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pacity at economical speed. less twice
the coal consumption TO and from the
base. H.
( The method of attack is in two ways.
One is to steam up to about 500 yards.
bows on, stop. fire, and then TO back
straight out. The other is. to steam up,
turn around. firing from the deck tubes
while turning and steam back at fullest
speed. BY the first plan. the boat is I'M
der fire longer, for her backing speed is
considerably less than her going ahead
speed. The advantage is that the least
surface of the boat is offered as target
to the enemy.
In the second case, the objection is that
while turning, the entire side of the boat
is at the mercy of the enemy's guns, and
the boats stern, with steering gear etc,
is exposed to damage while running away.
The advantage in this last method rests
in the opportunity of the nTing NJ the
after torpedo tubes and in the shorter
time the boat is under fire in the danger
space.
These points. of such vital Importance,
have never been practically tested. ana
until they have been settled, the positive
value of the torpedo boat and her weapon
the torpedo must rest on theoretical
conclusions.
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seconds to go over 200 yards and 81 sec
onds to travel 500 yards Now, allowing
the rate of fire from the rapid-fire and
machine guns of a Warship to be 1000
shots per minute. the Porter would be
exposed while passing over these dis
tanceS at q knots speed to- the following
number of shots: Over the 9G0-yard dan
ger space. to 1,102 shots; over the 700
yards, to S62 shots, and over 500 yards, TO
els shots.
AS a matter of fact, all these shots
would not hit the boat, but if we make an
allowance of. say per cent doing so. it
will be found that while travelling over
the spaces. the Porter would be struck in
going over the 500 yards 80 times, over 200
yards % times and in going over 500 yards
Is times.
However. the value of torpedo boats in
war time will be felt in two distinct ways
active and potentially; actively, in dam
age done to nen-of-war and merchant
vessels; potentially. by their reputation
and menace. governing and checking dis
positions and plans and exercising and
unencin= nightly strain on the officers
and men of the opposing fleet.
The ordinary. range of torpedo boat
work is limited to the distance that can
be steamed during the hours of darkness
TO and from protected limits
The effective distance for extraordinary
work depends on the nature of the base
From "a shore base. for an attack on a
narbor the distance is the full speed of
the boat during the hours of darkness to
the harbor. With protecting cruiser as
escort. the distance is the coal endur-
ance al the desired speed. For a block
ade, the time of blockade is the coal ca
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nueh in the same way that guns are pro

tected. TX
On board recently constructed torpedo
Doats the discharge tubes are on deck.
generally on the fore and aft line, ons
forward, the other aft. but near neither
extfeInlt for the water coming over the
! DOW forward and the vibratcry motion dua
70 the propeller aft affect the torpedoes.
since boat carries usually one weapon
IN ner gun. charged and adjusted, and
only one round besides, the location of
sidered
The rapid development OF the torpedo
y since it has been progressing for only
20 years. To Messrs. Yarrow & Thorny-
croft of England is mainly due this adj
x van The qualifications sought in
the torpedo boat as eXemplihed in the
boats of our fiotilla are:
First-Speed. including durability of en-
gines and boilers
Second-Handiness in maneuvering.
Third-Coal endurance.
Fourth-Seaworthines
Fifth-S Size. including Availability and
sixth-Armament including torpedoes
and guns.
venth-Vulnerability
The greatest advantage of speed is that
it permits the boat to pass over in the
shortest time. and therefore with the
greatest safety the space between the
tive range of the rapid firing guns of the
attacked vessel and the point where she
can deliver her blow. and also because
she can retire beyond this dangerous
space in the shortest time. This danger
space extends over some 900 to 200 yards
Il. e., from 100 yards distant from the
ship to be attacked to 500 yards from the
ship where the torpedo must be launched
to be most effective.
THE PORTER IN ACTION.
If the Porter were running at the rate
of "a knots It would take her &c seconds
to go over 800 yards of danger space; SIG
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from the fact that the spherical pro-
jectiles then in use would ricocbet along
the surface of the waves If they struck
the water exactly as a stone will skin
along the top of pond when properly
thrown from the hand of a small boy.
me advantage taken of this fact by
the Americans in the war of 1872 who
invariably waited for the downward
roll, increased the effectiveness of
thelr gunnery immensely, while, by the
same token, the British rule to fire as
The vessel heels from its opponent. or
on the upward roll, rendered a large
proportion of British shots quite harm
less. The British notion has always
been that firing on the upward roll.
when the heeled-over side of the YES
sci afforded the broadcast mark, had a
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rection through the gyroscopic fore
of its f1ywheel-
It'll L TOP PEDO IN A ACTION

