Evening star., 1909-05-29
BATTLESf1IP EQUIPMENT IS
GREAT WORK AND EXPENSE

ball outfits. foot bali outfits and fencing
foils and gloves. The men are encouraged
TO take part in games and athletic events.
Not all of the things the government
supplies have been named. There are
even more TO be furnished BY the contrac-
tor. who Is expected TO supply them
fitted in place and In all respects ready
for use" This list includes "all standing
rigging" Then follow such items a
grommets for awning stanchions. and Ii
does not matter whether the landsmar
knows what a grommet is: guys. spans.
topping lifts, shoppers and falls for boat
davits; pelican hooks for lifeboats. sea
painters. grab ropes. gripes for all boats.
boom riding lines with lizards for steam
boats, mast whips. clothesine whips.
top whips-and probably these are not
what every boy knows top whip.
What boy can tell what a iigger is
How many boys ever climbed a jacobs
ladder. which Is used for hooking on
anchors and so forth And here on the
list come more REORGANIZATION whips,
battle hatch whips and just hatch whips.
This item looks rather queer-a SET Of
lightning conductors. There are also fire
grenades and fire hose. An item Is one
collision mat
Many things have to be duplicated. The
flag officer has TO have a range in the
ships galley all for himself. And II must
have the usual spare parts. There ~
also an officers range with the usual
parts. Ii would not do to have the cook
ing OF the officers and the flag officer
mixed. So, also. it is evident that the
cooking OF the crew cannot be mixed up
with the cooking for the officers and the
flag ofcer, so there Is range for the
crew. with the usual spare parts. For
the latter there are four steam jacketed
coppex kettles of sixty gallons capacity,
each fitted with reducing and safety
valves: two other sixty gallon vegetable
steaming kettles and two fifty-gallon cof-
fee urns.
The contractor not only has to furnish
eight 1tIkifowatt generating sets and all
sorts of electrical lamps and fixtures, but
he has to put In complicated set OF
voice pipes and telephones wherever d
rected. He must fix It so that the cap
tain can communicate from his station IN
battle with the engine and dynamo rooms.
steering compartment. turrets. guns and
central station; the persons having
charge Of the working OF the turrets,
their guns and ammunition supply, the
guns with their points of ammunition
supply, the dynamo rooms with each
other, with the searrhlights. turrets en-
gfne rooms, distribution boards and quar-
ter deck, and ever SO many other connec-
tons to facilitate working and fighting
the ship. There are electrical and electro
mechanical tefegraphs besides. Then come
the steering telegraDhs at all steering
wheels and the steering engine. All sorts
of indicators help to keep the captain in
formed as to what Is going on. There are
revolution indicators, rudder indicators.
heeling indicators: of course steam pres
sure, speed and electrical indicators.
There are boat, bower, kedge. sea. sheet.
stern. stream and target anchors There
are ground chains. hang chains. club
link and bending shackles. devils claws
with turn buckles. chain hooks, jackasses.
shackle pins, shank painters. bitt deck
and ring shoppers. pelican hook shoppers.
On shipboard bags are exceedingly
handy things. They are put 10 a multi
tude of uses There are bags for boat
awnings, boat cushions, boat sails. clothes.
coaling. hammocks. locker lining. wind
sails-and there are just plain bags for
any old use. There are lots of awnings
and twenty-nine different kinds OF covers
for booms, capstans, coal chutes, smoke
stacks and all sorts of uses. Then there
are twenty-nine kinds of falls, such as
anchor cat pendant tackle falls and battle
match whip falls and about 3,OGO. more or
less. other items which must be inven-
toried and cared for on a battleship