The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-07-16
wsshinston's statue in Paris.

u
ing season. or nearly $4,000 900 above the
amount at the close of 1880
Washington's statue I'm Paris.
The equestrian statue Of George Wash
Inston, given by the American women 10
france and unveiled in Paris July 2 ts
bronze hgure OF heroic size about AZ
teen feet in height to the top of the
mead OF Washington and from twenty
TWO TO twenty-three feet TO the point Of
me uplfted sword washington IL rep
resented in full military costume. taking
command OF the American army at Cam
bridge, July 3, iTTs, and defeating his
sword to the service OF his country The
pedestal Is Of granite and marble, and
Is about fourteen feet In height and clas-
sic In treatment. The statue was cast
in bronze In New York The architect 1.
an American. and the scuiptors, Daniel
9. French. who modelled the figure Of
washington. and Edward c. Potter. who
made the horse. are both Americans.
BnttIeshfp Kentucky's Test.
The Official report OF the trial board
upon the battleship Kentucky shows that
the United States now possesses another
hne fighting machine. The repor. says:
II was decided TO fire all guns stimuli
taneously from each turret AT 100 Yards
range, and then each gun singly at ex-
treme elevation. beginning with the for
forward turret. tho command Fire was
given from the coming tower by battle
order system. The right thirteen-inch
gun OF forward turret was fred. followed
few seconds later by the discharge OF
the right eight-inch gun or the same tur.
ret.
The temporary electric firing appar-
atus was arranged so that at a prelimi-
nary order all the gun captains closed
individually their hand firing keys The
guns were then fired simultaneously by
the turret officer pressing a button. The
thirteen-inch gun in the forward turret,
however, discharged prematurely. and in
removing primers the right eight-inch
gun was also discharged prematurely.
During the turret gun tests. the blasts
from the eight-inch guns did not incon-
venience the persons at the thirteen-inch
guns. Measurements taken by the boa rd
showed that the recoil OF the turret struc-
ture from the right thirteen-inch gun
was three-eights Of an inch, and the re-
sultant rotation OF the turret was eieh-
and three-quarter inches. In the after
turret the recoii OF the turret structure
due to salvo guns at 400 yards elevation
was s-32 Of an inch"
Mrs. Stewards New Venture.
Announcement is made here that Mrs
Bessie Stewart. daugnter-in-law to Sem
ator Stewart. is making preparations to
open a dressmaklng ana millinery es-
Establishment in New York city. This IL
not the first instance In which Mrs Stew.
art has shown executive ability Several
years ago on her return from European
trip she took charge OF her father-in
laws stock farm In Loudon county, Vir-
ginia. In four years OF her management
II was transferred from a place OF tum-
BILE down buildings TO a model ranch and
the monetary returns were equally salts
factory. considerable debt was paid
on and Mrs. Bessie Stewart handed the
place back to her fatrer-in-law In every
way the better for her reign. During her
residence In Loudon county Mrs. Stewar,
kept In touch with fashionable society
through the giving OF frequent house par
ties. 20 which hocked the notables OF
Washington. New York and Newport.
Members of Mrs Stewards family stat
ed that her idea In the business venture
IL solely that money can be made. and
for this no apology Is offered or requir-
ed. She has two sons. of whom one II
now n member of the marine corps at
tending the war college at Newport this
summer the other. the younger. IL
finishing a course nj Harvard. after
which he intends 20 study law. From
her sons Mrs. Stewart can expect no
monetary assistance She IL determined
to no longer be dependent upon her
father-in-law's bounty, and she sees a
solution OF the problem In the dress.
making line.