The San Francisco call., 1897-09-06

| The frs; scusdroa OF the German q set on
| III way from Cronsrsdt for KieI is to expert
/ neHt TIth the apparatus OF the Italian in
venior, A.rcony. tor ielegrsphing without
wir=. The apparatus has been furnished the
squadron by order OF the German Emperor.
TIE Bulgarian Government has ordered e
torpedo dispatch boat 20 be builJ at Bordea ux.
| Tls vessel Will De 2 81 feet inches in length
! By 2 feet 2 inches beam and 700 tons dis
basement she all be fitted with two triple
expansion eng ines OF 300 horsepow collec-
lively 20 drive the vessel seventeen knots per
aour.
The French bsttle-ships Brennus, Mareeau
and Neptune recently went through gun prac-
;ice OF Toulon under conditions as might
exist during actual warfare. The target was
an old wooden vessel Petre,, and 29S rounds
were dred By the three oattle-ships at maxi
mum range Of 1000 yards At the cone u.ion
OF the gun trials the Petrol was stiti si0st t
owing 10 the bad msrksmsnship OF the attack
lug sal ps- The FiZsEo's comments on taIs result
IS that The French navy IS not worth n uch,
snd the British navy is not worth more"
Great efforts are being made In Germany 10
get up POT i ariiy for the navy In order TO
gel more ship but the people take Iiiile IN
teresi n the naval defsnsc Of the empire. i
recen, publication compares the relative pgo-
portions Of nAvieS and mercantile marines oi
the I'VE Leading European pcwer., from which
1. ppesrs that Great Britain nag ~ cruiser
tons TO every 1000 mercantile tons, Germany
10. France 49,, Italy 81 and REssi. 49, i
IS argued from these nFures By the advocates
Of large navy that Germany requires ihree
times as many wsrships as /. he's st present
The riyeters engaged IN rhs construction OF
the b&tils-ship canopus st the Portsmouth
dockysrd stuck work last month in conse-
g1enee Of the Ed lairaity's reduction Of 10 per
cent IN Ihefr wages a dsp1tsIion Of five Of
The men had an interview with the admiral
supeiia tendsnt, who prornised 10 lay their
views before the officials et Whitehall The
present grievance Ia said TO extend 10 al the
dTck9 ards. The englnesrs' dispCte has Ike
wise delayed the trial trips Of the osttle-shlps
assr and nIustffous, which were to have
come Of az ine end Of August, but nave now
teen postponed indefinitely.
Captain Gsrbelt ef the British navy, in his
recent handbook On naval gunnery, makes
the singular MISTAKE of crediting turrei-.hips
10 Captain Cowper Cole, when, as matter Of
fact, the invention wes that of Captain John
Ericss n. On September 26, 1854. Captain
Ericsson sent 70 Emperor Napoleon III
sketch OF e doIne-turreted ship. and II was
nearly year after. during the Crimesn war,
that Captain Cole constructed dome turTe.
erected on q raft. Ericsson's SO bsequent idea as
mate rislized in The Monitor IN 1862 proved q
success. hiie Captain Coles ship, The Cap
tain. proved disastrous failure By which the
builders and nearly 400 others lost their
liyeA
The final end OF Nelson's old flagship Fou-
droyant was rather inglorious Mr. Lobb Of
Liverpool bad purchased the ship from he
sd rniraity and expended about S125, 600 upon
IL, restoring Il 10 the precise condition 1t
was in Nelson's time. The ship taken
from port to port as show. but the scheme
was not financial success. On June Is the
ship YVES at anchor at Blackpool and during
the night storm came up and the ship went
ashore and became a wreck Early The next
morning an agent Of Beecham painted on ih-
hull OF the Foudroyant in letters three feet
high and two feet wide the following words:
England expects every man 10 do his duty
and take Beccham's pills" Mr.. LoDb became
highl Incensed at this unwarranted liberty
tax en- with his property and made iudicial
com pi amt with the result that on August i a
jary gave verdict against Beecaam of $3.50
and faed the painter SO. And thus the fl g.
ship OF Great Britains greatest admiral ter
minated its existence. the inspired words of
the great sea warrior at Trafalgar even being
made the ignoble use Of as nostrum adver-