Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-12-16

You may read this as meaning the
Philippines, II you please. The navy.
which does not ask questions, read 1t
as meaning three months of hard
work. with every captain of every
ship saying Ready" on December 1G.
Excuses are not in the lexicon. Re-
suits only are considered The pro-
| visions and the coal were q part re-
curing forethought and clerical de-
tail. Supply ships had to follow.
Golfers must be waiting at the ports
with coal In mechanics the Bureau
| CT Equipment had to keep In mind
| the thought that the ships could not
run back to the yards at Norfolk, at
! brooklyn. or at Boston, where skilled
workmcn and improved plants were
/ AT their command.
Getting Fire. Control System
Installed
And mechanics brings us to the do
main of secrecy. There are some
things about our ships-the product
of American ingcnuity-which are
our business and no one else's. Most
suggestivcly important In this cate
cory was the installation of fire.
control system. That does not mean
putting out ConnagratiOn aboard,
but putting the enemy's fleet out of
action. In modern naval war, In the
words of n jacky: You do. the shoot
ing and the fellow in the next street
does the aiming" In approaching Il
hostile fleet the first vital thing Is
TO lind the cncmy's range, ana, more
vital still, to keep II until his sea
power is "A junk-hcap at the bottom
OF the sea.
II one man on any ship knew the
range precisely, and could communi-
cate II continually to all the others,
that would he enough. An officer
called the "spottcr the range.
How best to protect him. how best to
I carry his word to every turrct. arc
, uu. stions that have wrinklcd the
| brOws of every naval stan.
Redded under the muscles OF the
. EGttleship are her nerves. The wires
; carrying the word must be protected
D.. by armOr, and in the event OF the
!. failure of the original method OF
Z transmission another must be ready
: and very ready. Seconds count. Thir'
ty seconds might change the destiny
n OF the nation; for IL we fire one
I. quarter as well in COniliCt~as we dc
|. in target practise any enemy must bc
lut out of action in fifteen minutes
i Trizc-nghting is comparatively delib
, crate. In n naval battle there Is M
=, time to breathe between rpnds.
When the spotter is dead and nj
IS word comes to the turrets, then thu
It turrcts must be prepared to go 1t oi
% their own" We have formulated on
Il tirc-COntrOl system, and we completed
W its mechanical installation before thi
. voyage. Mr.. Rockefeller L. not ricN
enough to buy plan of 1t. Possibl,
il Is no.bcttcr than that OF any othe
nation, and whether II Is or not wa
alone can decide.
"Will you have the sixteen ready?
the bureaus in Washington have heel
r asking for the last three months o
| officers on the ships and at the yards
win you have them ready" tn
Secretary of the Navy asked the bu
+ reaus and the President asked tn
d Secretary of the Navy.
II The highly responsible bureau or
;, raniZer is Admiral Brownson, Chic
It uI the Bureau of Navigation. II on
r. of the sixteen failed to toe the mari
% ut Hampton Roads, with the Whit
" House on his shoulders, he might wei
y wonder why Atlas was of such
5. complaining disposition.
If Brownson Is retired officer KEEP
on active duty ashore because he ha
7 the gift of getting things ready
II No" and yes he knows, and he see
=. with the quick sailors eye of sixty
y three. When there is something t.
II he done he says that he will see tina
t. it is, and takes the responsibility. HI
h moves our ships from one place to an
r. other on the map of the world.
IS lie says who shall be assigned t.
=, the fleet, and unhappily there Is no
" room for all in the Four Hundred o
n this new naval program, II ever
enc who wanted to go might go, WI
should man nothing but our battle
@ feet and torpedo flOtilla. All gun
D. boats and unarmored cruisers doini
the drudgery of patrol would b.
y without officers and jackies. 1t Is
n famous cruise. and the sights o
South American ports and the snow!
Y peaks OF Terra del Fuego are in thu
e ofing; and perhaps there will b'
t. war, which Is the end of all the train
% ing, This awakens Jack. His doubt
y Of the wisdom of naval career van
lgh.
Foreigners who have said tina
r American lack of patriotism wa