The Dolores star., 1923-11-02

cruisers authorized three at time. by congress Ill
1888 ana 1900, of 1860 tons displacement carving
1our elght-inch guns in two turres, fourteen six
inch, score of smaller caliber and two underwa-
ter torpedo tubes. Her Nclausse boilers and four
cylinder triple expansion engines driving twin
screws developing 21,OOO horsepower, attained n
maximum speed OF over twenty-five knots Her
ships company numbered 80 In 1915 the Col
Grade II became flagship of the Pacific reserve feet
ana On December l, 1916, her name was changed
to Pueblo, after the second city in Colorado In
der this name she served in the cruiser and trans
port force In the World war under Can't G. w
Williams escorting transports across and after
the armistice bringing 10,136 troops home In 1921
she became the receiving shin at New York nand
ing further active employment
What remarkable changes have taken noca in
the slNty-hve years lapse between the first and
the latest Colorado! As a general measure of st,e
34oo tons displacement is grown nearly tenfoId .
the old seasoned oak hull is now all steel of thick
armored sides and many watertght commandments q.
full sail power has utterly disappeared like cage
masts, topped by large fire control stations. .bo
s!Nllhetrichl tracery of standing and running rir
Rlhs IS now represented by the bristng knobby
and odd placed radio antennae
Down below in the old frigate rectanr1,Ior hot,
ers of copper mounted steam at only d noura
pressure TO humping. cumbersome slow-moyin
horizontal reciprocating engine, which by means n,
Single screw uroVe the snip at ten knots at best
where now oil burning, tubular steel boi,ers or
eiite -'o pouhuS steam pressure for the
iy balanced turbines adjusted to the thosandth of
an inch which, without the least tremor of vbro
uon ana with scarce sigh of sound snin nj
about 2lOO revolutions minute generatinp altar
mating electric current which by twelfth reduc
hon turns four screw propellers III revolutions
for a ship speed Of twenty-one knots
For illumination oil lamps and candles oro ~
tanned only for emergency, should electric Iigbt
fail. and the present sunlike searchllpht had No
like in the frigate days. In the DAYS work tho
shrill l,lpe and hOarse voice of the bos'ns mates
passing the word along the open sween Of d.o,,n
is now supplemented in fact all but renlaced h,,
speaking tubes, telephone and other instrumep,s
electric or mechanical for transmitting communi
cations TO scores of separated spaces all tbrou,,h
the ship. And at mealtmes. while navy heors
still hold their own, salt pork the venerable s,It
horse, plum duff and hardtack have given nl,ca
to refrigerated meat, fresh vegetables bak.rs,
bread, pie and Ice cream
OF all changes, however, the greatest is +, 3d.,
kind of demands made upon the crew and oHicers
In the frigate Colorado, the yards were hois,oI
and braced about the sails were reefed and f,,r,,
the anchor weighed the boats rowed and bois,.d
the ship steered. and stores whipped on heard
all by hand. Handling sail. besides MAKING stro,.
bodies, taught eye. hand, and brain to worl, nI,,
together. '
In contrast, most Of the demands for nou.or +.
the modern batteshp Colorado are met nv ~
cllinery.