The Cairo bulletin., 1905-05-10
BIG BATTLESH|PS
RACE At SEA
Al souri ,liows" iIer Heels to
Nas,'s fnd.
A hBAMA COMES LAST
EVEN IOWA AND MAssA-Ru.
sETTs. THE VETERANS, DIS
TANcED Her - RACE
LASTED 4a HOURS.

New York. May q spven battle
ships Of ale north Atlantic sasa Iron
raced ~ eight hours On the hlga eas
on saturday, with Rea. Admiral 4
ley n Evans as startar oif cial tiaa
keepef and ii, 81
The battles ship Missouri won with
ease. The others finished iii their or
der Maine. KearsaHaa X nuichys /
Iowa, Massachusetts AMI Alabanas
Tho race began 200 miles south OF
Cap Henry
The squadron had con istal Of Z gasf
battleships, bnt left the Illinois a PaE-
sacola Rear Admiral Evans silt tn /.
squadron into two divisions. taking
the Maine as his flagship, and WITH IL
the Missouri Kearsarge and KEN
tncky leaving the Iowa Massacl4iE
cts and Alabama under command of
Rear Adm raj Charles H Davis.
/ IeMa ana Massachusetts, have less
tonnage anu less horse power tisan
any ship in the FIRST division
n No Jockeying at the Start.
Before 2 o'clock Saturday morning
the big ships began to draw abreast,
aud at exactly 8 the signal for the
/ tart was given from the flagship.
4 'fhe fifst hour was designated 10
test the smoothness of the machinery
IlasEef than 20 attain high speed.
. From to s,30 o'clock the ships pro
, eoaaai at twelve knots, and at 10
.'cIocls they were permitted TO go
aheaA at fun speed with natural draft
Y, When the real race began the Ms
i soari drew ahead rapidly from the
Il MasHachrsettss Iowa and Alabama.
Il aud al D, theugh less .apsaiy. from tie
Kearsarga ami Kentucky
4 Tho acc wet On Iii tiiispswa until
! noon, when tie extreme test hogan
witt forced draft More c arly t'ian
\ hufoY0 III tha nest fpnr h0afs unaer
! Il reed draft lie Missouri demonstrated
] It's superiority On paper the Milne
was superior, for IT has slightly
greater displacement than tho other
! ana lii the official tr al made an av-
\ erago of 1873 knots 10 1872 for the Mis-
, souI.
I. MfSsOutf surprises ftti.
The Missouri however. upset the
! trial figures when well going under
!. forced draft, and showed the flagship
!, SO clean pair of heels that there re-
y mained no question Of its superiority.
!, From IL TO 4 o'clock the battleships
i. became wen strung out in the order In
Il which they finished Much more than
!, ii showed was expected for the Ala
:. bama, tupposed by every 0ne in the
navy to be fieeter than the Massachu.
setts and Iowa, the only ships IN the
y, squadron completed before the war
III | with Spain. These veterans beat the
newer ship easily
AT no time, so II was said on tlls
90 Alabama today, did Il develop mere
1, than thirteen knots It's officers sait
4. that tho horse power was up to the
best record and the revolutions weyt
y, smooth They could ascr be its fall
H. ing behind only to foul bottom. Th'
Z, & craft was painted about Christina
Ii time, they said In a storm Of slee
~ and snow. and after that lay for sev
~ eral days in the ice Of the harbor.
~ Twin Ships in Fine Race.
The sister ships. Kearsarge AM
~ Kentucky which made the same speet
=, ~ l7A knots, on their trials, furnished
n, fine contest throughout The keai
sa sarge finally drew away, but the utai
- gin was smaller than that hetwee
tas any two others.
n, II was not until the arrival Of IN
Alabama at the Brooklyn navy var
.m this afternoon that the result az IN
~, race became known.
q Officers of the Alabama said toda
WI although every commander urged n
w ship 10 the limit there was not tn
~ slightest mishap or injury.