New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-08-12
COAL FOR NAVAL VESSELS'
HOW THE SUBJECT IS DISCUSSED AT THE
BROOKLYN YARD.
TUT, crSC1NN.rrs ENGINES MADE A FINE REC
oRp-orrIINE or THE ERIcssoNs VOYAGE

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and boilers worked with greater sa''siao'on ,"',
was exnected The engines were run separator!
and together and the boilers were run a' Na
pressures the object being to give the "oes' ra's
| In the tests of efficiency There was "o' a e ,,,
| breakdown or accident, and the data 'ahen WIN
! comn.re more than favorably with that OF YES
| cola buiIt nv private firms 1t is calculated tha'
the vessel will make In the neighporhoou Vi nm"
teen knots on her official speed Uiai ai''oue'
the requirements are for eighteen KNOTS only ~
| morrow the vessel will take In coal preliminary
to going up Gardeners Bay Tor target p'a'.S
apd steam manoeuvering. When this Is done the
vessel will return to the yard to receive he' c"e
mounts for the secondary battery, part Vi INC
eoupment that has Deen long time coMns.
| ard then she will be made ready for her Official
steam trial A..
| ,I,,,css vere receved AT the yard yesterday that
| tbs New-Yors would reach the Navy Yard about
| the middle OF next week. and to nave ever
| thing ready to put her INTO the dryuooh "
| bottom Is to be thoroughly cleaned ana paih.eu'
the dstilling apparatus to be replaced, ana other
| repairs are to be made. Soon AFTER her aIFi'ai
| Tho new commander Captain Robey ID Evans
| will relieve Captain Philip OF command -
| known that Fighting Bob as captain Evans 10
spoken of by many. has asked that the snip w
sent China. but IT Is doupttui IL TIC ''ee
ton will lie favored
| A statement compiled at the Navy Department
and sent TO the navy yards shows just how much
| time Is necessary to make repairs 10 Ger 'aih 'e
sells and get them Off to sea. IL 49, III suoS.",''
! as follows: At the New-York Navy laru-oa"
| Francisco sixty days. Cincinnati. ten days MA
chios and Castine each thirty days with WORN
! hurried. New-York fifteen days. Mare Island
! BOSTON 1fty days; Marion thirty days boston
Navy Yard-Atlanta fifteen days. norfolk Navy
Yard-Montgomery (broken CYLINDER ioi'S '"o
days: Detroit thirty days; Raleigh. fifteen days.
| Secretary Herbert. who is TO begin a tour Oh IN
spec;!on OF the navy yards the Atlantic coast Oh
| onJa n
week He Will have the Dolphin "a his nagship'
| and will start from Washington tomorrow lie VII.
first visit the Naval War College and Torpedo
Station at Newport. then the Portsmouth ana
Char.estown yards the Ne"-Loiuo" s'a''o'' "'
| then the Navy Yard here.
| Although not perilous voyage tina; the torpedo
| boat Ericsson Is making It is nevertheless an IN
,erestlng one This trip is the INLAND route
| 50 far possible. TO the New-fork Navy iard.
The little (she is on.y $50 feet long. l5i2 feet
beam and II feet depth Of hold. or 100 tons dis
| placement will have Inland water from 81
| Louis 70 Southwest Pass. OF the mouths
| OF the Mississippi: but there more than
! 5000 miles further to go then, much OF
| which Is unprotected from the oceans force
The greatest exposed distance Is along the
| Florida Peninsula From Southwest Pass she can
make the Interior water passage, going through
Briton Chan4ceur. Mississippi Sounds and Grant
| Pass % Mobile Bay. the least depth OF water
Is eight feet. From Mobile Bay 20 Pensacola there
| Is an outside water route OF ffty miles. making
total OF 329 miles. II the weather could be de-
pended upon a certainty the Ericsson could take
the outside passage which is only 100 miles long.
