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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-08-20

OF some KIND or another. and the mixture
Of Jewsharps, harmonious. c1gar-box ban
jos, gOurd mandolins. fiddles and guitars
10 something extraordinary. The instru-
ment players sit on the edges of their
hunks and attach mutes to the instru-
ments, which drown the sound somewhat,
but the mixture OF tunes Is nevertheless
queer. Standing on the outside OF a
black company's quarters during the
evening houre before tattoo, one might
fancy that Chinese orchestra was re-
hearsing inside, If it were not for the
frequent bursts of really melodious negro
singing and the clatter of the feet of
buck and wing dancers. The thing known
to white soldiers as bunk fatigue" which
consists in lying on a bunk during the
hours of the day, either asleep or staring
fixedly at the ceiling, resting Is some
thing that the black soldier can't under
stand. He wants to be moving during all
his waking hours, and making some sort
or noise Even the black soldiers who
come off, sleepy after their twenty-rour
hour guard tricks, don't get any daylight
Sleep and the writer's Of the black belt
who portray the black man as being IN
state of perpetual drowsfness can't
prove it by the black soldiers of the
army.
Even when they are on guard the COL
ored troops are fond aof using their
voices melodiously in calling out their
posts. They have a chromatic scale in
doing this. Say there are ten guard
posts from the guardhouse to the posts
outskirts. In the middle Of the night
the sentry walking No / post, in front OF
the guardhouse, calls out in a deep bass
voice, "No. i, 2 o'clock, and alls WELL"
The black sentry on No. 2 post, perhaps
a couple Of hundred yards away, sings
out melodiously, in a tone pitched a KEY
higher, 'No. 2, 2 o'clock, and all's WELL"
md f11rS m fO Nh 5oyu !,
outskirts of the garrison, whose call is
Of the silvery .tenor variety. Then the
words starts back again down the Aae
to No. /. on downward scale winding
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GERMAN NEWSPAPERS
The Majority In q Bad Way-Rea.
sons for the Weakness.

"oy-HC0O
sons for the Weakness.
One of the most influential newspapers
in Germany is the Allegemeine Zeitung,
published 81 Munich, formerly in Augs-
burg. It is also the oldest journal OF
the kind in the Fatherlaud. It recently
celebrated the one hundredth anniversary
of its publication, having been estab-
lished by the famous house of Gotta, in
Tubingen, in 1898. In conmemoration OF
this centennial DR.. Edward Heyck has
published resume Of the history Of
German journalistic literature during the
ast century entitled Rie Allegemene
Contributions to the History Of the Ger
man Press" a volume of 352 pages. The
book is a careful analysis of the histor-
zeal forces that have controlled the ups
and downs Of the paper in question, ia
nous as the most Independent and schol.
arly political newspaper In the country.
At the same time the reasons became
apparent why the periodical press in
Germany has been notoriouslyt so weak
and why, notwithstanding the intelli-
gence of the people of that country,
Germany has never been able to produce
a journal of the type of the London Times
or large newspapers in other lands. The
-Allegemeine Zeitung has never had a
larger contingent of subscribers than o.
600, but these have been chiefly among
the highest circles in all the various ranks
of German public life and thought. The
Germans themselves feel that their work
in the Journalistic line is nothing to be
proud of. In the Christliche Welt, the
leading Liberal religious journal of the
land, in special and lengthy notice Of
Heyck's researches, the writer says that
1.-THE influence Of the German periodical
press, owing to. the presence of certain
harmful elements, is not great. German
Journalism is in bad way. The Alleges
meme is one of the very few that have
exhibited independence Of thought and
q cf{nn 5s.f
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-08-20

