The Holbrook news., 1912-07-05

look as if they might be carried iI
 shawl straps.
 It requires about eighteen monthi
 to construct one of the fourteen-incl
 guns, and already six have been com
 pleted and taken out to the maya
 proving ground at Indian Head, wher they are tested. The rest of the twen ty guns are in various stages of mak ing, but all are expected to be read, when the New York and Texas ar' launched next year.
 Although the fourteen-inch beautiei are the greatest attraction to visitorI just now, the other naval armament 1T the shops is of tremendous interest Twelve-inch giants weighing fifty-s1 tons stick out from the lathes. They cost even more than the fourteen-incl guns to make, $65,0O0 being the amount each gun costs without iti mount, which costs $52,0O0 additional They have a longer range than ths larger sized guns, but their life h shorter, lining being necessary afts 200 rounds have been fired. It cost $424 each time one of these is hrel with a war charge and pro1ectile.
 Horsepower Figured.
 In the shell shops workmen may b, seen transforming blocks of brass in to tubes, an interesting process, while in a vast tank in another building models of war vessels are being test ed. This worksnop is next to the guI factory in interest Wooden models as large as canoe or rowboat, of eY cry vessel ordered for the navy art made by the shipbuilders. The pro portions are exactly the same as those of the projected ships of war. Above the long tank travels an appliance not unlike a crane. When the test il ! made the model is weighted in pro | portion to the weight of the actua | boat in order to determine the dis | placement. The model is connected with the travelling overhead device which drives it through the water a varying degrees of speed. A machine records the resistance, and from thir is figured the horse power required to drive the actual vessel at a giveT | rate of speed.
 The completion of the Texas ant the New York next year and of tn, Nevada and Oklahoma fn 1914 will | give the United States thirty-seves frst-class battleships with a tonnasl of 610,796. When Germany finishe | the nine dreadnoughts that are to b' completed at the rate of three a year | before the close of 1914, 1t will have thirty-six battleships with tonnagt of 5S0,870. Great Britain, which il | building ten new dreadnoughts, two to be finished thls year, four next yea and four in 1914, will have total O seventy. battleships, tonnage 1,1S9, | 900. In battleships the United Statei will rank second, but in armoret | cruisers 1t will have twelve, as agains Germany's fourteen and Great Brit | aims forty-four by the end of 1914 The tonnage of the battleships ant armored cruisers built, building ant provided for according to the lates navy year book, is: Great Britain | 1 1,s09,6 $50; United States, 76S.241 Germany. 7S7.638; France. 626,726. Japan, 421,S45; Russia, 2S7 7,O16; Italy 299,707, and Austria-Hungary, I'll, ,1SS |
 In number and displacement of al war ships, built and building, of 1,00t or more tons and of torpedo craft O more than fifty tons, Great Britain has 560 vessels of 2,324,579 tonnage Germany, 26S vessels and 1,OS7, 1891 tonnage, and the United States, 1s, vessels, tonnage s85.O66.
 As to large guns, the United Starei navy will have forty fourteen-inch thirty-two thirteen-inch and 14i twelve-inch guns, total of 22O; Ger many will have 176 twelve-inch ant ninety-six eleven-inch guns, a tota of 272, and Great Britain will hay, 300 twelve-inch and 1S4 thirteen-incI guns, an aggregate of ASA.