Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-11-17
NAVY INCREASE Will Be Recommended to Congress by Secre-'
 tAry Long. FOUR NEW BATTLESHlPS AND TWO FlRST-CLASS ARMOR-
 ED CRUISERS.
Seventeen Other Vessels, Including Gunboats. Picket Boats, Training
 Ships, Tueboats.
NEED OF A NAVAL RESERVE

Washington, Nov. l6.-SecretaFy y Long in annual report takes a broad view of the needs Of Che navy. lie says in part:
 The navy today is far greater fac tor in our relations with the world than it was before the recent national expansion which now includes Porto Rico. the Hawaiian islands, the vast area of land and sea in the Philippines 5nd our obligations in Cuba. If we are to have navy at all it must be commensurate with these great eX tensions-greater i'll internationol even than in territorial importance" This nunb Der needed or duty OF struction Of more naval vessels. theil manning, exercise and maintenance.
 The general board, of which the ad- mieal is president. recommended the following increase of the navy:
 Four frst-class battleships.
 Two first class armored cruisers.
 Four picket vessels Of about 65( ton trial displacement. with a sea speed of fifteen knots. with twiI screws, carrying a battery of foul 6-pounder and two Colts guns and !; complement of sixty officers and men
 Six sheathed and eoppered sea going gunboats of about 1 ,600 tons trial displacement. with moderate sai power, similar to the Annapolis class
 Six light draft steel gunboats ot about 600 tons trial displacement. fol insular service in the Philippines.
 Six light draft steel gunboats oi about 200 tons trial displacement, not to exceed feet draft, for insular ser vice in the Philippines.
 Six steel training sailing ships 3! about 1000 tons displacement.
 One collier of 10000 tons cargo ca pacity and sea speed of 12 knots.
 Three thousand enlisted men. m order that they may be enlisted and drilled in preparation for the comp!e- tion of the ships
  (This number needed for duty on board ship and does not include tho necessary garrison for posts at home and in our insular possessions.
 An increase of 50 per cent in the number of naval cadents now allowed by law, in order to provide for the increase of officers needed for tho ships recommended above.
 The board of construction recon mended:
 Three seagolng battleships of about 16.000 tons trial displacement
 Two armored cruisers of about 1i,- 800 tons displacement
 Six gunboats of about 1.200 tons trial displacement.
 Six gunboats of about 500 tors trials displacement
 Six gunboats of about 200 tons trial displacement
 Two colliers of about 15.c00 tons trial displacement
 One repair ship of about 7.500 tons trial displacement
 Six training ships of about 2.0o0 tons trial displacement.
 Four picket boats of about SO tons trial displacement.
 Four tugboats
 All the vessels thus recommended ars dc@iial]lo in tho prospective and harmonious development of our naval force. \ larger increase than usual is also desirable in view Of the fact that none was made last year Some of the vessels above recommended, how eyer, can better than others be omit ted for the present from the list and await appropriation hereafter Among these arc the gunboats of 600 tons dis placement. i'll case the picket boats of similar dimensions are authorized. . also the repair ship and portion f