s1Stcen OF our pest ships, would reach the
sum of nearly $l,OOU,VOO some or them
would certainly doubt the accuracy of the
statement. A distinguished naval officer
whose knowledge OF ordnance is next in
importance to tnat of the COMMANDMENTS
cnle1 OF the squadron off Santiago, was
SHOWN the figures from which this result
was derived, and he declared it to be alto
gether too small
More than a million dollars an hour
ne SAID: This, too. for the main bat
terles OF the ships that you select. dare
say that we spent $3,OUO,OOO at the very
least to silence Cervera's fleet"
10 get an idea of how the cost is arrived
at 1t is necessary to furnish some data
as 70 the guns and ammunition of the
main batteries of some of the ships in the
American squadron. A 13-inch gun, for,
instance. such as is to be found on the
1nolana, Massachusetts and the Oregon.
weighs over sixty tons and is forty feet
IN length The weight of the armor-
piercing shell used in one of these pieces
IS l,lOO pounds, and to give this pro-
Jectlle q muzzle velocity of 2,1OO feet per
second 1t is necessary to use $50 pounds
Of powder. This velocity is equal to an
energy or 33627 tons in feet. The shell
IS capable of perforating 34.6 inches of
IRON. With 425 pounds of powder ~
men gun is able to drive an S5O-pound
projectile quite as rapidly as the 13-inch
ooes It's larger she'll, but the muzZle en-
ergy of the 12-inch is only 25,9S5, and les
perforation 31.4 inches of iron.S An S-inch
shell weighing $50 pounds is forced 1000
feet each second with charge Of 115
pounds of powder and will go through
49, inches of iron. The charge for g.
inch is forty-five pounds, and this viii
send 1OO-pound shell through 1871 inches
Of iron. The NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. no.
ton, used by England, is a 16.25-inch, with
a length of a. &C feet and a muzzle energy
of %, $50 tons in feet. The projectile for
this weapon weighs 1900 pounds and to-
give it a velocity of z, O87 feet per second
charge ef $50 pounds Of powder Is usan.
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GUNS
ARE. COSTLY.
NOT ONLY TO MANUFACTURES But
TO OPERATE.
Expenditure of *1,OOO,OOO an
HOur-Weight, Dimensions and
Power Of the Largest shells-War
Experts Waste Paper-Theories
About Modern Naval Warfare
r. That Have Proved o BE Enron
eous-Speed Versus ArMor.


