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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-10

Nashville American: The increased
Democratic majority in Alabama shows
that the party is united in that state and
party that under the leadership or Colo ell
Reuben Kolb was very strong in Ala
bama a few years ago has dwindled 70
small proportions and Democracy holds
its old time easy sway. Alabama is one
of the few states holding an election for
state offices prior TO November. The re-
suit there is an indication of the Demo-
cratic reaction likely to be manifested in
the fall Being a neghboring southern
state. with conditions similar to those IN
Tennessee the result there is especially
prophetic of what will happen here.
, 1898-03-30
PASSENGERS
CHRIsTIANsTED.


March 23rd-pcr schnr. "VigiIant" from
ST. Thomas-Samnel Collier, Lawyer Brun,
Sarah Jensen and daughter, Alma, Arahella
Heine, Alice Jrppe and child, Herman
Theodocia Doute and Child, Eyeline, Eliza
Thomas,
March 24th-per schnr. "Visilant" for st.
Thomas-Ellen Neptune md child, Edgar
Emanuel and Child, Mrs. S5,cnsen.
March 26tl'-pe' British sIoop Surprise
from n-uilIt-Reb.c ca II dye, George
Richardson.
March 28th-per schnr "VigiIant" for st.
Thomas-Patrick Patrick, Lawyer Brun,
Alma A. Burnett.
Fre,eriksted. 29tI March 1898.
The s. s. Caribbee arrived here from New
York via st Thomas on The 26tl, instant, un-
loade 900 packages and proceeded to St.
kits.
26th instnnt-per 8. s. 'Caribbee" from
St. Thomns-NIiss A. van Beve, houdt, MIR.
NJ. Grammar, Mr.. P. E. Moses, Il. Nathan.
For Bnrhados-Ed. Edwards. Geo. Sargent.
A.. Turp, Arthur Walker, L. Bentham, w
Lowell.
The 8. :. "Fnntahelle" arrived here from
St. Kits this morning, is loading some pro-
duce and proceeds to New York via st.
Thono rs. Passengers from St. Kitts-Pre-
mierlieutenant Ramsing, Mr.. Geo. c.. Hardin.
, 1898-03-30

In Washington The situation is now con.
sldered molo critical and it is generally be-
lIeNed That unless Spain lecclcN hutiiItios
may break out III the next ten DAVIS. The
cry OF the war party is "NYar now or never
London news reports that severe stormS
continue throughout he United Kingdom.
The heavy fall Of snow has done consiJrro.
Bile damage to railways, and in many lIaces
persons have been frozen to death. Ahari-
cane has swept tile coast. The Channel ser.
vice ls suspended and many vessels ale rr-
ported wr ecked.
1t is reported that three Russian bottle
ships VIII shortly proceed through the Bos.
ph"rus for China.
Copenhagen advires report hat violent
gales, accompanied by heavy snow fall. have
caused much loss and numerous casualties
among the shipping.
a de>potch from B,rnholm states til 1T 26
fishing boats are reported missing.
kilograms from Tromboe Island report
th't forty five fishermen have ben drowned
of the Coas' Of Norway.
Ne" olh. March Goth.
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terminus of this with the West Indies.
so that communication may be had be-
tween Cuba or Porto Rico and Spain
over this route, without passing through
the territory or control of the United
States at all. The Eastern company s
line hats at the Cape Verde islands; from
here another line extends to St. Louis on
the west coast of Africa. whence another
loop of this same system, which is con-
trolled by Spanish company, runs north
along the coast of Cadiz.
1t will be seen that there are hummer
of lines of communication available for
the Spanish forces in Cuba and Porto 6lSo
IN reaching Madrid and that 1t wouid pc
difficult TO stop intercourse Det"een tIsSe
places except by cutting every canie me
that leads out of the TWO lsianus- !ue
problem is not so simple as II was IN 'he
Philippines where the severance Oh q
single line effectually shut OIL the iSidhuS
from the outside world.
CUTTING CABLES.
