The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, February 23, 1911, Image 4
THE LAST OF HER
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The T xa% Oaf Hiodoo Battleship, Will
S ion Be shot to Pit crs
TO IMPROVE THE NAVY
She Will Uofore Long He Hoinbarded
by Our Own Friendly Shot and
Shell to Test Up-to-date I'rojec
tiles and Armor and Will Go to
the 'lu nk Heap.
Off Hampton Roads In April next
a battleship of the famous White !
Squadron of twenty years ago will !
meet a friendly fate at the hands
of the men behind the guns of our J
modern Atlantic fleet. The Texas, i
alwny>- a steel-sided hoodoo and long!
a target for naval criticism, is to
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become at last a target for Ameri
rvin sninnors She will he towed
like a culprit to a point off the Chesapeake's
protecting capes, anchored
and shot to pieces. When her bat- J
tered funnel shall have disappeared
beneath the great sea the final rec- j
ord will he made in the naval rec- j
ords of the first battleship built for
the American navy, a vessel that
cost the Government $2,500,000 in !
1 802.
It will be the first time in the
history of our navy that a real vessel
is used as a target for the big
guns. Heretofore targets made or
canvas have been used, but as the
Texas has outlived her usefullness,
high explosive projectiles will be fired
agai.ist her in order that the officers
may study their action against
the hull and superstructure at battle
ranges. Surely a fitting end for
the unluckiest ship in the American
Navy! For although she covered
herself with glory at the battle
of Santiago, she was so unfortunate
in time of peace as to earn the
title of "The Hoodoo." j
Foreign navies for many years
have used their obsolete battleships
t ? o n .1A f lin rnon Ho liovo )ir>OH
on lill aiiu nit l taiwvo im I X,
of great benefit in determining the
rel tive value of high explosive projectiles.
The old query, What would
happen if an irresistible force came
in contact with an immovable object?
has almost been answered by
these tests. At a recent test in the
French Navy it was discovered that
when a twelve or thirteen inch projectile
hits a turret such a terrific
heat is developed that for twelve
hours no human being could touch
the point of contact. Whether men
could live in a turret pounded by 12inch
pojectiles is doubtful, although
experiments have shown that cats
and chickens have been able to withstand
this terrific heat.
For the past four or five years the
Texas lias been little more than a
boating barracks for enlisted naval
men, stationed most of the time at
Charleston, S. C. Ever since the
Spanish war she has done nothing
hut cruise up and down the Atlantic
coast, taking the midshipmen on
their annual practice jaunts to the
New England regions, and steamin?
around Hatteras in all kinds of :
weather to the fall and winter manoeuvers
in the tropics.
She 1 as not been considered good
enough for a station ship. In fact,
like more than fifty other men of
war that have become obsolete, she
is nothing more than a pile of junk.
She cor-t $2,500,000 loss than twenty
years aco, hut today she would ;
hardly bring $50,000. The cruiser
Detroit, which cost the Government
$1,233,020 twenty years ago, brought
only $20,000 the other day. in
short, the men-of-war of even 15
years ago are little more than junk
today. And Uncle Sam has a junk
pile which cost between $1 40,000,-}
000 and $150,000,000. The cruisers
of the famous White Squadron
that sailed the seas before the organization
of the more famous fleet
of the present time are all obsolete.
They are worthless as fighters, useless
as cruisers.
The necessity for more powerful
shins in the United States Navy was
demonstrated by the battle between i
the French and Chinese fleets in I
August, 1X84, at the Pagoda An-I
chorage, Min River, where the Ohin-|
ese ships were sunk in half an hour.
It was decided that this country
should have a modern defense force
as soon as possible. In 1 880 President
Cleveland approved a naval appropri
'tion bill which directed the
building of the Texas, a battleship;
the Maine, a sister ship, and several
cruisers.
A prize was offered by the Secretary
of the Navy for the best designs'
for a battleship to cost $2,500,000 |
Many naval architects competed, and !
the prize was awarded to an English- J
man, a Mr. John. With the excep- j
tion of the protected cruisers Charleston
and Baltimore, built later,
the Texas was the only vessel built
on designs purchased abroad.
The Texas was constructed at the
Norfolk Navy Yard, being the first
and only battleship ever huilt there.
Work on her was so slow that although
the keel was laid down in
January, 1889, she was not launched
until Juno, 1892, and by that tin e
the plans had been altered so much
that she was practically of American
design. I
Prom the start she showed up
badly. In fact, she had such a
9 f pn
series of mishaps that she became
known as the greatest landgoing battleship
in the world. Not only did
she sink twice, once right in her
dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard,
but she used to try the patience of
the authorities at Washington by
violating the' navy regulations and
running ashore four or five times j
a year. Her weakness for exploring
shoals and mud flats made it
,ook as if she should have been
1 transferred to the Coast and Geodetic
Survey.
