Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-11-11
ARMY AND NAVY.
Naval Growth Shown by In
crease in Use Of Coal.
Work on Naval Vessels PROGRESSING
The Army Transport Service.
Valuable Points on Clothing for Soldiers
Philippine military Changes.

Washington, Nov. IA striking IL
lustration of the growth OF the Ameri-
can navy is presented in the single
statement, in the annual report OF Rear
Admiral r. B. Bradford. chief OF the
euuipment bureau of the navy. that ne
spent s2.213ll1 in the last fiscal year.
for 324, los tons of coal. at an average
cost of $1.01 per ton. The report says
,hat This was nearly 95.113 more tons
or coal than was used during the pre-
ceding fiscal Year 1en years ago the
coal consumption WAS $4,000 tons per
annum. The domestic coal east $50
per ton and the foreign coal OF winch
there were used l05. 0e6 tons cost $S.'"
per ton.
Admiral Bradford has scattered
American coal all over the Worid.
wherever suitable storage could be
found He has placed l2,ooo tons AT
Yokohama. and 5000 tons at Plchiiin-
uue. Mexico. and has sent large guam
titles TO Guam and 10 the Philippines
He carried 5000 tons by water from the
Atlantic coast to Mare island, cal.
when if came into competition with
English Cardifl coal. They have aver
aged the same in cost. VIZ SS.29 per
ton but AT present. owing to the
scarcity of American freight vessels.
the best Cardiff coal is considerably
cheaper at Mare island.
II is recommended that TWO large
steam golfers be built to keep depots
supplied in time of peace and 10 accom-
pany the fleets in time OF war.
Admiral Bradford says very little
about his favorite project in a trans
Pacific submarine telegraph cable, con-
1enting himself with the statement that
III. bureau is now i'll possession of all
data required, so far as surveys are
concerned, to lay this cable.
Advances of ; per cent. in the work
on the battleships Maine and Missouri
and good starts on the new battleshipS
Georgia New Jersey and Rhode Island
are shown in the report of the naval
bureau of construction and repair. just
made public. showing the state of the
work on the vessels building for the
navy. The Maine now stands at % per
cent completed and the Missouri al IS.
Two per cent. of the work on the
Georgia. New Jersey and Rrode Island
has beer completed. The battleship
ohio. AT the Union Iron Works. stands
at 43 per cent. al which hgure she mas
held for several months past
Work On the neW armored cruisers
went along AT a good pace during oc-
tober. The Pennsylvania advanced
TWO points to per cent. the Colorado
Two points and the Maryland each ad-
vanced oEe point. and now stand at :
per cent. completed. The California
.lnd the South Dakota. however. build
ing Ut san Francisco. have not yet been
started.
o: the protected cruisers. fve-the
Denver. Des Moines Chattanooga. Gal
weston and tleveland-are about half
completed. and the advance on them
during October varied from | per cent.
in the case Of the Cleveland 10 . PEI
cent. in the case OF the Galveston.
The monitor Arkansas advanced four
points to - per cent, ana the Florida
went up three degrees 70 = per cent.
The Nevada and the Wyoming remain
ed at 81 and ~ per cent. respectively
their standing on October !.
Only one OF the torpedo boat de
stroyers-the Stewards less than -
per cent. completed. The chauncey ad-
vanced 3 per cent. during the month.
and the Truxton and Whipple two
noints each There is likewise but one
torpedo boat which is less than taiee-
quarters iinished-the Tingey. There
are gains of . per cent. on the Wilkes
ANA per cent. on the Nicholson ano
the GOldsborOueh.
Tn. submarine boat Plunger showed
a cain of 10 per cent. the Moccasin "
per cent. and the Adder and Porpois'
- ner cent. each.
col Bird OF the quartermaster Serer-
ars Office has mad, 4 long and com
prt neESiNp report Of the army trans
port service. which H. concludes as fol
lows.
The important movements OF arm
i,.s during the. year. Viz: III. army sent
"a China. thr volunteer army returned
from the Philippines TO the tinted
States and thu. army from the United
States and china 10 replace the re-
turned volunteers. together with the
transportation Of the immense quanti-
ties Of military stores. including small
arms. field and sege guns and their
ammunition. camp euuipagr. subSiS-
i-nce supplies for men and beasts and
III. animals and wagons required for
III. transportation Of THESE stores on
land, necessary for the successful
operations of armies in the field, en-