From Pensacola there Is forty-two mile stretch
| through Santa Rosa Sound TO the East Pass OF
| Choctawhaich.e Bay. thence 10 the West Pass OF
| Apalachcoia BAY there Is outside passage OF
| ninety niles The boat will pass through APa.achi
cola Bay and st Georges Sound and then comes
tn. longes, stretch OF outside steamng in the Gulf
| From ST. Marks Tampa Bay IL 2l3 niles thence
| TO Punta Russo 10 miles. and from Punta Russo
| 20 Key Yves; lis miles. From Key West TO Cape
Canavera. It Is 3l3 miles but part Of this trip may
| be made inside the Florida Keys and reefs. From
| the cape 10 Mosquito Inlet there Is outside run
OF for;y-one miles. thence 10 Fernanlna lN MES
| more OF outside passage. From FernanGlna there
| is ions inland passage through Amelia River
Cumbo riand Sound Cumberland River. Jekyl Creek
81 Slmon's Sound. Alabama Sound and other water
ways to savannah Thence liz niles OF ,oriuous
navigation through narrow creeks and winding rivers
will bring the boa, Charleston Then there Is
| another stretch ot inside work through intricate
| passages before she Will reach Winyah Bay. :. c.
4 run Of 40 mics from this point in the open
! and Beaufort IL reached. The route from Beaufort
will be through Core. Pamiico, Croatan and Abe
! marie sounds thence through the Albemarle and
Chesapeake canals TO Curruck Sound. thence
| through the canal 10 Norfolk. From Norfolk the
Ericsson will take the same route recently taken by
| the torpedo boa; Cushing up the Chesapeake Bay
"a far Chesapeake. Md. the Chesapeake and
Delaware Cana. TO Delaware Bay and into the
| Delaware River Thence the route Is through the
| Delaware anI Rartan Canal into the Rarl.an River
and Raran Bay. and then Brooklyn is only short
| span away.
| The decision OF the Navy Department to establish
] n coaling station Key West has been more or
less talked about by officers OF the Navy who rec
ognize that while IT will not prove OF as great adj
| vantage one In the mid Pachc would. II will be
more advantageous and more economical to the
| fhs nTnr tea NJ
| Ing at Kingston. Cartagena or Colon An officer.
that the Government from 20 TO Is per cent
| on coal obtained at Key West In preference to the
other places. For instance in the case OF the New
York FOR once coaling. putting in / 80 tons the
| amount saved on It's purchase between Key West
and Jamaica. would be 1853. and between Key West
| and Colon s6,+0. Recent experiences OF the ships
| OF the Navy have demonstrated the necessity for
| parts OF the world the vessels likely TO fire.
and his oen That iss rep ted
West Indies make depots for coal and other sup
structed to cruise entirely under steam no sail
power being provided in the majority OF the vessels
cruisers And the subject OF coans stations ion ' APP
| plies to the Pacific AS we'll az the Atlantic. II has
| BE- obtained the American of the Pacific
and put on board at less than one-haf the cost OF
ems the argument for acquiring naval stations in
arbor Hawai- or one of the Galapagos Islands ''
Even twelve years ago. when Senator W. f.
ginning of the new steel Navy he proposed this pro
| gramme The department renews Its recommended
ton that coaing stations at Honolulu and the
Samoan Islands and at Pichilingue. in Lower Cali
| fornia. shall be fixed by Congress firm basis
and that additional naval coaling stations shall
established at some all OF the following points:
Banana Bay. some port In Hayti; Curacao. In the
! Caribbean Sea: Santa Catharina. In Brazil: the
Straits OF Magellan La Union. in Salvador. Anna
pala. in Honduras; Tullear Bay. In Madagascar:
| Monrovia the Island OF Fernando Pc; and Port
| Hamilton. in the Nau-Kow Islands OF Corea Sim
lar stations should be maintained, at the best
| point the Atlantic side OF the Isthmus OF
| Panama. and another at the islands of Famerico
PeriCo. Cuiebra and llenoa on the Pacific side now
| owned by American corporations "
Another officer. speaking OF the Washington and
Oregon coal which the people Interested insist
| Ing that the Navy Department shall purchase in
preference To the Canadian coal. said: Up to the
L has