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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-19
War Department Program.

Practically every cent of money which
will be used Tn increasing the national
defenses and strengthening the forces
during the fiscal year 1916, IL Congress
provides the money, will be turned
into developing personnel that can be
called upon in case OF an international
unpleasantness. No money will be
wasted in bricks and mortar and other
building material, according to Secre-
tary Garrison of the War Department
The plan for national defense which
will go to Congress. as the War Depart
ment's part Of the program. does not
provide for any additional shelter for
the increased forces. AS a result, it is
proba BILE that many of the old forts in
the middle west and west, which were
constructed and used as garrisons dur
ing the Indian campaigns, will again
come into being as military posts
For some time army officers have
been seeking the abandonment of all of
these posts, but II now seems probab BILE
from the statement made today by Sec
rotary Garrison, that they will be used
to garrison the large forces which Con-
gress will be asked to provide as a part
Of the national defense program.
1t does not make much difference
where the troops are, according to the
Secretary's way Of thinking. just so
they are ready to answer the first call
when the nation is in need.
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Construction Of Sixteen Sub
marines and Six Destroyers
for U. S. Starts at Once.
NAVY YARDS TO BUILD
BUT FOUR VESSELS
Private Concerns Will Handle Re.
mainder-Deivery in Eighteen
to Twenty Months.

Construction was ready to begin today
on the largest number Of ships ever
awarded by the Navy Department at one
time. The contracts which have just
been let by Secretary Daniels call for
the construction Of sixteen submarines
and six destroyers.
Four destroyers are to be built at
private yards, and one each at the Nor
folk and Mare Island navy yards. re-
spectively. Fourteen submarines are to
be built at private establishments and
two at navy yards
The contract calls for delivery Of the
vessels in from eighteen to twenty
months. All of the destroyers will have
a minimuin speed of thirty knots an
hour and a displacement Of 1.1z5 tons
each. They will have a battery Of four
four-inch rapid-fire rifles, two antt-air-
craft guns, and four triple torpedo tubes
to discharge the heaviest and largest tor
pedoes now built.
The submarines will have surface and
submerged speeds OF fourteen and ten
knots, respectively. with a displacement
Of $50 tons. Each will be equipped. in
addition to torpedo tubes. with a three
inch disappearing rifle for surface Shoot
ing.
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Commissioners to Speak.

Louis Brownlow and oliver P. New
man. District Commissioners are
scheduled to speak at a special meet
ing of the Rhode Island Avenue
Suburban Citizens Association this
evening at the Sherwood Presbyterian
Church. Prizes will be awarded the
winners of the lawn contest held by
the association.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-19

The battIeships Louisiana, New York
Minnesota and New Hampshire, COM
prising the fourth division of the At
iantic feet. have sailed from Hampton
roads for the southern drill grounds
II is understood that eight of the ships
OF the fleet Will spend two weeks In
special target practice off the Virginia
capes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-19

The plant of the Angema Chemical
Company at Garrett. Md, was burned
and large stock of goods lost. The
plant was devoted to the manufacture
| Of proprietary goods.
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Build More Rapidly.

'As In the case Of the destroyers, the
bidders for these submarines show their
ability to build more rapidly than here
| tofore, az the guaranteed dates OF de-
livery are in all cases well within the
twenty-four months which was the best
period of construction for any boats of
this class previously laid down."
The principal characteristics of the
new vessels will be:
Destroyers-Length 315 feet; beam, 80
feet Z inches; draft, feet; displacement,
| 1,125 tons; speed, 80 knots. Each will
have battery of four four-inch rapid
IRE rifles. two anti-aircraft guns, four
heaviest and longest-range torpedoes
now built. They will be propelled by
steamtur bines, oil-fuel-fired water tube
boilers.
face and 10 submerged; displacement,
| $50 tons. Each will carry, in addition
to the torpedo tubes, a three-inch dis
appearing rifle for surface fighting
They will have oil engines for cruising
on the surface and batteries for pro-
pulston when submerged.
Distribution of Awards.
The four destroyers to be built at
private yards were awarded as follows:
| Cramp & Sons Company, two at
$s45.00e each.
Seattle Construction and Drydock
Company, one at $8S5,000.
| Bath Iron Works. one at $S79.600.
| The destroyer to be built at the Mare
Island navy yard will cost $762,6 and
the one at the Norfolk yard $7os,3 o5
| The total OF the awards Is $4,S23,443.
The limit OF cost imposed by Congress
was $4,000 each. or a total Of $5.-
soc, 900.
The submarine contracts awarded to
private firms were as follows:
Electric Boat Company. eight at $685.
600 each.
| Lake Torpedo Boat Company, three at
$685. 900 each.
| California Shipbuilding Company,
Long Beach. Cal. (Lake company de-
signs) three at $548.500 each
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Administration Expects Fight
in Congress to Expedite
Building of Warships.
DESIRE TO HASTEN WORK
FOR NATIONAL. DEFENSE
Secretary Daniels Discusses Probable
Tendency of Sentiment-Plans Of
War Department Indicated.

