New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-06-24
AFFAIRS AT THE NAVY YARD.
CHANGES IN THE FLEET AT THE HOME
STATION.
PREPARING FOR THE TRIAL. TRIP OF TIE
Observation-Disclosures on OTHER SHIPS
LEAVES GRANTED TO THE
LANCAsTER's OFFICERS.


changes In the naval vessels at this port and at
the Navy Yard. The change In the number Of
vessels at the Yard began yesterday morning. wAen
xhe trainng-ship Portsmouth towed out at 10
O'clock The Portsmouth is 10 go to Newport 10 get
a fresh detail of apprentice boys with them she
will go off for n summer cruise 10 England. The
vessel makes two cruises a year. one In Northern
waters In the summer and one down South In the
winter each time taking out different set OF
boys for an experience at sea on the trainingship
The second change IS the departure OF the Nesuv-
US for GARDENERS Bay. According 10 the present
plan the NesuviOus Is 10 leave tomorrow and 20
70 Gardeners Bay for target practice. and after
that 1t is expected that she Will ordered TO Bos-
ton to give help along the line at the trial OF the
Minneapolis early in July. The rest of the summer
IS stl a blank far orders or definite plans
are concerned In the target practice at GARDENERS
Bay the guns of her secondary battery Will be
tried and blank shots are to be discharged from
the dynamite guns.
The third change at the Navy Yard is in the num-
her Of commissioned ships there. The Lancaster
IS to be put out Of commission. probably on Thurs
day II was said yesterday that all the things had
been removed the vessel except the furniture.
and the removal of this was TO be begun immedi-
ately 1t thought that the vessel could II
necessary be put out OF commission Tuesday. but
after everything is taken out she has to be cleaned
and therefore the date put at Thursday. 1t
has been expected that she would be repaired and
assigned TO the Training Squadron but there are no
orders to this effect Neither has the vessel been
surveyed as yet, since she came in. The officers
who are her say that she is In excellent condi-
ton but that is all that is known about her The
officers have not yet received their orders These.
however known to be at the commandant's
Office ready to be given to Them at the proper time
They are detached from the Lancaster and Will re-
ceive one months leave OF absence for every year
they have served her. This leave will be well
come TO the officers. especially So perhaps. because
they have been away on foreign cruise Captain
A. II. Mccormick and Lieutenant Commander Wal
ton Goodwin receive two months leave. The follow
ing receive three months leave: Lleutenans j. a. |
Norris. David Daniels. J. G. Qunby, r. IL. Miner
and William Truxtun: Enslgns A. b. Hon and w.
V Pratt Passed Assistant Surgeon l. W. Kite. Pay
master L. A. Frailey Chief Engineer w. S Smith,
Passed Assistant Engineer J. p. S Lawrence. First
Lieutenant of Marines c. G. Long Gunner John
Russell. Carpenter L. II. Hay, Saimaker William
Cuddy. Boatswain Daniel Ward gets TWO months
leave Passed Assistant Surgeon L. w. Auzal Is
fortunate: he gets leave of six months. with per-
mission go out Of the United States
The other changes which expected at this
station this week come from external sources. The
cruiser New-York is expected home and the cruiser
San Francisco ought to arrive in few days.
although possibly not until next week. The New
York has permission to anchor off Staten Island
until she is ready go to the Navy Yard. and she
may be sent up 10 Boston for the trial OF the
Minneapolis before she goes to the Yard: Serious
Which are probably exaggerated. or at any rate
give wrong Impressions 70 the majority ,I Of people
after several months Of active service the Qincers
mean time by the wear and tear of constant
things will be In need OF repair. so the YES
spected. and then repaired She may even be at
the Navy Yard several weeks: II L: said 10
ton Of the magazine room. as there is no danger
70 be feared from its nesrness to the fro
Copper piping which runs ali over the vessel This
be G beeo No unservceabe Two Explanations are
offered; one that foreign matter became mixed
the other that the electric current from the dyna-
sa has SAM beer nnn with OF need
pairs after her long term Of service in the South
come the flagship Of the North Atlantic Squadron.
She is to receive some of her torpedo apparatus
The next incident of great interest in the Navy !
ns Fa R OF TO sR place
July 10. that time. and II is TO be run over
Porpoise Eight or nine vessels are to be stationed
along the course to note the performance OF the
rents The Fern has been ordered to be at Boston
July The the ah which asv 5e
Iwana. Fortune. Leyden' Montgomery end possibly
Il is a week yesterday since the cruiser Cincin-
natl was pu; into commission at the Navy Yard
been carried on steadily. Things were 50 far adj
vanced by the latter part Of the week that the ..
morning they took their first meal on board: The
b-nch
a Is SAID that the other guns ana carriages 'oI me
secondary battery VIII not delay the IS snip y
several weeks longer before she Is ready TO go out
4 question as to when the Maine would be ready
10 be put into commission was answered with d
ero3n about armor II only the SonTac1 r W WCHa
mission at an early date if the naval constructors
do not know when they are going to get material TO
finish her with. The work on the two little torpedo
vel VEL under %itr way The framework Of the hus is
being Pn together ana Is far adyanced fro, tbs
dTydock about the first Of July After this THIS, there
4 is thought that they WIN be ready for commits
soning again about the first OF September
sble changes to the dynamite cruiser vesuvius re-
calls the question which remains yet undecided
a slgndcan. fact. that whatever others may think.
the officers who become connected with the ship
and are apt to get Indignant at remarks made ABOUT
the Vesuyius One OF the officers SAID yes'ernsy
This Is granted. she was built to make speed and
ne guns ana n s pa ne own a 10 GET
more speed. But the idea Of the vessel is rnisiin
ana fire ana dodge in again. perhaps without even
turning the ship; she not meant for cruiser,
RETIRED %G S0q to the hat
,eca was new one ana needea @ e a per der
yelopng this system as has been spent In DEVELOPING
upon too soon. There Is talk OF throwing high ex
a. leas, has not been done 50 successfully as with
this kind OF gun The dynamite gun Is already
more effective than the two kinds OF torpedoes
with which the Navy Department has been prln-
cipally experimenting. So thought the officer re-
ferred 70.
A report comes from abroad that the boilers Of
The Chicago, the flagship OF the European station.
nave given out. and that they Will have TO be re-
paired Antwerp When the vessel left here her ,
boilers expected TO last only few months. AMI
u Is surprising that they should give out
The new torpedo boat Ericsson, which has been !
built at Dubuque. Iowa, was 10 have started on
the way down the river on Friday night, 10 come
to New-York II Is said that the vessel will stay ,
week at 81. Louis and that she is 10 receive her
armament at Newport