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an ordnance officer, both most competent,
whose services were utilized in the emer-
gency of our late war with Spain to learn
the actual condition OF forts, armament,
and personnel. These inspections were both
ordered by the Secretary of War. The re-
ports resulting from these inspections gave
the War Department for the first time. the
real state of every emplacement, gun car
riage, and gun of the modern armament
inspected by them.
In each military geographical depart
ment in which there are the headquarters
of one or more regiments OF artillery. the
Army Regulations provide for an artillery
officer on the staff of the department com
mander, who is styled the artillery in
spector The department commander is
| not only without authority TO send this
officer 10 inspect the personnel and mate
rial Of the artillery posts in his command
| but is prohibited by law from so doing
This officer is available for almost any mil
itary duty except that Of artillery inspec-
! ton. In no military department may its
commanding general select for the purpose
and send an officer, under his command,
OF sufficient professional qualifications to
duplicate the inspections Of Majors DuYal
and Crozier.
1T is no reflection on the accomplished
officers who compose the Inspector Gener
ais Department to say that no officer in
| that corps has the qualifications as an ar
| tillery and ordnance expert TO reproduce
the inspections of the officers just named.
Il cannot find outside of the United
States a service in the world where inspec-
tions of coast artillery are made except by
artillery officers.
The reasons for relief from such inspec-
tions are similar and equally convincing for
the three branches. II is certainly inju-
dicious to follow a system of inspection in
peace which must, as in our recent ex-
perience, be thrown over in war.
1T may very pertinently be asked if the
artillery in the Department of the East,
and more than half of the artillery in the
United States is in this department, is
more or less efficient than in 1898. The
department commander has asked me this
same question, but | could not give him
conclusive answer, because, rs before
stated he is without authority TO send an
officer with sufficient professional qualifi-
cations TO ascertain the actual condition
! OF the artillery under his command. How
ever since Major CroZier's inspection, two
of the five artillery regiments in this de-
partment have been removed, in the mean
time the enlisted strength of a battery has
been reduced from 200 men 10 120 and in
addition. many new fortifcations have been
turned over by the Engineer Department
for occupation by artillery troops. An in
crease OF work with less men to do the
work seldom lends itself to an increase OF
efficiency.
The improvements Lag.
THE correspondence OF this office shows
that the Chief of Engineers has not only
been wiling TO do all that deyolyes upon
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AFRICA's BILLIoNAIRE.
Alfred Reit Said TO be the Richest
Man i'm the World.
60 ID RaItimore -. J