However, she redeemed herself
before Santiago. She was really out
of date then, but her nose was
* 1 1 ? A ^ ^ t > '1 fth n r*
SllOVOO 1I11U LI1U tuui nun ni quitted
herself nobly. But so many
accidents kept recurring that the title
of the Hoodoo of the Navy still
clung to her.
In fact, her ill luck began while
she was being built. A dozen men
were fatally hurt on her while she
was in course of construction and
two men were plunged to death from
her deck. Her engines were scorched
in a fire at the Richmond Iron
V* orks and her propeller was broken
on the first trip to the yard. In
her dock trial she swamped a lumber
schooner with the wash from her
screw. Heeled over by the wind and
the unequal weight of the pntrially
set up turret, she nearly sank in her
dock at Norfolk before she was completed.
She was put in dry dock,
and it was found that she was not
strong enough to bear her own
weight.
She proved herself a poor steam-j
or, and burned great quantities of
coal. On Nov. 0, 1890, while she
was lying at the Cob Dock at the
Brooklyn Navy Yard one of her sea j
cocks became unfastened and she
sank. Had the accident occurred at
sea the ship would have been lost.
On every one of her trial trips
something happened in the nature!
of a breakdown in some part of;
her machinery. Either the eccentric
strap got hot or her condensers failed
to work or the steering gear got
out of order. The loss of four anchors
was among the little thin ;s
that emphasized her reputation for
ill luck.
In Februarv, 1897, she went
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ashore on the Dry Tortungas, and
in the winter of the same year she
grounded in Wallabout Channel. In
Boston Harbor the same winter an
engine in one of her launches exploded,
injuring six men. Again
while being drydocked at the Brooklyn
Navy Yard an accident occurred
which showed alleged structural
weaknes which cost $125,000 to
remedy. She scraped her bilge on
the sill of the dock and settled
down like a bag of wheat in the
hncln This was in November. 1 897.
It was only chance that saved tne
Texas from being rammed and sent
to the bottom by the Brooklyn in
the battle with Admiral Cervera s
fleet off Santiago on July 3, 1 SOS.
Two weeks before that she had her
first fight in Cuban waters and a
narrow escape from a submarine
mine off the Guantanamo batteries.
When the Texas joined Admiral
Sampson's squadron off Santiago orders
were issued that if the enemy I
tries to escape the ships were to
close in and engage as soon as poss'ble
and to sink the Spanish vessels
or send them ashore. On the
day of the battle the American vessels
moved toward the mouth of the
harbor.
When the Marie Teresa started to
run for it, the Iowa gave the order
"Enemy's ships escaping." then signalled,
"Clear for action," and
gave a third order, "Close up," all
in execution of Admiral Sampson's
standing order. As the Brooklyn
steamed in toward the mouth of the
harbor, Commodore Schley, who was
tor ov nl n i 11 fn hr>r com
mander, Capt. Cook, that the "Close
up" meant ho was to keep somewhere
within 1.0O0 yards from the
enemy, so as to be outside of her
broadside torpedo range.
Capt. Cook gave orders to port
the helm, and the Brooklyn begin
to turn away from the battle line
and presented her stern to the hostile
cruisers. The llrooklvn ran
about 2,000 yards south and all but
came into collision with the Texas,
which saved herself by reversing her
engines. A hole was thus left in the
blockading line through which the
enemy promptly steamed.
The late Capt. Philip of the Texas
in describing this incident, wrote:
"Suddenly a whiff of breeze and
a lull in the firing lifted the pall,
and there bearing toward us and 1
across our bows, turning on her port
helm, with big waves curling over
her hows and great clouds of black
smoak pouring from her funnels,
was the Brooklyn. She looked as
big as half a dozen Groat Easterns.
'Back both engines hard!' went down
the tube to the astonished engineers
and in a twinkling the old ship was
racing against herself. Had the
Brooklyn struck us then it would
probably have been the end of the
Texas and her half thousand men.''
Aside from this incident the share
of the Texas In the fighting off Santiago
was conspicious. On June 22
a shell from Santiago's iMooro plorced
a six-inch hole in her how under
the anchor and killed Frank Biakely,
a first class apprentice. In the
fighting on July 3 a shell from the
Almirante Oquendo pierced the starboard
bulkhead under the bridge,
entered the smokestack and exploded.