! An attempt may be made in Congress
to change the fve-year naval building
program so as to cram the entire ad-
dition of sixteen capital ships into a
two-year period. according to Secre-
| tary Daniels, who was interviewed on
| the subject by a Star reporter today.
: 1t is evident from the impression made
fby Secretary Daniels that the admin
| istration expects a greater fight will be
| made to Increase the program than to
weaken 1t. 1t Is also stated authori-
| tatively that Chairman Padgett of the
naval affairs committee is not commit
ted to the f1ve-year program or to any
other program. He is. however. in ac-
| cord with the general idea.
It became known today that the pro-
portion OF sixteen capital fighting ships
to five years was carefully worked out
by the general naval board and naval
constructors generally. and that it Is
means. 1t represents the conservative
estimate of what the country can pro-
duce in that time. working under nor
NAL conditions. 1t was figured that
| three years. or four years. under normal
conditions, and that any rabid mill
tarist congressman who wants all the
ships built in a year or two will be
| IOlo tnaI IHfS country CduHOt
produce them.
Scrutiny Made Of Facilities.
The business at every ship-producins
yard has been scanned and scrutinized
and analysed by naval constructors.
They know exactly what Is going on,
what contracts have been let, and how
long each piece of work will need for
completion. They have discovered that
all the important shipbuilding plants
are hummins with work. Merchant
men for the coastwise and West India
trade are being pushed as fast as Yam
kee ingenuity can devise short cuts
for the most part by Americans. and
are to take the place Of European-own-
ed ships, which have been Withdrawn
for reasons relating to the European
struggles. 1t is Just this commercial
situation which has a direct bearing on
the speed with which the plants can
build battleships for the navy.
There are at present but a few places
where battleships can be constructed.
The most promising. according to naval
Quincy. Mass: the New York Ship
Building Company at Camden. N j..
and the Newport News Ship Building
and Dry Dock Company at Newport
News. Va. Constructors estimate these
plants can take on two ships apiece
making six out of the sixteen provided
for. The Navy Department Is the au-
thority for saying that William Cramp
& Sons at Philadelphia do not want to
build any battlsships just now. The
| New York navy yard can build battle
ships. but the keel Of the California has
| lust been laid down there. which will
keep that yard busy for two or three
years. The Philadelphia yard cannot
III
the present facilities. which will cost
$50, 1000, and 1T Is assumed request for
| that amount will be found in the esti-
mates.
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DEPARTMENTS Greatest Award.

ut is interesting to note," said Sec
rotary Daniels last night. in awarding
the contracts, that the six destroyers
and sixteen submarines constitute the
greatest number of contracts for new
construction ever awarded in the his
tory Of the Navy Department at one
time.
THE destroyers will be built in the
main in accordance with the depart
ment's designs, except in the case Of
the .one boat to be built by the Bath
Iron works, which will be according
to the bidders design Of machinery, for
which that company guarantees results
in speed and cruising radius some
what in excess Of those required by
the department.
THE order for the construction of
one Of these vessels at each Of the
Mare Island and Norfolk yards Is in
pursuance Of the departments policy
of equipping and developing our navy
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yards to the highest point Of efficiency
in ttmes Of peace. SO that they may be
prepared for the greater strains which
would be thrown on these organiza-
tions in time OF war.
VIII Be Built on Pacific Coast.
The award Of contract for one ves-
sci to the Seattle Construction and
Dry Dock Company marks the begin
ming Of the first vessel Of this class
to be btilt on the Pacific coast by a
private concern since the completion
Of the Paul Jones, Perry and Preble, in
1909
Both Of the submarines to be built
at the navy yards will be on the design
Of the Electric Boat Company. The de-
signs and specifications which were
submitted by the bidders meet in all
essential respects the rigid require
ment for this class Of vessel which
were laid down by the Navy Depart
ment. In general features and charac-
teristics they represent a small adj
vance in size, but much greater ad-
vance in efficiency. Both designs pro-
pose improved engines of the heavy
oil types and greatly improved storage
batteries. these advances having been
made possible by general Developments
In engineering science, and by extend
ed experience in previous submarines
OF the United States Navy
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Not Enough Mechanics.

