The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-02-15

The Navy Department has sent to Sena-
tor Hale, Chairman OF the Naval Affairs
Committee, al his request, a list showing
the names OF vessels purchased in the war
with Spain, the purchase prices, DISPOSE
ton. and the price for which several were
sold On the surface and without going
into details of the departments transac-
tons in connection with the auxiliary
feet organized Just after the destruction
Of the Maine, the list simply shows that
100 vessels we're purchased; that seven
were transferred to the War Department
BY an exchange of credits against the
emergency fund on the hooks of the Treas
ury, and that seven were sold outright,
the Navy having no further need of them.
thus leaving Lightweight still in the ser
vice. OF these, eleven yachts are now
loaned to the Naval Militia organizations
of various States, and these, with their
cost and assignment, are as follows:
Wasp, North Carolina, $95 5000; Hawk,
Ohio, $50 goo; Oneida, District of Column
bia, $50. 00G; Aileen, New York, $50 600; IN
ca, Massachusetts. $4,000; Huntress, New
Jersey $27 $685. Stranger. Louisiana. s75,
000 Siren, Virginia, $40, 900; Effrida New
Jersey, $50, 0G0; EShearwater, Pennsylvania,
S26. 600; Sylvia Maryland, SO, 900.
Seven vessels are performing services
as golfers, principally in supplying Nor
folk coal to the big AsiatiC Station These,
with their cost prices. are as follows:
Nero. S215, 600; Saturn, $3.50 600; Ajax,
1921, 0O0; Caesar. $175. 1874; Alexander,
$206, $50; Leon.das s147,9+ Pompey, SILL
g29.
Thirteen are in the Asiatic fleet as fol-
lows:
Wompatuck. $50, 600; New Orleans, 81
429. 2I5: Albany, 81, ZOE. geo; Nanshan. $155,
728: Zafro, So, 597: Iris. $145,000; Justin,
$I45, 000 Frolic. S115, o0Q; Piscataqua,
$3.50 eco; Celtic, $346. goo; Glacier. $340, 500;
Culgoa. S247. 704: Arethusa. $218,9S2-
IN addition to the twenty vessels just
enumerated eight are now on special ser
vice. These include the three station
ships, the Abarenda, $175, Gee al Tutuila;
The Brutus. s2I5, 0v0 at Guam. and the
Hannibal, S147 941, at san Juan; the three
training ships for laudsmen, the TCpe-
ka, $40, 1927, and the Dixie and the Buffalo,
1915, 600 each; the SOIace, 1856, 900, used
q Pacific Ocean ferry. and the transport
Prairie, $5T5, 600. Three smaller yess is.
which are being used in West Indian sur
veys are the Eagle, $4,000; the PoJO-
3
and there are at least twelve tugs at
work around the navy yards and shore
stations Only two other vessels are in
use-the Mayllower, S430. 900 which is at
the disposal of the Governor OF Porto
Rico, and the SyIph, $50 000 which re-
mains at Washington for the accommoda-
ton OF the Secretary OF the Navy. The
remaining twenty-One vessels bCu ht cut
of the war emergency fund are laid up
navy yards and are rapidly deteriorating-
Two of the vessels were lost Outright-the
Merrimac, which cost S342. Geo. having
been sunk by HObson, in Santiago Har-
bor- and the Yosemite. costing 1915. 00G,
having fOundeTed at sea near Guam last
fall.
Particular interest attaches to the
seven vessels sold. although the objects
of Senator Hale's enquiry are not fully
treated in the Departments reply. merely
the name. purchase price. and selling
price being given. With other essential
! data these vessels were as follows:
NiagaTa-Cost S20000 owner. Ward
Line: appraised al $50. 200: sold for $I5,-
| SOB 10 H P Booth.
! Vulcan-Cost 1856. GEO; owner, Merchants
| and Miners Line; appraised at 100000:
| sold for S175.75O 10 Michael. jenkins
Governor RusselI-Cost S71.C00: owner.
| city of Boston; appraised at $35. COO sold
/ for $4,000 to the city OF Boston.
| East Boston-Cost $5T. 00c; owner city
| Of Boston, appraised at $4,000; sold for
| $3S.091 TO A J. Phillips.
Scipie-Cost $50. 769- owner. George P
| Walford; appraised a. 50. 000; sold for
$50. 125 70 L Rubeli-
Cheyenne-Cost $4,000 owner J ]
/ Cummings; appraised at 5000; sold for
/ 81 $50 to G. D. Kuper.
| Hector-Cost 500, GOO; was q war prize;