This question off cable cutting is one
that has received considerable attention
since the beginning of the war pet"eSh
Spain and the United States; mas has. nc ne
United States, for instance, the liSut. -
sever cable belonging to a Frencn OF
British company when 1t Is known lHd1
the cable is or may be used TO give IN III.
formation to Spain? The authorities on
international law are agreed in answering
this question in the affirmative. Every
thing that can give direct assistance 70
an enemy is recognized as 'contrapano
OIL war ana may De SelZtu VI uSoIAOS -
Railways, telegraphs and cable hnes COME
under this head as surely as PROVISION or
ammunition ships. The only dlsagree-
ment among the experts is as to whether
the companies whose lines are so sum
marily interrupted can afterwards collect
damages On this point authorities differ,
but the consensus of opinion, unanimously
supported by the cable companies them
selves, is that they can do so.
Whatever the opinion of legal experts
there is no doubt as to the action or naval
and military commanders in dealing with
a cable which is likely to be Of service
to an enemy. Dewey did not wait Tor
a legal opinion when he found that the
Spanish governor of the Philippines was
using his control of the Manila cable TO
send information to his home government:
He cut the wire and shut the Islands on
from the world. The same thing has
been done in the West Indies. All but
one of the lines connecting Cuba with
the outside world were cut during the
first weeks of the blockade. One of the
bravest acts of the early part of the war
was that of the NaShvilleS men, who
went into the harbor of Cienfuegos under
a hail of shot from the shore batteries
and cut both the cables leading out of
that port. That the course of the United
States in dealing with the cables leading
to her enemy'S ports would have been
that of other nations under the same
circumstances is proved by the fact that
the European navies have ships fitteo
with graphing hooks for the especial pur~
pose of hauling up and destroying cables
in time Of war.
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CABLES AT THE SEAT OF WAR.

Warded to London. which Is the great
center of cable and telegraph commune
cation for the whole world. From London
to the east there are two great routes
The first, via either the eastern or Indo-
European companys lines, will take the
message across the channel and overland
TO Marseilles, or by the all-water course
around the Spanish peninsula, stopping
at Lisbon; thence through the Mediterra-
mean to Alexandria, across Egypt by land
down the Red sea to Alden, through the
Arabian sea to Bombay. over India by
land, across the Bay of Bengal to Singa-
pore, along the coast to Hongkong and
across the China sea to Manila.
The other route from London is even
longer and covers a much greater part
of the journey by land. 1t takes the mes
sage from London by the lines of the
Great Northern COMPANY across Russia
and Siberia TO Vladivostock. and thence
along the China coast to Hongkong
In its long voyage. occupying from
three to "A hours, according to its urgency
the message has crossed or skirted a
score of countries, representing almost as
many different nationalities. and vet the
sender may rest assured that ii will be
transmitted with promptness and secrecy
and at a fixed and known charge This
assurance is provided by the bureau of
international telegraphs sghich has IFS
headquarters at Berne. Switzerland II
was inaugurated 80 years ago for the pur-
pose OF collecting, arranging and publish
ing information on this subject. reguIaf-
ing accounts, and guaranteeing the in
terests OF senders and receivers 1t
brought order out of the chaos previously
enveloping international communicat ton
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INSIDE A TORPEDO FACTORY.
How the Most Terrible Weapons of Modern Warfare Are
Constructed.

The most wonderful machine ever
invented, from the point of view of
the highest mechanical ingenuity and
perfection of construction, is the White
head torpedo. In the hands of skilfull
and resolute men it is the most terrible
engine of warfare the world has ever
seen. A ship which receives a blow
from it is doomed as surely as if she
were already at the bottom of the
ocean,"
This is the estimate which Lieuten-
ant G. E. Armstrong, recently of the
British royal navy, places upon the i'm
plement of war which is expected to
play leading part in the present
struggle between the United States and
Spain, and it is likewise the opinion
held by most of our own naval Off
GERS.
A torpedo is an intricate piece of
mechanism. too, so delicate in its poise
ana balance, so complicated in it's
operations, that none but specialists
even among the officers of the navy,
can thoroughly understand it. A man
can study torpedoes a dozen years and
still be learning new facts about them
at the end of that time.
STEEL BABIES"
The first idea to get rid of in order to
understand the torpedo is the belief
that it is a bullet in the same sense
as is. say, 13-inch shell. The latter is
propelled by the charge that is behind
1T in the gun; it will go the distance
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FIESTA DE SANTA RIT A.
Chihuahua Celebrates the Fete Day In
a Spectacular Way.

