New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-02
1IGHT-DRAUGHT YACHTS APPROVED
THH NAVY DEPARTMENT SANCTIONS THE puR-
CHASE or VESSELS RECOMMENDED
RY The ERBEN ROARD.


The following list OF ligh-draugh yachts suitable
Tor harhor patrol has been approved by the Navy
Uroartment on the recommendation OF tho Erben
Board On Auxiliary Naval Vessels. and they are
to be purchased at once:
shcarwater. steel. ~ feet long i7:s feet beam.
y,o,ro+. a brother ~ senator Volcott OF Colorado
v oun5 9f BY 81 E 5ts' Sf1 to wet
n e NJ S1 X f Ise g9 SaG
s,rarrer iron 1919 foe, long 2, fec, beam. 10
vi@,.S ie4t f,et long iss ,eet beam and 50 feet
deep. owned a, VI g.. Borden. from whom me
'T R.ta .c.3 r.; ons z ieet beam and fee,
Nealra. steel ii54 feet iong, y iset beam a 'ee'
deep. ,onnare. ~. owned ~ Chsrles 4 Sos!d;
cosetie g teei lons 20 .re' o'"'" % 's'' ue''
Iaeoada wood Is feet io9s 1913 fso' beam i, 10
feet deep onn"fc H. 9 sir | Sg ! H. A"'" "
Fggerla owned w j. q Cassatt.
word was received ~ Lieu'enani-C commander
Ke,lov Yesterday tha, tho Efriia owned by Or. W
sey,arA webb. escaped serious injury az Barnaoy
Island an was a. Boston. her way 70 this port
TYe Roara Inspected tho tugs olympia and Voun-
TO- Yesterday ,or harbor- patrol work CHIEF En-
-,7ee- ulyon was detached rom tho Board yes
,e-iay and assigned 20 work at tho Ne"-forK
%avy Yard
-. -.r,-d - -. uort o, coast defence Lieuten-
A., Nn-srau who - Admiral F,roen's assistant
.sft yesterday. The L., District extends from
tho Canada llne 20 Hampton Harbor. on the New
tfernnshire coast and r. IN charge Of Commander
smith IS Nichols = the retired lis; who has his
headquarters A. Portland. where he mas monitor
and will have two patrol boats
...rho I'D District extends 20 Elisha Ledge. IN
Rhode leland and N. command is IN the hands OF
Commander colby who IS 20 take command OF tho
-ofi,c- 1 Holland and be succeeded BY Commander
Thomas Nelson. retired The monitor Lehgh Is nj
Gloucester and tho Catskill az Boston. where The
,.rryboa,s Ems, Boston and Governor Russell arc
n, duty some patrol vessels Will De assigned there
The Illd District. COMMANDED ny Commander
,y.f. r Field extends % the Shrewsbury 1nlet
u. has ,re Yacht Hist NJ Newport. tho Acen. tho
Vtki-r ,hc Restless and mo Free Lance. with the
monitor Nahnnt AZ this port. and VIII have tho
Jason and another monitor az tho Race. the east
err end % tho sound besides the other vessels 10
be Iut ou.
Tho IVth District extends 20 Metomkin Inlet on
tho virginia coast with Captain ". Il. Reeder IN
rornfnand AZ Philadelphia. where Ia has the Phla-
'a .i- conmana ~ the vth District extending to
Lieutenant Commando G.. / Hutchins' VINO LAS a
monitor and fnr BIG wreckng tps j. -. ' Ts IL IL
HAMPTON Roads and some vessels al the Horioih
NSfE ,hc via District extending TO Jupiter Inlet,
savannah harnOrs IN charge OF Nrutonant-Iotn-
uander conway ~. Arnold ,,, ,,,..- -
tho fylr conaf ~ Florida and the vessels or snlp
sons and s-hleJ's squadrons 30 an NE pauol
cnief port and Tampa. but Lieutenant Commander
@ a. Conwe Is 10 command =. va
I'm tho Win District Commandor A W ad-
,,r,s H. IN corr-ua nd with headquarters az New
Orleans He has several tugs ana y'Stri ~
3D.. Vie,iaslppi The tugs chociaw, Powhatan
~ ,5 Te"oma ara being armed A. the Pensacola
Nax{im suiomatic rapid-nre guns Of the colt pat-