Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-13
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there will be no material opposition in
Congress to the passage Of the necessary
legislation.
Testing the Westinghouse Turbine.
The bureau of steam engineering has
under consideration, for adoption for flu
ture battleships, the combined Melville
Westinghouse turbine and reduction gear.
The new device has been fully tested at
the Westinghouse works In west Pitts
burg. and Mr.. Westinghouse claims that
it will prove on sea quite as effective as
on land Summarizing the claimed ad-
vantages of the Westinghouse marine
turbine and reduction gear, as compar-
ed with direct-connected turbines or re-
ciprocating engines, there would be re-
quired one-half the room and the weight,
and there would be secured by their use
greater steam economy and longer
cruising radius, coupled with an impor-
tant decrease in the cost of the installa-
ton.
In order to make a practical test of
the new machines it is probable they will
be installed in the cruiser Baltimore.
now undergoing repairs, and in one of
the new naval Golfers of the Cyclops
| class. Plans have been made for
12,OOO-horsepower engine for. the Balti-
more, a 5000 horsepower engine for the
collier and for new engines for the cruiser
VeSuviuS, now used as a torpedo practice
ship.
Retirement Of Admiral Sebree.
Rear Admiral Uriel Sebree. command
ing the United States Pacific fleet now en-
route to San Francisco from a cruise to
Japan and China, will be placed on the
retired list on account of age next Sat-
urday. Born at Fayette. Mo, February
20, 1913. he was graduated from the
Naval Academy in 1867, since which time
he has cruised in all parts of the world.
He was attached to the Tigress in the
arctic relief expedition commanded by
Commander Greer in 1873, and was with
Rear Admiral Schley In the Greedy re-
lief expedition in 1884. He subsequently
commanded the gunboat Wheeling in pro-
tecting the seal fisheries III Boring sea
and was in charge of the naval station
at Samoa in 1902. In 1903 he was placed
in command of the new battleship
Wisconsin and in the following year was
on duty in this city as member of the
lighthouse board. For the past two
years he has been attached to the Pacific
fleet, the latter part OF the time as COM
mander-in-chef. He is a member of the
Metropolitan and Chevy Chase clubs and
has residence at 1855 New Hampshire
avenue. He will be succeeded in command
of the Pacific fleet by Rear admiral
Giles B. HARDER, formerly attached to
that fleet.
Privileges Denied Certain Army En-
ployes.
Gen. Duvall, commanding the Philip
pines division, has decided that unclassl-
fed employees of the quartermaster's de-
partment are not entitled to pay while
undergoing treatment in a hospital nor to
pay or subsistence while en- route to the
United States.
No Departmental Competitions This
Year.
Adjt. Gen. Mccain has notified all divi-
sion and department commanders that no
army or departmental rifle or revolver
competitions will be held In the United
States in 1910, and that in the future such
competitions will be held in the odd num-
bered years. in accordance with para
graph 264 Provisional Small Arms Fir
ing Manual.
Foreigners Entitled to Reward.
The question as to whether the reward
for the apprehension and delivery of a
deserter is properly payable to a person
not a citizen of the United States was
recently raised in the case of an enlisted
man who deserted from the United States
Army and who was apprehended In Can
ada and returned to military custody In
the United States by Canadian pro- !