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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-09-30

ent disturbance in Central America
The fact that President Marroauin OF
Colombia is usurper is not in itself
one to create confusion or light the
nres or universal rebellion. All rulers
IN the South American republics climb
into power by hook or by crook. The
lawful president of Colombia. DR.. Man
uel a. sanclemente. who was deposed
a year ago by the Marroquin party att
or a successful struggle with a rebel
lion waged by the same elements now
at war with tho de facto government.
Is prisoner. lie has friends, or he
would never have become president.
Moreover he has party behind him
hostile 10 Marroquin, the irrepressible
party of liberty and progress. Marro-
quin Is a conservative. a leader i'm the
so called Clerical or reactionary ele.
ment, and he and his administration
are very unpopular. The opposition or
liberal element has been ih active re-
bellion since the coup a. etat which
seated Marroquin In power. and failure
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-09-30

Colombia has about $1,000 men under
arms. Venezuela can put 80 900 in the
field, and her navy is weaker than that
OF Colombia. Castro's troops are well
equipped with European arms, and
the fighting which has occurred has
been very bloody. The full war
strength OF the powers with which Co
lombia may have TO cope single handed
in case Of a general war with ambitious
and turbulent neighbors will be close
upon 100 900 soldiers Nicaragua has an
army OF 10000. ana Ecuador and Costa
Rica have each 10000. Colombia, how
ever has been at war for the past two
years with revolutionists Within her
borders. and her army is we'll seasoned
for an active campaign.
Any Intervention by outside powers
in the affairs OF the isthmus will. Of
course. call up the Monroe doctrine.
Some OF the German press has already
spread the alarm that the prompt ac-
tion OF the United States In sending
ships 20 Panama was inspired by a dc.
sire 20 extend her conquests Ii Is no
secret that Germany has cast longing
eyes toward South America as "A land
OF promise FOR colonies. Foreign inter-
vention VIII be a menace 10 the Monroe
doctrine. but the United States. by
reason OF her treaty with the former
republic Of New Granada. regardless OF
the Monroe doctrine or her Immediate
interest I'm the Panama route. may be-
come involved. Colombia was created
out Of n part OF New Granada and In
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-09-30

anneal IL and give Il equal strength
throughout.
one OF the novelties at Fore River is
the loating machine shop. which can be
moored alongside "a vessel. so that work
In which some change Is found neces-
sary need not be sent back on shore at
loss OF time and labor, but can be
undertaken Immediately and on the
spot. The big ship crane which Is soon
TO be erected will embody another idea
OF Yankee ingenuity. Ordinarily the
crane is the center OF a shipyard. and
as work progresses the ships are moved
TO II and from II, requiring tugs and
causing many delays At Fore River
there VIII be great gantry crane run
on tracks nifty feet apart. towering los
rect in the air, and with a great arm
extending eighty feet beyond the edge
OF the wharf This crane will be capa-
BILE or bearing a load OF twenty-five
tons at the end and seventy-hve tons
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-09-30

the use OF the separate motor--each
machine. with the exception of a few
small groups, with its own unit OF pow
er-are indeed the striking mechanical
features OF the whole yard over 100
motors are used, developing altogether
more than 1000 horsepower, bit uf
statistics OF which any one acquainted
with the ordinary American shop will
at once see the significance Even the
great spanned crane OF the hull divi-
sion, reaching across the plate yard,
where the plates are stored for a dis
tance OF $50 feet, so that the crane truss
rivals the span of a big railroad bridge,
Is run by electricity
In the work OF the machinery division
the most Interesting features are the
forgings, some of which weigh twenty
tons. Here. for example, heated ingot
of steel intended for shaft for the Des
Moines Weighing perhaps eight or nine
tons and measuring twenty inches
square by thirteen feet long is pounded
down into shape by one of the three
largest steam hammers in the country.
capable OF striking a blow OF 25O foot
tons many times a minute or of a touch
as light as that OF A feather. until IL
comes out over forty feet long and only
little over ten inches in diameter
Thence IL goes to the lathes TO be turn
ed down and drilled out through the
center, the drill going through the solid
steel at the rate OF ten inches an hour.
so that IL takes no less than four DAYS.
twenty-four hours day, to carry the
daylight from one end TO the other.
Fore River. too, IL should be noted. is
the only place In the country where
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-09-30
0W WAR VESSELS ARE BUILT AT THE n
FORE RIVER WORKS IN MASSACHUSETTS,

