Graham guardian., 1898-05-27
THE MONTERREY ORDERED TO
MANILA.
She Goes There to Re-entoroe tho Gallant
Admiral Dewey.

20 Manila to reinforce Admiral
Dewey's squadron.
The Monterey is a tower OF
strength IN herself and her addi-
tion to Admiral Dewey's feet to.
gether with the dispatch of thous.
ands of troops to Manila is ample
evidence that the administration
has assumed no halfhearted atti-
tude toward the Philippine ques-
ton and is determined to take no
chance of its dispossession until
such time as the United States
itself has arranged for the disposi-
ton of the islands.
The Monterey is probably the
most 70, midable monitor, in the
world, yet she confines with the.
enormous offensive qualities of the
monitor type a sea-worthiness that
is almost phenomenal.
The Monterey is described tech
nically as barbette turret, low
freepcard monitor of 1000 tons dis
| placement. She is 256 feet long
by SO feet beam and IA feet 8 inches
deep. She carries in two turrets
surrounded by barbettes two IL
inch and two 10 inch guns while in
her superstructure between the
turrets are mounted six 6 Founders
four l.pounders and two gattllng
guns.
The turrets are 7 IL inches thick
and surrounding the bsrbettes are
IA inch and IL IL inohs of steel
and against the armor all the the
batteries in Manila might thunder
away without effecting an entrance,
The Monetery's personnel is 10
officers and 172 men and once she
is in the entrance of Manila harbOr
nothing in the shape of a navy
could be likely to bulge her from
her position. Her despatch may
have an important bearing upon
the government so openly publish
ed of sending reInforeements to
Manila.
The only doubt as to the feas'
ability Of sending the Monetery is
her small coal carrying capacity
She has bunker room for only 2OC
tons of coal and though more might
be slowed on her decks it is doubt
tul whether she could at the ut
most carry more than-euough ccaI
to take her to Honolulu one third
OF the way to the Philippines. L
is probable that the Monterey will
be in the convoy, and after exhaust
ing her coal she will take on some
at Honolulu. She must either be
towed about 1000 miles of her trip
or perform the difficult task OF
coalrng at sea. The navy depart
ment gave out no news to-day
touching the move ments of the
A merican and Spanish squadrors
IN the neigh borhood of Cuba. II
is plain to be seen, however, that
the officials are expecting great
events to occur at any moment
What they most fear is the effect
that might be produced upon our
people by tho greatly exaggerated
notwithstanding reports from Span
lsh sources of some great naval
engagement if the Spaniards should
claim the victory, it is the realized
that the first news of an engage
lnent in the neighborhood Of Cubs
or 10 the eastward may reach the
United States through the Spanish
cables via Manila and those are al
most certain no matter what the
result may be to make such claim
of victory for the Spanish. OBJ
viously the only manner now in
which the truth could be discover,
ed would be through our own of
ficers.
The navy department is proud
Of the record made by the Oregon
from an engineering point OF view.
The reports to the department
from the ship shows that she does
not need five cents worth of re
pairs to her machinery after 49,.
900 miles continuous run.
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