Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-10-30
TAXES TO LAND Admirable Robley D. Evans After Forty Years Service
 Leaves Navy. HAS OIL INTERESTS "l'es Out Interesting interview Will Live in New York
 Has "Come Back"
HAS OIL INTERESTS

New York Oct, 29.-With his re-
 storation to health Admiral Robley i D. Evans announces that after forty
 years of life at sea on the bridges of i battIeships, he will henceworth live on land and take up his residence III New York City. The Admiral will divide his time between the east and California, where he has large finan- cial interests.
 The fact that the Admiral has en- tered upon a business career will come as surprise to many-for
 Fighting Bob has come back. Two years ago when he guided the At lantic squadron to the Pacific on it's famous globe-girdling trip he was on- ly able to walk with crutches, and later was unable to get about at all. Today Admiral Evans looks twenty years younger. He has grappled with his old foe rheumatism and con- quered it and is restored to the good health he enjoyed years ago.
 Admiral Evans attributes this to his new interest in business a two month motor tour of the Pacific coast, where he spent much of his time sleeping out of doors and roughing it.
 T am business man now he said smilingly, and oil is my business. studied it for many years before leaving the Navy and it is the only thing I know anything about away from battleship. It has done me oceans of good to find something to do and to do it A few months ago I was able to throw away my crutches and the past few weeks l have been able to do without cane most of the time and could do without it entiTe ly if it We're not for some old wounds got in my legs in the Civil war. This business life has put me in bull ly shape. I would rather be a live business man than dead Admiral.
 Has Oil Interests.
 T have just returned from Califor- mia where I have been investigating that freak of nature, the oil fields Of that state. Oil is the fuel of the future and one of the signs that our Navy's keeping abreast of the times is that it is rapidly converting its ships into oil burners said the Admiral today.
 Russia was the first nation ito burn oil on a man-of-war, but the Eng fish were the first, to go into exten- sive experiments with this fuel. The reason that led England to take this step was the great disad- vantage under which coal burning warship labors, not only because coal is heavier and requires much greater bunker space, but t. makes smoke, and this is a very serious matter in warfare. .......
 You cannot get near enough to your enemy if his vessle is as fast as yours to take a shct at him. Why, in sham warfare 1 have been able at a distance of forty miles not only to discern the presence of hostile squad ron but tc count the enemy's sh ps, reckon his course and gauge his speed. Now six of Our new battle ships burn oil as well as coal, and others are being fitted with oil burn CTS. Our ten new torpedo boats are oil burners and two of our monitors $ have been converted.
 Even were coal equally abundant oil would supplant it as a fuel for steamships. Weight for weight, oil gives 10 heat units to z 12 for coal and there is an immense saving in storage space and expense of dispos- ing of ashes. Remember that war; ships when in foreign ports must pay handsomely for having their ashes carried out to sea and dumped by lighters.
 The saving in labor alone to the United States navy would be enor- nous for one stoker will do the work of 20 when oil is used instead o1 coal. If 1 were to say how great think the money saving would Joe the newspapers would think that I hai lost my mind.
 Furthermore, there would be { great reduction in the number of ac cidents in the navy. A larger pel centage of the accidents than is gen orally known, are due to explosions in the coal bunkers, resulting iron the ignition of coal gases.
 ''On fuel Mill remove the only ten able objection to the maintenance of
 formidable fleet of battleships in Pafi fic waters tT
 Our country with it's great pet roleum fields will produce enough oi to supply the fuel demands not onl
 of olr warships, but of the America
 me. chant marine and industries a
 well. Mhen the Panama Canal