The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-04-05
CURIOUS NAVAL STORCS.
Remarkable Equipment of Ship for
Thrpe-Tears' Cruise.

Three-Iears' Cruise.
Any of the vessels Of the Unlte1
States navy, If stranded on an islanl,
would inu al most enough material IN
her general stores to tab.ish and
maintain community on shore. Each
ship is So we'll equipped with mas
of diversified material that she Is able
to go on three-years' cruis, without
replenishing supplies, except OF pro-
visions and clothing. A vessel OF the
battlesbip class carries fully one hun
dred tons of stores, tue vaue Of which
would he half million dollars.
The list of naval stores for each
ship is prepared in the navy de art
meut, where the expe.ience of many
years determines the needs of the Ser
vice. Tne weight OF diderent artic es
is carefully ascertalned and the re ord
faithfully preserved. The books Il
the depa :tment show, for instance,
the weight of the crauk-pin bolt OF the
forward s,arboard engine of the Ore
gon, or the weight Of The salty valve
of NO. l auxiliary boiler. It is pos
sible for naval engineer to take the
diameter of smoke pipe and to trace
out the dimensions and general char
acseristics Of the ship, Just as tue
scientists will take fossil bone OF an
extinct animal and furnish picture
OF build skeleton OF it.
For convenience in ledger accounts
the naval stores are divided into 2
classes, and they embrace every con-
ceivaDle article likely to be neeled
during a three-years' term on board a
ship of wal destined to visit strange
ports and to encounter unusual con-
ditions. The possible needs of a
naval ship have been very apt y anti
cipated, although the list will show
many articles which will strike an
outsider as curious. For instance, a
man on tae iarm, VINO knows vessel
only as thing of masts and ropes,
would hardly expect to encounter on
shipboard plows, pitchforks, raSes,
spade, chicken coops, carriages and
wagons, carriage whips, curry omHs,
horse collars, and mules and oxen.
! Some idea of the diversity of vari-
Gus articles classed under one head is
afforded by the item of brushes, OF
which these varieties are requi ed:
artists dabble, badger. bench, black
in 90 blind, br, - p
hair, cattle,<> chiscl, clam
painters, colr, co.or, dust, 5
tory, feather, feather dustii III
floor, 1lue, foundry, frescoe, IL
tips, glue, grsining-combs, 49,
hearth, horse, kaIsomipsgs;. a g
lamp chimney, lett2x al Kin
mottler. IL oulder's, painters, painter
dust, paste, pencil, roofing, sable
sash tool, scrub, shaving, ships sea
ing, shore, sten:il, steel wire, stove
streaking, sweeping, tar, tooth, tube
varnish, wall, whitewash, window
wire.
: Another subject with many sides
that Of oil, of viii b the different kln''
are armorer's tool, belt, boiled an
raw lllSSeN, CISoulHS, S"A oo-Ao' wv
bon, castor, clock, cocoanut, cotton
seed, carne, cylinder, engine, hsf
gargling, gasoline, hard finish, krre
sene, lard, liluid cooler, lubricati e
machine Mecca, mineral, naphths
natural, neat's-foot, olive, paraftir
reroleum, polishing, sperm, spindle
sweet, synovial, tea, vacuum, valve
whale.
Arlc es with quite widely separate
, utility are closely associate l in th
, alphabetical classification, sometime
to an interesting degree, as when "
find that collins, clothespins, clarinet
and clapboards are together, or grave
gravy bouts, Greek fire and gridiror
are grouped in another place. Th
other curious items wlich help max
up a ships equipment are anliron'
drums, earrings (rigging), letter boxe
rags, razors, lap robes, umbrella
, bread boxes, box openers, cat mea
coal breakers, cravats, corset lacin;>
. diamond-tools, DEVILS claws, dog vane
dynamite, fireworks, hour glasses
iewsharps pertaining to the anchor
} Jacobs ladders, pedometers and II
traps.-Saturday Evening Post.