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COAST GUNS NEED BRACING UP.
Charleston's Longest Range, For Example,
Six Miles Too Short.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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"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
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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.
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OHIO'S CONSTITUTION.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Cotton for Japan. ed
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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
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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
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MYTH PROVED TO BE HEAL, j
icieiit Grasshopper Myriads Trapped
and Held in Glacier.
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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 ;
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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.
"Such portions of the grasshopper
jhts as are so unfortunate as to be
npelled to settle on the glaciers in
ier to seek shelter from the oppos;
insurmountable winds become
lied by contact with the snow and i
surface of the glacier and are
srcome, remaining unable to rise
a newly attempted fight. The glar
then becomes their sepulchre."
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