The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-04-20
THE FAMOUS HARTFORD.
Farragu's Flagship Again to show
 Her Teeth-Ready for Sea by Next

Fall.
 The glorious old sloop of war Hart | ford, from whose wooden sides thun- dered the broadsides of Farragut, is to be made an effective part of our navy once more. She was built at the Boston navy yard in the year 1858, and has late ly been thoroughly overhauled, repaired and refitted at the navy yard, Mare 1s ! land. A modern battery has been placed on board, and an additional deck added Ca light spar deck), covering her main | battery from the weather, as well as from injury from small gun protectiles during action. The beams and stringers | of this deck are steel, with steel angles and fastening connections to the wood hull and these are covered with a sub- stantnal deck of California wood
 On this upper or spar deck, around | the rail, is mounted a secondary battery of four six-pounder and one three pounder rapid-fire guns, two Colts and one five-inch gun al the bow on the cen
 ter line. Below this on the gundeck are mounted twelve five-inch rapid-flre guns. This battery of modern guns Is in strong contrast to the ancient smooth bores" that made the Hartford so famous under the command Of the in- vincfble Farragut in the civil war. It is also superior to any of the batteries placed on our late steel gunboats, and but for the danger that would result to her in action, due to splinters and fire, owing to her wooden hull, she would be more than a match for most of our new vessels, also those of foreign navies of near her displacement.
 The vessel is sheathed with copper and having also a large sail spread she is capable of making long voyages with out being obliged to finger near coaling stations. With new boilers and the en- zine put in thorough repair, a speed of twelve knots on two thousand horse power is expected while under sail alone with stiff breeze she Is expected to make speed of nine knots at least
 At a previous session of congress money was appropriated to keep this historic vessel in repair and in active service, most commendable provision. It is noted that foreign governments keep their celebrated naval vessels afoat and in service for generations. Nelsons flagship, the Victory, is one of these
 The dimensions, etc, of the Hartford are:
 Length between perpendlculars, two hundred and twenty-five feet; breadth forty four feet; mean draft of water, eighteen feet two inches; capacity of coal bunkers. two hundred and eighty six tons; complement of officers, thirty two; complement of crew, two hundred and twelve
 It is expected that the vessel will be ready for sea about September 9th, 1899.
 The Hartford was just four years old when Admiral Farragut. commanding the Western Gulf blockadng squadron, of which the famous sloop of war was the flagship, determined to force the passage of the forts and take New Or leans The feat was unquestionably the most brilliant achievement in naval his tory, and has only recently been paral- leled by Dewey's glorious victory at Manila bay The course that Farragut's fleet had to follow to reach the forts was known to De thiekly mined, and all man.
 
 there was no wavering D. the torpe- does," cried Farragut. Ego ahead" And the robust language of the old fire eater took it's place among sentences histori- cal
 Led by the Hartford, from whose sides there belched forth fire, smoke and metal in continuous stream, the squadron passed the Confederate forts Jackson and St. Philip, and took New Orleans on the following day. Farragut then attacked and captured the princi- pal gulf ports of Texas, completing the glorious task he had set for himself. The name of Farragut was henceforth to be enrolled among our leading naval heroes, and the splendid old Hartford is designed to possess the same historical importance to the American people as Neson's flagship Victory to the British. The Vctory's fighting days are over. Her old age is being passed peacefully in harbor amid no more exciting surround ings than the ordinary hum-drum that commerce provides. Her sole mission now Is to stir to patriotic fervor the feel ings of those Of the queens subjects who climb aboard the gray old ship and mediate ecstatically on the glory Of Britain as they gaze on the brass plate on which is inscribed: Here Nelson fell" A more useful life is ahead for the Hartford. Americans can proudly walk her decks as she blows the waves armed with guns of the newest type, more formidable craft by far than that from which Farragut flung his famous defiance to the enemy's explosives. It should be gala day throughout Amer- ca when the Hartford turns her prov seaward once more.--Washingto Post.
 AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION.
 The American Bar association, of which Judge Simeon F. Baldwin is an ex-president, and which has annually assembled in Saratoga, will this year meet in Buffalo, N. Y., August 2S. Jo- seph H. Choate, ambassador to Eng land, is now the president It is under stood that the association will return to Saratoga in 1900
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