About three ears ago ansoficial paper
OF England, i'll describing tine merits OF
1lU-lOn gun, salo mat ltScoulu nre two
$1,5UO snols Il minute, ana That sucn guns
would not 90 IN AlnvrlCd, lOr the reason
that after an nOur neA.lng the gunners
would have TO stop ana Wait tor another
appropriation froAi. congress. What was
then TACT is. now a matter of history
Congress IS sneLlng out money lot am
muIAlllon at u rate that IL breaking all
records the W6rlo over. Few landsmen
nave any idea or the immense cost of
naval war when SIMPSONS fleet was
bombarding San Juan, says the New York
Mail and lxpress, the, expenditure of
iammnnlllon Was so lavish .rnar an attache
OF the french cOnsuIare sal03 that it looked
as IL the naval officers and the ammuni-
ton manufacturers had formed combi-
nation. The bomparument was hardly a
Success, considering all the money that
was spelt OH power aru smell, a.ld TINS
Aact Was 0OuDiless responsible Tor the re-
mark. IT 4anus1nen were Etoid that the
cost OF snos ana poWu.r tor one hour
Hrlng o. thc n.aAn ualier4essaIol-e OIL. saw
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peooes cost $1,000 each and Howell tor
pedoes 5000 apiece
Ammunition for the big Guns is put up
separately. Those above 1O-inch have
their powder charge in two or more sec
tons. This is merely for convenience of
handling. the weight Of that for a 10
men or 13-inch making it almost objec-
tionable to handle it in its entirty The
powder grains are hexagonal prisms an
inch across and three-Quarters Of an inch
In height, with quarter-inch axial hole
These are stacked up side by side, and by
reason of their hexagonal shape fit close
~ together. forming charge, or section
OF one This compact collection is then
tied up securely in silk or wooden bag,
either of these soft materials being used.
Ior various reasons. The projectiles on
Warsh1ps, II containing bursting charge,
are slowed in the shell room or, If with
out bursting charge, in the shot locker.
With so much powder and shell lying
around waiting for something to hap
pen,' SO to speak, 1t does seem strange
that accidents on warships are not more
frequent. Narrow escapes are many
however, and seldom the details of them
reach the public ear. 1t is not long since
a gunner's mate saved one of our ships
from what would have been sure destruc-
ton. This is how 1t happened. Rapid
firing practice was in progress in the for,
ward turret. The heavy guns in the tu>-
rets are fired by electricity, the simple
pressing Of button doing the service.
Inc officer in charge Of the turret reached
out lis hand to press the button, and at
the same time the gunner's mate made a
grab at something on the wall Of the tur-
ret, and as the officer pressed the button
the mate was seen to fall like a limp dish.
rag to the floor Of the turret. The gun
did not go off. TIE mate was insensible
when picked up, and, coming to- he ex-
planned that the breech of the block gun
had not been locked, and realizing that
the officer was about to press the button
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kind, and, for that matter, only the ricl
nations can afford to pay the bills Of in.
ferior gunners. Were gunners in battle
to fire off their weapons as rapidly as
they could without hitting anything. Other
than by accident, the nation employins
chem would soon find itself on the road to
bankruptcy, and that, too, without do
ing any material harm to the enemy.
Gun practice. with AL the art of war
thrown In. costs a heap Of money, bu,
see the deplorable condition of Spain
whose gunners did not practice that way
and wonder not that we are whipping hel
with every hour of the sum-
1t must not be supposed that in order
to make large figures the cost of firing
the 15-inch guns is quoted in particular.
The weapons of smaller caliber are pro-
portionately expensive. The projectile for
a 12-inch gun costs $377.65. This gun,
too, can be fired every two minutes. An
s-inch gun can be discharged once - O.
ute and a 4-inch as many as 400 times
an hour. The S-inch guns; cost about SOS
Tor each discharge, or something like
$4,000 per piece for each hour. Each
round from 5-inch rapid-fring gun costs
about $33, of which SIS is for the metallic
cartridge case. The prcjectile for a. g.
inch breech-loading rife costs $23, the
powder about $14, and with the other ad-
oltlons the total cost of firing this gun per
round Is 'about $40. Coming down to the
smaller guns the cost is likewise enor-
nous. Take a Hotchkiss 6-pounder, of
which the Indiana has twenty. 1t Is pos
sible to f1re each Of these guns over 500
tunes an hour, and estimating the cost for
each round at $50, the cost per gun each
hour Is $3.50, or total of $57, 900 for the
twenty guns for the same period of fire.
A 1-pounder costs $1.12 per charge, and
one OF this character can be discharged
over 700 times in the hour. Added to this
enormous sum the cost of torpedoes,
table given above, for the reason that
no torpedoes have been discharged by
the American ships in this war and the
landsman may well imagine that mint
running night and day would be re-
CURED to meet the demands for ammuni-
ton for the Yankee fleet. Whitehead tor
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same caliber. J. -
Where $50 pounds of powder is fred
here in 13-inch $50 pounds are used
abroad, and the shell, instead of being
LOO pounds, is 1.250 over there With
this difference in weight Of charge and
projectile 1t might be inferred that in the
matter OF perforation the English gun
would excel, but It is capable Of driv-
!ng through 1874 inches of iron asiagainst
S4.t for the American. This, Of course,
due to velocity, that Of the foreign
piece being 2,016 as against 200 for the
Yankee cannon. The larger guns of Eng
land burn slow-burning cocoa. but the
guns mere BURN brown prismatic pow
der. The price of the latter varies, but
a. fair quotation all the year round may
oe put down as at SO cents per pound
Making the figure 80 cents for the sake
Of argument, 1t will be seen that for the
80 pounds used IN each discharge of the
iS-lnch the government pays something
like $165. A common shell for the same
weapon costs $116.63,i but an armor-
piercing projectile for the same caliber is
worth $41s. Material SUFFICIENT to make
4 lady's summer dress is blown to pieces
with every discharge, and allowing for
his, as also for cartridge bags, primers,
freight and other necessaries about SIS
can be added. To equalize matters say
that the projectile costs, .$433. .,... r..
oHo VI lAe tnlFteen-incn guns can be
fred every two minutes, or figuring that
1t discharges an arm r-piercingi projectile
twenty-five times an hour, the cost for
that piece alone would be: Powder 81
$3.50; projectiles, $40, S25; total for one
gun for one hours firing, $153e2.5O.
There are four thirteen-inch guns on
the Indiana, and. a. like number on each
Of her mates, the Massachusetts and the
Oregon. Allowing that one of these guns
can fire TWENTY-FIVE times in the hour all
four in operation would be discharged
100 times during the same period. This
figured up will give something like $61, $50
for the four guns on each ship: for one
hour. Triple this sum and the result is
S1s435O. Following a like and low esti-
mate on the same lines the hourly cost of
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rious types Of ships engaged in the pres
/ ent war may be put down as follows;
Totals. .$s4s, $50 20 $3.50 2o2 90 $685., 491 20
Thus the grand total for one hours fir
two for %boro civtoon ShinS ia 1QQ1 dQ1 on :

