Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-07-06

tlesbin fleet with the building
IN up of two powerful reserve ~
fleets for the Atlantic and Pa
cif1c coasts will be made effective by
Secretary Never before the end OF the
year. The program already mapped
out brings the main fleet up to twenty
of the most powerful battleships in the
navy, besides the new Wyoming, which
will the fla gship by Jam 1, 1918
The Atlantic reserve fleet will consist
of nineteen ships. of which fourteen
are to be battIeships or armored cruls-
ers The Pacific fleet by the beginning
of next year will represent n fighting
force better able TO defend the Pacific
coast than any which has been there
since the battleship fleet stopped on its
cruise around the world There will be
ready for service on the Pacific four
teen cruisers, besides the battleship
Oregon. The Pacific fleet will com
prise the arnlored cruisers California,
South Dakota. Maryland and Colorado,
and the reserve fleet will he made up
of the Pennsylvania. West Virginia
and the Oregon and the cruisers
Milwaukee. Charleston. st. Louis. New
Orleans. R:tIei"h. Cleveland. Chatta-
nooga and Galveston. the torpedo boats
Fox and Davis. the tug Fortune and
the submarines \ :; and \ >.
The Atlantic reserve fleet on Jan
next will be made MP of the battle
ships Ohio CflaGshipl Maine, Illinois,
Alabama, Wisconsin. I(earsarge. Ken
lucky, Iowa, Indiana and Massa-
chusetts. the armored cruisers Wash
ington, Tennessee. Montana and North
Carolina, the cruisers Brooklyn, Column
bia and Minneapolis and the scouts
Birming CHAM and Chester. The Atlantic
battleship fleet AT the beginning of
next year will have the Wyoming as
detached flagship. with New York its
home yard. Each of the four divisions
will consist Of five battleships. so that
four can always he ready for service
while the fifth is undergoing repairs.
The fleet will comprise the Florida,
Utah, Delaware. North Dakota. Michi-
gan louisiana Vermont. Kansas,
South Carolina, New Hampshire.
Georgia, Virginia, Nebraska, New Jer-
sey, Rhode Island. Connecticut, Mime
sofa, Missouri, Idaho and Mississippi.
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LEAVING PEkING BY AERO
Plans for an aeroplane race from
Picking to Paris, suggested by a Paris
journal. which offers S31 900 in prizes
definite form.
The first point to settle was the sea
son of the year when the rain and
wind would least interfere with the
competitors Meteorological reports
from Russia and Siberia show that in
September the rainy season is over
and the average rate of the wind is
nor too great. Therefore the start
may be made in September next.
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IMPORTED LUXURlES
Luxuries imported into the United
States during the fiscal year which
ended last month exceeded S200.000.-
600 in value. Under this term ''luSu-
ries-' are included such articles as
diamonds art works laces and en-
broideries. champagne and other
wines. tobacco and manufactures
thereof, ostrich feathers, artificial
flowers. toys, perfumeries- and cosmet-
les. jewelry and manufactures of gold
and silver.
In many of these articles. especially
the more important ones. the imports
of the fiscal year 1912 will exceed in
value those of any earlier year. Art
works, for example, show for the nine
months ending with March a total ex-
ceeding by 90 per cent the highest
record of any earlier year and will
approximate S4O.Ooo.oOo in value for
the full fiscal year as against 500, 800
600 in 1911 and S21 900 600 in 1910.
Diamonds also will show Il large to
tai for the fiscal year 1912.
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PROUD OF PHILIPPINES