The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1915-08-20
MODERN WARSn|PS
They Are Vastly More Than Mere
Fighting Machines.
LIKE WELL ORDERED CITIES.

and It's Court of Justice and 10 az
Complete as an Ocean Liner or an Up
to Date Hotel as Living Place.
The modern warship is not only a
fighting machine, but, like the big
ocean liner, she may be compared with
well regulated commonwealth, &C
cording to Rear Admiral Charles D.
Sigsbee u. s. N, retired. The former
captain of the Maine has drawn a pic
ture of one Of Uncle Sans typical
fighting craft from a new angle, and
he says:
when one Of these great battleships,
with her many people, puts out to sea
she must be self supporting from her
own supplies. She is everything from
village to large city, according to
one capacity or another. She has her
own police force, her own courts OF
justice and metes out her own punish
ment In no small degree she rewards
as well as Furnishes.
Normally. and counting to the ut
termost corner and crevice, she is one
Of the cleanest and most sanitary es-
adjustments to be found anywhere.
Her spring cleaning is administered
every day and before the earliest busy
hours of the forenoon. At her best
she is beautiful souvenir of patriot
ism to the vision Of the patriot. At
her worst. after each coaling of soft
coal that she burns, we find her as
grimy everywhere as coal pit. In
her war paint her white sheen has de-
parted somewhat, but her cleanliness
remains.
Her people drink germless water
distilled on board from salt water over
the SIDE She has her own ice plant,
ice water. pipe line cold storage
rooms, tubular fire mains and flushing
systems: hot and cold water supply
through pipes. and has ba0tubs and
shower baths for either salt or fresh
water. She has no sewer gas, nor has
she the murderous mosquito that we
have on shore to usurp the iniquity OF
our old bugaboo, the household sewer
gas She has laundrymen and tailors,
stewards, cooks and attendants. Her
range of special artificers is long
one.
"Her hospital and pharmacy are up
to date. and even her canteen, while
on the dry order of canteens, possesses
some of the combined qualities of a
cigar store. notion counter. confection-
cry and delicatessen store With her
hardware, utensils and mechanical ad,
juncts of many kinds she could stock
gigantic hardware establishment on
shore. What hardware house keeps on
hand more than $1.O0O,OO0 worth of
supplies?
'She has a telephone system for in
ternal use and wireless outfit for ex
ternal communication. She is heated
by steam and lighted by electricity and
has scores of electric motors. Her guns
are fired by electricity, and finally witt
her powerful electric plant she could
provide the electric needs of city OF
more than 10000 people.
"She harnesses and uses, with nice
application. tremendous forces OF
steam, electricity and explosives. Hell
satellites are scout vessels, hospita
vessels, supply vessels. repair vessels
dispatch vessels, tugs. destroyers ant
submarines. When the battleship has
done what the ocean liner does she has
not yet begun her reserve of gigantic
accomplishments-he war specialties
: In her power of damage battleship il
r truly internal"
Admiral Sigsbee says that PRACTICAL.
all the enlisted men in the Unite,
States navy are American born. whicl
? is great reversal of conditions tina
: existed before sails gave way to steam
4 The present typical man-o'war's mai
is much younger than his prototype
but each year is increasing the averag
age and this is a great advantage t
the navy.
l The young men who enter the servic
!, and pass through only one or more pc
: RODS of enlistment. preferring civil lif
: thereafter carry with them a sense o
, discipline and a knowledge of mechar
Q ical niceties that have much infiuenc
! in shaping their lives and in populariz
= ing the navy throughout the country
u 1t no longer is the rule to seek me
only on the coast Every state is nov
well represented by enlisted men, espt
cially those of the middle west.-Ne,
I York Times
n Extremes In Iceland.
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