The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-03
Thirty Thousand Officers and
Men Under Command of
ADMIRAL Ships Reach
More than 10 Miles. 81

will cost 100000. For fresh beef
there will be expended 100000. Tint.
1 900 men need enough flour to fill 4
seventy-fve railroad cars, and suffi.
cient fresh beef to load fifty refrig-
orator cars. The potatoes for thu
ships will fill twenty cars. Other.
stores, ranging from cheese to turkey
aprIcots to sausages, milk to sauer<
kraut vinegar to macaroni, and
peaches to salt pork including forty
six big Items. range from one to four
carload lots. making about 225 rail-
road cars full OF supplies. or nearly
ten big trains Of foods.
The biggest single item Is coal. 4
fleet Of thirty-odd Golfers had noun. I
tains OF 1t stored at Trinidad, Rio Jas /
Metro, Punta Arenas, Cailao, ;MagdaleHs---
Bay and San francisco, and to get tho
sixteen battleships and the six tors
pedo boat destroyers around the South
American continent, over 100000 tons.
OF fuel were piled UP at the stopping, !.
places. At SIS a ton this represents
$4,000 The batteships alone took
aboard $4,000 tons at Rio Janeiro. 21,-
600 tons at Punta Arenas, 21,0oo at
Callao and $4,000 tons at Magdalena
Bay Eighty thousand tons were con-
tracted for at San Francisco, and now
that it has been decided to send the Y
ships around the world. mountains Of
fuel must be deposited along the
Asiatic, Indian and Mediterranean
coasts -
For every mile of. the 14Ooo-mile
cruise of the sixteen battleships from
| Hampton Roads to San francisco. the
vessels burned eighty tons Of coal an
| hour, which, at IS a ton, is S4o0 a e
| mile
when the sixteen battleships shall
have ended their cruise Of $4,000 miles
| they will have consumed $1.50o,000
worth Of foods and s1,5oo,0oo Of coal.
Official figures OF the Navy Depart !
ment show that 1t costs $625,Ooo 70.
maintain battleship for one year. +
| this is multiplied by sixteen 1t VIII be
seen that the cruise around the world
will cost over s1ooo0.oOO However,
as the cruise is producing the best
men -behind-t he-guns in the world. it
Is regarded worth the price -
Records with Big Guns.
The publication Of the fact that
during target practice on the British
Channel fleet. in the presence of King
Edward one gun made nineteen hits
in twenty-one shots, thereby earning
a decoration from the King, touched
| They can beat this. The record of tho
recent target practice at Magdalena
BAY shows that the Maryland made
| two worlds records with the S-inch
and 6-inch guns. Out of 1855 shots
| minute with the 3-inch guns the
| Naryland's men made 1855 hits =
I minute record of 1000 per cent.
In the contest with the e-inch guns the
| Maryland gunners easily carried OF the hon
a.s with an average of $40 hits out of
/ possible 1912 The Maryland not only car
REG Of, seers made among among all ships
Tho range measured about 1.6oo yards.
| and the men We're obliged to train their guns
/ checkered in black and white squares. SIX
| cruisers participated in the shoot In the
final score the following percentages were
Maryland. 1889: Tennessee, ss,2t; Colorado
sa.6s: Pennsylvania. ESQ; West sirs4hia'
$40; Washington, $3.50
One gunner on the armored cruiser Mary
land made II shots and ~ hits IN one MN IN
ute with s,ineh gun. a e-insh gun on the
4 score at the rate of 1911 minute. and the
battleship Missouri,ss best record was 1889
The performances at Magdalena Bay shows
| that the Albany has broken all records Tor
rapd and NTH her Minute sas
4 t.s st. Louis with her 6-inch guns, avcras-
\ ing SIX hits Per minute.
a 3-pounders on the batteshp Virginia
/ made 20 shots and 20 hits in Is seconds
/ Another gun made 0 shots and 10 hits in
! coz seconds. a remarkable average of 1857 i
4 shots and hits minute.
The battlcship 1nois.sthat holdssthe gtarsri
l &c; record of the navy at the present writ
| ing. made per cent of 1888 In using all
! gins tts5 sFE5
The crew oil the after-turrct on the Ala 4
! b,;ma has madef11 straight hits with the 49,
/ inch gun. s555 us
/ At her preliminary practice he Tennessee
| used 1919 pounds of powder and 36,24e3s
| BOUNDS of shell. the cost being s1s.909.24.
i a Tennessee
90. pounds OF powder and 5l.e66 pounds Of
| shell. the cost being se5,742.5G. The Ten
| nessees largest guns of 1e-inch calbrs
| as against the Il and 13-inch pieces of the I,
| battleshps.
1 The standard of accurancy at target prar-ss5
\ tee has been set this year by the cruiser
/ Albany. which made total score of les
| Lifts out of 100 shots at rate OF fire never
| before attained in the navy.