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MARINE INTELLIGENCE.

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PORT OF RICHMOND. JUNE 9. 1904.
ARRIVED
Il Steamer Brandon, Rhodes Norfolk. merchan-
dise and passengers Old Dominion line.
steamer Old Point Comfort. Graves, James
River landings and Norfolk, merchandise ana
passengers, Virginia Navigation Co. ],
Schooner Annie Belle. Jones. HaVre oe
Grace, fish. Lefebvre- Armistend CO..
SCHOONER Avalon. Henderson. Havre De Grace,
nah A. s. Waldrop and Co. 0iig
Barge Atlantic. Belch. James River. lumber
Ellington and Guy.
3i SAILED.
Steamer Brandon, Rhodes Norfolk, mer-
chandise ana pusscnsera. Old Dominion line
PORT or WEST. POINT. JUNE Q, 1901.
ARR1vEp
Danvile Short, Baltimore, passengers and
general cargo. -
passengers and general cargo.
SAILED
Danville, Short, Baltimore, passengers and
general cargo.
passengers and general cargo.
PORT NEWPORT NEWS, JUNE Q. 1905
SAILED.
Steamer A.mstcldyk, Norfolk.
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nr,y GOODS MARKET.

Er1w YORK. June s.-1'he dry goods market
liz IN "a lingering attitude with BUYERS operating
in d hahdsto.niouthf manner. Developments on
the price question Are awating Mseh narks
tyiii lie changed somewhat. Tho outlook was
in mn improvement. however, but Is not briEh,
unul more definitely knowledso regarding
prices Is obtained. 5j6 ssssta
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RICHMOND GRAIN MARKET.
Richmond, Va, juno ., 1904.
QUOTATIONS
CATTLE MARKETS.
RICHMOND LIVE STOCK MARKET
(Eales at Union Stock Yards.i

Richmond. Va. June 9. 1901
Receipts for the week ending Monday:
a CATTLE-Recepts ZIG head Market strong.
gs gAe MEDIUM 20 Fo Sats4s ia
81 eG sais Soc q -: saiyss sss fresh cove
II -HoGs.ReeoIpts, ses head Market active.
6eSd h2gs thgSlSSs TenFas tg4a "a head
fair, 3a3Lsc.; bucks, 3qs,sc.; lambs. 6aGsic.
zoo head. Market steady to strong. Good
gEms s s.oekers aa ieeasP s
sl751A75 hsfers s;5oSoo Gamers tamH e slTS9
Rses1 sss soday ss!Ss' ssss $500
head. Market steady. Mixed and butchers.
ss75g+.9o; good 70 choice heavy g. sQ % "A;
OF sales, Sis5aIss Sheep-Recepts. $1,000
head Market steady to lover Lambs, ste sasa fG
fair 10 choice mixed. ss.7sa5.oo: native lambs.
s5I6.75; spring lambs. si.50I7.35.
50 head. ali consigned direct; nothing doing in
CSC. lower. yeals,, s4a5;s prime buttsrni.ks.
dressed Sle, yss Se at sos eoun
Sheep and Lanbs-Recep,s. 1880 head, Good
handy sheep steady; others, slow and neglect
seasS shsep s Sasg ases ehoee
S. 25; culls iumbs, s5.50G7.S0; no choice here:
yearilngs, 1906; few choice. at 1915. Hogs
Receipts. 2.266 head: nominally steady; no sales
reported.
UNION STOCK YARDS. PITTsBURG. PA,
June 9.-CATTLE-Supply light; market
fair, $4.7bQ510 Hogs--Supply fair; market
soiw. Prime, heavy and mediuma and heavy
workers. and light workers. 5000 % pigs. St.76a
ass; roughs, $3.50U4.25. Sheep-SuppIy light;
market steady. Prime wethers. s5Gb.l0; COM
mon sheep s2aD3.O9; choice lambs. t+47.06; veal
calves, s5.t095.7S.
CINCINNATI o., June o,-HoGs-Active at
50. 65a5. To-. Cattle--Easy at $2.25a5.25. Sheep
Quiet at So.65Q345 Itambs-Qulet at $4G710.
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RIcHMoND PRODUCE MARKET,

