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COAST GUNS NEED BRACING UP. Charleston's Longest Range, For Example, Six Miles Too Short. V A report in the New York Times of Captain Kilburne's address to the business men at Plattsburg on coast defence plans is as follows: Captain Charles E. Kilburne, of " 1 ^ n r? T\-> 1? l'n on tne general bia.ll Ul mc a.i iui ?, iu m.h address to the members of the business men's regiment, informed them that experts of the army' were now at work developing a new carriage system for the guns mounted in coast fortifications, both in the United States proper and in the foreign pos v ' ? ^ sessions, which was expected to increase the range* of those guns by several miles. Under the present disappearing carriage arrangement, the maximum elevation of the pieces, he said, was 15 degrees. The 12 inch guns, for instance, as at present mounted, when elevated to 15 de ?/ grees had a maximum range of about I. V 15,000 yards. If mounted so as to permit an elevation to a maximum / of 45 degrees, these guns should hurl a projectile from 33,000 to 35,000 yards, while in the case of the great 14-inch guns, the range would be increased with a similar maximum elevation to more than 37,000 yards. An elevation of 45 degrees, for the guns of 16-inch calibre would mean a possible range of about 44,000 yards. At these extreme ranges, however, the effectiveness of the guns would be doubtful, and the present intention, Captain Kilburne said, was to /alter the carriages so as to permit an elevation of 26 degrees, which, in the case of the 16-inch gun, would H ; mean accurate fire at a range of more than 25,000 yards. j This was one of the problems that ; the officers of the ordnance and coast artillery arms were studying, Captain Kilburne asserted, and the pros- ; pects of success were more than good. , ^ , Furthermore, three of the ablest of- 1 fleers of the army, two of them of the general staff, and the third one of the famous engineers of the army, j wftro working- out the Droblem of a ' fefc" /' proper and efficient system of land -support for the coast fortifications, v Captain Kilhurne spoke for nearly an hour. At the beginning of his talk Captain Kilhurne pointed out the need of solving the land support problem for the coast fortifications. "There is just one place in our scheme of coast defense,-* said Captain Kilhurne, "that would not need the entire mobile army of the United States to support it in the event of a crisis. - That place is the Long Island approach to New York city, where the fortifications, which are three in number?Forts Michie, Terry and Wright?are on islands and for that reason the strong support ^ needed in the case of the other fortifications would not apply." gpfc.; 0 Without adequate coast artillery protection on the sea approach to New York through the Ambrose channel, an enemy's fleet, which would not necessarily have to be f nearly as strong as our own, could lie, Captain Kilburne said, off the ( * , mouth of thq Ambrose channel and i |j& make it a very difficult and danger- ? ous undertaking for our own ships ? -> to get out of the harbor. The ships would have to leave the harbor in r single column and it would not be ? a difficult matter for the enemy to t concentrate the fire of all his ships \ on each American vessel as it emerg- c ed. An adequate coast artillery arm- i ament on Sandy Hook and at other strategic points in that district t would be able to keep the enemy at t a safe distance. T The fortifications in the Philip- t pin^s and in Hawaii, Captain Kil- 1 ^ hurne said, could not be reinforced e in time of war and it was very doubt- .< ful if the Panama fortifications could i ?L> be reinforced under present condi- i f: ^ / tions. In some of the fortifications ] in the United States proper as many t as 25 companies of the coast artil- j lery were needed, the speaker said, < : ? to man them properly and yet the i strength was not more than ten com- j panies, and in fortifications where 1 ten companies were needed the num- i ber on duty was correspondingly smaller. \ Our Mortars Up to Date. i Captain Kilburne next touched up- ' on the mortars of the coast artillery, i and here the news he gave was good < news, for he says that there were no i better mortars in the world than 1 those in the American fortifications, i "These mortars," said Captain Kil- < > burne, "are first class, and their high- : angle fire is as good as there is any- 3 where." i K-; The story he told of the big guns was different. Their glaring defect, < he said, was the out-of-date disappearing gun carriage system, which j decreased the range several thousand yards in the case of the guns of higher calibres. An elevation much greater than 15 degrees was j absolutely necessary, Captain Kilburne said, if our guns were to have a sporting chance in a duel with the highpowered long-range guns mounted on modern dreadnoughts of the Queen Elizabeth type. These great naval guns, he said, had Completely p|r EPISTLE STttPS BILLET. British Soldiers Saved by Testament in His Pocket. Charles M. Alexander, singingevangelist and partner of the Rev. hr t wilhnr riiflninan. whn nassed through this city yesterday on his way to Xorthheld, said thousands of British soldiers were carrying pocket Bibles as they went to the front. The evangelist believed that the Pocket Testament league,' which distributed the Scriptures, "would evangelize the British army, both at the front and home." The league was organized in Philadelphia in the course of the Chapman campaign. Bodies as well as souls are being saved by the pocket Testaments, in proof of which Mr. Alexander