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The San Francisco call., 1898-07-10

ready played a score of times, and hailed with exceeding delight because of it's nov city and it's snap.
 Those who have said that nothing could be wound around or made out of pro- gressive euchre, says the New York Her ald will now find themselves in the wrong, for military euchre is already a variation of progressive euchre-that is, the players move from table to table, though irregularly and not in the old one, two, three fashion.
 Each table bears a cardboard sign, on which is printed in gay letters its name, Fort Sumter,'' Fort Hancock, Fort Hamilton Fort Schuyler for example, any names being used that the host and fort for the evening, having players to de- fend 1t and other players to attack and try to board it by force of superior hands" of playing cards.
 A drum in the corner of the parlor an- nounces that the games are to begin. The women have been given pretty, tiny, red white and blue rosettes for their hair as they have entered the room, the men knots of ribbon of the same combination of colors for their coats. Two girls and two men are assigned to each fort, part nerS are arranged and the games are ready to commence.
 Now each quartet is responsible for its own tort. It is attached to this fort the entire evening, to defend its own and to sally forth and attack other forts. Part ners never change. The leader, who is known as the general" distributes the pairs, sending a couple from Fort Sumter to attack Fort Hancock, a couple from Fort Pillow to storm Fort Schuyler couple from Schuyler to Sumter and so on, round after round, until every couple as nearly as possible, has met every other couple.
 If the attacking party wins 1t carries back to it's own fort pennant; il the defenders triumph they run up a pennant on their own staff.
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DYNAMITE GUN N-VESSEL %NESuVIuS" LAUNCHING A2OO POUND SHELLKT SANTlAGO'S FORTS

inch. Her boilers are of the tubular type, such as are in use in most yes sels. Such notifications as may be are only to gain space. Her coal bunk CTS hold seven tons, only enough to last a couple of hours at full speed. She has three propeller wheels.
 This whole vessel is all controlled from one place.
 The simplicity of the mechanism makes signaling to the engine-room en- tirely unnecessary There is nothing to do but handle valves, and these are all worked directly from little steel house on the deck The vessel can be started, stopped or reversed by a turn of the wrist.
 To ride on the Turbinia at full speed in rough weather is not exactly a pleasant experience. At such a time air is pumped in under the fires and flames shoot out of the thick smoke stack The vessel does not take time to go over a wave, but plunges through it and her deck is always awash. The salt water splashes up against the al- most red hot smoke stack and sizZles loudly The rush of air is awful and roars like distant breakers. Behind the vessel there is a mountain wave of seething foam.
 But even in all this tumult there is no jar at all The Turbinia rides as easily as a skiff on quiet lake, and it is possible to write in the tiny cabin without the least inconvenience. In fact, when one goes below the sensa tion is more like riding on sailing vessel than a steamer.
 What the future of this vessel will be is not hard to conjecture. For long distances at high speed she is not to be considered on account of the great
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shaft with rows of blades along it's entire length. These blades are so turned as to catch the steam at the most advantageous angie. This shaft is inclosed in a box with grooves cor responding to the blades along its en- tire length. These grooves do not cover the blades entirely, but only serve to hold the tip and keep it from being bent by the steam. To run thi engine the steam is turned in at one end of the cylinder and let out at the other ana in its progress it acts the same as the wind on the blades of a windmill AS the engine runs entirely in one di- rectlon and has practically no working parts It will be seen that there is prac- tically no limit to the speed at which It can be driven. And the best of it is the engine runs without jar.
 The cubic space occupied by the Tur- binia engine Is much less than that of an ordinary engine, and it lies close to the bottom of the vessel, where if does the most good as ballast. This in reality is one of it's principal fea- lures, for if the vessel were capsized it would instantly right itself. Prac- tically the center of gravity is on the keel.
 It is only by having this advantage that hull of the Turbinia's shape can
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bv the war, despite the paradox that if is distinctly a naval war. Of what use is speed, or the ram, or where should torpedo tubes be placed, and how should vessels maneuver in a fight? Even what our 13-inch and B. inch guns can accomplish against the 12-inch armor of the Spanish ships IS as far from practical solution as ever.
 One. decidedly novel type of vessel has been prominently exploited in this war-the dynamite cruiser. The Vesu- vius Is in every way unique, nothlng like her in any respect existing in any other navy She is long, narrow, and sits low in the water. She is construct ed of unusually light scantling and plating, has powerful engines and at tains a high speed, though nothing like as high as destroyer. She was de- signed especially for torpedo work, like the destroyer, but was to fire her tor pedo in tl.e :ir, and not, like the de- stroyer, under the water.
 The VesuviuS was built by the Cramps of Philadelphia, and was launched in 1888, ten years ago. Like the monitor of Ericsson she was prac- tically the invention and production of private individuals, though her con- was py tiO oON- ernment at contract price of $350,0 Her principal dimensions are: Length 246 feet, beam 26 5 feet, depth 14 feet, mean draught of water g feet and dis placement 805 tons.
 There was much speculation as to the utility of such craft as the Vesu-, vius Many able men oppose l her con- struction and style of battery, but quite as many took an opposite view. extolling to the utmost the ship her speed and esneciallv her battery of
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has covered 9 knots in thirty minutes and more than once has sped through the water at a speed of sixty miles an hour. The reason this speed was not kept up was ling entirely to her in- ability to car enough coal; matter that can easily be rectified where a vessel is built for commercial purposes.
 Still more marvellous does the per formance of this little craft seem when it is remembered that she is the first of her type ever built. As she is to- day she is practically a perfect vessel, capable of skimming over the water at @ far greater speed than any other craft ever built But a number of inn
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great deal of improvement in more ways than one. Briefly it is the en- zines of the Turbinia that makes 1t possible to use the hull. The two to- gether make th marine wonder.
 The inventor and builder of this mar velous craft is MT. Parsons, an old resi- dent of Newcastle-onTyne He makes no secret of anything he does, but glad ly shows people through his works and explains the mechanical principle of his engine. In fact he has one of these running a dynamo and another just beside it, lying open so that the inside can be easily seen.
 Although one part of the Turbinia depends upon the other, the engine must be conceded to be the most mar
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&5 LATEST HND GREATEST WONDERS OF SE4-GONG CRAFT

