Arizona republican., 1898-07-24

Fcrto Rico, and all other points, ar ranged in sections on the wall in such a manner as to place before the eyes of the president at one glance the en- tire expanse of the globe. On these maps are marked the distances from one point to another; the cable lines, the sailing routes, the time needed to cover them, the places where the ships of the enemy and of the blockadiDg squadron are located from time to time and every possible sort of information that could be needed during consul tation on the war problem. The most unique of the series of charts are these showing the location of the Spanish and American warships, so arranged that they can be changed each hour or minute of the day as the telegraph may report the movements on the chessboard of the war. Among other conveniences designed for the president there are two boards covered with sheets of paper on which are written alphabetically the name of every ship in both nav1es. Stuck into a little hole in the space containing the name there is a p-n, on the end of which there is a flag bearing the cor responding name of the ship. These | flag pins are used for indicating on the, map the places where the ships may be from time to time; the American I flags being blue and those of Spain red. 1 There is an interesting little corner on one of the boards, separated by broad black line, inside of which there lis group of red flags huddled together. l This corner is labeled "the dead line,
 and the flags are those that, before the I 1st of May, represented the Spanish ships which on that day were destroyed by the fleet of Adimral Dewey.
 1 In the left hand corner of the room, neal the entrance from the corridor, is Secretary Porter's desk, where he is at work during many hours of the day and night; and beyond him, nearer the middle of the room, is the desk of Captain Benjamin F. Montgomery of the signal corps, United States army, who, for several years, las acted as telegraphic manager of the White House At the left of his desk, in the corner, there is a wooden case through
 which pass fifteen special, long dis tance telephone wires, and in the oppo- site corner a cable containing twenty special telegraphic wires, all of which | come together at the desk and make it possible for him, without moving outside radius of ten feet, to have di- rect communication through the tele- phone with every department of the l government at Washington, including the capitol, on wires which are con
 nected with the White House alone, and over the telegraph and cable lines to every point in the United States and l elsewhere, that it may be important for the president or the members of the i cabinet to reach at any time in order
 to give or receive information with re- gard to the war movements.
 Into this war room, over these spec
 ial telegraph and telephone wires,
 comes, every hour and every minute
 of the day and night, information from
 3 great many sources, official and oth- erwise, Cn every conceivable phase Of
 the war problem that could possibly
 De Of interest to the president and the
 officials of the government. The press
 associations seisd all their important news bulletins directly from their of
 fee to Mir Montgomery's desk, and
 from there they are at once placed be-
 fore the president at any time during
 his waking hours. Much of the infor-
 nation that comes is duplicated from
 various sources, but it is all of the
 greatest interest and the president feels that already the war room has | heen of incalculable service. Here the cabinet consultations take place, and there is hardly an hour that some Of the official and unofficial news bulle-
 tins that pour in over the numerous special wires. Nothing can take place
 in any quarter of the globe that affects
 in any way the situation without the
 president knowing it instantly The
 war room is thus becoming a most inn portant adjunct to the military admin istration.
 l HN0AIINNI,S INVITED INCrrS