs. have all necessary authority for
the due performance of their duties aud
they shall be OOPyed accordingly. We're
such a thing possible, though it is highly
Improbable, that every line officer should
be away from The yard the same time,
then the duties Of commandant of the sta
ton would fall to the lot of Gunner John
G. Foster of the ordnance department, he
being next in relative rank to the line
officers. The "staff," no IN after if wear ing
the stripes of captain, would report to
him for orders.
An order has just been issued and
posted up at the gate notifying command
ers of warshlps not To anchor their vessels
off the navy-yard, between the ferry-slip
and an imaginary line extending from
what is known as Walkers wharf on this
side of the river to the north end of the
sawmill, to prevent fouling the water
pipes. telephone and telegraph cables.
The space referred TO is that between the
buoys above and below the ferry-slip. A
blue print of the boundaries is furnished
each commanding officer before his arrival
at the yard. The attention of masters of
schooners and yachts is invited to follow
the instructions and thus obviate the dis
arranging and breaking Of the lines and
pipes, which has been heretofore the case.
causing much annoyance and expense to
the Government.
By direction of the Secretary OF the NAVY
a court of inquiry will be held at the yard
beginning Monday next which will tend
10 decide an issue between good order and
disorder, discipline and laXity of the
same.
The President has appointed George
Brown Jr., son of Commodore George
Brown, U. S. n, a cadet-at-large at the
naval academy,
Pay Inspector George a. Lyon, u. S. N,
in charge OF the navy pay office at San
francisco, will be detached from duty the
11th of September aud proceed home and
await orders. His successor is to be Pay
Inspector Edward Bellows. u. S. N, an
officer who has many friends on the coast.
While in charge of the navy pay Office
Pay Inspector Lyon has gained a reputa-
tiOn OF being fair aad impartial to the
many merchants of San FrAncisco-in
tact to all who had dealings with his Office.
Tne Charleston Is now on her way to
the Pacific Coast. her first stopping place
being at Rio de Janeiro for coal. From
there she will come through the Strait of
Magellan and call in at Valparaiso for
orders.
Tie Boston will probably come to the
yard before the arrival of either of the
cruisers at Honolulu.
There is much indign nation EXPIRE ssed at
the yard at the attack on the wife of Pay
master Ray In San Francisco newspaper.
1t has deeply wounded those who know
Mrs. Ray. and her relatives and friends,
who are not only in correspondence with
her, but others at Yokohama state there
cannot be the slightest foundation for such
an atrocious story, as it has not been re-
motely referred to by any of their corre-
spondencp. Yokohama is a notorious hot
bed of scandal. where agreeable ladies are
in the minority, and one who receives much
attention arOuses the jealousy of the neg
lected ones, who often proceed to misin-
terpret her acting and pass the interpreta-
tons along on its travels. A relative of
Mrs. Ray states to your correspondent
that letter just received represents her
as living at Kama Kama, a watering place,
about thirty miles from Yokohama. quiz
elly enjoying the summer and making
Preparations 10 return to the United States
with her husband in the autumn.
Surgeon-General Tryon. u. S. N. will
recommend 10 The Secretary of the Navy
that the examination for promotion be ex-
tended 10 passed assistant surgeons, who
have never been subjected to the require
menis of officers of the medical corps
below and above that grade.
A gymnasium is soon to be fitted up near
the Independence for use of the men oil
board of the receiving ship. This is to be
h0 nf fo;,.