amount of coal needed. But in such places as she could get coal every day a vessel could be built to run at over fifty miles an hour
 It is all question of fuel, and if there were coaling stations out on the Pacific few hundred miles apart a vessel could be built that would carry us down to Honolulu in about thirty hours. However, this may be realized in the near future, for English engi neers are working hard on the problem of coaling at sea. In the event of their being successful in devising ap- paratus that can be handled in all sorts of weather there is little doubt that vessels of the Turbinia's type will become general. But one thing must be remembered: If we want speed we have got to pay for the coal it takes to produce it.
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pneumatic dynamite guns. Stripped of all exaggeration the Vesuvius repre- sents a new and formidable element in warfare and one which can no longer be disposed of by airy critics.
 The main armament carried by the Vesuvius consists of three pneumatic dynamite guns placed side by side, close together, in the forward part of the ship. These three parallel tubes are built into the ship, about fifteen feet of the muzzles protruding above the forecastle deck inclined at an angle of about twenty degrees, the ends of the muzzles of the tubes rising about five feet above the deck planking. The remainder of the tubes run down to the
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The Vesuvius---She Throws Great Spells of Dyna- mite Wben the Spaniards Saw the Havoc Wrought They Declared the Americans We're Hurling Earthquakes at the Qualifications

The great benefit derived from the slow, steady, gradually increasing pres sure of compressed air is that it allows the use of thin gun barrels or tubes and the employment of immense quan- titles of the highest explosives. There is an absence of all shock and a conse- ouent avoidance of the danger ordi- narfly connected with the firing of dynamite or guncotton.
 The charge or explosive first tried in the pneumatic dynamite gun was 500 pounds of explosive gelatine. This has been changed to about 300 pounds of guncotton, the latter being safer to handle. This charge is held in the front end of a cigar-shaped shell seven feet
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velous because it is built on an en- tirely new principle. This is what is known as the rotary principle. That is, all the parts of the engine run in one direction. In ordinary engines there is a back and forth motion that is absent in the Yurbinia engine.
 Anybody who has ever ridden on an ocean steamer knows the jar and tremble that constantly goes through the vessel. This is caused by the back and forth motion of the engines With the Turbinia rotary engine this is en- tirely absent.
 From any mechanical standpoint the Turbinia engine is the simplest engine built. Literally it is nothing more nor less than windmill in a cylinder
 In detail the whole engine consists of
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Tbe Turbinia---H new Vessel Built on New Prine- ples---She Cuts Through the Water at the Rate of Sixty Miles an Hour and Will RevolutoniZe Ocean Travel the World Over

