The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-01

ing using salt water for bathing and all
other purposes
THE lay mind might suppose that the
object of sending the fleet to Santiago
was 10 have it ready TO jump at the enc
my at the sound OF the general alarm.
There is a touch of the farcicai in build
ing warships, equpping them with power
full machinery, to be able, at the instant
of battle, to get out of them only frac-
ton of their power. But somebody in au-
thority reasoned in the fashion of Gilber-
tan topsy-turveydom. So the American
fleet waited for the Spaniards with engines
uncoupled boilers filed (as they had long
BEEN with salt water when they were not
empty, and half the CRATES clean as wills
ties and as cold as ice boxes.
Then there was the Brooklyn. She
had five doubie-ended and two single-end-
cd boilers, the equivalent of six double
ended boilers, in three water-tight com
partments. She steamed from Hampton
Roads TO the south coast of Cuba, via
Key West, using four boilers and four
engines over the entire distance.
THE commodore or the captain always
designated the number of boilers and en-
glnes to be used on the Brooklyn. In prac-
tice 1t took half an hour or more to couple
the forward pair to the after pair of en-
glnes, and nearly an hour to uncouple
them. There are no friction brakes fitted
70 the Brooklyn's propeller Shafts as in
the case of the triple-screW cruisers; So
aboard the flagship of the Flying Squad
ron, it was necessary, when coupling up
the forward engines, to stop one after en-
CINE and run the other slowly for half an
hour or longer, and then repeat the oper-
alton on the other side of the ship. There
was another way to do it. They could stop
both port and starboard engines, and then
couple up.
vrrFag an. v1,opse
about-on the way from Hampton Roads
to Santiago-the flagship of the United
States Flying Squadron had all her en-
gines and four of her boilers in use. When
she went on the blockade at Santiago and
had the enemy in touch, the flagship of
the Flying Squadron had only half her
| engine power and half her boiler power
ready for use. Did the bridge expert ex-
pect the enemy to signal Please connect
your engines and boilers, and be good
enough to light your fires; l am coming
| out? Admiral Cervera was polite enough
to pay the Brooklyn the compliment of
| his best intentions. He acknowledges
| that he thought her the fastest of the
| United States ships, and that his hope was
| to disable or sink her.
ManOeuvers of the FIagships.
admiral schley Commodore, as he then
| was) turned his ship to starboard, swung
20 the south, and ran seward before TAX
| ing up a parallel course with the now re-
| treatino Snaniards Scb1ev is raported IN
| ba,Te ,,7rned his shin in order IN a,,oid he
mo ranonoed II rnip1t he asked WIN he
| didn't do the ramming himself. But, if
| he had desired to do it, and if his ship had
| been built for IT. he couldn't have mana &c
it with only half his engine He had
| steam only in three three boilers; of his re-
naming boilers some had water. others
| were EMMY The interesting maneuvers
| of the Rrool,1vn viii he none the less in
| terestina if II is found on Investigation.
| that st9ndine orders from the bridge TO
| the engine room had deprived the shin of
! so much of her power that she had to turn
| her heel and keep at a respectful distance
from the Spaniard.
| "After The general alarm, was sounded
| there was nothing for it but to fill the
| Broolxlvn's erptv boilers with sea wafer
| rThen the fires had 10 he la4d aud started
| Just before the Colon s1rrendered-that is
| inst at the end of the battIe-au the
| Rrooklvn's boilers were sfeaning at max
| irnum pressure. But the forward engines
were. of course. uncoupled still. There had
been no time TO stop or 60 slow up. The
engineers had their hands fun with the
job of showing the ship after the Spaniard.
then pulling her away from him. and then
running WIN MN SO llidt 'iie man oeI,n IN
| ~ go l, -. -,
Brooklyhs actual running tI'ne over tile
Iorey-nVe Hllies from MORO 70 inc sudhu-
ed Colon was '"Iee n 40 anu nli'e s .
| mlhutes-a sPeeo Ol lo-Vo hiio's' anu aiei
| rated speed uiluer ndtuI dl uIdush' luli
| power Is 10 khoIs' uiiuer lolceu uIausht Il
| Knots.
But the 6rooAtyh was not 'ne oiny
snip caught rhawares on 'lat hustalns
sunday morhlhs OH Santlaso pay SAM
sons Hagshlp, the Ne" ork' was one OF
me lame DUCKS o. 'he nee. ne 'ilil lns
distance between her eastward posllioa
and the line OF dash OF CerVera was not
what kept her ou' Oh tle I'd rlsr Iol-
| ward engines, by ORDERS IRON the prluse'
| We're disconnected. 1here were Doiiers ols-
connected, empty aud, OF course, nreless.
Three hours after the new horK started
on her westward chase she mad steam IN
all her boilers, Her engines are like those
| in the Brooklyn Their condltlon at 9;5O
that Sunday morning we're precisely SINH
lar The New York s running time, forty
| fa-et hn