Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1894-10-16


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WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.-Thc navy yard
IL one of the stock sights Of Washing
ton. The correspondent puts In . day
there soon after his Assignment hers
and m rule never goc~ near 10 again
The average Congressman visits 10 onos
for his own sake and occasionally thers-
after % show 10 10 Visiting constituents
The visitors who rcally enjoy 10 are thu
tourists from the great interior. nins
out IL ten Of whom never saw IN OCEAN
vessel In their lives CO . cannon larger
than the ordinary neldpiece which
county towns utilize for the Fourth Of
July aud other patriotic occazionA And
how they do enjoy iti The little receiv'
Ing ship and its neatly uniformed ~
cruits all them with admiration. They
swell with pride over the captured can
non. look with curiosity ON the guns
ranged 10 illustrate the progrc~s Of the
country and arc speeches with aston
ishinent at the wonderful machinery
which bore- out tho rificd cannon-ma-
chincry which seems to move - easily
and yet r,quircs 10 many thousands Of
horsepower.
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The ride 90 tho navy yard IL quite q
pleasure In itself. The cable line OF
PENNSYLVANIA avenue turns south or
East Eighth street and terminates 81
the entrances % the yard The visitor II
at first charmed with the masnificcn,
gateway which looks monoliihic. but Il
not. and 1. really Awcd by the s-ntiDel.
who Il impressive In blue and whits
and stands a. siifiiy ~ II be hal swAl'
lowed one IL the rAmmcrS The general
silence about the place IL almost op-
pp~.iyc The rules governing the yar'l
amount "a quite q code. and In addition
to stringent regulations against loud
talk 90 swearing 90 unnccs~-ary noiss
there IL An explicit instruction TO every
one ON duty Ia hold no conversation
whatever except in the line u duty.
Even In most u the workshops therc Il
comparatively little nois, everything
running with what might b. called
pondcruus smoo,hncss The QUO excep'
ton IL Ina the great hall where the rifi~l
cannon are manufactured II II the
nature II man % r~pcct power whethei
In the machine or the human being.
and know u No other place whers
everything seems 20 move with such ~
sistle-- force
Overhead tho grcat tram car. with IL,
monsicr tentaclc- az iron hooI- and
CLAMPS and girier looI~. moves back
ward and forward with an energy which
seems ~ II 10 were beyond control, and
yet the engineer who sits In the iror
cagc attached can stop or start 10 with
q touch Of his finger. shall not weary
the rvader by describing the long gun'
~ steel and nickel. weighing ever -
many tons. which arc - easily raiscd
AMI lowered by the machinery of thu
tram car. nor the graf augcrs " may
call them such. which bore out ths
guns. seeming to move with tho ino-'
gentle p.r~uasivcno.. and yet tearing
Oh the delicate shavings of steel and
nickel with q power which really f~
climates the beholder. Nor shall i at
tempt . description u the process fo'
various rcAsons II would take mo al
least thr,s months 10 master the subject
and probably another month 90 put u
into simple English. after which the or
binary reader would require thrs
months or ~ 90 understand 10. Ivy which
time some Of US would Is dead or pro-
,ratcd with brain fag.