The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-16

FIRING FROM A MONITORS FIGHTING TOP.
they take their name from the weight
of the shot they throw. Everything be-
low the l FOUNDER is in the machine
gun class
Male applicants may enter the navy
between the ages of IA and 30 years.
Boys between IA and II years old can
enlist only as apprentices.
While in the army the private soldier
may rise to major generalship, in the
navy the limit of the bluejaoket's posi-
BILE promotion is the position of warrant
officer, as gunner, boatswain, carpenter.
The highest pay of a warrant officer is
1880 year.
Bluejackets are better paid than SOL
diers in the United States service, and
when in active service have what the
soldier is seldom sure of, the assurance
of good food and comfortable quarters
A landsman in the navy receives in the
beginning $40 month. and his pay in
creases at each step of his promotion to
the rank of ordinary and of able seaman.
From Key West to Havana is dis
lance of 80 miles measured in direc-
ton almost due south.
To cruise on warship in the Carib-
bean sea is far more healthful and
pleasant business than to campaign on
land. 1t is cooler upon the water, there
are no venomous reptiles or insects to
make life burden and but little liza
bility of malarial or epidemic disease.
For fighting in warm climates the
United States seaman wears uniform
Of white-canvas jumper, canvas trou-
sers, knitted watch cap or white canvas
hat, black necktie and lanyard with
knife.
For boarding or repelling boarders in
a naval engagement the United States
sailor is provided with Eavolver and
cutlass When landed as infantry, he
carries Lee magazine rifle.
There is nothing cleaner than the
decks and equipment of warsbip. All
woodwork is scrubbed and brass work
polished daily, and there is no end to
painting and scraping and to the chip
ping of rust from anchors and cables.
Every man wars man knows how
co sew and does his own mending.
Many of the old hands would rather
buy the materials and make their own
clothes than draw ready made uni
form sut from the government.
On warships to which chaplain is
assigned a small white pennant with a
blue cross flying from the gaff gives no.
tice that divine service is being held on
board.
No punishment involving bodily suf-
fering, such as the old time fogging,
branding, tattooing of offenders, can be
adjudged by any court martial or in
fiicted upon any person in the navy.
In modern naval fights the battleships
are ranged in the first line and bear the
brunt of attack. With them are the
monitors and armored cruisers which |
protect the TANKS and rear of the line
Of battle. Protected cruisers, torpedo !
boats, dispatch boats, hospital ships and |
torpedo boat destroyers form the second |
line.
Torpedo boat destroyers are large tor
pedo boats which are equipped SO that |
they may launch torpedoes at the en-
elny or with guns and rams sink his |
tUIpeuO DOdts.
The cost per day of maintaining in
commission an ordinary warship is
$1,000.
The present outlay for the United |
States navy is $50, 900 per day.
A single charge of ammunition for q |
large oaliber gun costs $500.
1t costs from $1,000 to $40, 900 to FIJI |
the bunkers of man of-war with coal. |
Until the recent naval fight off Ma
nilla only one sea fight had occurred |
to put modern war vessels and arma- |
ments to the test-the battle of Yalu, |
In 1895, between the Chinese and jap |
anese fleets.
Our modern steel built, armorclad |
navy had no existence, even ON paper,
16 years ago. At that time the United |
States had but 81 war vessels available |
for cruising, of which only one, the |
Tennessee, was first rate ship. The |
smoothbore muzzle loader was the pre-
vailing gun in the service then. Many
of the war craft Of that period have
been since laid up as superannuated.
The first class battleship Iowa is the |
most powerful open sea fighter, and the |
protected cruiser Minneapolis, which
has reached speed Of 1877 knots, 10
the swiftest ship In the navy.