Chihuahua Enterprise: Not even IN
the far famed metropolis of the Paris
of America, the gay city of New Or
leans, during all the innovations and
surprises Of fashion in the brightest
madre gras days, is there to be seen a.
more enhancing spectacle of pedestri-
1ating humanity than was witnessed
on the celebrated Alameda of Chihua-
hua, the beginning of the great fiesta
de Santa Rita Nor is the spectacle
often excelled on Broadway of New
York, of Market street, San Francisco,
or even in London and Paris, as far as
the kaleidoscope beauty of theA-scene
is concerned, during the Interchangeable
cent occasions of these famous capitals;
for here in this city, the wealth and
beauty of Chihuahua had gathered in
all its gorgeousness, subdued with the
elements of good taste, until its vast
ensemble, encOmpaSSed with an envir-
onment of trees and flowers, set the
imagination and appreciative propen-
sites of the witnesser on fire. A sea of
glory, grasped from the grand horizon
of the western sky when the god of
day sinks from view amid the match
less pictures Of a Titanic hand, can
only compare with the grandeur of the
scene. All along the Alameda Mexican
cavalry were SldllOlcQ (OuH
spaces apart, and were instructed to
regulate the tide OF travel along this
popular highway. Fine carriages and
rich equipageS of various kinds
thronged the road just aS the sun be-
gan to set and the cooling breeZeS of
eventide set in, and with the pictur-
eSqueneSS of booths and white duck
cantinaS as we'll as the promenading
hosts, the scene was one that will long
be remembered. The senoritas were, as
a rule, dressed in remarkable taste;
every color of the rainbow, and tints
that only are seen in perfection in ma
lures painting on a shell, were pre-
that flashed their glances OF innate
as finest diamonds.
In the luXuriant flower decked square,
where roses grow in rich profusion, and
whose branches reach beyond the most
prodigious human stature in height and
breadth, the melodious strains of pop
ular and classic music were dispensed
by one of our charming military bands.
And yet, the commonplace features
were not wanting. The gambling pro-
pensties of the ordinary crowd were
duly considered. Here and there, along
the Alameda, numerous devices were in
operation for the sport and attraction
of those who had money to burn or
more to get, and it was a common sight
TO see women and children betting their
pennies and dimes on the chance fall
ing of marble balls, on the principle of
ordinary chuck-luck. There were
dozens of such places. with beer and te-
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sists OF five separate parts, which. in
the completed torpedo, are fitted close
~ together, so as to be air and
wster-tight. The lead. which is the
business part of the torpedo, and car
ries the explosive, is of Tobin bronze
1t is in the shape of a cone. and COM
prises, roughly speaking, one-third of
the entire length OF the torpedo. Back
of this, and somewhat greater in length,
is the air flask. with its walls made of
the finest forged steel, to withstand the
pressure of 1,500 pounds to the square
inch. which is put upon it when the
torpedo is ready for use. Still further
back is the buoyancy chamber, by the
ballasting of which the depth of the
torpedo in it's submarine voyages can
be regulated as desired. Behind this
compartment is the engine room, where
small cylinders, of enormous strength
for their size, utilize the compressed air
in turning the propellers. which are
fixed at the butt end of the cigar.
The first floor of the torpedo factory
is devoted to the forging and shaping
of their different parts While the work
is all done with exceeding care AID
nicely, 1t is much like that which may
be seen in ordinary machine shops, and
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that charges it, no more, no less. The
former carries it own engines; it can
be regulated to travel so yards or 1000.
1t is within one step of being autono-
mus, as it is automobile. In the Eng
fish navy torpedoes are called steel
babies" A more appropriate name
would be steel devil fish. They are the
modern and real successors of those
tabled monsters, which, according to
ancient belief, could destroy ships by
single blows from their tails. The tor
pedo is in reality q sea monster obey
ing the will of man with deviliSh in
genuity. When it is released it follows
the course mapped out for it in a
straight line and at fixed depth. 1t al
ways returns to this course and to this
depth, no matter how much it is de-
fiected by intervening influences on its
way toward it's prey. Careful devices
guard it against premature explosion,
and other devices render it practically
harmless after it has run its course in
case it does not hit the object at which
it is aimed. 1t will float in water, and
yet it can be kept submerged. In fact,
it has all the requisites of demon, ex-
cept a will and intellect. The torpedo
cannot change its mind-in that respect
it is superior to some commanders.