Union I'm the war OF 1912, and of Law
renee OF Chesapeake and Don't give
up the ship" fame.
MethodSand machinery at Fore River
are alike new. For example, the navy
department plan OF a separation OF the
construction into hull" and "machin-
cry has been adopted. although either
the superintendent OF hulls or the su-
perintendent OF machinery, working
under the general manager and general
superintendent, may call upon any one
OF the seventeen departments into which
lhe yard is divided. The machinery divi-
sion receives the steel ingots, the cast
Hlss, steel rods. tubing and all the rest
oi tne material required for the con-
struction OF the engines and machinery
ol modern ship and works them into
hhlshed shape. The hull division deals
principally with the plates and frames
anu the actual construction of the ship.
NO 70 than sixty craftsmen are now
busy FOR both divisions on the plans
Tor the New Jersey and Rhode Island
each OF which will be OF is. $50 tons bur-
then. or larger than any battleship OF
the American navy now afoat. while
an almost equally large force of gov
ernment inspectors and craftsmen are
at work on the original designs or in
checking up progress on the Des Moines
and the two destroyers.
Perhaps the most interesting feature
of the work or the hull division is the
treatment OF the inch thick steel plates
which form the skin" of the new battle.
ships and which In the course of treat
ment are cut. punched and planed as
deftly as one might cut up cards with
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-09-30

shears for setting up a ships masts or
stacks, or II can be stuck upright 10 al
low the ship 10 pass. The power will
be furnished by electric motors. all un-
der the control OF one man, the largest
having $50 horsepower, or more than
enough 10 run single great shop.
But perhaps the very latest idea in
shipbuilding is permanent structure
for mounting cranes. A huge steel
skeleton is now being built under which
the two battleships and two cruisers
or five merchantmen OF the size OF the
Celtic. the biggest ship afioat, can be
constructed at once. Here, again. the
loss OF time through the use OF a single
crane, which may be required for two
or more pieces OF work at the same
time, is TO be avoided by the installa-
ton of ten electric cranes moving along
the ships at the rate OF 500 feet a min
ute and lifting vertically at the rate of
100 feet minute and so arranged that
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ment the friendship OF his government
with that of he United States in closer
bonds.
Ia the past this government has gem
orally looked 20 Colombia TO keep the
isthmus free during local Instructions,
but In war with outsiders the little
republic may need help. In 1873 the
United States secretary OF state. Ham
ilton Fish. gave the opinion that IL lis
the undoubted duty of the Colombian
government TO protect the road against
local insurgents, and this duty will be
Insisted upon" Under President Cleye.
land United states troops were sent to
the isthmus for that purpose.
Should Colombia fail i'm her duty the
United States alone has the right to
intervene and keep the route across the
isthmus free from interruption. No
other power has a similar right under
existing treaties
GEORGE L. KILMER.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-09-30

