The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-23
THE TERROR COMING HERE.
a COMPLIMENT" TO TIE CRU1sr1
FIZCAY4.

vi e" tue monitor Completed nc Norn,,nr
yesterday Afternoon The Puritan Mas
Come. Teo - Tho Contract siHned with an.
WrechinE Companies to Raise tho Maine.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.-with President, A,o.
hihloy out OF town most OF the day and thn
question OF accident or design in the disastor
W inc maine left to tho Naval Board of
inquiry to determine, tho executive ana
Legislative branches Of tho Go-vornmont
have settled down into a patient WAITING
Tor tho report Of the board. Seorotarv
Long said this evening that absolutely nothing
OF importance was received by him to-day from
havana Only ono despatch came from Cant.
aigsDoe' and that was merely q request to send
MIN q transverse sectional drawing az
the Maine, showing the forward ten.inch
magazine and shollroom and tho pockeh
coal bunkers. Co"nsut-General Loo had nothing
10 communicate except some information about
shipments OF tobacco from Havana. He had
not q word to say about the Maine affair. Al
THIS was a legal holiday, very few officials wero
on duty at the State and Navy Departments.
secretary Long spent q few hours in hin
ONCE and signed the contract with the wreckinR
companies for raising the wreck of tho battlo-
snip. In the Senate the most important action
OF the day was taken in the passage of the Haw.
10y Dill for increasing the army by two artillery
regiments to give an adequate number of man
to garrison the new Qualifications.
IL was learned to-day that the hurry orders To
the commandant Of the Norfolk Navy Ynrd in
regard to the monitor Terror contemplated the
despatch of that formidable armorclad to New
YORK as a compliment" to tho Spanish
armored cruiser Vizcaya.
The intention OF the Navy Department was u
get the Terror ready in time to reach New York
oetore the Vizcaya departed, but tho Informs.
tl0n talaDran hAl hara . -. a.. -,
would probably sail South on Thursday win
cause a change of plan II it proves to DO true.
The work Of getting the monitor into -soryice.
able condition was in progress all last night and
to-day, and 1t is believed here that she will bo
able TO steam away from the Norfolk yard some
time tomorrow. Should the vizcaya leave New
York on Thursday the Terror will remain in
Hampton Roads to receive the foreigner there.
reached. 1t is probable that the Terror will anon
be ordered to New York, whether she can get
no crisis arises in the relations of Spain and the
United states as a result of the Naval Board's
Investigation, she will be sent to join the North
and findings OF courts OF Inquiry shall not DO
the Secretary of the Navy. This will insurek
postponement Of any action by the United States
untr ne ooaras report is in tho hands of Sec
The b t5ef; was expressed at the Navy Depart.
would bring tho report direct to Washinxiton.
and the duty will probably devolve on Lieut..
S ShetRsF sny &insa + tine , kReSord der As e
diving operations would be teIegraphed to the
Navy Department before the board concludes
BILE said that the divers might tell Capt. Siesbee
anything they had discovered, and it would not
sigsSse to let tho d Sse aSepa know nor G Want
they reported; AT present. however, everything
Capt. Sigsbee. who will probably not send any
dispatches except those relating to the condf.
ton OF the wounded men and the recovery OF
Everybody, concerned in the investigation at
havana mas been instructed not to Talk. and the
mony, belonging TO the board. Directions have
been issued to all bureaus Of the Navy, DEPART
lating to the Maine during her present com.
mission. which went into effect three years ago.
wanted regarding complaint as to coal buunkerss'
magazines. shell room, and the bursting Of pines
s ana all T other dsta relating to those parts OF me
NORFOLK. Va. Feb. 22;--Bcing a legal holiday
but a force Of men was at work on the inside ali
day and late tonight.
Work on the monitor Terror was completed az
2 o'clock and she is now ready for her trip to
New iprk in the morning. The Chief Engineer
the men. Repairs to the torpedo boats
Foote and Winslow were rushed even more
than those on the Terror, and they will be taken
from the dry dock In the morning, the work on
them having been completed. They arc expected
to receive orders to sail within the next twenty
four hours.
Six OF the seven boilers of the Puritan have
been repaired and work on the seventh is being
rushed tonight. Eighteen OF her twenty-one fur
naces have been put in. An addition is being
made to her srnokestack. Ordinarily the remain.
ing repairs would consume ten days, but IL N
expected that they will be completed by Satur.
York. NV"
1t is said authoritatively that the Governments
mas increased the appropriation OF the cOnstruc.
lion and repair department. from $40. 600 10
PSF. 900 for March. This makes an aggregate Of
900 to be spent here during that month,
Tho Runboat Machias. now in Europe, will be sent
here for extensive repairs, and other vessels are
Accordingly reQuisitions have heen
made to the proper authorities for a large In
crease In the working force, which is expected
10 be doubled by March /. If the needed NUM-.
Der OF men cannot he obtained here, they will
De secured from other yards. Some 800 men
nave enlisted on the Puritan and Terror in the
asst three days.