Corrected Every FrIday.)
FLoUR-Receiots moderate; market cons
tinues dull at unehanger prices, WHEAT
sw iSntn Uss f bssa an ecep srns e aaEs
Is lower, oATs-c, Continue very dull, BYE
Unchanged. quiet. IIAY--Market sales steady
under moderate receipts and We continue aur
previous quotations; common and on grades
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BALTIMORE, MD, June 9.-FLOUR-Qulet
ana unchanged. Wheat.,Dullt spot, contract,
and the mon.h sosa sab.rn P Sy sspls So Se
sos. Corn quiet; spot, bssG5sSe,;. June, b.R
a5gsc. southern white corn, 5ia57s; Oats.
du iI' butiter-unchansedi fancy Imitation. ma
isc fancy creamery. lsIsoe fancl ladle, i4ty
n iTSh at isisc. Cheeae-steady and un-
CHANGED ; large, siaas&e.; medium, sSGec.;
smaII sSG9Sc. Sugar-Firm and unchanged.
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TOBACCO MARKET.

Richmond. Va, Juno 0. 1904.
Dark Fired Tobacco--Reordered Fair re-
CENTS and market firm at quotations Brights-
MARKET continues firm with fair receipts. Sum
Curcd-Receipts liberal Inarhet continues ac-
. Note.-pian.ers are cautioned =. not to ship
their tobacco to market IN nlgh order as with
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LYNcHBUR1 TOBACCO MARKET.
tEr. III. r ,,prhhurp Va. June o. 1904

Sales OF loose tobacco on tho LynchbnTg
market for the two weeks ending juno T. lso'.
v Sold week ending May 2slh. 5llsoo pounds;
sold week ending June An s9Soa ps9SSnds ds
said from October /, 1908 to Juno I. 1904.
1887 H so6 6Sy pounds; sold from October ! 1902
10 June 4, 1905 2l.Oll,7Oo pounds; decrease for
4' The receipts this week were the. highest for
the past four months caused by no me dfy
weather the past s %sek so aha III erss
largely Of he lower grades. with some line
SHIPPING and yapps.s else On % s
ficmarly on tie fne shipping wrappers and
oilers There has been ge9d rain. raj n the
counties that s sosa seasons o Sa,
nu.St to%accn that Will last for several days
All reports are that from ens,half e two.
thirds Of the crop will DO planted Within tho
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$1,000 ROUND TRIPs16.00.
s.. TO THE
WORLDS FAIR-ST. LOUIS.

VIA NORFOLK AND WESTERN RWY.
Tickets at above rate will be sold every
tuesday and Thursday during the month
of June. limited to ten days from date of
sale. Tickets limited to fifteen days,
s215o; sixty days, 5000; season ticket,
1920 These tickets will allow stopover
Bluefield within final limit Of ticket.
Two fast vestlbuled trains. with through
Pullman sleepers. Parlor and Dining cars
For descriptive matter of the Worlds
Fair and further information, apply at
company's office, No. S3S East Main
Street. si
JNO. E. WAGNER, G. II. BOSLEY,
City Pass. Agt. Dist. Pass. Agt
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. c.orroNsEEp ON MARKET.

NEW YORK juno o.--The cottonseed oil sit.
lion holds pretty firm, but with business
rastrlcted By tight offerings Prime crude. &.
mills 2lc prime summer yo rIn. ,x 2SiS
33c; prime winter yellow, a5c.
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Tho leading futures ranged as follows:
- Open iligh. Low, Close

Cash quotntIons were as follogs; FLnUNs,
s6as5c. :; No, q red. sl04Yl,05. No, 2 corn, 4S'sg
lsi:c. No. 2 yellow, S9sg5o1ses No. : o9 az
mailing, 45d56c No, faxseed. sl.0o;, Nc. !
northwestern. sl.o7; prime Timothy seed, Sso5.
Mess pork, per barrel, sl2.05al2,l 0; lard, per
100 pounds sS52.s q6.55j short ribs sides Noose,,
short clear sides lhoSed) se7 I.oHee
contract grade slO.75 Butter-steady; cream
cries. ishal7,sc;;; daires, llA9lse; Eggs
at IA 6ISc,
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ON AGAlN!5 DAILY TRIPS TO THE=PoP.
ULAR BEACH PARK. SOC.
ROUND TRIP.