him he makes lowered over the sds OF
rapid sketches the ship.
until, often drenched TO the skin with
spray, he is pulled up on deck again.
To paint his beautiful pictures of the
Holy Land Carl Haag has many times
risked his life among fanatics and has
lived for many months at time alone
among the Bedouins in the solitude OF
great deserts. On one occasion when
painting within the temple area at Je-
rusalem he would certainly have been
murdered by the guards, one OF whom.
he says. actually foamed at the mouth
with rage. had not a friendly pasha
intervened and partly by intimidation
and partly by informing them that Mr..
Haag had been specially commissioned
by the sultan to make drawings for the
restoration of the mosque managed to
save his life.
Mr.. IIaag has also trusted himself
alone among the wandering Bedouins
OF five deserts in order TO make sketch
es. and he says, had II not been for
the awe In which they held my revolver
and my reputation as medicine man.
my life would often not have been
worth a moments purchase"
Holman Hunt encountered great
hardships and dangers when painting
his pictures. THE Scapegoat," THE
Triumph of the Innocents' and several
others of his famous eastern canvascs.
wandering for weeks alone In the des-
erts. In constant danger from fanatics
and spending years over the production
OF a single picture.
Many of Mr.. Hunts early paintings.
notably THE Scapesoat," did not ac-
tually pay his expenses. On The Tri-
umph of the Innocents'' he spent no
less than seven years OF unremitting
work. and when the first painting was
completed he found that the canvas
was so rotten that IL was necessary TO
abandon IL and paint the picture all
over again. For The Shadow OF
Death" he made sketches and studies
during seven years before he first pur
brush TO canvas, and the actual paint
ing of the picture occupied him three
years more
To secure the sketches from which
A. u. Mccormick made his wonderful
paintings of Himalayan scenery the
artist risked his life more than once.
many of the sketches being made thou
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-09-30

method 40 per cent, really. II the time
required Tor completion be taken as a
standard the figures would have 10 be
reversed
Though the description OF these vari-
Gus features and methods-so oharac-
teiistic. all OF them, OF the American
genius for economy and efficiency.
might well read like fairy tale TO the
foreigner. even though he came from
the farfamed Clyde, so long accepted
as the center OF shipbuilding the world
over. there are other .things which
would probably have an even greater
personal interest to the lay visitor.
Take, for instance, the quiet recogni-
ton that shipbuilding is not yet free
from danger, In spite OF the substitu-
tion OF steel for wood, planers for adzes
and machine drills for augers, as at
tested by the fact that each department
has It's emergency outht and stretch
er. ana that there is Y sick bay" or
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-09-30
wooden Pattern for Stems OI the BattIeShipS
Rhode island and New Jersey.

two can be worked together with an
equalizing bar so as to lift ten tons, or
Just double the lifting weight OF one
alone.
Ordinarily the outside. or frame"
and Skin" OF the hull is built first.
leaving all the interior work to be put
in later under unavoidable difficulties
OF handling. light and ARA necessary
method in the days of wooden ships
from which IL has survived. But at
Fore River the ship is built from the in
side out, on the same lines-once called
'experimentsl'' or Observation-Disclosures in
modern buildings on the bridge steel"
or Chicago plan. The result is that
IL II we're reported that the Des Moines
was say, 25 per cent completed and a
sister ship at a yard using a different
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-09-30

ENOLUTIONS In South Amer
lea are SO numerous and usu-
TX ally so trivial that the United
states seldom finds reason for
~ A giving them attention unless
the interests of citizens of this
republic are placed in jeopardy. As a
iuic. both parties 10 the quarrels are
careful not to tread on the corns Of
their powerful northern neighbor. The
civil trouble in Colombia which has
broken out in more or less violent
srasms during the past two years may
prove more serious than any that has
disturbed the peace there during the
past quarter Of century. Between the
Monroe doctrine. interest i'm the route
across The isthmus and duty 90 An,etl-
can citizens. tho United States may be.
come lnN olNcd should the SO called rev
olution in Colombia take the phase pre-
dilicd by some knowing ones In Wash
in-fo- and South America
A,ore Glan temporary dispute or in
dividual ambition lies beneath the pres
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-09-30
ABsExTM,NpEp SCIENTIST.

