Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-22
take positive position within the next

take positive position within the next
week
Several senators made the prediction
that the United States would intervene.
Being pressed for a reason, they stated
that they had reached this conclusion
after more or less conference with eX-
ecutive officers, but at the same time
saying quite emphatically that they had
no positive information on this point.
Other senators thought the recognition
of Cuban independence more probable
than Intervention. Almost all expressed
the view that some action surely wouid
follow the report of the Maine court of
inquiry regardless of its purport.
According to the orders to naval Off
GERS issued by the navy department to-
day, the battleship Maine is still In ex-
istence. 1t is presumed that the bat
tleship will not be stricken from the
naval register until after 1t has been es-
tablished that the huh cannot be raised
from Its bed of mud in the harbor of
Havana, and reconstructed into at least
semblance Of her former self. The
navy department will not abandon its
efforts to raise the vessel until the
wreckers report that 1t is impossible.
That the wreckers already take that
view Is evident from the fact that the
mammoth floating derrick Monarch,
which was chartered conditionally for
raising the Maine. has not even started
on her proposed trip to Havana, and the
officials of the department have practi-
cally concluded to abandon It.
Capt. William P Duval1 of the fifth
cavalry has reported at the war depart
ment for temporary duty in the offices
Of the secretary of war and the major
general commanding the army. Capt.
Duvall is regarded as an expert in all
matters pertaining to the artillery
branch of the service. 1t is understood
that he was summoned to Washington
to confer with the military authorities
on questions involving the employment
Of the artillery in active work along
the Atlantic and gulf voasts.
The enlistment branch Of the navy de-
partment today issued a large poster
advertising for men for the navy.
The recent putting into commission of
the cruisers Columbia and Minneapolis,
and the prospective demands that will
be necessary as result OF acquisition
of the Amazonas and the Mayfiower,
require the enlistment of additional
men. Enlistments will be made at the
navy yards at Boston. Brooklyn, League
Island, Philadelphia, Washington, D. c.,
Norfolk, Mare Island, &C South street,
New York city. U. S. S. Michigan at
Erie, Pa, custom house at New Orleans
and the custom house at Gloucester
Mass
The following classes of men are want
ed; Seamen Is to 80 years Of age at S24
| per month; ordinary seamen, Is to &c
| years of age, at $19 per month; chief
machinists, Is to 35 years of age, at $7t
per month; machinists first class, Is tC
| 80 years Of age, at $55 per month, anc
machinists, second class IS to 80 years
| of age, at $40 per month. The require
ments for enlistment provide that al
candidates must pass physical exam
| ination showing them to be free from
| disqualifyihg ailments. Seamen and or
! binary seamen must pass examination
| in seamanShip, and must have had ex
| perience at sea. Machinists are required
| before enlistment to pass an eXamina
| ton showing that they are machlnist
| by trade
The orders of Gen. Graham, assuming
command of the new military depart
ment of the gulf, have been received a
army headquarters here. 1t is said herr
that an immediate movement of troops
as result of change of lines of the mill
tary divisions recently put into effect
| is contemplated, but the movements fol
| the present will be confined to the trans
fer of artillery troops to man the forti
| fications recently completed
Gen. A w Greedy, the chief sigma
| officer of the army, has returned from
New York He states that the work OF
| installing electric communication among
| the various posts comprising the fortiti
cations of that city will begin during the
! present week and will be pushed as rap
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