be used. Her hull is 100 feet long, g feet across the beam and as sharp as a knife at the brow. If the greatest weight were not at the keel such a hull would be dangerous, even in a moderate breeze. As it is, it is prac- tically non-upsetable. An ordinary gale would have little effect at dis turbing her balance, because the great est weight is nearly twenty feet below the water line. The decks keep all most level, even when she rides in the trough of the sea.
 Notwithstanding the smallness of her hull, the Turbinia's engines register 2100 horsepower and run at steam pressure of 225 pounds to the square
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@ HIPBUILDERS the world over
 are at present more interested in
 the trial trip of a little steamer J lately finished at Newcastle-on-
 Tyne, England, than they are even in the marvellous performances of our big battleships. And there is every reason why they should be, for the steamer referred to is the Turbinia- the fastest vessel afloat, regardless of size, and craft that promises to revo- lutionize ocean travel.
 Marvellous as '+ may seem the Tur- binia has covered 3S knots in sixty minutes, nearly forty-three miles. She
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N \PERTS in naval material and the great number of naval tacti- H clans the world over have been disappointed thus far in the de-
 velopments of this war of ours with Spain A meeting between fleets, at least between ships of modern con- struction, protected by steel armor, armed with high powered, large cali Der guns and many rapid fire pieces, carrying torpedoes and skillfully com manded, was hoped for, and, to put the facts plainly, was desired.
 Indeed naval science, broadly speak ing, has not been In any way affected
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MILITARY EUCRRE
 THE LATEST.

E UCHRE, progressive or plain and
 | unadorned, has become so thread bare as an evenings entertainment
 that players will welcome with joy its brand-new form, military euchre, al-
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The Wonderful New Turbine Motor-the Fastest
 Section of the shaft showing blades which the method the shaft windmill turned by wndit forth motion is entirely new in motors and develops
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,roueh Woter at the Rate of Sixty Miles op Hour
 The Turbinia is the last and greatest wonder in steam vessels. Sheis by far the fastest vessel aoat and bids fair to open up in steamship travel. Engineers far and near have visited the n- ventor to examine her. She travels at the rate of sixty miles hour the stint of coal she is able carry. The chief secret of her amazing speed turbines, something entirely in steam engineer ing.
Evening journal., 1898-01-03
THE Thorn STILL STICKS.

THE LEWISTOWN CLUE DROPS
DOWN OUT OF SIGHT. BUT THE
DETECTIVES WORK ON.
The bottom has dropped out Of the
supposed clue to Thorn, the murderer
Of George d. Farra, which was furnish
ed Detectives Witsil and McVey by
alleged authorities. The man who Sc
cured employment at the farm of Theo-
dore Bye, at Lewistown. Pa, did not
answer to Thorn's description He is
about five feet eight inches tall,
weighs about $50 pounds and is 40
years of age. Thorn was six feet tall,
weighed $50 pounds and was 2S years
Of age.
There is practically no clue leading
to the apprehension of the murderer
Every nook and Granny in Delawar'
has been searched by the detectives,
and several towns in Pennsylvania and
Jersey have also been searched. A.
least twenty-five men have been ar
rested by the detectives, but Thorn
was not among them.
Evening journal., 1898-01-03
LOCAL NEWS NOTES.

