Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-08
Army andaNaYy


The battleships comprising the first
division of the first Pacific squadron
are the Connecticut, Louisiana, Kan
sas and Vermont; those in the second
division are the Georgia, Virginia, New
Jersey and Rhode Island. The second
squadron, third division, is made up of
the Minnesota, Ohio, Maine and Mis-
souri,, and the fourth division of the
Alabama, Illinois, Kearsarge and Ken
lucky.
Each battleship in the first division
carries seventy-four guns and 8S1 men;
each in the second sixty-six guns and
S12 men. The Minnesota, heading the
third division, has seventy-four guns
and SS1 men; the Ohio, forty-four guns.
500 men; Maine, forty-four guns, S07
men; Missouri, forty guns, 780 men;
Alabama, forty-five guns, 713 men; Illi-
nois, forty-six guns. 500 men; Kear-
sarge, fifty-siX guns. 500 men; Ken
lucky, sixty guns and 6S6 men.
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The navy department has bought the
big sea- going tug General Hubbard. at
IN Francisco, to tow coal out to the
Atlantic fleet when it reaches the Pa
ciic coast. The tug will be rechrist-
ened the Navajo. The Arethusa. the
water supply ship, has been ordered
into commission at Norfolk with a. full
crew to accompany the battleship fleet
to the Pacific. Commodore A. w. Grant
has been detached from the naval
academy to take command of the Are
thusa, and Lieutenant Commodore B..
B. Bierer has been ordered to the same
vessel as executive officer and navi-
gator.
Commodore r. D. Bucknam, an Amer
lean, naval adviser of the sultan, who
has been promoted to the rank of rear
admiral in the Turkish navy, with the
title of pacha, has followed the sea
since a lad of sixteen. At one time he
commanded one of John d. Rockefell-
er's whaleback steamers on the Great
Lakes. He was afterward superin-
tendent of the Pacific Mail Steamship
company at Panama and later entered
the service of the Cramp Construction
company and took the cruiser Abdul
Medjidieh to Constantinople after her
completion at Philadelphia.
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Brevet Lieutenant Colonel w. r.
Smedberg. U. S. A., recorder of Cali
fornia commandery. M. O. L. L. U. s..
has issued a very interesting illus
trated circular of eleven pages. relat-
ing to the great earthquake and fire in
San Francisco in 1906, in which the
commandery suffered irreparable loss
from the burning of valuable records
rapers, etc. Colonel Smedberg says in
part; "The commandery was not in any
way injured by the earthquake, except
that naturally, nearly all the compan-
ions residing in San Francisco and
vicinity were pretty badly shaken up
The ensuing confagration. however,
inflicted not only upon the command
err itself, but upon very many of the
companions. great and irreparable
damage. There were at the time resid-
ing in San Francisco, or having their
OFFICES in that city. POI companions of
this commandery. OF these sixty lost
their residences and offices and 130 lost
their OFFICES by the fire. Apart from
the actual pecuniary loss sustained
tere was hardly one of these 100 COM
panions who did not lose all his war
records and priced mementoes. Prob
ably every one of them had preserved
since the Civil War his sword, belt.
shoulder straps. etc. and yet hardly
one was able to save single one of
these valued relics of the Civil War.
The collection of photographs of COM
panions of this commandery, number