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For two years after the war the
j Texas had a peaceful and uneven-1
tual career. On Nov. 30, 1902, however,
when at target practice along
tho New England coast the discharge
of one of the big guns broke the recoils,
with the result that the ginfoundations
were shattered, water
and steam pipes were crushed and
lamage was done that was thought
at first to be impossible to repair.
However, she was repaired and as
she left the drydoek she came into
collision with the collier Sterling,
bending many of her forward plates
and putting her out of commission
for another six weeks.
During the next two years she
ran aground no less than six times.
She was hard aground at Dry Tor|
tugas twice inside of three months.
This trick was varied slightly a little
later in the same port when she
-an on a coral reef, suffering considerably
from the scraping she received.
On another occasion she became
so firmly wedged in the mud at
Newport that six tugs wero required
to pull her out.
The back draugh from one of her
twelve-inch guns caused another bad
accident on April 1 5, 1 905. And in
AriHI of the following vear she was
badly damaged by running into a
derelict off South Carolina. Her
plates were so badly twisted that
she had to be dry-docked for 3ev- !
eral weeks. In addition, a collision
with the Hon ting crane Hercules at
the Brooklyn Navy Yard, loosened
her bow and kept her out of commission
for some time.
In July, 1 906, the cruising day
of the ill fated battleship ended, and
she was t'ed up at the Charleston
Navy Yard, where she became a
floating house for enlisted men. The
last active service of the warship ?
was flag duty with the starred pennant
of Rear-Admiral F. W. Dickins.
U. S. X., afloat. That was in the
spring of 1 906. When the fleet returned
from the maneouvres off j
Charleston in June, Rear-Admiral i
I \D?b 1 *? 'r? \ ? * * n / ! \\r o c? rl ic ho n /lnrl i
I 'IV IV J I I a V U11I 111 (UIV4 " no UIOIUIIIMVUI
The Texas was then docked at Bosfinal
stripping of its-hefor $eekRflu
ton and came to Charleston for final
stripping of its six-inch guns.
But the hoodoo followed her there .
?even after she was out of commission.
She narrowly escaped being
blown up by a careless visitor, who
was found smoking a cigarette in
the powder magazine.
Now it has been decided to shoot
her to pieces. Early in April she
will be towed from her moorings in
the Navy Yard to the shoal water
of the Chesapeake, where twelve and
thirteen inch projectiles will soon
finish her. The hoodoo of the navy
will then be a hoodoo no longer.
PARDON MILL STILL GRINDING.
Governor RlfMise Pardons Two Life
Term Prisoners.
Two prisoners serving life sentences
at the State penitentiary were
pardoned Thursday by Governor
Blease.
A pardon was granted to Duncan
O. Grant, a white man, formerly of
the State of Florida, who was convicted
in 1 906 on the charge of killing
Walker Swett, in Marlboro
county. There were several petitions
presented to Governor Ansel for the
pardon of Grant. Governor Ansel
refused all petitions, and Governor
B'oase acting on the old petitions and
letters granted a pardon.
Mary Fair, a Laurens county ne
gress, was given her freedom by Governor
Hlease. She was convicted in
1 Sr?7 on the charge of killing Henrietta
Sullivan, and upon recommendation
of the mercy of the Court,
was sentenced to life imprisonment.
She was refused a pardon by Governor
Ansel. *
SHOT WKOXG OXK FIRST.
A Man Murders a tiirl and Then He
Commits Suicide.
Driven to desperation, .1. W. Powell,
of Buchanan, Va., Monday killed
his sweetheart, Miss Maude West,
18 years old. and then turned the
shotgun on himself and ended his
life.
The double tragedy was thought
to have been caused by jei'.onsv.
Powell, 28 years of age, called unon
Miss West Sunday night and while
at the home met another young
man. He was heard to make tin oats
as he was leaving.
While the young woman was on
her way to a mail box to pos. a letter
Powell, who was In hi/ling on
the side of the road, jumped from
a clump of hushes and opened fire
on her with a shotgun. He empt'ed
two loads in her body and th-m placed
the weapon to his head and fired.
When found both of them were
dead. ,
Flour Sent to China.
Ton thousand sacks of flour were
purchased in Chicago Thursday by
Otto Koenle, of New York, to be sent
for the relief of the famine sufferers
in China. The flour is the contribution
of the subscribers of The
Christian Herald. The flour will be
sent to Seattle, whence it will be
carried free of charge on the United
States transport Huford to Chinklang.
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Finds a Mate.
Oscar Kraus, of Pomona, Kan., the
"Kansas giant," has decided that he
does not want a Job on any police
force, as was his ambition. Mr.
