Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-08-29
QUEEN OF NE navy
The New Battle Ship Alabama
Makes Remarkable Record
For Speed.
Eclipses All Records Of Her Glass
in the Speed Trial
tuesday.
Test Made Under Favorable Condi.
tions-An Average of seven.
teen Knots Made

Boston, Aug. 20 Five great battle
ships lined up off Cape Ann yesterday
and saw their Youngest sister. the Ala
ba1ia. take her place as queen Of this
American navy after a speed trial
(which is declared TO be the most re-
rnailSable ever Witnessed in this 5co,ln-
try.
The Alabanla made an average speed
Ief seNenieen# knots for four hours con-
tlnupus stearnlng. This speed which is
a full knot above the contract require
'1ls,lt, was attained without forcing her
Emaehiners and the Cramps. the build
cts Of the neW battleshir declare ii can
| be edaaled Al any time under ordinary
conditions.
| II is not quite as high as the record
lsmade BY the Iowa. butts considerid a
I, better performance when allowance is
simaas for conditions attending the tri-
s.: 'FShs ieNa, X hen she left her build
s,s hands in 1897. was officially re-
lcortasd al l,ai, Her speed trial Vas
fnaaeS under the Very best possible can-
lditiers. .Aftsr q lapse of more t.,an TWO
years the Kentucky ON seps "a, and
lstEo lNearsnrge iwo months later. came
Ire tl3e New England coast. and lndsl.
l*aVarable but not extraordinary condi-
l5ti0rs made 1881 and 1859. knots re-
EssiseeltVely. Those tiures have new been
| beatsll. by a marrow margin tc. be sure
Ibui the .alabana apparently was not
inlade 10 do but little beyond her mean
speed.
| The Alahama, while OF the first class.
us unlike any Gf&the earlier Warships
li3@tli enthusiastically and as a iightirg
llnaeiltne. and Tor this reason The trial
lsat@used nuch interest among naval
linen. The tssl was under lils aifeetion
Ijuf the board d Inspection ana survey.
Dreaded by Roar Admiral Frederick
! Rodgtis. Among the guests on board
INes Rear Admiral !lenlll4n, Y. 5. NJ;
lesalsts. BShr and f'ensen and ldeuts,
.syetbieff and Nasiiisf II the imperial
4 Russian navy, Judge j. *. AIccanS
insfiti and Gen. q. u. Williams, Of Wasns
tingten, Hon. Conrad A: Diehl,. OF Isuf-
/ faiy and George S. Graham. Of Phsla-
aeIphia.
\ The day WasEan excellent one. The
starting line Mtis ii We miles southeast
Gf Thatcher Island light, aeSar tlla AK
tgenlity III Cape Ann, The courss then
[ ran about nprtl-not.heast for thirty
illree nautical nilles divided as near as
/ characterization could make them nate five
.legs. oyer this course the battlss1ltpdid
tItr - III hours gif 81 "a ming and in aadi-
.EstiQIl MAS, tss.ged far control and steering
power The stakaboat' We're The bat
itesiiips Texas MASSACHUSETTS,, Indiana
4 Kentucky and kearsarse.
s. Tie trial lasted from 1880 until 80,
iaa'oltici, and the new Tss's,sl was, gfestst
i by great yflla from ne iackiss on ne'
l88sistess' as she retuinedta the finish iisIe
.AftalStt5 he slli 10 wa $ circledsat FIJI
spfs{i, with The Texas as the center uf-
4 .til s}a Mas clfsaviilg 4 va kea@hich ti3 d.
ainat,sr WAS not OYER twice ls.i' langth
1 Fifteen minute, later the Alabama was
u ileafed for Boston light the red flag al
3 gfise trial had been rtI1laced by tbs
i Cramps HOUSE flag and broom hac
j been sent aloft
The tfiial thruout 10 Il sc 5; ramps
Isown words, wasa success in every par
3 tienlar.
The horse power developed was SUP
i posed 70 b. 1l,50n. aitno this figure lii.
d those for speed. Will be officially givcI
II al Xsrf s,i1i +, ert on