The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-03-20

territory from France, when Napoleon
| sold it to the United States in 1904 for
sl5OOO.00O, yet one of the most timely and
interesting features of the fair will be
the war display in the marine section of
| the transportation department. Here will
be displayed models of water craft of
every conceivable type. from the massive
| man-of-war that sails the seas to the
smallest pleasure boat that glides over
a placid lake or river. These models will
come from many parts of the world and
1t will be an international display of the
progress made In the building of ships
of war and of ships of peaceful COM
merce.
Divided Into Two Groups.
The marine section is divided into two
| groups-one for the material and equip
ment for naval warfare and the other
for the material and equipment used in
! the mercantile marine
! Especially interesting at this time when
| the dogs of war are being unleashed in
the Far East is that portion of the ma
| rine display devoted exclusively to naval
warfare. England. Germany and France
| have already signified their intention of
sending interesting displays in the way
of models of war ships and naval equip
ment, and Japan, whose naval fleets are
| now engaged in actual warfare with the
! flower of the Russian navy, may send
naval exhibit that will astonish the null
| ttude. The United States government
in its own building will make most
comprehensive naval exhibit.
comnrise a MERTON Of tbe rransnarta g1,
| department and will be housed in the
| great Transportation Palace In addi-
| ton to the models of the latest battle-
| ships, men-of-war cruisers, torpedo
| boat destrovers, there will he a eomnre
| the construction and fitting out of ships-
! of-war as we'll as tho electrical eon1in-
ment installed on a shin with reference
| to battle conditions. While the electri-
cal signal gear of a mammoth battleship
is of inestimable value, making IT possi-
bic for the officer in the coming tower
| to signal any part of his shin vet the
rapid advance In the application of wire
| less telegraphv. even in the present Inn
| tied status, reveals the nossibilitv of an
| admiral from his flagship talking to the
| commanding officer or any shin In his
| fleet. and even conyersing with the
scouting ships MANY miles away at sea.
| In fact. the report seems now to he con-
| frmed that the Japanese admiral is the
first naval officer on record to use wire
| less telegranhv in actual naval warfare
| and this was done at Chemulpo TO locate
| the Russian shfns and resulted in the lat
ter being caught in a tran and the Variag
being DESTROYED Two systems of wire
| less telepranbvZthe Marconi and the DC
Forest-will be fully Illustrated on the
! exnosftion grounds
-.
mdfihe war Appliances.
| There will be a full display of marine
war appliances and accessories, like tor
| pedoes and all kinds of naval pyrotech-
| MICS The famous whitehead torpedo,
| which Is of dirgible or automobile con-
4 str vii ha m qyb nd Is
wonderful mechanism shown and ex-
planned. The visitor will soon realize
| then the great importance of this flying
esine o. go AL ~ a,"t W. malaare
| disabled number of Russian battle
shins at PORT Arthur by means of the
! whitehead tornedo
! "A to the motive mower for battleshins
| this feature can be found i'm the immense
marine boilers In actual use In the great
boiler Mani of the oxposition. located in
the steam Gas and Fuels building. One
of the boilers came from DUR e. Co.
near dusseldorf. Germany and is one of
| the tvne hull for the German nan-of-
| war sachsen In q recent contest he
| tu,oo, GERMAN ha+tlosbins confined with
| mr. and with stefn nnelder hoilers tho
| chin having The D,1rr boiler Won rhis
Durr boiler he's been in the exposition
| niant and is noo, renoved for contfn,,ed
| actual service in the steam Gas and
| Truels building In tho same building. Is
ono boiler from Alfred Cont of Gueste
| r,,ndan Germany which is so largo
| ,bat IL had ia no disnantled In New yorl.
c,t,, in order To he Skinned on frefoht
| cors to tbe interior 1900 miles. IN ST.
| louis In the Same building are three
| r,arino hoi1ars from Societe Anonvrno das
| Irtahiiesernentsm nv DO T.atInav-ReIle-
| ,,illa ~ e. penis seine. France rbev
~ 80 !, t,,na f,,,i1iar. 10 chose. need IN tho
| Errencl, navy There is also two marine
| hoitors FROM T and A Niclansse "a Dua
| dos Ardennes. PARIS France
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