New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-10-28
ANOTHER SHIP BOUGHT.
Ell RIO TO FOLLOW Ell CID
PRESIDENT PEIXOTO OF BRAZIL BELIEVED
TO BE TIE PURCHASER.
noTn VESSELS CAN BE CONVERTED INTO CRUIs
ERS At SHORT NOTICE-NEW-YORk AGENTS
WILL NOT TALK, BUT 1T Is THOUGHT
THAT THE SOUTHERN FLYERS WILL
BE ARMED AND USED AGAINST
ADMIRAL MELL0.
ADMIRAL MELL0.

BE ARMED AND USED AGAINST
ADMIRAL MELLo
President Peixoto of Brazil if indeed it be
he who has been purchasing munitions OF war
through the agency Of Charles r. Flint & CO.,
evidently does not intend to let his success
rest on half measures Last night It leaked
out that FL Rio. sister ship to III Cid, had
been sold to the same people who bought the
last-named vessel. 1t is true that this rumor
could not be positively confirmed. but there
is little doubt Of it's truth. FL Rio is in every
apparent particular similar to FL Cid. and can
be altered into an exceedingly fast and etlcieht
warship. She has never made as fast passage
from New-Orleans as FL Cid, but is believed to
be equal to her in speed. Each vessel Is OF
$500 tons register built of steel, with length
of 4O6 feet over ALL and beam of forty-elght
feet Their coal capacity is 1000 tons, and
their consumption about sixty tons day.
during which time they will run about 4oo
miles Their machinery designed by
Horace Lee n naval constructor. who incor-
porated into It many features peculiar to war
ships
FL Rio Is not now In this city. She Is on her
way here from New Orleans, however, ana VIII
arrive next Tuesday.
An extra large force Of men was busy all day
yesterday unloading FL Cid. ana preparihs
her for delivery To her new masters AZ I
o'clock last night the work was hnishen' De-
fore that hour. however, she had peeh t"r''"
over To her purchasers. who did not appear AT
the wharf but sent their orders To the c"P'"l"'
In accordance with these Instructions the thru
officer one quarter master ana three s"''"''
were discharged The rest were retained uh'''
to-day. in order that they might clean OUT inc
ship The captain. the first ana secoh" o'''O''9'
the other TWO quarter-masters. ana SIX "ole
sailors will leave to-day as soon as TINS Wo'h 10
done.
LITTLE DOUBT * TO THE BUYER
The purchase Of FL Rio makes 1t pracucaiy
certain that PexOto Is the purchaser "l ~
Cid and Of the arms contracted tor rcc'""S'
Admiral Mello could not buy ships IN 'hiS way
with the Least hope Of being able To use n, mn
although he might obtain arms IN SOM 49,,
manner A. matter OF course ho"c ~, M ~ ~
firms her, connected with the matter VIII say
ANYTHING about IT, Although there - II" , uoun'
that Flint * co. are the purchasing asc".,
the Arm refuses To acknowledge H. % /" c '
reporters who applied to Charles X. fnh. iil. hor
Information Yesterday. he handed the following
typewriter reply: ,, o,, ~ mako
, a..,..~ ~ rafrrencc 10 tho business Of my firm
While ~ the present time II may hot DC ,hIjsh ey.
yenient to ansv er your question II woni estaDnsm
uorcentage Of my firms business is on connliss.on a
for the account OF PrnSe,IpSlls pr S,ISlSsed T"' mag
The .rn,s contracted for consist or Il lats'
Quantity q .uu:N .'.is and annu'f', IL "'lo ~
clude t"o So FOUNDERS. on ''-poul' ,, .m,a,s
G-pounders two ll-pounders. twenty l-pounHrls
and eighteen torpedo tubes together WIN Nv
rounds each FOR yhe big guns and l,NfV ior 'ile
small ones and II number Of torpedoes l. hef% @
arc guns enough in the list To arm both ~ va
and Ii RIO None of them are especially hraNy'
I", ,hts "a nrobablv due to the fact that large
,uns even s-in,h rifles for instance, are eN-
ce.dtnelv difficult 10 obtain. whi" ruplu Hi'
and revolving cannon a . not at All scarce pom
vessels were inspected by the unlteh 9ta''S
naval authorities several months ago ana thcir
iccks were found strong enough to support
6-inch rifles II necessary
WILL THE GOVERNMENT INTrEfERE'
what action the United states authorities VIII
take In regard to tn" export Of these NUM-
,ions of war is hard to tell The situation in
Hrazu to-day is similar 10 that In Chill TWO
years ago I'm both countries the Navy re,
VOTED against the GON"rnni 1T. ana in"ln'aine'
(, .,lf Tor a long time I'm each the Unite" states
declined To recognize the TcVolut!onistS. Ihe
| cos. Of the Itata Is therefore instructive" me
Chians bought "A quantity ot arms h ''n
Francisco and shipped them on an American
/ cn.stirg schoouer named Robert and Minnie.
out at sca the schooner met the ltata ana
Transferred the arms to her Later Whrn thr
Itata WAS surrendered 10 the United states,
both vesses were libred for violation OF the
neutrality laws. But when the case WAS
tried both were found not guilty.
II seems therefore. that il the arms are taken
away i'm some such fashion the United States
may not interfere. The ships. however. would
fall under an entirely different heading as To
allow Mollo TO buy them would be To repeat
TnpIand's action i'm selling the Alabama and
other rebel cruisers to the Confederatcs during
our civil war