The San Francisco call., 1898-06-28

l Transatlantic Company of Cadiz. and
 has been transformed into a cruiser. ! She Is 52O0 tons, with 14 knots speed.
 The Proserpina, Patriota and Rapi-
 do are merchant vessels recently con- structed and armed. The Colon Cova- ! donga and San Francisco are colliers.
 It is apparent from this that the main
 reliance of the feet is on the battle ship PelayO, the armored cruiser Carlos
 Y and the two new torpedo boat de- stroyers, Audaz and Osada. The others are auxiliary cruisers and colliers As there are only two armored ships in the lot, Adimral Dewey's fleet of protected but unarmored ships probably will take care of this Spanish squadron. With the Monterey added he could certainly do so.
 The Eastern squadron, which the United States will now send against Spain, far outranks the Spanish squad ron, the Iowa and Oregon exceeding the Pelayo and Carlos V at every point, while the other United States vessels are far superior, ship for ship, to those of the Spanish squadron, with the sin gle exception of the two Spanish tor pedO-boat destroyers.
 When the American fleet sails for Spain it will take with it complete in- formation as to the entire stretch of Spanish coast, with detail maps of every harbor and it's Notifications. The War Board had a mass of this infor- nation before it, and spent most of the day studying Spanish charts and for tif1cations, with a view of outlining the series Of hlnyuS TThj fo h o1;, cred to Spain at home The Spanish coast line is 2122 kilometers long, of which 769 kilometers is on the north coast, while 1853 kilometers is along the Mediterranean and the Atlantic on the south coast. The north Is described by naval strategists as abrupt and mountainous, with sinuous inlets and gulfs, resembling the fjords of Scandi- navia. In general, the Notifications of the coast are relics of the medieval greatness of Spain, and many of these defenses are tumbling ruins.
 The Spanish coast is divided into three captain generalcies, namely: Fer rol on the north, Cadiz on the south and Carthagena on the east. At Fer rol is the naval school and the school of naval application. At Carthagena is the school of ordnance and the tor pedo school. Cadiz is the point where most of the fortification guns are made.
 Each of the three naval provinces has certain number of ports and coast towns under it's care
 The total artillery of these ports, un- der the normal conditions prior to the war, is as follows: One hundred and nineteen Krupp guns, 55 Armstrong guns, go Ordonez guns and a large num- Der of Hontoria guns. The main re- liance is on the Ordonez guns, which are especially for fortification pur- poses. They are of 2124 and 30 centi- meters. A separate division of the coast is made for the purpose of plac- ing torpedoes and submarine mines. This work is divided into four districts, with Ferrol, Cadiz, Carthagena and Mahon as headquarters. Each town along the coast Is allowed a certain number of torpedoes. For instance. the allotment for Barcelona Is 800 torpe- does.
 Many of these ports are connected by cables, which form an additional fea- Iure OI naval atCacK. cable runs from Barcelona to Marseilles. Cadiz has three cables, one to the Canaries. another to Gibraltar and another to Villa Real Vigo is the cable station for two lines.
 The information is in minute detail as to the defenses of each port For instance, Ferrol is protected on the north by series of three batteries and two chateaus. the chateaus occupying points which command passes from the sea- The town is encircled by bastions and redoubts of ancient pattern, but recently remodeled. The defenses of Cadiz consist of a circle of eleven pow erful forts. The other harbors are sim- ilariy defined, with detail information as to approaches. channels. depth of