New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-08-24
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NEW TASK FOR THE OREGON
A RUMOR AT THE NAVY YARD THAT SHE
IS TO BE SENT TO DEWEY.

THE CRACK BAT-TI.E-sHIP EXPECTED TO Be SEM
INTO THE PACIFIC BY THE suEz CANAL
CAPTAIN EVANS NOT A FEVER PATIENT
Tho choicest Of gossip al the Navy Yard yester-
dav afternoon was TO the effect that the crack bat
te-ship Oregon will be got into condition as soon
as possible and sent 10 the Pacific ocean 'hrous"
the suez Canal. Reports from Washington nave
conveyed the impression that the oregon was 10
go to the Pacific Coast which is now protector p'
no battle-ship. but the selection or the COURSE
through the canal would suggest strongly that the
ba ttleship is to be to strengthen the neet OF
Rear-Admral Dewey at Manila. Admiral De"eS
IL Is known much wished that the oregon ihisH'
be sent to MIN at the time that she was dispatched
around Cape Horn and added to Simpsons meet.
The officers at the Navy Yard yesterday expressed
the belief that the oregon would visit England on
its tour east and thus be the first American vessei
10 pay visit TO the mother country since the
present war has created so much friehdshp pe-
tween the two nations. The reception tha' Tue
Oregon would get from the other great wing OF the
Anglo Saxon race would undoubtedly be "a'cheu
with keen interest by the civilized world
1t is expected that the New York VIII be doeKeo'
probably in drydock No 2, within a day or so. as
orders have been received for her TO take Admiral
Sampson and the Havana Commission south on
September 3.
Captain Robey D. Evans. of the battle-shlp Iowa.
who was reported Ill with typhoid malaria. spent
he had engaged a room at the Roosevelt Hospital
and was expected there at late hour on Monday
night he did not 60. 1t reported at the Navy
Yard yesterday that the Captains inalsposiuoh
was the result of spraned ankle. and tnat ne ne
was not Ill with typhoid malaria Inc me Can
tains condition. but said that u was a nope' '"a'
he would be around again In a Few Gays; VAC
There were more visitors at the Navy faro =. 2eS u
terday than any day since the war nega. a'owea
was said. Only those who had passes were aHowgu
In the yard and thousands. unable 70 oo.sti
to see the oregon and the Iowa. Nobody was al
lowed aboard the oregon. because she Is oens
painted. The vessel was not hit during ,hg ae en-
fragment Of July 3. and such repairing ana cream,
ing as she needs will not take long In spite ..
her long trip around Cape Horn her machinery rs o
overhauled and tuned up. She will 20 into Dry
dock No as soon as that structure Is $500 sauy sor
her reception She has not been IN S Divers
when she started on her l50c mile Journey aiou!Iu
the Horn. The bottom OF the Iowa is not espe-
cially foul as she was rdydocXed aooui hVe i'o''"'
TO the visitors at the yard yesterday the object
of greatest interest about the Iowa were the IN
he Biggest Of the fleet. was hit nine times. Two
Of the shots passed through her 5tarooafd DOW srs
about u inches in diameter. have been patched
One shell exploded in the berth deck but d r1s ''is
damage The other shell from e-inS atr ril acaS
and passed into the cofferdam II did not expIo9e:
The size and strength OF the Iowa Is shown by
oe her own big guns The Pinch rifles Of the
Texas bent that vessels stanchions and sInasned
everything fragile In the 9f'cefs quarters 10 spun"
The tackles aboard both battle-ships spent yester,
day scrubbing the upper sides OF ne vesseIs ana
REMOVING the green marine growth which had
gathered along the water-line OF each vessel by
noon the work was completed. and every vestise OF
dirt was washed on AS many ol M mi, Ins as ~
absence.