The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-05-28

use over mere @W0ut6. De cn1Snys dS q
coast defense and that as yet Sherei
is little TO be. feared from Them as.t
part Of an attacking force. It's there
fore sticking more closely TO the BAT
tIeship as an instrument with which |
TO meet and defeat an enemy thati
must cross the ocean to attack
The American navy IS, however. by
mo means without submarines Thei
first of the present year there We're
sixty Of these vessels In commission
They are stationed in the Philippines
at Hawaii, at Panama. on the Pac1hcl
coast, and twelve of them are mani
euverinR with the Atlantic feet now
of Newport Some OF these under
water vessels passed a most seyeref
test by smakins the run Of 1,100 from
their station. at Pensacola, Fla, TO .
New York for the review by the pres
ident,
It is interesting to note that Robert |
Fulton, the inventor OF the steamboat,
designed a submarine and was called
a crafty, mur6erous yi11a1n" for sug-i
eestine its use In war The Con9ed-i
crates had submarine which they
actually used with effect sinking with
it the federal ship Housaronic on
Charleston But this submarine was
not heard OF aEterward and, years later
when the Sunken warship was exam
med. the submarine and the remains
OF its crew were found nearby In a
war as recent as the Spanish-Anner-t
ican there were no submarines. Eng
derwater craft IN 10000. It IS since
that time that these boats have found
place in he navies OF the world
The submarine and the torpedo have
developed side by side The SUBJ
marine is. as matter of fact. but an
instrument for the launching OF tor
pedoes It would be useless Without
these projectdes. The torpedo has a
much wider use than the submarine
It IS the instrument Of attack used
by the deadly destroyer. Every bat
tleship has its torpedo rooms and its
underwater tubes through which
these serDents of the seas may be
silently launched on their careers of
destruction The small; short range
torpedo OF the submarine IS by no
means the marvellous instrument that
is its fellow of the battleshlp. the lat.
| est Development OF which may go forth
for journey of five miles in quest OF
! the thing st would destroy. and act for
all the world as though 1t had pilot
aboard.
A part Of the batIleship maneuvers
off Newport this week will be torpedo,
| practice. The action of these pro-
! jectiIes, and the manner In which they
serve their purposes may be seen 10
/! best advantage in the torpedo room
! of a batrleship. There, far below the
water line. these machines that seem,
/ to think are lad away in their berths.
long. weighs SEQ pounds and costs
! $4,000. It is shaped like biunt-nosed
cigar, but at the small end is little
propeller and horizontal and vertical
rudders-
When needed. these machines are
| let down from their shelves and thrust
into the torpedo tube. which extends
through the wall of the vessel There
they are adjusted before being dis
charged This adjustment of the tor
pedo IN such way that it VIII go
forth and find the target at which it Is
aimed makes possible one of the most
marvellous feats ever accomplished by
piece OF machinery.
In the first place. a torpedo IS not;
fired at target. as is she'll It is
merely thrown overheard wnereupon
a compressed air engine that's inside
its steel jacket sets to work and pro-:
pels It, just as ship IS driven
few years ago torpedo might be sol
but there are now. such Instruments
that VIII travel five. miles before their
compressed abr is exhausted
The torpedo tube IS not aimed at
the target which the-torpedo Is intend
ed 70 hit. It may be aimed atsan angle
forty degrees away from it This does
not mean that the shot VIII be a miss.
however. for thereiS within the tor
pedo piece OF mechanism much more
wonderful than its compressor air en-1
CINE This mechanism IS gyroscope;
which VIII guide the torpedo back 10
the target. no matter what direction
lit IS pointing Before It IS fired the
men In the torpedo room have re-
ceired reports from the range finders
position Of the target with relation to-
the torpedo tube. so exact are the,
angles furnished that the groscopel
may be set dead on the target and set
Ewhir1tng NJ a great rate OF speed