on and after Saturday June 18th, the
afternoon daily trips will be resumed.
special train leaving Richmond daily ex-
cept Sundays, at $40 p. NJ. and re.
turning leave West Point. 10 P. NJ. Fifty
cents round trip Sunday trains leave
Richmond 9:3J A. M. and p. NJ, re-
turning leave West Point Sand 10 p. NJ.
respectively. Drains leave and arrive
from Southern Railway, Fourteenth
Street Station.
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Norfolk and western con. a ................ se,s
Oregon Short Line IS and Partlc......... 9b1a
Pennsylvania conv. Observation-Disclosures. 05A
Reading General AZ ........................ 1ooN
st. Louis and Iron Mountain con. bs.... l14h
st. Louis and San Francisco fg 4s........ Biz
St Louis Southwestern 1ats............. 92h
Seabonrd AIR Line 4s.....,................ 70
Southern Railway IS ....................... 116;a
Texas and Pacific 1stsf..................... 115.s
Toledo, st. J.. and Western is............. 20 H
Union Pacific ls ........................ 1o5N
Union Pacific cony. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 97ss
u. s. Steel I'd IS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. IA
wabash lists ............................. 1l6 4
Wabash Deb. BIS Observation-Disclosures. 81
Wheeling and Lake Erie 4s.................. slss
Wisconsin Central AZ Observation-Disclosures. 90
Colorado Fuel conv. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. COZ
NJ and o., collateral trust 4s. ........... 92E
Central OF Georgia I'd 1nc.,....".......... 3ia
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LOW RATES TO gNAstiVl LIE, TENN,
ON ACCOUNT MEETING OF CON-
FEDERATE VETERANS, VIA
SEABoARDAIR5L LINE RWY.
QUICK TIME, SPLENDID EQUIPMENT,
FAST SCHEDULE.
The seaboard offers a most attractive
route from Richmond and other points in
Virginia to Nashville. Tenn. Two trains
n day, making close connections for
Nashville, over the famous Battlefield
route, Lookout Mountain and Chicka-
Tickets on sale June 10th to 10Th,
Il, ..li .inaI JN.lAs S4stt.i u Gin
be extended until July 10th by payment
of fee of fifty cents. Remember you can
leave Richmond Sunday night, June 18th,
and get to Nashville In time for opening
exercises.
'i'-7' ". NJ. TAYLOR. C. T. "A.
II, s. Lizard, D. p. "A.
Phone 400.
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CLOSING BOND QUOTATIONS.

& Chicago, r. i. and Pacific col. ts........ 7sA
( c., c., c. and st. Louia gen. ls......... as
Consolida,ed Tobacco NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. ELK
Colorado and Southern 4s.................. q
Denver and Rio Grnnde 4s................ g9&
Era deneraj 4s s5h
Fort Worth and Denver City lsts......... 1914
Hooking Valley Observation-Disclosures. 1918
Louisville and Nash. Unified 4s......... loih
Manhattan conso gold 4s................. lo3.a
Mexican entinl lit observation-disclosures. 12M
MIN ana at Iouis "A ...,..,,.,,,..,,.. 96
Missouri. Kansas and Texas is............ osA
Missouri, Kansas and Texas 2ds.......... q
National r. r. OF Mexico con. ls.......... q d
Nsw !iersey tlen;raf gen NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Isl
Northern Pacific is acknowledgements 4h
Northern Pacific Is .................. 1914
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PEANUT MARKETS.