Totals. $34S, $50 20 $639. 2G2 90 $685., 491 20
Thus the grand total for one hours fir
ing for these sixteen ships is $9S7, 491. 20.
And this with their main batteries alone!
An authority in the New York navy yard
in Brooklyn, to whom these figures were
submitted, said "They are about right.
When one dwells upon the multiplication
table of war times it is to wonder how
long great drain Of this character could
appeal to the resources of a country, no
matter how wealthy. It is small wonder
that the cry Let us have peace! should
be popular one. Some OF the Spanish
officers from the ships beached outside
Santiago, when taken to Portsmouth,
were surprised to learn that we were
in the habit Of serving our guns with
full charge of powder and projectile
iii target practice. But they needn't have
been surprised had they. thought for
second how handily our ships struck their
craft, and how poorly was the execution
OF their own gunners. Target practice
with full charges and under regular con
ditions Of battle is, of course, an expen-
sive luxury, and may be considered by
some of the European nations as highly
extravagant. But the end justifies the
means, as the destruction Of Cervera's
fleet shows. Only the rich nations can
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-08-20
ST. PAUL MINNEAPOLIS AUGUST 90 1898

up with No. rs repetition Of the call in
his basso voice. The effect of this, while
not strictly military, Is rather beautiful
and the officers permit the black soldiers
to sing out their calls in this way. The
colored troops at guard mount always en-
deavor' TO arrange themselves accordine
to the nature of their voices, so that In
the dishing out of posts this night-cahing
effect may be achieved.
The Officers of the -colored troops have
some little difficulty in suppressing the
matrimonial inclfnations of the black SOL
d1ers. The non-commissioned officers are
permitted to marry under some circur-
stances, just las the white non-coms are,
and old-time privates, after proper rep
reservations and some little pleading,
occasionally induce their commanding
o1flcers-who have discretion in these mat
ters-to allow them to- marry and to
bring their wives into the posts Once
2 colored soldiers starts his home withia
2 posts limits, however, the oficers
stand by for an invasion Of colored young
women. First comes one. a sister Of the
black soldiers wife, so he says In ex-
PLANTATION, and then another, a cousin.
and then raft of them, and by. the
time the commanding officer, on his tour
OF inspection of the living quarters of
large increase in the number of colored
girls and matrons about his post, they
are all SO thoroughly esta blished in4laun-
dry work and in cleaning and chortnc
for the officers wives that they can't
be dislodged except by the most peremp-
tory orders, which commanding officers
OF posts don't like to issue under such
circumstances. 1t Is only when the black
outfit is under moving orders that the
officers of colorsd post ascertain just
what contract they have on their hands
In moving the domestic establishments
OF the married soldiers. They have 81!
got to CO. although the government makes
no provision for the removal from one
station to another of the families of enlist
ed men, and go they always do, in the
same train, too, with the soldiers. A COL
ored regiment on the move is therefore
always. worth looking at. -
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-08-20
B1RDsEYE VIEW OF M0NTAUK POINT, LONG ISLAND.
Y, and named Camp Wikoff.

Amount Of food consumed per man each day.
nearly pounds. -
Total weight Of food consumed per day at
Camp Wakoff, 81, 200 pounds, or over Al tons;
per month, 1,41O tons.
Cost of food per man per day, about q cents:
cost Of food per day for $4,000 men, about
$4,000, or $196, 600 per month.
Cost of feeding horses per day. 81, 900; per
month, SEQ, Co.,
Rations for horse per day, IA pounds Of hay
and IL pounds Of oats.
Amount of hay consumed per day. by the
5000 horses, 80 tons; per month; 1000 tons.
Amount Of. oats consumed per day by he
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5000 horses, 80 tons, or 1880 bushels; per
month, 800 TONS or &. sco bushels.
Cost Of feeding mL.s: - day, $500; per
month, $4,000.
Rations for a mule per day, IA pounds Of
hay and 8 pounds of oats.
Amount of oats consumed by the 1000 mules
per day. tons, or 5SS bushels; per month";
27O tons, or 1910 bushels.
Salaries paid to officers and men, about
$726, 600 per month.
Estimated cost Of caring for sick, $500 per
day; $15, 600 per month ..* .''-,,,
Cost! of tents and blankets for "a 900 men
and officers, 1924. 1876.
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ana around pay day, or rather, for a few
days after pay day. their ears no matter
what they may DO doing in the way of
duty seem to be attuned to the clatter of
the bones. to judge from the far-awav
expressions on their countenal:ces Reg
ularly'. after every pay day, there is a
roundup of the crap-shooters. A f1y vel
low youth from Cincinnati who was att
erward found out to be a professional
cake walker and 'lllmpy'' 6ice thrower
by profession, enlisted in the Tenth cav
airy few years ago. and what he did
to five troops. or about 300 men, of tina,
outfit in the way Of getting their savings
away from them by me,tns of "phony''
card playing and lop-sided dice was GER
'.-'-'-- - -'-~"-.--' 'r-c ,~'-o 4-...--~-
deserted after he had made his killins.
ana ne may be up around Sixth avenue
ana Thirty-second street at this minute
1or all his ex-brothers in arms know. s.,
When black and white soldiers OF the
regular army are soldering alongsida
each other In the same post, there is a
sort OF understanding between the men
OF the two races to hold aloof from each
otner. The white privates rarely invade
the quarters of the blacks, unless during
the mellow period Immediately following
pay day, and only the non-commissioned
ohcers among the blacks ever visit the
quarters of the white soldiers. The black
non-coms are welcomed by the white nom
CONS. The colored non-commissioned Of
ncers are mostly old-timers who do not
waste much time in rejecting, upon the
relationship existing between the two
races, but conport themselves with dig
nifty, and win the hearty respect and good
WILL OF their white comrades. The black
ranks. however, in the progress Of re-
cru1ting, are generally unfortunate
enough to gather in fly young yellow men,
generally TWO or three in each outfit, who
stir up bad feeling against the white SOL
dlers, and spoil any attempts made be-
fore their coming in the direction of
closer relations. Therefore, the enlisted
men, not non-coms, of the two races
usually go it alone, by common consent.
There is fun of all sorts going on in the
quarters OF a black outfit all the time.
IL seems as If every man in a black
company possesses a musical instrument
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-08-20