The absentmindedness of DR. Alfred
Emerson. the archaologist. formerly OF
Johns Hopkins university and who is
now abroad making a collection OF an
tiques for the museum of the Univer-
sity Of California. is well known among
his Baltimore friends.
The memorable occasion when, book
ed for a public lecture at the Hopkins
he let hts audience wait In ghastly sus-
pense while he. all unconscious OF the
engagement. was found busily employ
ed unpacking a box of casts will long
be remembered. His carefully adjust
ing a fresh collar over one already On
and going 10 the station and forgetting
to take his train are historic in univer-
sity lore. but II remains for his friend
and colaborer. Joseph Thatcher Clark
OF the British museum. to tell the fol.
lowing story:
The pair were en- route 10 make some
important excavations and had reached
southern Europe when DR.. Emerson ap-
peared with an indignant face aad
letter from America In IFS hand. He
explained that the letter was from one
OF his several brothers accusing him
OF having carried off several shirts be.
longing to the brother when starting
abroad.
ITO prove how basely false and un-
Just his suspicious are" said the trou-
bled doctor. Il viii get all my shirts
and spread them out before YOU and
sec II you can find a single one bearing
any initial other than my own
The shirts. eleven In number. were
produced, and conformation followed
when they we're found to he variousiy
labeled Arthur Hale. G.. Emerson. IA.
Emerson, |. T.. y. +. X. In fact. all
except two-these bearing no label at
all and presumably DIR. Emerson's-
bore initials other than his own.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-09-30

emergency ward for accident cases IN
one of the company buildings. Or take.
again. the mold loft. a great room so
by S2o feet. comprising more than half
an acre, with floor smooth enough
for a ballroom, on which quiet young
men work I'm felt soled shoes. handling
nifty and seventy-five foot flexible rules.
"A seeming maze OF lines. crossing and
crisscrossing, marks the exact size and
shape of every piece OF steel that goes
into the hull of ship. With its sides
OF glass and its great length. the room
presents a vista that once seen is not
soon forgotten. AS visitor said a lit
tie while ago. "One would hardly ex-
pect to md so much perspective 'un-
der cover"
WILLIAM J. RUDOLPH.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-09-30

Y NTIL very recently ship car.
penters and joiners, riggers
and painters. constituted the
working force OF an Ameri-
can shipyard, with the clean
smell OF spruce and pine and
oak and teak. and the suggestion OF
tarry rope TO give SAVIOR 10 the whole
Today in ali the typical modern yards.
as at Fore River, In Boston harbor. the
newest battleship plant In the United
States one finds machinists, furnace
men, electricians. toolmakers and their
brother craftsmen OF the age Of steel
and steam With a small force OF wood
workers TO turn out interior furnishings
and patterns for machinery. The odor
OF hot steel and oil has replaced the
smell OF wood. and putting locomotive
does the work OF slow moving, broad
horned. yoked steers
Fore River Is In the old presidential
town" OF Quincy. still proud OF IT'S rec
ora OF having produced two presidents
OF the United States. but only dimly re-
membering that IL was once a center OF
wooden ship building. only few miles
from fore River the 900 ton thirty-six
gun ship Massachusetts was launched
In 1883, at the time the largest vessel
ever built on this continent But ship
building had long since died out on the
south shore" and the Fore River yard
has sprung literally full grown from
the ground. Not only the newest bat
tleship yard. il is also the most mod
ern, having suffered from none OF the
disadvantages usually involved in the
evolution from wooden ship yard Lit
tie more than year ago the site was n
peaceful salt meadow, with graceful
beaches running into Weymouth Fore
river and tributary creek. Today the
creek Is lined with shops; the cruiser
Des Moines. named for the distant
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-09-30

ne was attached TO his companions
saved him from fall of 1000 feet and
on another occasion his pony pulled up
dead where the mountain path ended
on the very brink of sheer precipice
mile In depth
Mr.. Goodall the well known Royal
academician, tells many thrilling sto-
ries of adventures while sketching and
painting in the far east. Accompanied
only by single dragoman. he once
spent three months In the desert, paint
ing from sunrise 10 sunset. with two
armed Bedouins as his sole protection
against rowing tribes bent on murder
and plumber.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-09-30

fifty feet out. or near the center OF one
of the battleships. Travelling at the
rate of 500 feet minute, or faster than
a man ordinarily runs. II will, for ex-
ample. pick up a $500 horsepower en-
gine ready for installation or a huge
steel boiler weighing fifty tons, run IL
alcng until the battleship is opposite
and then lower IL into the hull; or the
arm may be tipped upward at an angle
OF forty-five degrees TO be used as a
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-09-30