PETERSBURG, VA. Juno a;tPEANuTs...
Continue 1rn, liz Ills per busnei for. Spanlsh;
sellers nre asking higher prlces.. yery few peina
offered ylrsnas firm, A. ahc ior t inhss pstsrs
biirg Of stock that had been stored IN ehis
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CINCINNATI, o.. June o-HoGs--Active at
Cuiet at sos5a345. Lambs-Quiet at ;d7.10.
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u. s. refunding rs, registered ............ 1o4,s
u. s. refunding 20. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. los
u. g. IS, registered 4. 1o5N
n q. an, co,,non observation-disclosures Jog
III 4. Nav Ia. rnristetcd 1921
III s. Nav a. cnt1por, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 1879
I'll q, Old ~ repistered 1864
Il. q Old 1s COUPON. 107M
Atchison general as,.,.....,............... l0l&
Atchison, adjligtment Observation-Disclosures. 9lh
Atlantic Coast Line Observation-Disclosures. 9slt
baltimore and Ohio Observation-Disclosures. 10lh
Baltimore and Ohio Observation-Disclosures. vSb
Contrai ~ C;eorrin l1st inc 72
Chesapeake ana Ohio 4iLs.................16 iM
Thicapo aud Alton Observation-Disclosures. 10
rhicaso n. and Quincy new As .......... D5h
f,hicaeo M md St. Paul gen 4s.......... 1914
CHEN 20 and Northwes,ern con 7s..s....... 127ts
ChicaEo.l z. |. and Pacific 4s............ GSN
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NORFOLK VA. June 4, s;IsspDA NJ.
lifb4 Moi common. a.i0a:ic. Spanish ~ 20 par
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WoRDEN AND ARLINGTON.
Tn,se George, N. z. Open from MAY 18TH
to OCTOBER LIST. Write Tor BookleI
EDWIN j.. WoRDEN. Prop.
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ROANOKE RED SULPHUR SPRIRas,

CVIA SALEM, VA.)
opens June lst. Before arranging for
your summer vacation write us for de-'
scriptive pamphlet, terms, &c. Sulphur,
Chalybeate and Freestone waters: eleya. y
ton, 1900 feet. Resident Physician: rea- (
0ott'DAo - = T. g. CHAIRMAN, Prop.
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MISCELLANEOUS MARKETS..

Dark Leaf i,ss , s.SS asSS
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Spo, cotton closed quiet, 20 points. higher;
middlhg uplands. ll-s1; middlIng gulf. l2.15;
sales, IS bales.
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Z BRUNSWICK INN, WAYNEsBoRO.
va. Shenandoah Valley: elevation. !, go
Tennis. bowling, fishing. driving. Write
for booklet. sa4 5 a5afa8illss
The Savannah morning news., 1904-06-05

Despite the perils which attend the
| handling of cannon. more American
sailors to-day than ever before are am
bilious to become gunners, or gun
pointers as they are technically call
ed. A natural enthusiasm among the
men has been intensified by a recent or
der that a first class gun pointer for
one OF the larger size guns be allowed
sic a month in addition to his regular
wages, and that other gunners shall
receive proportlonate extra pay. Prizes
are also offered the champion gun
pointers of a ship as the result of Off
cial tests of Workmanship.
Whatever maX be a sailors station
aboard sship-whether he be an officer
or a plain seaman-he may be admitted
to a school for gunnery, if he has
good record and shows himself fitted
for the work. He must have proved
himself a good shot with the rifle or
other small arms. He is then sent to
the ordnance shops at Washington,
where he begins a study of the very
rudiments of the gunner's art. For
instance, an instructor takes a class of
twenty-five apprentices for a lesson on
the general description of ordnance"
He brings before his class a breech-
block of a one-pounder Hotchkiss, a
four-inch cartridge, a blue print of
breechloading rifle. and a field gun.
Taking the field gun, he explains in
detail such parts as the "breech.'
'muzzle,'' bore" chase" trunnions"
and "rifiing." He will also take up the
subject of caliber. which he says eX-
presses the length of a gun. TO find out
the length, he will say, multiply the
caliber by the diameter of the bore.
Thus a six-inch gun of 40 calibers is
twenty feet long.
The first half of each classroom hour
is used by the teacher for such demon
STATIONS, then the pupils ask what
questions they please. and afterward
he asks them questions. Every Mon
day morning the class is examined on
the work of the preceding week; which
is by no means small. for the student
Is required to stay at it, six days
week, from a. m. to Ais p. M. with
only a short respite for luncheons.
The blackboard is an important fac
tor in teaching d novice the theory of
gunnery. He must indeed turn artist
frequently and draw such pictures as
that of a projectile being discharged
from a gun and it's course through the
air. In this way he learns how the
motion of the shell is affected by the
resistance of the air, the force of CRAWL
ty and the rfling of the gun. A six
inch shell, for instance, which leaves a
gun at a rate of $500 feet a second
is so impeded by the air that it goes
only 1900 feet in the first second, and
in that length of time it drops sixteen
feet
The Savannah morning news., 1904-06-05
LEARNING TO SHOOT.
Uncle Sans Marine Gunners Are
Carefully Trained.
From the New York Tribune.

