The Arvada enterprise., 1923-10-25

cruisers authorized three at time by congress ib
1879 ana 1900. OF 1860 tons displacement carrying
-FOUR eightlnch guns In two turrets, fourteen six.
men. score OF smaller caber and two underwn.
ter torpedo tubes. Her Niclausse boilers and four
cylinder triple expansion engines driving twin
screws. developing 27.0OO horsepower, attained a
maximum speed Of over twenty-five knots Her
ships company numbered 91O. In 1915 the Col.
oradc II became flagship OF the Pacific reserve feet
ana On December !, 1916 her name was changed
to Pueblo. after the second city In Colorado I'm.
der this name she served In the cruiser and trans
port force In the World war under Capt G. W,
Williams escortng transports across and after
the armistice bringing lO.l36 troops home. In 1921
she became the receiving ship at New York pend.
Ing further active employment
What remarkable changes have taken place In
the sixty-hve years lapse between the 6rxt and
the latest Colorado! AZ q general measure Of size
240O tons displacement In grown nearly tenfold ::
the old seasoned oak hull 10 now all STEEL Of thick
armored sides and many watertiGht compartments
full sa power has utterly disappeared like cage
masts, topped by large Ore control stations: he
symmetrical tracery Of standing and running rig.
Ring In now represented by the bristling, knobbv
and odd placed radio antennae.
Down below In the old frigate. rectangular boil
ers Of copper mounted steam at only Is pounds
pressure to u humping, cumbersome slow moving
horizontal recprocating engine. which BY means u
single screw drove the ship at ten knots at best
where now oil burning. tubular steel boilers gen.
erntc 100 pounds steam pressure for the delicate
ly balanced turbines adjusted to the thousan ndth of
nm inch which. without the least trcmor Of vbrn.
iion and with scarce sigh Of sound spin at
about 2.10O revolutions n minute. generating alter.
mating electric current which by n twelfth retuc.
tlon turns four screw propellers III revolutions
for n ship speed Of twenty.onc knots
For Illumination oil lamps and candles are n.
talned only for emergency. should electric light
fail. and the present sunlke searchlight hud no
Ike In the frlgnte dnys In the days work, the
shr pipe and honrsc voice Of the bos'n's mates
passing the word nong the open sweep OF decks
is now supplemented In fact nll but replaced, hy
speaking tubes. telephone md other Instruments
electric or mechanical. for transmitting communi
cations 20 scores Of separated spaces nll through
the ship And NJ mcnltimcs. while navy benna
st hold their own. salt pork. the venerable salt
horse. plum dun and harduck have given place
to refrigerated meat. fresh vegetables bnkerx.
bread. pie md Ice crenm.
or nll changes. however. the greatest II In the
kind Of demands made upon the crew and ot,,cers
In the frInte Colorado. the yards were hoIsted
and brnced about the sails were recfed and f,,r,cd
the anchor weighed. the bonts rowe,i and hos,e e,i
the ship stecred and stores whipped on bonr,i-
Nil by hand. Handling snii. besides making stron,
bodies. taught eye hand. and brain TO work nlmbly
together.
In contrast, most Of the demands for poxer in
the modern bsttleship Colorado srv met by rs
chinery.