The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-08
GREAT WAR GAME
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card at a certain point. By means OF
wheels and pulleys the target is then
caused to pitch and move exactly as
a vessel would do and the men train.
ing the guns must make a perfect
shot in order to puncture the card
again at exactly the same point A
miss of a very small fraction of an
inch on the card means hundreds OF
yards on a vessel at long range.
Lieuteuants w c. Barker and J.
Shafer instructed militia officers and
men in the operation of the blk ten.
inch guns in the forward and after
turrets of the Washington. Target
practice with these guns is carried on
in much the same way as with the
smaller guns, except that instead of
an electrical device, % caliber rifle
attached to the barrel registers the
shots by puncturing a small canvas
target on which are painted silhouet-
tes of war ships. Officers of the Wash
ington expressed great satisfaction
with the work of the militia in hand
ling the batteries.
On the last Gay of the cruise, Lieu
tenant Commander E. n. Walbridge of
the Third Battalion Naval Militia,
from Rochester, studied the routine
work of marines on board a battleship
Lieutenant e. p. Moses of the Marine
Corps instructed Mr.. Walbridge in
every phase of the work
Lieutenant Harvey Yorke and L..
" Stebbins of the First Battalion
acted as ordnance officers, with Lieu
tenant E. E. Spafford, and spent the
last day of the cruise in studying pow
der tests. Commander Russell r. Ray
nor of the First Battalion also made
study of this department of work.
1t was the first time any of the militia
officers had had opportunity to see
powder in the final phases of decom-
position and to study all the apparatus
which goes to make up the ordnance
officers outfit.
Throughout the cruise Commander
Raynor and Lieutenant Commander
Walbridge acted with Lieutenant Com
mander ]. Y. R. Blakely of the Wash
ington as executive officers and navi-
gators. All through both engage
1,ooptcD botuoov tln +y,-o aoot, both
militia officers were constantly on the
bridge of the Washington studying the
handling of the craft as if in actual
battle in searching for the enemy and
in defense against torpedo boats and
destroyers.
Lieutenant James MacFarlane, First
Battalion, and Lieutenant A. F. Zell-
weger, Third Battalion, were instruct
ed in the work of signal officers by
Midshipman d. B. Beary of the Wash
ington. On Friday night in the run
from Block Island to New York they
practically took care of all the signal
work between vessels of the fleet,
which was no simple matter, as there
were many night maneuvers.
Work Highly Commended.
In his report to the Navy Depart
ment at Washington, Rear Admiral
Hugo Osterhaus highly commended
the work of the citizen sailors and
their officers. They took hold of all
kinds of work with the regularly en-
listed men and worked, he said, with
the interest of the service at heart
In the last engagement, which took
place on Wednesday night, Rear Ad-
miral Osterhaus was kept informed of
the movements of the vessels by wire
less, as his flagship, the Connecticut,
was disabled and lay at anchor off
Block Island.
Rear Admiral Aaron Ward, on board
the Missouri, and in command of the
five vessels on which were the New
York militiamen, expressed himself in
his report to the Navy Department as
greatly pleased with the work of the
sailors.
"The cruise has been of inestimable
benefit to our men," said Commodore
Robert p. Forshew, commander of the
naval militia of the state of New York.
Drill as We may, we simply cannot
get the good from once or twice a
week exercises that we do from
whole week of actual life on board a
under supposed war condi-
tons"
Commodore FOrshew boarded the
yesterday morning, while
the fleet was lying off Tomphnsville,
to pay his respects to the officers on
board.
How the naval militia enters into
the spirit of the work is shown by one
little incident Seven of the men