The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-11-16
NAVAL ARCHITECTS.
Admiral Meade Gives the Results of
His Professional Experience.

ADMIRAL Meade Gives the Results of
His Professional Experience.
New York, Nov. 15.-The second gen
eral meeting of the Society of Naval Ar
chitects and Marine Engineers met today
IN the rooms of the American Society OF
Mechanical Engineers.
Clement a. Griscomb was elected presi-
s gent. ana Washington L. Clapp Unlsed
states navy, secretary treasurer. The
following vice-presdents were elected:
CHARLES h: Cramp, Phillip Marchborn,
Inited States navy; Charles Ii; Loring.
United States navy, George W. Melville,
United Staes navy, George Quintar1
Irving M. Soft Francis A.. Walker, Will
lam II. Webb and Theodore D. Wilson
United States navy.
Some Suggestions of Professional Elk
perience in Connection with the Naval
So Con rys Of the Past Ten
admiral of the United States navy
If l had my way he said; mo-. a
single cruiser should De added to the
navy until at least twenty battle ships,
100 torpedo boats and number of rams
were ready for service.
THE vessels least satisfactory to the
Columbia, Minneapolis, Detroit and Gin
cinnati. The Majestic and Teutonic can
laugh at them for speed. AS to fighting,
1 doubt the superiority OF the Columbia
Naval opinion in the main today is that
an efficient fleet for modern warfare
should be composed of the following COM
ponent parts:
"First-Armored ships for coast de-
fence.
."Third-Armored cruisers.
Battery and torpedo outfits and vessels
built TO ram when necessary.
"Of the rapid type of cruisers Tor COM
merce destroyers. I know none that bet
ter fulfill my idea than the ocean liners
Lucania and Campania. These ships,
in my juddgmnent; are the commerce de
In conclusion, Admiral Meade called at
tention to the present war between japan
and China, pointing out the fact tina t
personnel. was defeated by Japan with
an inferior fleet but a trained personnel.
"If we are to have a policy, let US
have one, for heavens sake, that Will
outlast the brief space of presidential
term"
In a paper on Some Obstacles to Ship.
building and Owning in this Country,
George w. Dicllie, of San Francisco.
said:
I'm order that the United States may
participate in ocean commerce to the ex-
tent that her own imports and exports
entitle her to, there must be, first. pa
triotic ambition throughout the country
to carry the products of our industry
under her own flag; second, with nation
a laws TO protect and foster our mer-
chant MARINES, third, state and munich
pal laws on the part of sea-girt states
and maritime cities, encouraging sn;iJ-
borders
The British government fosters mari
| time exhibitions naval manoeuyres and
carries on all the traditions of the naval
mercantile fleets of England and are
MAGE part of the education Of the youth.
-. how remarkable contrast between
their intense loyalty to the maritime in
terest5 OF their country on the part of
the British and the hopeless apathy pre-
waning among us even in seaport towns.
AT the LAUNCHING. of the battleship
Oregon in San Francisco, no government
snip was there to represent the navy.
NOT gun was heard to herald the event.
me builders, to make a decent show,
nad 20 go AROUND and beg the English
sion, ~
Quite aTlarge number of those inter-
ested in shipping matters claim that as
ed in direct competition with all the
| world, American ships built on protected
| material and with protected labor repre-
sent an invested capital so far in excess
other things equal, the contest is too
! one-sided for any hope of success. We
are apt TO condemn such a presenta ton
Of the SUBJECT N as Hnp3triotG but it t.
for the ship-owner at the same price as
that paid for a similar ship with which
he completes or else give him the privi-
lege OF buying. his ship where his com
pstitors buys shls to make the struggle
an equal one. And as with material and
labor at the present rates, it is mpossi-
BILE to meet the European price for q
peon 1f RIP s and it heng the T
a protection with engine building o,
bridge building, the free purchase OF
ships abroad would be as unjust to tbs
ship builder as the free purchase of en-
follows. therefore, that the American
ship builders, should from the public
purse. be placed on an equal footing
with his foreign competitor.
THE constitution of the state of Cali
| fornia provides that all property, real OF
personal, found within the state on a GER
tain date of each year must be taxed or
its actual value at the time. Thus the
vessel owned and registered in San Fran
cisco and valued at coo has to pay
the same city, county and state taxes as
/ the same amount. The vessel can re-
ceive no benefit whatever from the eX-
penditure of the taxes that so materially
reduce her money earning power
! Other papers were read as follows:
Present Status OF Face-hardened Ar.
NOR" by W. T. Sampson, captain anc
| chief Of the ordnance, United States
navy; "Celluloz; its Application to VA
|
Experience Gained Within our New
Steel Ships as Regards Care and Pres
erva tion,' by Phillip Heichbern. of the
constructors, United States navy; The
I United States Triple Screw Cruisers Co
lumbia and Minneapolis" by George w
Melville, engineer in chief United States
navy.
! Commodore Heichbern said:
! 1T is the stitch in time that saves
nine" and then he gave a full accoun
OF how the necessary stitch in, tint
should be gone about. y plea for larger
and more numerous dry docks ended Mr.
Heichbern's address.
He showed there were no dry docks II
this country that could accommodate ou'
four large battle ships which are now
under course of construction.
! In his paper on Yachts in America ant
| England" Lewis Nixon explained how i
was the difference Of opinion between
Americans and Englishmen regarding the
center board started. In conclusion, Mr.
Nixon said:
.'The races for the Americas cup have
fostered our national pride and KEEP
alive an interest in yacht racing Wnlcf
will most certainly stimulate our design
ers and yachtsmen TO such efforts as vii
always insure the keepinS of the cup OF
this side Of the Atlantic"
STElNITZ TOOK FIRST.