The Wilmington basket ball team
wont to Philadelphia Saturday evening
and played the team OF the Penn
Wheclmcn.
City Treasurer Curry is buslly en-
gagged to-day in paying of the various
city officers
"A meeting of the stockholders OF
the Wilmington and Kennett Turnpike
Company win be held this afternoon
for the purpose Of electing ten man
ayers.
The meeting CT the joint commit
toes OF the Wilmington Wheel Club
and the New Castle wheelmen, which
was to have been held on Tuesday
night in the interest of establishing an
improved bicycle path between this
city and New Castle, has been post
poned.
Coroner Wright is holding an. in
quest this afternoon on Mr.. and
Mrs Mcbride, who we're killed on De-
cember "a. at Stanton.
Letter of administration on the es-
fate of Joseph S. McDoWell have been
granted to Emma Mcdowell by Regis
ter of Wills Crossan.
Levy Court meets tomorrow.
Court of Chancery will meet on
Wednesday.
THE second commission Of condem-
nation in the matter of the Law prop
erty will sit tomorrow and hear evil
dence after reviewing the premises.
Register of Wills Crossan has grant
ed another postponement Of the MintO
will case.
This evening the Mask and Wig
| Club Of the Young Mems Republican
Club viii give it's first dinner, which
will be served in unique style
Sheriff Finn has several sales on
for this afternoon.
George L. Riley has resigned his
position as master mechanic for F.
Blumenthal & Co.
Raymond Jefferis, Of this city, fell
through a hay funnel while visiting in
Westtown on Saturday.
"A meeting Of the board of mama
gers of the Minquadale Home will be
held at the New-Century Club this
afternoon at 5 o'clock.
Skaters were out in full force yes
terday at Shellpot Park and Barley
Mil dam, along the Brandywine.
Hope Lodge, l. o. o. F., desires. a
full lodge membership Wednesday
night, when number of visitors will
be present.
The gunboat Wilmington sailed OF
Saturday for La Plata, South America
Mary Sweatman was sent to Farm
hurst on Saturday, having beer pro
nounced insane by Drs Hughes and
Ogle.
Evening journal., 1898-01-03
MIR. EMMoNs, STATEMENT.

Frank EmmOns, father of Charles II.
Emmons, the young man who was ar
rested in Chester on Saturday for al
legged swindling called at the Evening
Journal office to-day and said: "The
charges as preferred in my opinion,
are radically wrong There has been
only temporary hearing, and a regu-
lar hearing will take place tomorrow,
at which time there is very little doubt
but that the matter will be clearly
proved, and the case dropped. The
young men had made arrangement
with firm in Philadelphia to finish
their pictures, and in order to approach
people for their patronage had made a
false statement in regard to the house
which they represented they were
travelling for. Their reason for so doing
was that by naming any legitimate
photograph they tElught they would
be violating the law, hence their mis-
take. | saw the mayor and chief of Do
lice of Chester, and it was their opin-
ion Of the matter that the boys really
did not intend to violate the law. bul
having received information thsf they
were in the city canvassing arrested
them"
Evening journal., 1898-01-03
DEATH CAUSED BY A STAB WOUND.
DAVID WINGATE, ,AFORMER WELL
KNOWN PATROLMAN, DIED SAT-
URDAY.

URDAY.
David Wingate, who more than a
quarter of a century ago was probably
the most important single factor in
preserving the peace in this city, died
at the home OF his daughter, Mary 70.
HOptcn, No. 1927 Market street. on
Saturday.
In the time that he rendered such
efficient services to the citizens of viii
mingtOn he was called constable. In
this day he would be policeman.
Wilmington. in the time spoken of, was
just feeling the iirst rush of dignity as q
big town that promised to develop into
a thriving city The police protection
of the place was then in the hands Of
a half dozen or so of constables.
In some sections of the city there
was a great deal of lawlessness. Es-
pecially was this the. case in the dis
trict which was under the protection
OF David Wingate. When he was ap-
pointed a constable he was assigned TO
that section now comprised within the
limits OF the Sixth and Eighth wards.
There was little OF what is now the
latter ward built up. What there was
Of it, however, was duiiicult and even
| dangerous to keep straight Slt was the
| time when Church street acquired its
reputation for lawlessness. The civil
war had been settled and there was
| much reclKlessness, and with many OF
the freqrenters OF the section spoken
of there was an utter contempt of law
Bloody fights were of hourly occur.
renee, and no stranger was safe in th'
section spoken Of, even in daylight.
Dave Wingate was apparently th'
only restraining influence among thes'
lawless people. He was a man wlthou
fear, and having q magnificent ply
sique he was able to enforce his man
dates. Every day and every hour hi
life was in danger, and twice at leas
he was wounded 80 badly that his III
was despaircd OF, and IL is now though
that his death at this time was due 4
the remote effects OF one OF thes
wounds This occurred nearly th.it
b. years ago. While arresting a ma
e named Harry Fleming Wingate wa
a stabbed repeatedly, and, while he land
D ed his prisoner in the lookup, ne him
Q | self was confined to- the house for seV
a eral weeks.
). Another time the side of his face wa
a mashed in by a stone thrown by a ma
d named Jim" Coyle His robust PLY
Il sique, however, pulled him through O
e both occasions. and when he retire
from his police work he was still a vii
I Orsus and strong man. After quitlir
N the police duty he became a specf
st officer for the p, w. & b. railroad, an
y later was a watchman for the John
l. Baker Morocco Co. His death W.
f. due to a cancer in his breast. and
l. was near where one OF the stab wounl
It had been inflicted by Fleming.
"a He was born in Indian River hu
m dred. 73 years ago. He has a broth,
le Kendall, living in Georgetown, and a
d other brother living in Lewes.
le leaves several sons and daughters.
Evening journal., 1898-01-03
NEW OFFICERS ELECTED.

