The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-07-07
BY Associated Press.

at Santiago when the American fee
destroyed the battleships OF Spain. tn
nation has taken growing interest an'
pride in it's new navy. AT the clos
OF the Spanish war;" writes Lieuten
ant Commander Waiter b. Tardy, Y
s. N. in the current issue OF the En-
gineering Magazine, the press anC
the people were satisfied with theii
navy. Il has been successful, and
thus efficiency Was taken for granted
But when stock was eventually taken
the small percentage OF hits made be,
came known, and naval officers rea.
liaed that something must be done 20
justify the public confidence
The result OF that realization is
what Lieut. Commander randy EN-
bodies in his paper on scientific man
agcment and efficiency In the United
States navy. 1T is not uncommon TO
human experience" he observes, for
different experimenters working at
similar problems independently and
without any knowledge of one an
other efforts, to arrive independent
ly and simultaneously at the same dis
coveries. Something like this has
happened in the case of the navy and
civil establishments, for only since
the technical and popular press took
up the general discussion of scientific
management, have naval officers be-
gun to realize that their management
was OF the kind now so strenuously
advocated for industrial pursuits of
all sorts"
This efficiency may be divided into
three parts--efliciency of the gun
crew; efficiency of the fighting unit,
or the ship; and efficiency of the fight
ing division or fleet. For 1t is with
fighting efficiency that a fighting ma
chine, such as navy is intended to
be, is first concerned. But the effort
for efficiency has not been bounded
by fighting drill. Important economies
have been won in engine practice;
the aim has been to make engineer
ing count equally with gunnery in de-
termining the final ship efficiency
Celebrity In coaling, and economy in
the stoke hold and engine room, when
translated into action mean that
given ship, run to the full of her ca
pacity, is able to steam just so much
father, to attain just so much wider
cruising radius, to clear from port |
in hurry just so much quicker, to
show just so much more speed in |
desperate pinch, than the same ship
or her sister when slackly offiCered.
Counting engineering equally with
gunnery in determining the final per-
formance of any ship-since to work
her guns on the enemy her engines
must first carry her into and keep her
in range-the navy set itself this stan
dard as embodied in the Rules for
Battle Practice. 1911. and quoted by
Lieutenant Tardy. "The measure of
the battle efficiency of any vessel is
her ability to deliver The greatest mum.
ber of hits in the shortest possible time
after the enemy is sighted, and with
the least expenditure of coal"
In this direction let us see what has
been done. "The Texas" writes Com
mander Tardy. was one of the Amer
lean ships in the battle OF Santiago |
Less than three per cent of all the |
shells fired in this battle by the Amer
lean fleet hit the enemy. There is no |
record that a single twelve inch or
thirteen inch shell took effect. The
ranges were less than 5000 yards. Re
Gently the New Hampshire used the
old Texas as a target She fired at
ranges of from 10000 to 1880 yards
and landed whole salyoes on the Texas
whenever she wished.
Recently the Michigan, an all big
gun ship, made % twelve inch hits at
ranges of 10000 yards while steam
ing at fifteen knots, the target being
only 60 feet long by so feet high. She
fired As twelve inch shells. Her per
oentage of hits was about two shots
per minute per gun, This in mod
arately rough sea, while the sea was
smooth at the battle of Santiago"
These and other similar results re-
GENTLY induced the secretary of the ;
navy to say in an address delivered ;
before the New York Economic Club:
Scientific management experts who
saw the recent battle practice tell me
hat the battleship is the finest ex-
libition of scientific management they
lave ever seen"
Lieutenant Tardy tells how this eff
icieney was developed.
Every officer in charge Of any part
II ships battery, he writes. was
euuired TO improyise the equipment