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SUNDAY. APRIL 22, I'.MUi.
COST OF A BATTLESHIP
In commenting upon a subject of
more Ihau ordinary local Inturcst the
Hartford (Conn.) Times makes the
following pertinent remarks
"At. the end of a two years' con?
test the ball es hip Louisiana, built at
Newport New? by the great ship?
building company located liiere, Is
coming nut ahead of the Coucctlcul,
the sister ship, which has been con?
structed at the New York navy yard,
it is stated that the Loulsinmi will
be ready to go Into commission sev?
eral months ahead of the Ixmislana.
"In the same connection a state?
ment Is made of the relative cost to
the government of the two vessels,
and It Is admitted that the Couiiee
ticttte will cost at least (400,000
more titan the Louisiana. But Iltis
is very far from being the whole
story. The private shipbuilding firm
has invested millions of capital in
its plant, and the payment of iliier?
est on this money must be provided
for. II is an element which is taken
into 'account when any contract is
made by the company. But the navy
department includes nothing for in?
terest ou cost of plant in its state?
ment of Lite cost of the Connecticut.
If tills large it cm were included it
would appear that the cost of build- I
ing the Connecticut has actually been
at. least $1.000.000 greater than that
of the Louisiana.
"Yet the 'New York politicians tire
pulling the wires to secure, the build?
ing of another ship in Hie navy yard
at Brooklyn as assiduously as they
pussihly could do. even if it were
proved thai an actual saving of the
people's money could he effected by
using the tnvy yard for such a pur?
pose .
"What. Is the moral difference be?
tween filching a tniliou dollars out
of the federal treasury in this way
and 'any other form of graft, we
should like to know."
Thousands of other persons have
begun to ask the same question.
Naturally, they are not specially In?
terested in the desires of the New
York wire-pullers. What they want
is an effective navy, built at the
smallest cost consonant with good
workmanship If all Hit' resources
of the government and the expendi?
ture of large sums of money were
UOl sufficient to enable the New York
yard, with only a single ship to oc?
cupy its attention, to win out even
in the time feature of the urgu
menls of those who have been howl?
ing for government-built warships
fall flat. Uncle Sam cannot afford
to pay one-fltli more than a vessel
is worth simply to please a few poli?
ticians with axes to grind, especially
in view of the fact that such action
would have a tendency to put out
of business the great private yards
which have grown up and which are
now practically maintained by gov?
ernment contracts.
A Toledo dispatch says: "Accord?
ing to the superutltlouii sailors, the
fat? of the Eugene Zimmerman, which
was sunk in Saint Mary's river this
morning, was foreordained. She
sank on her initial trip. The day she
was launched George Shutts, an em
at the
h. E. Pugh
Advertising Manager
ployee, dropped dead on her deck
from heart disease. Tills -was con?
sidered an 111 omen, but when It was
discovered that this name contained
thirteen letters the sailors gave up.
The Saxona, which sank with the
Zimmerman after hitting her, cleared
on Friday, the thirteenth, and the
name Steamer Saxona contains thir
ten letters. The abbreviation of the
Zimmerman name. 'Gene Zimmerman,
has thirteen letters. There are Just
thirteen letters In Captain Fred B.
Cody's name. He commanded the
ship.' Perhaps if the enterprising
Toledo correspondent, would Ko to as
much trouble to search our the mys?
tic combination in other directions
he probably would find that they
prevail in many instances where suc
j cess has crowned the eforts of those
I back of an undertaking. Sailors?
and nearly everybody else, however?
arc proverbially superstitious and
when an untoward Incident occurs
everybody begins to look around for
the bad luck .symbols by which it has
been surrounded.
UNCLE SAM'S SUBMARINES AND
THEIR DERRICKS.
We note with more or less inter?
est a Washington dispatch which an?
nounces that special precautions are
to he taken for the safety of the sub?
marine boats now in the navy, which
practical men have come to believe
an; a menace to the men who handle
llicin. For instance, we are told
I hem. For instance wo arc told thai
"not. only will there be with them at
their manoeuvres a lender, equipped
wilh ii poweiTuI derrick and ibooitis for
lifting a disabled submarine, to the
surface, hut-it. is purposed to furnish
each submarine with it floating sig?
nal, arranged wilh a spool of light
wire carried on the outside of the
submarine shell and connected with
tin; Interior so that In time of dis?
aster the Imprisoned persons may re?
lease the floating signal, which will
appear on the surface of the water
and indicate that, the submarine is in
distress."
"II has been pointed oul," contin?
ues the dispatch, "by an expert "that
a submarine might really he unable
to gel to the surface, and that by
?the nature of the exercises no
one would he aware of the fact until
II was too late to render assistance."
Wo fall to seo why it required expert
knowledge to arrive at a conclusion
established by more than one horri?
ble and soul-sickening catastrophe on
?the other side of the ocean and which
might have been duplicated here but
for the fact that the navy's subma?
rines have -been towed from place to
place and have seen very little real
service under every-day conditions.
There is eldently something radi?
cally wrong with the submarine which
requires such elaborate and costly
aparatus to prevent It from becom?
ing a death trap even under ordinary i
conditions following a summer day's
nianoeuvers. Would It. have a ten?
dency to encourage the men penned
up in such >a craft to know that their
comrades above knew that they were
helpless on Hie bottom of the sea?
Would it have a tendency to encour?
age thai confidence and esprit du
corps which Is so esential in the sat?
isfactory handling of a war vessel or
any other war contrivance?
It seems to us that Ibis trifling
with the submarine question lias been
carried far enough. It is becoming
quite apparent that the Navy De?
partment made an egregious blunder
hi Hs original selection of a subma?
rine and iall thrs derrick and signal
business is designed to hide the mer?
its of the case and to bolster up and
try to make practical a Imat which
is build on dangerous principles, to
begin with.
Now the question is: What does
Congress propose to do about the
matter? It would he the rankest,
sort, of stupidity to continue buying
submarines which have, demonstrated
their unfilnosH lor practical service
and which must lie reinforced by
derricks end signals and must always
have a convoy close at hand to keep
It from being more destructive than
the guns of an enemy's ship.
In view of these facts it is sur?
mising that the navy department
should persistently ait tempt, to shut
out any competition which would
have a tendency to show a better
submarine. Does that mean a lobby
and an ultimate submarine scandal
'is odoriferous and as disgusting as
that, which sent some government
officials of the postorfice department
to the penitentiary?
If some member of Congress could
just erect H derrick which would
lift the navy department out of its
preconceived ideas of submarine af?
fairs a greater service would be per?
formed by any mechanical contriv?
ance which simply would pull a
submarine out of the mud.
During the first eight months of
the present fiscal year Uncle Sain
expcrled >700,000,ti?0 worth of agrl
cultural products. That is o big
Item, but it would mean more If the
exported stuff had been carried in
American ships. Instead of by ves?
sels flying the Hags of other coun?
tries.
A Paris ?Iii is said to have an
X-ray eye, which enables her to see
through things. As a supreme test I
of her power we would sugegst tliat
she try her sight upon some of the
humor found in Punch. If she can
see through that her reputation
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