1t was suggested to a naval officer to-
day that working three shifts of me-
chanics on the battleship program
would produce the sixteen within two
years. The reply was:
AT present there are not three shifts
of mechanics of SUFFICIENT skill for bat
tleship work available. There are not
enough skilled men in this country to
work twenty-four hours a day con-
tinuousIy on the battleships. The COM
mercial work in shipbuilding yards Is
taking up a huge army of skilled men.
Ship constructing plants are out with
fine tooth combs getting bright young
men, college men, every one they can
find, to make shipbuilders Of them"
With knowledge of these conditions.
il Is plain to be seen, experts say, lust
why five-year program was deter
mined upon.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-06-06

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Omaha daily bee., 1915-06-06

For sale on very easy payments; located
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The Holly chieftain., 1915-11-26
WESTERN.

The price Of gasoline took another
jump of cent, this being the sixth
raise in price within ninety days.
Montana was awarded the grand
prize for the state exhibit of apples
at the Panama-Pacific Exposition.
At Salt Lake six Swedish girls, in
Guiding one said to have been Joseph
Hillstroms sweetheart, acted as pail
bearers at his funeral Sunday.
Mrs. Thomas R. Marshall, wife Of
the vice president, was taken to a
hospital at Indianapolis and will un-
dergo an abdominal operation.
Approximately $50 wounded Villa
soldiers, including General Trujillo, a
Yaqui leader, who was shot through
the jaw, arrived at Nogales, Sonora.
Mayor William H. Thompson Of Chi
cago, whose name was filed with the
Nebraska secretary of state as candi-
date for Republican nomination for
President, will ask that his name be
withdrawn.
The Holly chieftain., 1915-11-26
SPORT.

Jack Dillon knocked out Frank
Farmer in the fourth round of q
scheduled ten-round fight at Oshkosh,
Wis.
At Cambridge, Mass, another Har-
ward football machine crushed Yale,
Al to 0, SURPRISING all previous scor.
ing records against the Ellis.
At Salt Lake City, Utah defeated the
University of Southern California 20
to 13 in the best game and before the
largest attendance of the season.
,Welker Cochran, the boy billiardist
of Manson, Iowa, and George Slosson,
the New York veteran, won their
matches at New York in the 1872
handicap billiard tournament.
Ed Hanlon, owner of the Sioux City
baseball team, who has been acting
president, officially announced at
Omaha that he has received Norris
Zip" O'Neill's resignation as presi-
dent of the Western league and form
ally appointed Frank c. Zehrung as
his successor.
Saturdays football results: Confer.
ence - Denver U. Z, Colorado U. O.
Local-Sacred Heart College 81, En-.
glewood 0; Sacred Heart-Mines fresh.
man game postponed. State-Fort
Morgan 21, Sterling 0; Greeley Is,
Fort Collins IA; West Denver 13,
Golden High 0; Aggie freshman 46;
Laramie z; Boulder Props 2S, Long.
mont High IL.
The Holly chieftain., 1915-11-26
GENERAL.

