New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-26
ARMY AND NAVY NOTES
Big Drydock Needed for the New
DreadnoughtS.
Washington. July %.

BIGGER DOCKS NEEDED.--As battle
ships are built larger year after year. the
Navy Department may recommend to Con-
sress the construction Of mammoth dry
dock I'm New York or Norfolk exceeding IN
size any naval dock In this country y was
learned to-day. Tentative plans Tor the
dock contemplate q length OF LOCO teet,
nearly 200 feet greater than any American
dock built or building "A beam or llV Iees,
the width OF the Panama Canal. ana depth
OF "a feet.
Were the battleships Wyoming and Ar
kansas ready for commission ~ the present
time here would not be a dock az an
American navy yard wide enough 20 accom-
modate them. This situation. however. WI
be met befC re those ships aIe completed ~
the new docks NJ New York Pearl Harbor
and Puget sound and the enlarged dock
at Norfolk. These decks VIII be aDie % r.,
ceive any ship built building Or designed
for the United States navy. The norfolk
dock will he completed hy September 10,
the one az New York by February !, 1911,
the Puget Sound dock by March 2, 1872,
and that n Pearl Harbor by May b. 1913.
ORDERS IssUED.-The following orders
We're issued:
ARMY
Lieutenant Colonel THOMAS H. REFS.
C0rps II Engineers detailed 10 s1perih-
tend construction or repair Of any ava =
18th Lighthouse District. relieving colonel
JOIN BIDDLE. General star .,..t
y
corps. from san Antonio % Fort pousias.,
Captain FRED F. SMITH. from 18th TO "a
CAPTAIN CAMPBELL e. BABCocK, quarter
master. 10 san Francisco. as assistant
depot quarternastcr
Captain MILTON A. ELLIOTT Jr.. commls-
sary assigned as assistant cnlet coillilf-
sary Eastern Division. -,
First Lieutenant RICHARD r. CUMMINs;
Ordnance Deparm. ~. TON Rock l4''"'
First Lieutenant JOIN p BRADLEY' mod
teal reserve corps, from Fort l-caH =
worth % san Francisco. thence sepien-
Der 5. 70 Philippines ,..,,-.,,,
First Lieutenant JULIEN r. BthN fl.'.
dental surgeon, t0 Cleveland, 70 repI'frns
dental corps at meeting Nationm Dent@t
Association. July p to -
First Lieutenant GEORGE r. CAMPBELL.
medical reserve corps. from Department
OF Texas 20 home. and stand relieved
from active duty IN mecca! -.
OF absence - -
First Lieutenant JOE n. BRABsoN % Field
Artillery. 10 Fort Myer' thence " A''
Leave OF absence- captain WILLIAM Ell
LOTT. commissary. three months i'''H
NAVY.
Lieutenant Commander J. r. sIPHER. de-
tached naval observatory. WASHINGTON;
duty connection fitting out the Florida
and on board when commissioner.
Assistant surgeon p. T.. LA%%lNG. naval
hospital navy yard. Mare Island.
MOVEMENTS OF WARsHIPS. The fol-
lowing movements OF vessels have been re-
ported 10 the Navy Department.
ARRIVED.
July 22-The Maine. at navy yard. $ew York
July 23.-rhe SOmers ard the Isla de CUBA
at Annapolis.
July 24-The Washington. at Portsmouth,
y. H. the Chester. ar Cape Hayden. me
Lc0udas. II KY West. the Glacier. AT
Mare island. the TrpDe. the Ohio, nc
Idaho. the Michigan and the virginia, az
FrOviucetOwn, the Yankton, ar Boston
July 2J.-The Whippe. the Hopkins. the Hun,
the TruXtun, the Paul Jones, the Perry,
tho Preble. the Stewart the Goldsbor-
ough and the Rowan. az Bremerton-
SAILED.
July 22.-The Maine from Tompkinsville for
navy yard. New York.
July 23.-The Hannibal. from Newport News
for Portsmouth. y. IT the Buralo. from
Nome FOR Cnal4ska. the Peoria, from cape
Haytien for Fort Lberte.
July Zf-rh- Missouri ard the Mississippi.
from Tompknsviile FOR Provincetown, tho
Somers and the Isla de cuba, from An
ulpOIis for Baltimore. the Iowa. the IN
diana and the Massachusetts,. from Der
for Gibraltar. the Glacier, from san
Francisco FOR Mare Island. the Trippe.
from Boston for Provinrerown, the Tank-
ton. from ProVincetOwn FOR Boston. the
Whppe. tho Hopkins. the HUI. the TruX-
tgn. the Paul Jones. the Perry. thc Prebic.
The stewart, the GOdsbor0ugh and tho
Rowan. from Seattle for BremertOn.
The Dubuque placed out ~ commission.
The Nashville commissioned.
The MarlleheaG. comm ssioned IN reserve,
navy yard. Mare Island.