New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-09

knots fifty-twO days. 1t is generally understood
that the plan of alterations will include cutting
the vessel in two and lengthening her THIS
would be expensive operation. costing proDa-
bly, no less than 100000. but by giving more
room in the ships hold it would greatly increase
her coal-carrying capacity and thus remedy her
present condition of being "overpowered"
The Raleigh is classed as a warship Of the
ond rate She is a protected cruiser Of 1913
tons. with engines Of 10000 horse-powe She Is
800 feet long and ~ feet wide at her greatest
I breadth and draws Is feet Of water She IS
| driven by means OF twin screws, but is rugged
besides as a two-masted schooner, having
spread of sail Of more than seven thousand
! square feet Her foremost has barbetted mill
tary top for machine guns. OF which she carries
two Her main battery consists of the o-lnch
rapid-fre gun already mentioned, and ten o-inch
rapid-fre guns In her secondary battery are
eight G-pounders. four l-pounder rapid-hre
guns. and two field guns. She has. besides TOUR
torpedo tubes, and carries six Whiteheah tor-
pedoes. Her fighting force In the patue Oh
Manila Bay consisted OF go officers ana men,
II was Just seven years ago. on March 81,
1892 that the Raleigh was launched at the
Norfolk Va1 Navy Yard. where she was built.
At that time she was STILL of course, far from
being completed. When she went into commits
eion her first commander was Captain Merrill
Miller now in charge Of the receiving ship YER
mont. at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. He assumed
command on April II, 1894. and kept it until
January G. 1897, when the present COMMANDER
CAPTAIN Joseph b. Coghlan, succeeded him.
HER PREVIOUS WORK.
During Captain Miller's command. and for
soroa time after CAPTAIN Coghlan took charge OF
her. the Raleigh on the European station
| IN the Mediterranean She left there at the first
signs of coming trouble with Spain, and pro-
ceeded through the Suez Canal to the Asiatlc
citation where she rendezvOused at Hong Kong
with the Boston, the Petrol. the Concord ana
later the Baltimore and became part or the
SQUADRON under Dewey. the flagship being the
Olympia.
Although the battle at Manila was the first
eobt ~ the Raleighs career. her guns had been
u,eu tested at target practice. in which she had
made remarkable records. When Rear-Admlral
Runce's squadron went TO sea, about three years
ago the Raleigh. steaming twelve Knots an
hour demolished all the targets set up at the
l 800 and 1000 yard ranges The performance
froouentlv won from the flagship the signal
well done. Raleigh.
Contain Coeblan. who is a fne-looknG man.
about six feet tall we'll BUILT and of rather dark
complexion is a Kentuckian. lie was graduated
from the Naval Academy in May, 1868, in time
70 see service in the latter years of the CiVl
War AS an ensign he was attached to the
steam sloop Sacramento. which was on special
seryice After the war, first as master ana theh
as lieutenant. he was for two years on the
steam sloop Brooklyn, the flagship OF the Brazil
squadron lie thereafter executive oii'cer
on various vessels, was made lieutenant-con-
mander in 1868 and was in charge of the steam
sloop Richmond on the European station from
that year until 1871. For the next seven or eight
Years he served in various places-on the North
Atlantic and Asiatc stations, and at the hydro
graphic Office In 1882 he became n commander,
and was on the Pacific station with dinerent
vessels and at the Mare Island Navy Yard. un-
III 1890 From then until 1894 he was Inspector
Of Ordnance at the League Island Navy Yard,
end then Lighthouse Inspector until lSJ'' when
he took command OF the Raleigh He had re-
ceiyed his commission as captain in November.
| 1896.