I CFrom the Baltimore SUM
| number Of lists OF the world S
! richest men. published recently. have had
/ at their head the name of Alfred Belt. who
! is reDuted to be worth $1,000 000. 0OO
Ii Hung Chang. the veteran Chinese
statesman was commonly accorded. up TO
/ a recent time the distinction Of being the
! richest of men. His fortune is usually
/ estimated at from Si00, 600 600 to 5000 600, e.
: 600. Bus nov Belt is generally believed to
| be richer than he though the extent of
| the South African magnate's fortune is
! necessarily a matter Of conjecture to a
/ considerable degree.
| Belt is q German by birth. and made
| his money much like Cecil Rhodes. the
| English Napoleon of South Africa. But
] there is an essential difference. so says
| common report, between the two men,
/ Rhodes is dashing, sensational pOliti-
clan as Well as a diamond magnate. Belt
| keeps out CT the public vision as much as
! possible and devotes nearly all OF his ecar-
/ gies 10 amassing wealth.
The preceding despatch indicates that
| Rhodes has gotten his friend BsiJ-for they
| are close friends-to take up the Cape-to-
! Cairo telegraph project. The line through
| German East Africa is to be q part of this
! Rhodesian dream. Last winter Rhodes
Was in Berlin. talked with the Emperor,
i sion 10 construct the line through German
territory Perhaps the plans have been
changed and it is necessary TO send Belt
to arrange a new deal. Rhodes is busy
just now for the Beers have got him coop
ed up in Kimberley. and he can't get away
without running a big risk of having all
his vast projects suspended by the ping
of a Mauser bullet.
Ayfred Belt was a well educated mer-
the office. But about the time he was en-
teTing business there was a sudden COM
merce with the young South African town
of Kimberley which promised such deyeI-
opmeut that his firm considered il wise TO
send a representative into the new marvel
land to see if the resources of the country
justified the big credits which the traders
i'm all sorts OF stores and machinery were
demanding from Hamburg merchants
Diamonds, wealth in its most concentrated
form. had been found in the Orange River
country and reports came OF even greater
diamond mines found in Kimberley. So
the conservative Hamburg firm, of which
the elder Belt was q member felt the i'm
petus of the new trade strongly enough 20
induce 1t to send out and inves tigate.
This sort of work required the yigor and
health and activity and. perhaps the en-
thusiasm Of 4 youngster. and so Alfred
| Belt then twenty-five years OF Gge. was
Quilted with credit with arms. with let
ters of introduction, aud set sail for Cape
Town. Thence he went by bullock team
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him. z The Chief Signal Officer and the
Chief Of Ordnance always express a win
ingness TO do all that is required, yet the
work lags and lags to such an extent that
not a single artillery fire command in the
United States is properly equipped
1T has been wisely said by an English
authority that an artillery personnel can
not be improvised in time Of war. 1t re
quires, to become efficient, long sustained
and careful training in time of peace.
The lack of a sufficient force properly
trained. to care for the modern armament
and TO man our new forts is serious
menace to artillery efficiency. We do not
have TO go back to ancient history for an
example. At the beginning of the late
war with Spain, naval experts in Europe
generally believed, basing their judgment
on the published data of the war vessels,
that the Spanish navy was superior to our
own. In the Spanish navy as in or artil-
lery, there was the modern armament, but
an inadequate personnel trained to man the
guns. Spain's policy in this respect in
vited the disaster which was meted cut 10
her.
ITO illustrate the insufficiency of troops
supplied with the number required for
the actual service OF the armament, let
us take a single harbor. Portland. Me,
and state the personnel needed to man the
guns row mounted or provided for. In
this estimate, based upon the drill regu-
lations for the coast artillery there will
not be a single oflieer or man without def
mite duties, in other words, not a person
for reserve, or guard or for the sick. For
the defence of this harbor there should be-
assigning the appropriate grade for each
duty:
"One fortress commander, a colonel, two
district commanders, lieutenant colonels.
six fire or mortar Battery commanders,
majors, two captains on fortress staff, two
lieutenants on district staff. thirteen cap
tains OF batteries thirteen first lieutenants
OF batteries. thirteen second lieutenants of
batteries, and 1.124 enlisted men.
please compare this with the actual con-
ditions on the 3Gth of June. The garrison
for the artillery defence Of this harbor was
then one captain, one first lieutenant, one
second lieutenant and 129 men, and one of
the most important approaches to the inner
harbor is without a soldier to guard it.
There is no artillery available to remedy
this state OF affairs, yet this harbor is only
one day distant from the naval station at
Halifax.
The orders of the War Department and
Army Regulations clearly direct that the
Ordnance Department shall supply the
blanks needed for artillery practice. This
practice season is now at hand. but in all
cases of record in this Office applications for
these blanks have been refused by the Chief
of Ordnance.
Chinese Tradition.
1T has been generally accepted by the
public, and even believed by many who
have made more than casual study OF
military affairs, that men who have been
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Only few copies left send today. The
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Sl.25 HOmespun and Broad
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As You enter our store you viii ind
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that the Engineer Department, working
under the same laws, has under its present
chief given the artillery no cause for COM
plant, would seem TO indicate that some
thing is wrong besides the law
This condition gives rise TO the often
expressed desire OF the artillery for a chief
Of that arm who would see that it is sup
piled with what it needs to be effective
but ] personally have very grave doubts as
10 this being the most suitable remedy, as
il may result in adding another bureau to
the War Deparement, which it may be as
difficult 10 make efficient as some of those
already in existence.
Il desire, in addition, TO call especial at
tenJion TO the following points in the re-
port OF the artillery Inspector:
"First-The failure OF the Quartermas-
rer's Department to make timely provision
for housing the garrisoBs at new artillery
posts.
'Second-The necessity for providing at
artillery posts permanent post non-com-
missioued staff of specialists. i. e.. &c
trician and observer sergeants.
"Third-The recommendation that the
strength of the coast artillery be fXel at
The number OF officers and men required TO
fully man the guns
1t is also observed that the artillery
should be inspected by artillery officers,
and he fact that the department com
f1aUGer's artillery inspector has no power
10 inspect is a patent absurdity and one
which I urge may be disposed Of at an
early date.
The means Of making any arm of he
scgricc all 81 should be should rest with
the general commanding the geographical
department IN which said arm OF the ser
wee is stationed.
MuFnr
The main points Of Major Story's exhaus-
.iyo report as the inspector OF artillery OF
the department are as follows: He refers
TO the report Of Major William Crozier.
United States Volunteers, made during the
late war with Spain TO determine the eff
cheney OF the new armament in our posts.
etc. which report states as a general con-
clusicn th9. lit cannot be said that the ar
tilleTy is, or has been recently, in any
but an inefficient state Major Story then
goes on 10 say that Major Crozier finds
al one post a very efficient garrison, at
another the reverse. IN either case the
measure Of efficiency IS determined by the
zeal ana ability. or want OF these traits,
in the immediate commanding officer There
is no ore person in our Army who is re-
ponsible for the efficiency Of the artillery
| for tho whole service There Is no officer,
Eho. C master Of artillery knowledge. can
prescribe = standard of efficiency and have
the power &c enforce it in all our artillery
CarrisOns' He continues:
Since the installation CT the modern
armament ; have seen only two inspections
Of any special value from the artillery
standpoint. these 0f Majors DuyaI and
C.ozier, late inspectors general. United
States Volunteers, one an artillery, another
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ARTILLERY ON THE COASTS
Tle Present System Inadequate
and Clumsy.