shows a New Testament pierced by a German bullet. This book was hit while reposing in the pocket of a British soldier in a trench in Flanders. The steel pellet ploughed through 400 pages, stopping at First Corinthians. This Testament saved its owner's life. Since the war began Mr. Alexander has devoted considerable attention to distributing Testaments among Kitcheners soldiers. The plan is to have every recipient sign a pledge card signifying his willingness to carry the Testament always and read a chapter each day. Mr. Alexander spent two months in the training camps on Salisbury plain, in which time 9,708 soldiers joined the league.?Philadelphia Public Ledger. Yes, They Asked Him. When Wm. H. Crane was younger and less discreet he had a vaulting ambition to play "Hamlet," says the Kansas City Star. So with his first profits he organized his own company and he went to an inland Western town to give vent to his ambition and "try it on." When he came back to New7 York a erouD of friends noticed that the actor appeared to be much downcast. "What's the matter, Crane? Didn't they appreciate it?" asked one of tiis friends. "They didn't seem to," laconically answered the actor. "Well, didn't they give any encouragement? Didn't they ask you x> com^ before the curtain?" persisted the friend. "Ask me?" answered Crane. "Man ;hey dared me!" altered the coast artillery situation n this country, and the time was at land when the deficiencies must be nade good. "Until then we are up against it," Uaptain Kilburne said, "when we ake in consideration the fact that ;hese grea? guns of which I speak ;an fire accurately at a range of 25,)00 yards." Captain Kilburne then pointed out he necessity of increasing the force hat now mans the sea coast defenses. ~ > "All that we ask of congress," said Captain Kilburne, "is that they give is enough men to man one-half the runs. That done, we think we can guarantee the rest of it." The mine Droblem is another that nust be solved quickly if we ever ,ret into trouble, for, as Captain Kil>urne put it, "mines must be placed vithin 24 hours after a war is dedared, so rapidly do events move in nodern warfare." The speaker referred to the part hat the fleet would play if the counry ever became involved in war. The fleet in the Pacific, if we were o play the part some persons had aid out for us there, should be in>qual, Captain Kilburne said, of the >pposing fleets in that ocean. He eferred to the need of adequate and >roperly defended naval bases in the Pacific, and said that in addition to ;he bases in Hawaii and the Philippines there should be another at }uam, making it possible for the ieet tQ steam from base to base for ts coal and supplies without having :o rely on colliers, which would have \ to be defended in battle. Captain Kilburne cited the fact that a frontal attack on fortifications by a fleet never had been successful. The attack of the allied fleets on the fortifications in the Dardanelles he described as a hopeless failure until troops were landed to attack from the land side. The Japanese success at Port Arthur, he said, was an instance of a victory due not to a naval frontal action, but to the effectiveness of the attack made by the Japanese troops on land. "A great many of us think," added Captain Kilburne, "that if troops * i - ? ? xi naa oeen lanaea in uie naiuaueiics at the time of the first attack from the sea, the allies would be a lot farther along than they are now." The speaker then gave some interesting details concerning an American ordnance. It wras at this point that he told of the work now under way to increase the range of the big guns by substituting for the disappearing carriages, other carriages which would permit a greater elevation and greater range. / OHIO'S CONSTITUTION. J I Has No Stability and is in Need of Ar Radical Changes. Under the present Ohio State con ! stitiition, with the initiative ana rei-: ict | erendum provisions, it is possible to j Gr submit every year a given plan for j ed j amending the constitution, providing ! wl J the requisite number of signatures! W jean be obtained 011 the petition, says j Si* i the Springfield (Mass.) Union. Pur- Pr I suant to this privilege the advocates i ur W of State-wide prohibition propose to i press their cause just as often as t0' j conditions permit, with a view to getting their doctrine ultimately into 11 fo , the constitution. As against this policy an organization called the co Constitution Stability league is about co to file a petition for a constitutional fl< amendment that will prohibit the re- P current submission of proposals that ** have twice been rejected by' the tlc voters. The plan of continually submitting r8 a proposal to amend the constitution is open to decided objections, and ca prohibition advocates would be an among the first to recognize this at were their ideas already incorporated in the constitution. For one cr i thing, the practice involves an ex- 1S i - a r pense the State cannot fairly he can- | ed upon to assume. A deeper objection is that it tends to place, sooner or later, in the constitution meas- a ures that do not really command the degree of favor entitling them to W? such adoption. A proposal may be rejected ten times and then be car- ta ried by a margin barely sufficient for/1 its adoption, through overconfidence pe of its opponents or some accidental pe factor. Once written into the constitution, a provision commands a certain degree of advantage, especially when a two-thirds vote is necessary for its repeal. Under the Ohio constitution a majority vote is sufficient for the adoption or elimination thi of any constitutional