There is only one place in this coun-
try where Whitehead :orpedoes are
manufactured. That is a big brick fac
tory facing the East river, in that part
of Greater New York known as Brook
Ign, under the afternoon shadows of the
Brooklyn bridge. The building is occu-
pied by the E. w. Bliss company, which
controls the sole right to manufacture
the Whitehead automobile torpedo in
America From the outside the factory
socks like many another, but you find
that an unsual kind of business is car
ried on there as soon as you try to en-
ter. At the door you are met by re-
spectful but firm guard, who insists on
learning the business that takes you in
side. If from your account it does not
seem to him of sufficient Importance.
you are sent packing, and no protests
viii avail to change his decision. Torpe-
do-makers seem to have little sym
pathy with idle curiosity. 1t is not well
for Uncle Sam that everyone should
know the secrets of his war engines.
Once past the portal. however the air
of mystery vanishes. One sees huge
drills. big steel lathes and ali the para
phernalia of a casting and machine
shop, for every part that goes into a
torpedo is made under one roof.
WHAT A TORPEDO CONSISTS OF.
The outer case of the torpedo is, in
brief, steel cigar Is feet long and II
inches in its greater diameter. 1t coz
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by wire, and has made it possible to cable
TO any part of the world as easily as one
SENDS telegraph message from his Of
fee to his home.
ACROSS THE SEAT OF WAR.
The West Indies and the islands of the
Caribbean sea, the scene of the principal
naval operations of the present war are
well supplied with cables. Messages from
the United States are forwarded by the
International Ocean telegraph, worked by
the Western Union. from Florida to Ha-
Vana. The Cuba Submarine company car
ries them along the shores of that island
to Santiago, which is connected by the
West India q Panama comDanys lines
with most of the smaller islands with
Barbice and Demerara in British Guiana.
and with Colon (Panama). La Societe
Franchise des Telegraph Sous arins con-
meets Cuba with Hayti, Porto Rico Cura-
Gao and La Guayara, in Venezuela A
branch of this line extends from Porto
Plata 10 Martinique, Paramaribo, Cay
enne and Viseu. at the mouth of the Anna
Zon. These points can also be reached
from Galveston over the lines of the Mex
lean Telegraph company, via Colon The
connections of the latter system extend
all along the west coast Of Central and
South America.
South America is joined to Europe by
two lines of the Eastern company rum
ming from Brazil to Lisbon The Bra
lillian submarine line connects the western
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tific observer
IN THE ASSEMBLING ROOM.
When one mounts to the next floor,
however, and enters the assembling
room, where these parts are put to-
gether and where the fine machinery
OF the torpedo is adjusted. the scene
grows il interest. Here are torpedoes
lying about in all stages of completion
as common as wheat sacks in a flour
mill. Here, in different parts of the
great room, are men busy in shaping
and testing the fine machinery and
bearings. as carefully balanced and ad-
justed as the works of a watch.
One of the first things to arrest the
attention is a little heap of what looks
like bronze tops, mounted in pivot
frames. set at right angles to each 9TH
er and on finely ground bearings, so
that the top itself can easily move in
any direction. These are torpedo brains,
or what serves in the torpedo as the
very effective substitute for brains.
Torpedo makers call them horoscopes.
To explain in detail the working of
this bit of mechanism (Which, by the
way, was invented little more than a
year ago., is not easy. When the tor
pedo is launched, the wheel of this lit
tie top. known as. the gyroscope, is set
spinning, and from the way in which
it is pivoted, this spinning motion keeps
it pointed in one direction, no matter
how much the head of the torpedo may
be detected. The principle on which it
operates is the same as that which
keeps a modern rifle bullet pointed
straight by spinning it on its long axis.
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quila joints between, and all were lib
orally patroniZed to mutual satisfac-
ton. Down on the plaza, the main
square of the city. the old mongrel bells
of the cathedral kept up their contin-
ual din driving the devil from the stee-
pie and calling the people to prayer.
And the cathedral was well patronized.