From the New York Tribune.
The gunner on the modern warship
must be a man of education. He must
be an engineer, a mechanic, a mathe-
matician, a lOgician, as we'll as a
marksman.
In the recent explosion of a gun
aboard the battleship Missouri, as also
in the disasters to the Russian fleet,
where crews blew up their own ships
with their own mines, one may see
how necessary it is that the marine
gunner of to-day should serve a long
and exacting apprenticeship. He must
be able not only to sink his enemy,
but also to prevent being sunk himself.
Carefulness, therefore, is the first law
of the gunnery schools which this gov
eminent has established, and since the
Missouri catastrophe the United States
naval Instructors have laid stronger
emphasis than ever on this fundament-
al precept. For example, an apprentice
is not even permitted to soour the
brass works in a gun turret with a
gritty substance, unless under special
order, lest he may leave some grains
behind which under friction would gen.
crate a spark and perchance blow UP
a gun crew by igniting a loose charge
of powder.
Here is the exact language of the
rule:
Emery, brick dust and gritty sub
stances are not to be used on any part
of the mechanism (of a gum except by
trained men when ordered to do So"
Before a gunner is permitted to fire
cannon 0le is required to spend seven
teen weeks in study. He is not even
allowed to handle piece of ordnance
until he has learned all its various
parts and their uses. He must keep
aloof even as an infant from a box
of matches. Not until he knows its
chemical ingredients, its peculiar char
acteristics, it's ignition point, its man.
ner of explosion. is he allowed to touch
a grain of powder.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-06-05

high buildings, skirt canals and lose
themselves in broad courtyards in q
most bewildering manner. Not horse
or a cart is to be encountered any
where and the way the people occupy
the full width of the highway instead
of being restricted to narrow walks at
either side gives Venice a singularly
crowded appearance.
The Charms of Venice.
Aside from the fact that it is abso-
lutely different from any other city in
The world. the principal charms Of
Venice are found in its art treasures
and rs literary and historical land
marks To stroll across the arched
bridge over the Grand canal and along
me way that leads 10 il, the Rialto,
brings Shyiock and his fellow char
acrers f-ou, The Merchant of Venice"
70 real life. To cross the Bridge of
SiCrS and enter the dungeons beneath
H. where not the faintest ray of light
psne.-1-es then peer along the pas
Sageway down 20 the water, where are
ire gates opening outward, through
Vhic1 -cs sociolas passed on dark
vlsHts bearing the bodies of those
Who vanished suddenly and without
ex-iauaCior for the good of the
stare. Is 20 80 back into the ages
when LIE was all romance and mys-
cs-v L. seems almost as II the same
scenes r1t Eh. Be- repeated here to-mor-
row ard indeed they might. save that
c1a i1y % slea summary methods has
passed
In the Do=e's Palace.
In ree wall Of The great council cham
Der Ira the DOSe's Palace yawns the
fatal hons head. into whose open
mouth were thrust the denuncfltions
Cf citizens suspected of trea son or
treaSona bic vIews-those who were
later 10 cross the Bridge of Signs and
languish in the darkened dungeons.
And there are the very cushions upon
which the councillors sat to pass SEN
tence. In no other city. not even In
Rome. are the relics of past ages so
faithfully preserved, and certainly in
no other is the atmosphere of the past
so nearly present.
The artistic attractions of Venice,
as indeed the greater part of its life
and activities, center chiefly about the
Piazza San Marco. The square itself
The Savannah morning news., 1904-06-05