measure. Should'the annual attempts to obtain *Cf constitutional prohibition succeed it ^n is to be expected that the opponents of prohibition would then take up ^r' the fight and press their cause until a reverse vote were obtained, possi- aff bly the year after the supporters of all prohibition State , in a similarly con- sil tinuous struggle. Gr Would-be tinkers with the consti- a - - - - . T> tution should be debarred from these A annual engagements. After a pro- by posal, submitted through the initiative, has been decisively rejected, it thi ought not to be brought before the Sri voters again for five years. The bet- Prj ter plan, however, is to return to that recognition of the merit of rep- mc resentative government which re- ces quires that constitutional amend- th< ments shall be apprqved by the ra] legislature before they can be made co] part of the fundamental law by a Qu popular vote. CU1 ?. of Cotton for Japan. ed mi Considerable anxiety exists among Japanese importers of American cot- flig ton over the possibility of the Pacific coi Mail steamship line being withdrawn ore from the Pacific after November 4, ing as reported, says the New York chi Times. According to a translation ice from a Japanese newspaper that has ov< been received from Kobe by the bu- for reau of foreign and domestic com- cie merce, it is feared that the with ( drawal of the ships of this company g from the Pacafic will become a se rious handicap to the continuance ^ of the Japanese cotton , spinning in- Ne dustry. Co Ti - ? + /\11+ ?r> f Vi fMnclotorl Pm 11 IS JJUlIiLCU UUt ill mc uauoiai/vu m article that the Pacific Mail line has^ Et< for some time been handling fully tei 60 per cent of American shipments ? of cotton to Japan. Thirty per cent. Di of the remainder has been handled by the three Japanese steamship lines and the remaining 10 per cent. , , vei by the ships of the Great Northern gta railroad. With American cotton ex- < ports to Japan totaling about 400,- ov< 000 bales annually, the Japanese in- ho terested in the subject are wondering who is going to carry the ap- ^ proximately 240,000 bales that are F now carried by the Pacific Mail line. ^ It is shown that by increasing the A number of steamers and other boats jj operated, the Japanese lines can I take care of part of this amount, i v..,*- io r?/-?f tVirmcrVif that all nf it UUl u JO UUV luwuguv biiuv u.1 could be handled, even with the re- _ sources of the Japanese lines taxed to their limits. As a last resort it is pointed out that a certain amount of aid may be < obtained from the Panama and Suez canal boats, but in view of the con- ? ditions in Europe and the present ? high rates charged on ocean freights, ] it is said that not much aid can be expected from that source. Some Liar He. Two aged Scotchmen were discussing high winds within their memories ? "I mind it bein' his a wind," said one, "that it took the crows three oors to free hame frae the corn fields, an' that is no mair than a mile." "Hoot, man!" the other replied, "I've seen it that windy that the crows had to walk home." L S \ 9 MYTH PROVED TO BE HEAL, j icieiit Grasshopper Myriads Trapped and Held in Glacier. | Grasshoppers on ice, in ice and of i is the phenomenon to be found in asshopper Glacier, once considera myth, but the existence of lich as one of the wonders of the est has been confirmed by geolosts, national forest officials and: ospectors who have reached the: it\ r\y* a f +1-> r\ T?oot O n H 'pci ii^au uaici o UL uaoi uuu ; ( est Rosebud rivers in the Bear-j oth mountains of Montana. Investigation has shown that the! nyth" of Grasshopper Glacier is a | ct, according to Billings (Mont.) rrespondent New York Sun. The! rrespondent of Xew York Sun. The ozen in a solid mass of ice. Many) the specimens are as perfect as! preserved in alcohol for exhibi-1 >n. In the opinion of scientists who cently made a first-hand study of e fabled glacier the insects were ught in a periodic southward flight d succumbed to the cold in their tempt to cross the mountain range, le huge ice mass, under whose ust the grasshoppers are buried, virtually under the shadow of anite Peak, 1.2,842 feet high, the ghest in Montana. Only recently has its existence as perpetual glacier been verified, ough as long as 40 years ago it is traditionally known in early Dntana mining camps and mounin towns. It was considered then *rely a fanciful tale of pieneer prosctors and fur trappers who had netrated to the upper reaches of is branch of the rugged Rockies. J. C. Whitham, deputy supervisor the Beartooth National forest, one the few men who have seen the asshopper Glacier, brought back to rilization a small vial containing e nearly perfect remains of several asshoppers found embalmed in the i. These were forwarded to the lithsonian institution, Washington, C., but unfortunately were badly oken in transit. The Granites, of Caribou county, ord perhaps the most picturesque pine scenery to be found in acces)le parts of the United States. *^he asshopper Glacier, which is one of number discovered by the James | Kimball survey, is thus described Dr. Kimball: "From observations made during s survey it was determined that asshoppers brought to life on the airie, when in periodic southerly i ?ht in a direction toward the mntains,'are compelled by sue-' ssive stages to rise and surmount 3 massive barrier of the mountain, age. On the summits they are. nbatted by head winds and fre-j ently violent high mountain air. rrents, the occasional terrific force which to be thoroughly appreciat-j must be encountered on the sumts of the range. 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