The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-11

extend the service TO all parts of the coun-
try. Estimates which will be submitted TO
Congress for the regular free delivery serv-
ice. ii is understood, will be s17.140,000. an
increase of SIS per cent. over the appro
priation for last year.
President Mckinley to-day received
committee from the Union League Club. of
Philadelphia, headed b. Postmaster Gen.
eral Emory Smith,. who presented an invi-
tation to the clubs annual dinner on Nov.
"a. in honor OF founders day. The Presi-
dent accepted the invitation on the condi-
ton that official business permitted. Sec
rotary OF State Hay was an early caller at
the White House to-day, and had quite
long conference with the President
XXX
Admiral Richard. of the French feet in
American waters. will arrive in Washing
ton tomorrow night or Monday morning.
and with the officers Of his staff will make
official calls on the President, Cabinet Of
Monday.
Admiral Bradford, chief of the Naval
Bureau of Equipment. starts tomorrow for
the Pacific coast, in pursuance of orders
from the Navy Department, and will visit
the naval stations at Puget sound and Mare
island, and then go south TO Sandiego.
While at San Francisco he will give some
attention to the question of establishing a
coaling station in San Francisco harbor
The President has appointed Frederick
Strattor, of California, collector of Gus
toms at San Francisco, vice John p Jack
son, deceased.
Captain Folger, of the battleship Kear-
SCARCE, has been appointed chief of staff
to Admiral Farquhar. commanding the
North Atlantic squadron, to succeed Cap
tain Snow, of the New York, which is de-
tached from the squadron.
Word has heen received at the Navy
Department that Lieutenant Commander
George NJ. Stone. executive of The United
States ship Solace was recently severely
injured by the breaking of a ladder on
board the vessel. He declined to go to
the hospital, however and accompanied the
ship from San Francisco to Manila.
The Kentucky left Gibraltar for Algiers
to-day.
Interesting tests are being made at the
cavalry post, Fort Myer. to determine the
relative protection of khaki color and the
blue shirts formerly worn by soldiers.
Complaints have been made to the War
Department that the khaki uniform, on ac-
count OF It's cOlOT, OneTeQ a better target
TO the enemy than the old blue uniform
OF the army. The tests include observa-
tons of garments of different colors at
various distances to determine the relative
conspicuousness under different conditions
OF time and weather.
Lieutenant De Farramond, French naval
attache here. has been making inquiries
to American coal along the same lines as
the French ambassador, NJ. Paul Cambon,
at London, the purpose being to ascertain
If the American product was available in
place of Welsh coal and the French bril-
quett, which are now used by French naval
vessels As a means of testing the Amer
lean coal Lieutenant De Farramond shipped
three hundred tons TO Martinique and about
seven hundred tons TO the French naval
station at Newfoundland. The cruiser Ce-
ellie, now in American waters, took on a
supply of the American coal and has found
1t entirely satisfactory, although this is
attributed to the construction of the French
CRATES, which are made TO accommodate
the large briquettes. The result of the
shipments TO Newfoundland has not yet
been reported, although 1T is taken for
granted from the lack of complaint that
the coal has proved reasonably satisfac-
tory. On the whole, Lieutenant De Far
ramonds observations lead him TO the con-
viction that American coal offers a very
satisfactory substitute for the Cardiff and
other classes OF coal heretofore used ex-
clusiVely on French vessels