THE TORPEDO IN ACTION.
An automobile torpedo should possess
four ssentials-velocity, range, direc-
ton and rending force In these re-
spects the Howell and the Whitehead
are to all intents and purposes quite
similar. The velocity is from thirty
to thirty-fve knots, the range 500 to L.
0G0 yards. The direction is not alto
gether certain, though there seems to
be little doubt that a carefully aimed.
torpedo, fitted with the new steering
mechanism the Obry device. will give
to the weapon an accuracy equal to
that of a great gun. The rending force
depends altogether on the charge of
guncotton. This is about 200 pounds in
the largest sized weapons.
1t should be promised that the fish,
or automobile. torpedo is a weapon of
untold possibilities, but OF few sue
cesses, and such as have been accred-
tied as successes are at best question
able. There can be no doubt, however,
that a well delivered blow from a tor
pedo VIII sc nd TO the bottom the stout
est ship that ever fioated, and this
knowledge has been so thoroughly dis
seminated that the moral force exerted
by the weapon is perhaps quite as pow
erful as any other. No commanding
officer will dare approach what he
thinks will torpedo him, however many
the chances of missing may be. and no
enemy will sEpiEely wage a war in the
face of such hidden dangers.
The actual war trials of the White
head torpedo have been few In 1877,
when the English ship Shah fought the
Pc ian ironclad huascar. the former
launched a Whitehead against her an.
tagonist. 1t failed, owing to the dis
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form from which to shoot than the
solid foundation provided in land
Tort, since even when the ocean is calm
est, the vessel must constantly ron
from side to side. Theoretically, the
best time to fire would be at the mo-
ment between rills, when the deck Of
the snip is perfectly level, and in a
general way it may be said that an at
Tempt is made to do the shooting at
that instant 1t is practically impossi-
bic, however, to fire invariably when
the decks are horizontal No matter
now careful the gunner, the piece is
almost always exploded just before or
Just after the proper instant.
1t was noted by the sea fighters in
the revolution that projectiles from
guns nred when the ship was heeling
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from the enemy in the upward roll
were hurled higher in the air than was
intended. and that well aimed shots
were thus often sent harmlessly over
head, or, at best, took effect only in
the rigging instead of the hull Of the
enemy, where they would do the most
damage On the other hand, it was
observed that shots fired when the yes
sci was heeling toward the enemy on
the downward roll, though frequently
striking lower than was intended by
the marksman, almost invariably took
effect
This was rendered the more certain
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RELATIVE UPWARD AND DoUrARn o1

fighting. There was as good shooting
in the civil war, too, as ever, but the
marksmen on both sides were Ameri-
cans, and its effects on either side were
offset By good work on the other. In
my judgment the trained gunners now
in our navy will shoot as well as their
fathers and grandfathers did before
them
The American practice, both in the
army and navy, has always been to
shoot low, and always to save ammu-
milton until It was possible to use it
effectively. In the navy the tradition to
shoot low has crystallized into a stand
ing rule, unwritten indeed, but none
the less religiously observed, and its
wisdom mas been proved on more than
one occasion of great Importance.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-01

ing short, nine tenths of all the shots
erect, while not more than half of
those from the British pieces did any
damage
The number of killed in this engage
lnent was not large on either side. but
the fight was one of the most hotly
contested in all naval history. 1t lasted
only 40 minutes, and at it's close the
Brush commander. Dacres. was obliged
70 surrender Internationally to his
american opponent, Captain Isaac
Hull, for the simple reason that the
suns on the British ship were practi-
caly all disabled, and the vessel was
totaiiy unmanageable, since much of
.ne rigging had been shot away close
to the deck.
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The precise form of this unwritten
naval rule is to wait for the down
ward roll This is the converse of the
maxim obtaining in the British navy
that 1t is best to take advantage of the
upward roll" which has been observed
almost from the beginning of naval
Hghtlng by the gunners on English
ships, and to which much of the newer
of England's wooden walls" to defend
the island was attributed in the DAYS
when England, and not the United
States, was at war with Spain.
Necessarily the deck of a vessel at
sea offers much less satisfactory plat
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tendency to protect the ship, because
the smoke of the discharge would hide
1t somewhat from the enemys sight,
but Yankees have never taken much
stock in that contention.
VALUE OF DOWNWARD ROLL.
The great value of a downward roll
rule was first demonstrated in the
night between the American frigate
Constitution and the British frigate
Guerriere, on Aug. 10, 1912. Although
the American ship had a slight advan-
tage in size and number of guns and
men, yet, after the vessels drew near
enough to prevent their projectiles fall
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OUR SHIPS FIRE ON THE DOWNWARD ROLL

"Other things being equal, the COM
ing contest, ike all other naval con-
tests" said a naval officer of high de-
gree to the writer the other day. will
be won by craftsmanship, and good
craftsmanship has been a distinctly
Yankee quality ever since the revolu-
ton, both on land and sea.
1T was the salvation of the Ameri-
can cause in the war Of 1912, and it
showed itself against in the Mexican
war, though then there was no sea
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-01
DO0LEY ON FITZHUGH LEE.