The Recent Report OF Major General
Merritt calls Attention to the De
fects-ImpossIbiIirie of Means of
Inspection-Congrc May BE Cali
ed tpon 10 Remedy the Trouble.
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N,,fuI ENnerience ,.ith Hcart D.

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A Chinese Tradition.

1T has been generally accepted by the
public, and even believed by many who
have made more than casual study OF
military affairs, that men who have been
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The improvements Lag.

Il he ImprONemenIs Ing.
The correspondence OF this Office shows
that the Chief of Engineers has not only
been wiling to do all that devolyes upon
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Finest Mercerized Satine Under5kirts
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The evening times., 1899-06-03
CoLUMBIA's ToPMAsT.
1t IL Many Feet Longer Than That
of Defender.

Oh De1en0efs
Bristol, R. l.. June 3.-The arrival this
morning of the 62-foot topmast of the Ise-
lin Morgan cup champion Columbia re-
moved all doubt concerning a point re-
peatedly made during the last two months
that Columbia's mast and topmast will
tower many feet above the old cup de-
tenders.
1t also shows that the greatest gain in
Columbia's sail area over that of Defend
er will be high up in the air where it will
catch and hold every Whit of breeze cal
culated to increase her sailing length be-
yond the limit in the Americas Cup deed
of gift, increase her speed corresponding
ly, and yet result in no penalties.
The Columbia's well-rounded topsides
have been constructed with special refer
ence to this feature, and she is expected
to sail fastest when her lee rail is buried
deepest.
Defenders topmast measured only 57.42
feet practically a yard and half short
than Columbia's Oregon pine spar, which
was made by the East Boston Spar Com
pany, but not finished In time to be for
warded on the vessel which brought the
towering mast, boom, gaff, bowsprit. spin
maker boom, and club topsail poles.
Two fat cars were used in bringing 1t
here and big lumber wagon was called
into service to take 1t to the Herreshoff
shops, where it will be carefully covered
up until after Columbia's temporary, or
substitute, Oregon pine mast is stepped
week after next.
1t is felt here that Columbia's sail plan
will be a revelation and a. marvel when it
is seen in the international contests of
Sandy Hook next October. Not single one
of the old sail-makers 'hereabouts will ad-
NIT that he believes the suit of sails to be
used in the warming-up trials with De-
fender will be carried in the championship
races with Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock.
Ali hold to the opinion bordering on
conviction due to intimate association with
the willy designer, Nat Herreshoff, that
as he gave Defender a far larger spread
for her races with valkyrie III he will do
likewise with Columbia and keep her sail
plan. as he is trying to keep her keel lines,
a secret to the last.
No one here thinks he made a mistake
in designing Defenders first suit Of sails.
It was done with intent to mislead as to
Defenders real driving power and 1t sue
seeded admirably. to the utter discontinue
Of the experts who wanted q boat built
elsewhere to defend the Americas cup and
saw little to be admired in Bristol built
90-footer.
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Eengecnce.
CFrom the Detroit Free Press.l

(from the Detroit Free Press
One Of Detroit's business men, who has a
delightful summer home on the top of a
hill between Birmingham and Pontiac.
tells Of an experience he had last season:
when out there / always take a nap
after my noon meal. No tropical resident
thinks more of his siesta. One afternoon
/ was awakened by loud shouting at the
front gate, which is at least 600 feet from
the house. I went to the front door, rub
bing my eyes and badly out Of temper
What do you want? 1 called sharply to
the man. who sat coolly astride his horse
as though l had no rights that he was
bound to respect.
:" Have you seen stray dog pass here
in the last hour?
MOI I snapped, and turned back into
the house. There the thought and inspira-
tion for revenge seized me simultaneously.
hurried to the kitchen. grasped the big
dinner horn. returned to the porch, waited
till my tormenter was at the top of the
opposite hill. half mile away and then
blew blast that seemed to echo from the
horizon. He turned to see me waving
towel over my head and, recognizing the
signal, dashed recklessly down the hill,
spurred his horse to the top of the bluff
on which l live. and fairly threw him on
his launches at the gate. Did you re call
seeing him, after all?' he hallooed.
o, no. / answered pleasantly, 4 just
wanted to ask whose dog he was.' -
Il don't think that l ever heard any
other man swear SO fuently."