The patron saint of the city, San Fee
lipe, has waned in popularity through
the stress of years and changing senti-
ment in favor of Santa Rita, and no.
where in all the state is there a Next
can or sympathetic American, if he
can, who does not save up and come
into town to participate in the festivi-
ties which officially last for nine days,
but usually are prolonged for a couple
of weeks. Day by day and night by
night. during that period, the scenes
we have described are witnessed. Te-
quila is king and cerveza is his prime
minister. The Jefe Politico, or mayor,
has, in consequence, his hands full with
those who are fuller. and. in fact, every
department of government, trade and
general activity has reason to be pro-
foundry grateful because of the revered
memory and gracious usage OF the FL
esta de SAINT Rita.
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0REGON SHORT lines
RArIHoAD-

Trains arrive and depart at Salt Lake
City daily as follows:
ARRIVE.
Gin Effect May s, 1850
rom Chicago, Omaha, st. Louis,
Kansas City, Denver. Park
From Helena. Butte, Portland.
San Francisco. Ogden and in
From San Francisco. Cache Val Wv 49,
ley, Ogden and intermediate
points :......,............... 7:15 pm.
.1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, $40 am
Provo, Eureka. Mammoth, Sill
yer City and intermediate
'Mixed train from Terminus.
Tooele and Garfield Baach.... 400 pm
DEPART
For Chicago. Omaha. Denver.
ard ,ShT psr 81, Sl ~ st. Louis Ogden
For San francesca. ogden. ~ d H.
cache Valley and intermediate
poi5ts ...,...-...-...-...--....... $40 am.
For Ogden. Denver. Kansas city.
omaha, st. Louis. Chicago and
I'm intermediate points -. s:25 pm.
FOR Ogden. Butte. Helena, Port
lar land Nm, md San FRANCISCO. pm
Provo, Nephi. Sanpete. Mil
IoEo, Frisco and intermediate
MIXED train for Garfield Beach. '-'' '''-''
Iooele and Terminus .... 10 am
Trains south of Juab run daily except
Sunday.
*.Daily except Sunday.
CITY TICKET OFFICE Under Masonic
Hall, No. 200 West Second South street
Telephone No. go
Railroad and Steamship Tickets on sale
to all parts of the world
Pullman Palace Car ticket office.
D W. ECCLES, y. z. BURLEY
Gen. Trf. Mgr Gen. Pass. & Tick't Agt.
w. II. BANCROFT,
Vice Pres. & Cen Mgr
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sages amounts up to alarming figures.
To send ten words from New York to
Manila, for instance, costs the modest
amount of s24.50, or $3.50 per word be-
ycnd London. This is the commercial
rate; newspaper dispatches go for
about half this sum, but even so the
cost of bringing a column of news from
the Philippines mounts up TO nearly
four figures. Even from a point so
near as the island of Curacao, which
became for a short time the center of
news interest, the commercial rate by
the cheapest route is $1.9S. These two
samples will give a fair intimation of
the immense sums being expended by
the newspapers in gathering Informal
tion about the war.
1t may seem at first thought that 81 As
is large sum to pay for sending single
word from New York to the Philippines
but when one reflects that such a message
travels 10000 miles, and that it must be
received and transmitted over score of
different lines or branches, he is more
likely to come to the conclusion that il is
very cheap, all things considered. From
New York the cablegram goes first to
Halifax, and from there, by another loop
TO Hearts Content, Newfoundland. where
1t dives beneath the Atlantic TO reappear
on the coast of Ireland and be again for
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OCEAN CABLES IN WAR TINE.
Account of the 100000 Miles Cables Now In Operation

Formerly when two nations engaged
IN naval war it was possible for
elther to so direct the movements of
us meets as to keep the enemy con-
slantiy guessing, uncertain where to
expect an attack The cable has
changed all this.-Since the last great
hdVal war the lines of electric com
nlunlcation have been pushed around
the globe, linking continents together.
anc owing under tropic seas. until even
the lonely outposts of Australasia are,
many OF them, brought into close daily
touch with the rest OF the world With
all the corners of the earth brought to-
gether at his elbow the naval strategist
is IN the same position which the mill
tary commander has occupied for
many years through the aid of the tel
egraph. BattleshipS are his chessmen,
the cable chart is his board, and with
his opponents moves constantly before
him, he can direct his own game,
whether it be to checkmate his rival or
TO sweep him from the board.
SURPRISES IMPOSSIBLE.
The experience of the past few weeks
has proved that a surprise is practic-
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