Chicago Journal: "Iv coorse he's
Irish" said Mr.. Dooley. ''Th' Fitz
Hughs and tn McHughs, an tn Nc
Keoughs is not far apart. 1 have a
cousin by tn name iv McKeough, an
like as not tn ginral is relation iv
mine"
If I was you I'd write him an see"
said Mr.. Hennessy. He's about tn
on'y thing connected with tn admin
stration I'd claim kin to FIR mesilf or
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A further proof of the clearing sense
of our excellence as a literary market
is had in the novel way in which the
American copyright of DR.. Alfred Wal
lace's forthcoming book. THE Wonder
full Century," was disposed of a few
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-01

Charles Dana Gibson, the artist, has
concluded his winters sojourn and
travel in Egypt and gone for time to
Vienna He has almost finished his
series of Egyptian pictures, and he
writes that he has had the greatest
pleasure in doing them, and that he be-
lieves they are his best work. They will
receive their first publication in one of
the leading magazines.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1898-06-23
PLUGGING THE PIANO.
Mr.. GOzzIcby Finds Tempornry RclIcf
from the Heavy Pedal by
simple Means.

1T is a familiar tact, said Nlr. Gozzlebv
or 1t Is fact at least familiar to all fonr
parents, that children, without exception
IKE TO play the piano with the hard pesaI
IN all the time. All children Ike 10 make ali
The noise they can, in playing the piano as in
everything 2 Sc. Playing upon the piano
without the heavy pedal does not disturb me
at al; but the minute the heavy pedal is nut
on am greatly disturbed, and the continued
Fcsoundlng OF The notes fairly racks me.
Oi course, can't he forever saving don't
ana IT. ungracOus 90 say il AT all. supposo.
ior why shouldn't the children have tbeir
fun: And 50 ! nit upon the desperate OK.
pedient Of blocking the heavy pedal have
whitfield ont nice little piece of soft white
pine INTO a plug that just fits into the space
under the pedal in the opening i'm which If
works, so that the pedal cannot be de.
=, IT has only been there two DAYS now. bnf
It has been two days of blessed relief Il
Fan last much longer, because the children
are iiable to ask me any minute what's the
natter wonder they haven't asked mo
ong, ago-and Of course I'll have To tell 'cm
}ut am grateful for he rest have had AMI |
ne respite has given me strength the better |
o Withstand. tor time az least. the uproar
nat VIII surely come when the children dis.
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Attentive Listener,

Ihe eminent cXhorter came down
from the pulpit at the close Of the SER
wees Many people pressed forward 70
shake him by the hand. lie accented
.her congratulations with a smiling
lace but his eyes were on a certain
auditor who fingered in the aisle. The
grea' preacher pressed through the
tnrong about him and extended his
hand 10 the waiting man.
/ want to thank YOU" he said. in his
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'eniion you gave my remarks. Your
uP'urhed face was inspiration to me:
am sure you never changed your earn
a>f attitude during my sermon"
40, Sald the man, 81 have a stiff
neck.'-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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GLAD SHE DIDN'T YELL
When she Found Out That Her Indus
trious Neigfbor Was Mt Ceai-
hitting Suicide.

A certain East end man delights in doint
odd jobs about his home. He cuts his grass
and trims the walks, and handles a paint
brush like an old master Carpenter tools
come handy TO him. too, and the sound of his
merry saw makes pleasant music for the
neighbors, who have no objection 10 being
awakened early. In short, he is clever all
round workman, and decidedly handy 70
have about the house.
One day not long ago the woman Of the
house next door happened TO come out on her
back porch. There she casually looked over
the low fence into the handy man yard
What she saw scared her so that she couldn't
move hand or foot. The handy man was ".
ing prone on his back. his body concealed
beneath his porch. but with his face i'm strong
relief. lie was very pale. his hair was dis.
ordered, and his eyes were rolled up and
fixed IN CHASTITY intentness. Against his
breast he seemed 10 be pressing some deadly
weapon that glistened as a ray of light
touched il.
The woman on the porch tried to rcresm.
and couldn't. She knew the handy man was
suicide.
seemed convulsed.
he woman on the porch caught her acon. /
zed breath and was about 30 let out a 40 |
lorse, power yell when she heard the sup
posed suicide anxiously ask:
Ism. it through YETI
Yes, said a voice from above, at been
cost through"
About this time the woman on the porch
nderstood that the handy man was boring
n auger hole through the floor of his porch.
nat the deadly weapon was an auper. and
hat the hired girl was on hand to watch
he operation
hen the woman on tho porch was clad she
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A FATALITY AVOIDED.
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Line pie plate with puff paste. ard
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