Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-07-21

floor are the exhibits of the Russian navy
and the military engineers. The naval ex-
hibt has proved revelation to experts.
and it is obvious that hereafter the Russian
navy will be spoken of as one of the great
est in the world. All around you you find
models of vessels that have already rem
dered high service to the empire, and OF
others that are in course of construction or
are just finished. One Of these models is
the protected cruiser Bayan, 1000 tons,
that was launched this week at Toulon.
Another represents the Variag, constructed
at the Cramps shipyards in Philadelphia,
and which will make its first trip to Europe
this month. The Bogatir. built in Germany.
and just about completed. is the third of
Russias newest acquisitions in the way of
armored cruisers. All these cruisers carry
fifty guns. and have a speed of twenty-one
knots. Though built in different parts of
the world the models show them to be uni
form in general design. demonstrating, as
was remarked by a well-known naval eX-
pert, that though Russia goes here and
there to have her cruisers built, they are
distinctly and emphaticaly Russian in in
vention and design.
If the visitor is disposed to think that
Russia is incapable of building her own
warships. he changes his mind when he
sees the model of the Gromoboi, gigantic
and formidable looking ironclad of ID 900
tons, that was built and entirely equipped
in Russia As sample of the sort of ves-
sci that fights for the car she is most i'm
posing. Dolble-turreted. looking as invul-
nerable as a rock, she is majestic in her
proportions and graceful in her lines. Her
armament consists of twenty-eght 1O-inch,
S-inch and finch guns. and thirty guns of
smaller caliber. OF 10-inch leviathans she
carries no less than four. Swinging from
her davits are two torpedo boats, each
equipped with two latest model steel tor
pedoes- The monster has speed of about
twenty knots.
OF such marine glada tors as these is the
Russian navy constituted. AS seen by
models exhibited. Russia has also a number
of smaller cruisers of about 2 uvith
speed of twenty-three knots. whose eff
cheney has been frequently demonstrated.
She also possesses very practical form
OF torpedo boat and torpedo boat DESTROYER
of about $50 tons. and capable of a speed
Of twenty-eight knots. OF this particular
model there will soon be fifty in the Rus
sian navy
Russian Naval Inventions.
1t is very evident that Russia has not
been any the less progressive in the infin-
itesimal correlative details of her navy than
she has been in her warships. All around
you see that the march of improve
ment has been correspondingly great in the
matter of armament. and the thousand and
one things that go to make up an efficient
naval service Here an6 there are evil
dences that her inventors have more than
kept pace with the times. An enormous
eight-inch, 45-caliber cannon, for instance,
iildue DIT ADouhOl, near 81. petersburg, Is
equipped with a mercury reservoir quite a
new thing in artillery science, which was
invented by Captain Miller Russian Of
fcer of marine artillery. Other Russian in
ventors have applied most practical and in
genious notifications to weil-known exist
ing ordinances. tending to enhance their val
ne or simplify their mechanism very con-
siderably.
In the general line of inventions the
showing IS a most interesting one. Thus
multftudes of things about a ship have been
vastly improved upon. not only in navi-
eating appliances and apparatus for hand
ing ammunition when in action, but in
such minor matters as contribute to the
comfort of officers and crew. A young
Russian officer has invented a form of teIe-
phone through which the slightest sound is
audible, whatever may be the disturbing
noises about the ship. The same telephone
Is made applicable to submarine uses by
divers Indeed, the inventions devoted to
promoting the efficiency of the diving sery-
ice are innumerable. This service is one
that occupies a conspicuous place in the
RUSSIAN navy, and under the minister of
marine Is an important divers school at
Cronstadt. where a two years course of
study trains sailors for efficient submarine
work Among the many recent inventions
OF value IN this line is a pump enabling a
diver to descend to a depth of go feet be-
low the water surface. Another invention
OF similar KIND is submarine photo
graphic camera and outfit
An interesting exhibit is made of the 11ses
OF aluminium and other light weight, dur
able metals in the finishings of war yes
sells. and the display of ship armorings
from the Kalpino works further demon
strate the great advance in Russias con-
structiye skill.
The Army Exhibit.
On the upper floor Of the Russian SER
ton in the army and navy palace are
shown the various uniforms worn in the
imperial service. These are disnlaved nv
an interesting collection of nfe-like wax
figures. Standing in a group before
statue OF the czar are officers in the bril-