A call for an extraordinary session
Of the Illinois Legislature to meet
Monday, Nov. %, was issued by Gov
ernor Dunno.
The market production of sulphur
in the United States last year, 327,.
634 long tons, was the greatest in the
history Of the industry.
Eugene V. Debs, Socialist candidate
for President of the United States in
1900, 1904, 1908 and 1912, in a formal
statement announced that he had de
clined the fifth nomination for the
presidency.
Myron T. Herrick, former governor
of Ohio and former ambassador of the
United States to France, was one OF
the principal orators at the laying of
the cornerstone of the Mckinley birth.
place memorial at Niles, Ohio.
Mayors of about forty cities from
Maine to California have followed
the example Of Mayor Mitchell of
New York, and have appointed COM
mittees to cooperate in national de-
Tense preparation.
The Rev. Father William Henry
Ironsides Reaney, chaplain in the
United States navy, who was with
Admiral Dewey in the battle Of
Manila bay, died in a hospital in New
York of acute stomach trouble.
Joseph Hillstrom's execution at Salt
Lake City for the murder of ]. G..
Morrison and Morrison's son, Jan. 10,
1914, was followed by Governor Spry's
announcement that he would clear
the state Of the lawless element that
now infests it."
The Holly chieftain., 1915-11-26
FOREIGN.

Greece about to sign peace agree
ment with Bulgaria, Berlin learns.
The American schooner Helen w.
Martin. which struck a mine. arrived
at London. The vessel was bound
from Archangel for New York.
Sunday being the sixty-first birth
day of Pope Benedict. countless mes
sages of fluctuations arrived at the
vatican at Rome from all parts of the
world.
One of the missing boats of the
Italian liner Ancona, recently sunk by
a submarine, has been found beached
near Taranto, Italy. 1t contained thir-
teen bodies.
Efforts are being made by Great
Britain, France and Russia to include
China in the membership of the
entente now aligned against the Ger
manic powers.
Egyptian postoffices are refusing to
issue money orders for Greece. Insur-
ers are declining to write policies on
Greek steamers, while the banks re-
fuse to accept bills of lading for such
vessels.
At Kioto five beautiful Japanese
maidens, peeresses of the realm,
wearing rich and brilliant kimonos,
danced an ancient dance of old
Japan at great state feast held to
celebrate the coronation of Emperor
Yoshihito.
Theodore Leschetitzky, teacher Of
the piano and composer, is dead at
Dresden at the age of IS. He lived
for many years at Vienna, but more
recently at villa near Dresden. He
was the principal master of Paderew-
ski.
The official report of the investiga-
tion into the s;~king of the Italian
steamship Ancona by submarine
off the Tunisian coast, it was an
nounced, was sent to Thomas Nelson
Page, the United States ambassador
at Rome. The Investigation reached
the conclusion that the submarine
fired shell against the wireless ap-
paratus on the Ancona without any
warning.
The Holly chieftain., 1915-11-26
Getting at His Motive.

Getting at His Motive.
"Will you have my seat?" he in
quired politely.
"On the ground that am aged and
decrepit?" the woman asked.
mo, indeed, madam"
THAT am young and beautiful and
possibly not averse to flirtation?"
Certainly not. That is"
"Then it must be because you are a
gentleman, in this respect differing
from the fat person on the left and
the scrawny specimen at the right.
am glad to learn your principles, sir.
but here is my street. Good day."
The Holly chieftain., 1915-11-26
WASHINGTON.

President Wilson went over a draft
of his messages to Congress with the
cabinet.
Americas protest against the plac-
ing of nearly all articles of commerce
on the contrab band lists of European
belligerents will go to Germany and
Austria, as we'll as to Great Britain
and her allies.
The program of official entertain
ments at the White House, which will
be resumed this winter after lapse
of a year, has been announced. The
program shows several changes from
that of previous years, due mostly to
the European war.
The Holly chieftain., 1915-11-26
FROM TELEGRAPHic REPORTS
THAT COVER THE WEEKS
EVENTS.
OF MOST INTEREST
KEEPING THE READER POSTED
ON MOST IMPo RrANT
CURRENT TOPICS.
Western Newspaper Union News ssrvioe
ABOUT THE WAR.

