The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-03-09
WAR PREPARATIONS COON.
IRMY AND NAVY TAKING STEPS
TO MEET AMI EN- ER9ENcT.

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help along tho general plan OF preparation.
Buster than all the rest of tho department
force appeared to be Lieut.. Whittelsey and En-
sign Ward Of the Bureau Of Navigation, who are
intrusted with putting into the secret cipher the
messages that arc sent out and In translating
into plain English cipher dispatches from naval
officers all over the world. To these young
men were confded all the secrets OF the Naval
Administration contained in the numerous tele-
grams received and sent. At frequent inter
walls messengers would place on their desks big
patches OF cable matter. all written In cipher,
and they would havo these transcribed In In
t~elligible language in remarkably short time.
Then long dispatches would come from tho
Secretary's Office, and these would BIO put into
cipher and transmitted to tho telegraph office.
Most of the cable messages received and sent
were from and to naval attaches abroad, in re-
lation to the purchase of warships under con-
struction for foreign Governments.
Never bofore in the history of the United
States have such thorough preparations for war
been carried ON by tho naval administration as
now. Every available source of information
has been called ON TO furnish data of what tho
Government NAV expect to defend IL hosttlities
with Spain occurs. Manufacturers of iron and
steel, Of all kinds of available water
craft, of ammunition, projectiles, long.range
gums and small arms, and of every conceivable
article which will be needed. have been asked
for data of their ability to comply with the
demands OF an emergency. Representatives of
these concerns have been in personal consulta-
ton or in telesraphic communication with the
department officials to-day. and the showing has
tempt to conceal their satisfaction. One OF the