The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-04-25
623 18th St. N. w.

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On Saturday night Rear Admiral Bunce
commandant Of the Brooklyn navy yard,
went aboard the ship and informed Capt
Folger that his vessel must be ready TO
sail by Monday. The force at work on
her was doubled at once and worked all
night and a new shift was kept hard at
work YESTERDAY Coal barges were
brought alongside and the men began
filling her bunkers with coal.
New York Harbor.
New York, April 25.-New Workers may
now sleep well o nights. with no fear
that Spanish warship or fleet of war
ships may steal in under cover Of dark
ness or thick weather TO surprise our
forts and ships and drop a shell in-o the
city. The coast patrol will be inaugural
ed today.
The Second Mosquito District extends
from Newport, II. l.. 10 Barnegat. y. J.
1t Is the most Important in the country,
for it includes New York harbor and the
approaches thereto. 1t extends for near
~ 200 miles along the coast. To patrol
this expanSe and the waters OF the mar
Dor three classes OF vessels are TO be
employed. and there Will be three dis
tinct picket lines.
commodore Howell 5attsiu8O iis Gun
sisting Of the converted Morgan liners
FL Norte. Fl Sud. IT Sol and FL Rio, now
the Yankee Dixie. Prairie ana Yosemite.
will form the outer line Iney are 70
be manned by naval reserves. and VIII
cruise thirty or forty miles of shore.
Should they sight an enemy. unless it be
a battleship or armored cruiser, tAey VIII
give battle
The second or middle line of patrol will
~ nd will he
maintained by swift yachts. armed with
small caIiber rauid-fire guns. Some
will be provided with torpedo IaunD..----
tubes.
Still further fnshore. threading their
way in and out through shallow cham
nels and watching the deeper ones. COM
munica ing with the forts and signal sta
tons on land, carrying dispatches ana
maintaining the inside picket line. will
be numerous tugs, Launches ana otner
small steam craft. Some OF these Will
be fitted out with torpedoes as we'll as
rapid-tire guns, and should an enemy sue
coed in passing through ne outer lines,
II will be sure to run up against one or
these little mosquitoes. and feel KS
deadly sting.
The officers and men OF the Brooklyn
Battalion of the Naval Militia are to
man the vessels OF the two inner lines
| of patrol.
Added To these defenses will be the old
monitors Nahant and Jason. The former
is to be sent down the harbor and an
| chored near Coney Island Point &c
| maintain a station for the small picket
boats patrolling the channels at night.
There is some talk of sending the mon
| i,or Jason when she arrives to Rocka-
way Inlet. to defend portion of the shore
| beyond the range of the guns at Sandy
| Hook.
Retired officers.
All retired officers of the Army and
| Navy are TO be ordered into service just
| as soon as Congress declares a state of
war The order will be made this even
| ing or the first thing tomorrow morning
| They will take shore billets. and per-
form work in the bureaus. Most of them
| will be stationed at Washington.
Nearly one-half the officers at the Ma
| val Academy have been relieved and as
| signed duty on ships of war The re-
| mainder display great restlessness and
| impatience at the delay of the depart
ment in assigning them to duty. The
| Navy Department is thronged daily with
| officers who are DESTROYS for sea duty.
| No one is willing to take a billet on
shore and all the officers have applied
for duty on board a battleship or cruiser
| likely to participate in the hostilities at
| sea. 1t has been found necessary to dis
| continue some of the departments at the
| Naval Academy, among others those of
applied mathematics and drawing.
| Monitor jason Sighted.
| New York. April 25.-The United States
| steamer Niagara passed out of Sandy
| Hook at o'clock this morning. The
| United States monitor Jason was sighted
| off Long Branch at o'clock this morn
| ing.
Last Sight of the Paris.
London April 25.-In response to an in
quiry whether they were tolerably GER
| tain that the steamer reported from the
| Lizard Friday night as Paris presum-
ably was really the Paris, the officers at
| that station return this answer: THE
| steamer burned the American Line night
| signal and the Paris was then fully due. "
The Prairie.
New York, April Massachusetts, is
the first State to send naval reserves to
the Brooklyn navy yard for active SER
| vice. One hundred and twelve men from
the Bay State arrived by boat and rail
Yesterday. Forty came from Fall River.
fifteen from New Bedford, sixteen from
Boston and forty-one from Springfield
| Lieutenant c.. r. Burlington had charge
of the Fall River reserves, with Chief
Boatswain's Mate Lynward French.
| Boston's delegation was piloted by Lieu
tenant Brigham. and Lieutenant III. s.
Crossman had charge of the Springfield