itor, whatever his tastes or calling
Other citi IS of classic traditions have
been modernized out of all romance il
not out OF all resemblance 10 their
former selves; Venice alone remains un-
changed in all its essentials. The
means of conveyance. the style of archi e
lecture, the churches and palaces are
still to-day exactly as they were cen
turtles ago. One can do" Venice in
three days so far as viewing its princi-
pal sights is concerned, or can spend as
many months in the occupation and
never weary of it, The city is always
"in season. in that it invariably has
plenty of interest and variety of attrac-
ton to offer though the time when it Is
sought by visitors in greatest numbers
is the spring
Looks Its Age.
Here is an old city that really looks
its age. There are towns of ella ssical
antiquity which now are nothing but
heaps of picturesque ruins and there
are others that have been rejuvenated
and modernise5. But Venice displays
all the signs &C hoary Venerableness
and, it must be admitted, mcny of Sc
nile decrepitude. Floating along the
highways between rows of age-stained
buildings che scarcely needs 20 be told
that here was a flourishing SCAT of trade
which levied tribute on half The known
world through many centuries and
which now that it has fallen on less
prosperous days exists chiefly in the
reflection OF its former greatness.
A World Apart.
The very moment OF entrance into
Venice brings the traveller from the
West into a world apart. His lug
gage is taken from the railway sta
ton down a fight of stone steps to
a gondola in which he also ensconces
himself and thus makes the journey to
his hotel. Nothing more delightfully."-
mysterious can be imag ined than a
first trip along the Grand canal at
night between rows of dimly outlined
buildings, with no sounds but the lap
ping of the water against the boat,
the warning cries Of the gondoliers, or
the faint strains of music from some
serenading party. No wonder poets
have sung and artists painted Venice
for ten centuries!
In the streets the impression is of a
place equally unreal They are mar
row lanes such as are matched only
by some of the courts in the midst
of London. Many are so narrow that
two persons can hardly walk abreast
through them, and they drive between
The Savannah morning news., 1904-06-05

For the purpose of training the gun
ners still more thoroughly in the me-
chanism of guns they are put to work
in the shop where ordnance is made
| For instance, a pupil may be assigned
| to construct a miniature gun, so thar
he must procure the metal from the
! foundry himself and cast the mount.
In this way he familiarizes himself with
the machines in the shop, the lathes
! shapers and milling machines. He is
also required to take a huge gun en-
tirely apart and then reassenlble the
pieces. He is taught to draft sections
| of ordnance on blue prints, so that he
| learns something of the profession Of
| a naval architect. At the end of his
first four months he is expected to
go into a shop and reproduce any Sec
ton of a gun that has been broken.
After completing such a course Of
study devoted to the gun, the appren-
| tice is required to spend three or four
months in learning how to handle high
explosives. This part of his training
| is given him at Newport He is taught
all the secrets of the submarine mine.
which also makes necessary his mas
terry of the first principles of electrici-
ty. He learns, too, the peculiar dan
gers of the three chief kinds of pow
der used in the navy, how black and
brown powder leave a refuse in the
gun which must be swabbed out with
great care, how smokeless powder gives
rs per cent. more velocity to a pro-
jectile, and how it ignites at 200 de-
grees less heat than the other pow
ders, but is less susceptible to fric-
ton.
So it happens that when youth has
been graduated at a gunnery school he
can do almost everything with big
gun except shoot. Even after gradua-
ton he is not permitted to fire full
charges of ammunition at first, but he
obtains experience as a marksman by
what is called sub caliber practice. An
ordinary rifle is fastened to big piece
of ordnance, so that the bores of both
are parallel, and he fires the small
bullets at a miniature target although
using the sights and firing mechanism
of the big gun.
He spends several weeks aboard such
training ship as the Amphitrite at
such practice, and later when he is as
signed to a warship he is made gun
pointer of one of the ships guns To
this particular cannon he must stick
He is expected to become as much d
part of it as its sight or firing string
He must learn its individual traits. for
every gun has its own personality. And
then, finally, when his superior officers
regard him eminently trustworthy and
experienced, he is allowed to partici-
pate in the manoeuvers, such as were
recently held at Pensacola, Fla.
Then at last he handles his gun as in
actual war.