Cost OF new clothing equipment for the
troops. an entire new supply being necessary
for each man soon after his arrival, including
gings, ST. underwear, IS; shoes, $3.50; cape
overocat, IS; total, $634, 200.
Amount o: soap allotted per day, pounds
to 100 men. Soap used at Camp Wikon per
day, $50 pounds; % 200 pounds, about Is
tons per month. Cost Of soap per month, about
$1.1OO.
Estimated cost Of maintaining Camp Wikoff
for six months, including rations for men and
stock, repairs, salaries and transportation.
$1O, 900 OOO:-New York Worle.
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Bread $1,000 pounds.
Beans 5000 pounds.
Rice, 2,4O0 pounds.
Coffee, 2,400.
Sugar, 5000 pounds. e..
Vinegar AO pounds.
Salt, 800 pounds.
Pepper, 60 pounds.
Potatoes, 1920 pounds.
Onions, 800 pounds ...., ~
Instead Of beef, $4,000 pounds Of pork or
18, 900 pounds of bacon, half ration of
each. Instead Of potatoes alone, 20 per cent
Of potatoes and 80 per cent Of tomatoes.
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Area Of the camp 1900 acres.
Area of three fresh water ponds within the
camp grounds, 1900 acres.
Number of who will be stationed in
the camp 24,00O.
Number of infantry, 1900.
Number of cavalry, 1000.
Number of tents, $500. g.
Provision made for 500 sick. - T.,
Number of horses in camp, 5000.
Number Of mules, 1000. -
Cost Of horses. $780, 600. -
Cost of mules, $3.50, 900. - ',y,.ss
e Rations per day: III. -,
Fresh beef, 600 pounds. --.... ..-.. p
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THE COL0RED
REGIMENTS
SOLDIERS OF THE VERY FIRST
CLASS FOUND IN THEM.

Inc courage, Intelligence and
Fighting Qualities OF the Negro
Troops Proved in Battles With
1ndians-Fierce Yells and Musical
Calls-The Sioux Have Probably
Not Forgotten the Lung Qualities
of Negro Troopers at Pine .Ridge-
s--e COlored Soldiers Mt the Posts. s7}
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-26

The several county auditors have
certified to State Auditor Richards the
total assessed and equalized valuation
of taxable property in each respective
county, together with the net amount
of state and state school taxes charged
for collection for the year 1898. From
the compilation of figures it appears
that the total of taxing values is $lOO,-
241, 331, as against S1O2 455,714 for The
year 1897. In 1886 the valuations ag-
gregated $1o7 sos O76. The state general
fund tax, at the rate Of AZ mills on
the dollar, and the state school levy at
3 mills, will yield for this year $l5l,-
1881, while for the year 1887 the reVe-
nue. amounted to $760,S46.4S.
The counties that show a loss in val
uatiOns and collectable taxes, as COM
pared with last year, are: Grand, Juab,
Willard. Morgan, Piute, Salt Lake,
Summit, Washington and Weber. In
creases are reported from Beaver, Box
Elder, Cache, Carbon, Davis, Emery,
Garfield, Iron, Kane, Rich, San Juan,
Sanpete, Sewer, Tooele, Uintah, Utah,
WaSatch and Wayne counties.
The shrinkaee in valuations in Salt
Lake county alone amounted to more
than the net loss in the aggregate of
all of Utah's counties.
Following is State Auditor Richards
statement &C tax valuations and col
Iectable taxes: