The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-07
COAST ARTILLERY SERVICE.

The Service of Coast Artillery. BY Frank
T, Hines. United states Army, Captain
Coast Artillery Corps. Honor Graduate.
U S. Coast Artillery school and Frank
lin w. Ward. National Guard of New
York Coast Artillery Corps, Ninth Ar
tillerv District Member Examining
Board for Artillery Officers. Authorized
by the War Department Published by
Goodenough DC Woglom Company, New
York.
This is a very thoroueh-eoing work
on coast artillery. and, in fact. on ar
tillery in general 1t is illustrated
with plates, diagrams, and drawings
of various kinds designed to Illustrate
the text. and all well adapted thereto.
The work represents an earnest and OK
pert attempt 10 furnish IN informative
book for the use of coast artilleriists,
with special reference to duty of
artillery III coast defense. 1t is OK.
planned that the organization of the
United States Coast Artillery has n
lack which the Government is not
wholly able TO supply. "Thc regular
coast artillery, AT it's present size, can
not provide at the utmost for more
than half of one manning detail of
tho armament of our far-reaching
coast fortifications. - Congress, to
meet this defect, has authorized the
development of n coast artillery re-
serve, to which various coastwise States
nave IIansIeITcu SpeclallS quailheu
regiments of infantry from their mi
Jitia organizations. In these regi-
ments and In other organizations are
many officers and men desirous of fit
ting themselves for the service of
coast defense. A complete programme
of instruction has been issued by the
War Department for their use, and it
is to supplement- that, as well as to
furnish suitable reference book for
the regular personnel. that the pres
ent work was prepared, There is ex
pressed the belief by the authors that
they ''have brought together in small
form. in compact shape, the detailed
information indispensable to efficiency
on the part of the coast artillery,
armament and material they have held
closely to information procured from
ordnance department publications.. as
well as coast artillery orders, memo
randa, and circulars. In most cases
the information given here is tran
scribed from official documents, but
it is presented in a connected, instruc-
tive form not elsewhere to be found.
The work is not claimed to be exhaust
i've or conclusive, but is certainly
commendabIe, and ii has the approval
of Brigadier- General Arthur Murray,
Chief of Coast Artillery, and other dis
tinguished officers of the army, The
OrQer OF arrangement OF The text lS
everything that could be desired, pro
ceeeding logically and in due sequence
from the first explanations TO the most
complicated operations. The belief is
also expressed that the book is better
illustrated than any on the subject
which has preceded it,. which is Ger
tainly correct. Then the authors add
that. ''The volume has no other mo-
tive than to contribute to the efficiency
of most important arm of the United
States military service. They can
rest well assured that their motive has
been thoroughly realized.
We have, first of all. chapter on
definitions, abbrevintions. and signs.
Then one on the theory and practice Of
coast defense Another on organiza-
tion and personnel, and then chapters
in their order, on "Gnnnery and
Ballistics,' Armament "Explo-
sives, ProjectIles. Primers, and Fuses, -
Instruments, Devices, and Charts, -
HSearch Lights" Submarine Mines,
Small Boats. etc. 4" 'Seacost Engineer
ing'' ''Cordnge,'' "Magazine Rifle, -
and 'sPoints for Coast Artillerists. -
IT would certainly be difficult to
imagine anything more thorough going,
instructive. and helpful than this work,
and The Tribune desires emphaticaly
10 congratulate the authors, and
especially Captain frank It. Hines, hail
ing from Utah, on his scientific attain
ments, the exemplifica tion Of which has
rome SO strongly into this work