British forces arrive at Monastir.
All of "old Serbia" now in hands of
invaders.
Italy expected to declare war on
Germany.
Albanians cut off retreat of Serbs
to their country.
Eighty thousand Serbians taken
prisoners to date.
Earl Kitchener meets King Con-
stantine in Athens.
French troop ship reported sunk
with loss of 500 men.
.. First contingent of German troops
enters Constantinople.
Allies declare economic and COM
mercial blockade of Greece.
Fortifications of Gorilla almost de-
stroyed by Italian artillery.
Italy prepares for formidable attack
on Gorilla with 100000 men.
Allies demand that Greece demobil-
ize or join with them in war.
Serbians making last stand before
Monastir and on plains of Kossovo.
q Russians regain ground lost on
: Styr river and recapture Czartorysk.
= Austro-Germans pierce Russian line
on Styr river and take 1,5OO prison
ers.
Allies hold important war council
: in Paris and decide on course in Bal
kans.
w.t., snfo he
who flee across border will be dis
: armed.
; Artillery battles and explosion of
r mines constitute fighting in France
and Belgium.
Twelve killed and twenty-seven
wounded in Udine, Italy, by Austrian
aircraft bombs.
!, Two British gunboats and auxiliary
cruisers sunk off Egyptian coast by
German submarines.
Premier Carp has announced that
Rumania will enter the war on the
side of the Germans in December.
Serbs may make final stand on his
toric plain of Kossovo, where they
lost independence to Turkey 500 years
ago.
England has issued an order in
council forbidding British subjects of
military age leaving the confines Of
the empire without special permit.
The French have checked the Bull
garian advance after a battle on the
Cerna river. The Germans and Aus
trians, however, are slowly pounding
their way into the heart of Serbia.
The Holly chieftain., 1915-11-26
CLEAN SWEET SCALP
May Be Kept So by cuticura Soap
and Ointment. Trial Free.

To have good hair clear the scalp
Of dandruff and itching with shampoos
Of Cuticura Soap and touches of Cuti-
cura Ointment to dandruff spots and
itching. Nothing better than these
pure, fragrant, supercreamy emol-
lients for skin and scalp troubles.
Sample each free by mail with Skin
Book. Address Cuticura, Dept. KY,
Boston. Sold everywhere-Adv.
The Holly chieftain., 1915-11-26
Socially Successful.

Mr.. Browns colored valet desired
to entertain some of his friends, and
his master contributed generously to
the cause. The next morning Mr..
Brown asked Nose If his party had
been success. Nose drew himself
up couple of inches above his usual
height.
WAS it a success, suh!" he ex-
claimed delightedly. "Well, sub, 1t
sho' wuz! Dey wuz 16 invited, and 20
dat come!"
The Holly chieftain., 1915-11-26
Enough.

"Still living out on Long island?
suppose the mosquitoes are all gone
by this time"
"Yes, but we still have the Long
island railroad"
The Holly chieftain., 1915-11-26
Tho Water Cure.

A Swedish farmer who lived on his
wheat farm in Minnesota was taken
i'll, and his wife telephoned the doc
tor.
"If you have thermometer" an
swered the physician, take his tenn
perature. I will be out and see him
presently"
An hour or SO later, when the doc
tor drove up, the woman met him at
the door.
"How is he?" asked the doctor.
WELL" she said, "I bane put the
barometer on him like you tell me, and
it say, Very dry SO I give him a
pitcher of water to drink, and now he
ban gone back to work. k."-Youth's
Companion.
The Holly chieftain., 1915-11-26

The beauty OF reading a tiresome
book is that you can skip few pages
without realizing the difference.
The Holly chieftain., 1915-11-26

A wise woman never tries to enter
tain her husband by singing to him in
order to keep him home nights.
The Holly chieftain., 1915-11-26

To keep clean and healthy take Dr..
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. They regulate
liver, bowels and stomach.-Adv.
The Holly chieftain., 1915-11-26

DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are the
original little liver pills put up 40 years
ago. They regulate liver and bowels.-Adv.
The Holly chieftain., 1915-11-26

The prettiest thing in feminine
headgear is good-humored face.
The Holly chieftain., 1915-11-26

Natural Affinity.
"She's not society belle, but she's
a duck of a girl" -tdf
"Then she ought to be in the swim y
The Holly chieftain., 1915-11-26

1t is seldom that the husband and
wife both entertain affection for an
other woman.
The Holly chieftain., 1915-11-26

The woman who neglects her hus-
bands shirt front is scarcely the wife
of his bosom.
The Holly chieftain., 1915-11-26

Many spinster is sorry she learned
to say mo-"
The Holly chieftain., 1915-11-26
The Species

The Species.
did that genealogist find you q
good family tree?"
"a good one? It's peach!"