Welcome Council. No. Z. Jr o. u. a.
NJ, has elected these officers for the
ensuing term Past councillor, G. N.
Eckman; councillor Jesse Lowe; vice
councillor, Walter r. Wood; recording
secretary, William II Showbro0lzs; as
sstant recording secretary, David
Rutter; iinacial secretary, J. r.. Biles:
treasurer, r. G. Appleby conductor, r.
o. Ellis; inside sentinel outside senti-
mel, Benjamin McFarlin warden. j.
Lloyd representative TO Supreme
Council IT, l.. David; trustee for
eighteen months, w. G. Dill; represen-
tative to Funeral Benefit Association.
which meets at Providence. r. l., on
Eobrnary %. William T. SheWbrOoks.
Evening journal., 1898-01-03
BIG POWDER CONTRACT.
DUPONTS MANUFACTURING A
NEW SNIOKELESS POWDER FOR
UNCLE SANS BIG GUNS.


The Navy Department at Washing
ton has signed a big contract with the
DUPONT Powder Works. on the Brandy
wine. calling for the manufacture Of
tons of smokeless powder for the use
of its great guns. The powder made by
the DUPONT Company will not deberio-
ate with age, nor lose any of It's effl-
c.ency by reason of climatic changes.
IL is special variety of intercelulOse,
and its issue has just been ordered by
the government. The navy officials
have been testing several brands OF
smokeless powder for years, and only
recently met with success.
The great trouble has been in OBJ
taining a smokeless powder, which
would stand the variations of temper
ature and the test of time. The ma
jority of smokeless powders have nitro
g,ycerine as a basis In the event of
chemical action taking place as a re-
suit of time, il might be that some
form of smokeless powder would de-
velcp into a dangerously high explo-
sive. The guns of the navy under the
regulations in force must not be sub
jected to pressure Of over fifteen tons
to the square inch. "The idea" said
a member of the DUPONT Company tc
a Journal man this morning, "in de
velOping a new powder is to secure a
| type which will impart high velocity
to prOjectiles or low pressure" TIL,
firm is working. night and day to turn
out the contract.
Evening journal., 1898-01-03
socIAL cLun DIsBANps.

Some days ago a Wilmington daily
newspaper declared that a club, with
quarters in Masonic Temple. was run
ming a poker joint City Auditor
Isaac @. pyle, treasurer of the Ma
sonic Hall Company, has received a
letter from President Andrews, Of the
club. declaring that tho article in que5-
ticn, while unwarranted, did the club
so much harm that it felt called upon
to disband. He also sent to Mr. Pyle
the key to the room, and the balance
Of rent has been paid
Evening journal., 1898-01-03
SCHOLARS OF LONG AGO.

Howell S. England has received
from his mother a book which Is val
liable because Of its antiquity and local
association. IL is a list Of the boys and
& rls who attended WesttOwn board
ing school in 1850, and was prepared
by his great uncle, Stephen Stapler, Of
Stanton, then a boy attending the
school. Included are the charges, and
numbers of their places Of admission,
together with their former residences.
Those from Wilmington we're Joseph
Sharpless, Thomas Lea, William w.
Way Samuel Hanson, Jacob Robin
son, Thomas Hanson, Thomas Luff,
Libe Ferris and Samuel Candy. Those
Delawareans from out Of town were:
David Wilson and John Hirons. of
Appoqulnimink hundred, and Miss
Hannah Jones. of Middletown. The
accounts are all kept in pounds, shil-
lings and pence.
Evening journal., 1898-01-03
Pianos from $40 upwards at Dear
born's, S2O and S22 Market street
nFFIcERs ELECTED

The Moses Montefoire Society elect
ed the following officers yesterday:
Norris Levy, president; Max Ephraim,
president; David TOpkiss, secre-
tary; Abraham Cohn and Israel Wei
ner, trustees for three years. The can
didates for president were Morris
Levy and Professor Moses We'll In all
thirty-eight members were present and
Mr.. Levy was e.ected by one vote.