Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-03-25

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placed high in the military tops where
they can rain bullets down below. To
protect the hull Which carries all this
offensive power, 16 l-2 inches Of arnnor
IS placed along the sides. dipping four
feet below THE water line. and numar-
Gus heavy bull5heads are disposed to
prevent amy shot that may enter from
t1taVers!ng. The engines. the vitals OF
the ship. are covered by the arched
steel deck, two and tilrAe-uu ia,tar inch
IS thick. placed ON an angle calculated
70 defect and Throw upward any pro
jectile.
Under that deck lies 10000 horse
power of boilers, engines and other
machinery capable of pushing the vas:
null Through The wafer at the rate OF
er least sixteen knots. a coed speed fol
freight trains on land and besides there
a re no less than eighty smaller engines
TO hoist anchors. pull up boats, driv.
uNntlrloS and otherwise help the crew
The big turre;s ewing noisless!y ana
quickly by electricity, the largest ap
plica,tion yet made of electric power III
tiis way. and everywhere in the ship
from winches and ventilators 10 light
ing and telephoninS, the electric fluid
plays a useful part.
The kearsarge and Kentucky are 36s
feet i'm length, 10 feet inches beam
and % feet inches draft. They carry
normally 40 tors OF coal but it may
take 1910 tons, and 511 officers, sailors
acrd marines are required to navigate
each of them.
MRS. HERBERT WISsLOW.
Mrs Herbert Wins!ow, who cbrissen-
ed the battleshiD kearsarge, is a lady
Of high social standing and comes OF
Virginia parentage on her fathers side.
She is the wife of Lieutenant CommaE-
der Herbert Winslow. United States
Navy, the only surviving SON Of Az
miral WinsloW, who commanded the
eJ,o II
the Alabama, June 49,, 1861, off Cher
bourg, France.
Miss Elizabeth Maynard was oorn in
Washington, the daughter OF Lafayette
Maryland and married in Sanframcisco,
her fathers home a that time. Her
father was born in RichnlMnd. He en-
tered the navy at an early age, resign
ing after several years service to take
a command in the Mexican war, in
which he fought with distinction. In
the famous wreck of the Atlantic he
conducted himself with bravery ana
Iantry the citizens OF Richmond pre-
se:n.ed him With sword.
Lieutenant Maynard married the
beau ti'rul Niss Mary Ellen Green. re
daughter of Gem Duff Green. 1,ieuten-
amt and Mrs. Maynard resided In Wash
their residence to san Francisco II
was in the WESTERN metropolis that
their beautiful and accomplished
daughter Elizabeth. become the wife
of Lieutenant Commander Herbert
Winslow.
Lieutenant a,n,i' Mrs. Winstow later
went to China, where the former was
attached TO the United States steamship
Yorktown, on the Asiatc station. They
haNe but recently returned from the
Orient and now reside in Boston.
Mrs. Wins,ow created not a little In
terest some weeks so by positively de-
Ginning TO christen the battlesbip Kear-
surge with water.
FiatteresT by the success of their OPP
peal! to Miss Bradley to use water at the
launching of the lucky. the We
mans Christian Temperance Union OF
Virginia and Kentucky requested Mrs
! W@nslow to discard the champagne
custom and substitute pure water.
In a letter to Mrs. r. II. Jones. of Nor
folk. president Of the Woman's Chris
tiam Temperance Union OF this state
Mrs. Wns1ow stated that She persoEal-
ly would he willing to follow Miss Brai!-
ley's example. but that her husband
preferred that she s!se champagne and
MISS CHRISTINE BRADLEY.
Miss Christine BRADLEY is the only
daughter of Governor William OCon-
lneh BRADLEY, of entnlclcy. She wak