The smuggling OF jewelry recently
discovered az the main postofice OF
Buenos Ayres has afforded an excellent
test of the Roentgen rays. The prac-
tice consisted in the jewelers. and gold :
smiths receiving jewelry OF great value
In registered letters from Europe, thus
cheating the custom house
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-09-30

by Secretary Lyman J. Gage. whose du-
tics AZ Washington forced him 10 re-
llnquish it
Walter Hubbard Of Meriden. Conn,
who gave that city some time ago the
largest public park In southern New
England, has bought another large
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-09-30

a pair or scissors. The massive ma
chines-shears, punches. benders and
rolls-required in this work are electric.
ally driven, each with its independent
motor, so that there is not a quarter
part OF the apparent confusion of many
smaller shop in which shafting is en-
ployed and all the pulleys must be con-
tinuously driven, though not more than
one or two machines perhaps are ac-
tually in use at time Electricity and
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-09-30

tract OF land for presentation to the
public as park. Besides this gift he
Intends 10 build large addition to the
city hospital
a sanctimonlous bore whose hobby
was anti-Cstholicism went 10 the great
evangelist one day and put the direct
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-09-30
RISKS THAT ARE TAKEN
BY GREAT ARTISTS.

Probably few people who lsnguidiy
admire the pictures on the Royal acad-
emy walls realize the conditions OF
hardship. labor and often PERSONAL risk
under which some OF them have been
painted.
thousands OF the sketches from
which the Chevaller de MARITIME. ma
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-09-30

rine painter to
Queen Victoria,
hasproducedhls
h in & seq
views have been
made under con
ditions which
w ould daunt
most men. Seat.
ed in a basket.
he is lowered Ell
ther from the
bow or stern OF
a ship to within
a few feet OF
the water. and
as the waves
chase each 9TH
er and toss and
tumble around
him ~ .t.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-09-30

sands of feet
higher than any
other artist had
ever climbed. In
an atmosphere
so rare and ex-
hausting that
the mere effort
Of q "a W | n g
made him gasp
and pant for
breath.
On one occa-
sion when Mr..
Mccormick was
crossing a fear
full chasm the
{ r a IL S n o W
bridge broke un-
der his feet.
and only tho
strength OF the
.A- -
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-09-30

crn Baptist association has elected the
Rev +. G. Mcconnell. u. u. OF Lynch
burg, Va. corresponding secretary. 20
succeed the late Dr. r. H. kerfoot.
Ernest a. Hamill has been elected 90
the treasurership ~ the Chicago Art
institute, a place held for many years
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-09-30

such hole can be bored at one boring
ard from one end through the fifty-five
foot shafts that Will be required for
the new battleships. the practice here
tofore having been TO bore at least
twice and TO work first from one end.
and then from the other. When bored.
the outside OF the shaft is turned down
until It is as true and smooth as a pis-
ton plunger. Then the shaft is reheated
and takes a bath in oil to temper and
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-09-30

question. MIR. Moody. do you ever in
tend 10 do any preaching against the
CatholicsY'' Yes, | may Some time"
when will that be-" After all tho
Protestants are converted"
One would think that the Identity of
the architect Of such n superbly design
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-09-30

ford man looks as n the world belonged
TO him; n Cambridge man as ~ he
didn't care TO whom the world be-
longed"
The nome mission board Of the South
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ed building as the Cologne cathedral
could not possibly be lost TO the world.
but IL is. The cathedral took centuries
TO build. and many architects have
modelled parts Of II according 20 their
own ideas. The result Is the most
beautiful cathedral In the world p.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-09-30

Western city, is building on the gravel
ed beach of the river; the concrete
Foundation is being laid for the battle
ships Rhode Island and New Jersey. and
at the end of a nearby pier lie the two
largest torpedo boat destroyers yet
aHoat for the American navy, bearing
The names, respectively, of Macdon-
ough, whose victory on Lake Cham
plain kept the English from segregat-
ang New England from the rest OF the
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-09-30
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.

The late Bishop Mandell Creighton
was once asked ~ he could state the
difference between an oxford man and
Cambridge man. The professor. as he
then was. Immediately replied. An OK.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-09-30

More than twenty dirigible balloons
are building I'm or near Paris.