. Kraus, who is seven feet, four inches
I tall, has found a mate, a young lady
'of Longton, Kan., who is six feet,
Ave inches tall herself.
j CLASSIFIED cam Ml
: For Sal??Pure King Cotton Seed at
j Poultry Yard, Darlington, S. S.
| For Hale?Pure King Cotton Seed at
$1.00 per bushel. Address, J. J.
Littlejohn, Jonesvllle, S. C.
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Cabbie Plants F. O. P. Young's island,
S. C. 75 cents per thousand,
W. J. Nunnery, Wedgefield,
8. C.
I want lw>y? In every town to sell
Key Checks, Rubber Stamps, Stencils
Williams, Back Bay, P. O.
Box 1 22. Boston, Mass.
For Halo?Fggs from pure bred
White Plymouth Rocks, Flshel
strain. Price $1.50 per setting of
15. K. H. Patrick, White Oak,
s. c.
You Can Mako Big Money selling
l>ortable fence right. Every farmer
seeds it. Write B. T. Stambaugh,
Woodaboro, Md., for particulars.
[Eleven Kentucky Jacks, twenty-one
Jennets for sale. All of my own
raising, with guarantee as strong
as can be made. J. W. Riley,
Graeey, Ky.
For Salt4?Utility Rhode Island Red
Cockerels, $1.50 to $2.00. Fine
Cock, $5.00. One excellent Irish
Pointer Dog, $50.00. W. 13. Pearson,
Strother, S. C.
For Sale?S. C. R. I. Reds, White
and Brown Leghorns, Black I,angshang,
Plymouth Rocks. Eggs lor
setting, 15 for $1. M. B. Grant
Darlington, S. C.
Full stork Barred Plymouth Rocks.
White Sherwoods and Rhode Island
Red chickens and eggs for
sale. Address Mrs. Mary E. Littlejohn,
Jonesville, S. C.
For Sale?At a bargain and on terms
a plant of woodworking machinery,
complete and running, with
all the business it can handle. W.
E. Alman, Spartanburg, S. C.
S. C. Rhode Island Red and White
Leghorn eggs for hatching. None
better, few as good. Satisfaction
guaranteed. Write for prices.
Bayside Poultry Farm, Guyton,
Ga.
The Little Tell Tale which tells the
Truth. A complete egg record of
the day, the week, the month, and
the year. Price 10c. Address,
Mrs. M. B. Roberts, Dade City,
Fla.
For Sale?Eggs for hatching?Single
Comb Buff Leghorn. From fine,
well-mated, heavy-laying stock.
$1.00 for 15; $1.75 for 30; $5.00
for 100. T. F2. Simpson, Society
Hill, S. C.
Girl or Woman?each locality, goon
pay made acting as representative,
address envelopes, fold, mail
circulars, material, stamps, fu?
nished free. Rex Mailing Agency.
London, Ontario.
For Sale?Whippoorwill Peas, $2.25
per bushel; Clay Mixed Peas, $2.20
per bushel; Ripper Mixed Peas,
$2.20 per bushel. Write for prices
in large quantities. F. A. Bush
Co., Preston, Ga.
Biopsy Cured?Shortness of breatn
relieved in 2 6 to 4 8 hours. Reduces
swelling in 15 to 20 days
Call or write Collum Dropsy Remedy
Company, Dept. O 512 A iste?l
mag., Aiiatua ua.
Dohhs' Single Coinl) Rhode Island
Reds and "Crystal" White Orpingtons
win and lay when others
fail, stork and eggs for sale. Send
for mating list. G. A. Dobbs, Box
B. 24, Gainesville, Ga.
Wanted?Men and ladies to take
three months practical course. Export.
management. High salaried
positions guaranteed. Write for
catalogue now. Charlotte Telegraph
School, Charlotte, N. C.
Wanted?Men to take thirty days'
practical course in our machine
shops and learn automobile business.'
Positions secured graduates,
$25 per week and up. Charlotte
Auto School, Charlotte, N. C.
Wanted?Bookkeepers, stenographers,
clerks, write us if desiring
employment. We place competent
business help and are not able to
supply demand. Carolina Audit
& System Co., Skyscraper, Columbia.
S. C.
For Sale?Milch cows, registered .Jersey
colors. Golden Lad, Flying Fox
and st Lombert strain. Bronze
Turkeys and eggs. Also eggs, R.
I. Reds. White Leghorn, Rarred
Plymouth Rocks and Pit Game,
one dollar per doz. White callie
puppies, registered. M. R. Sams,
Jonesvllle, S. C.
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lng photo pillow topi. 25e. fcr<
mid63. 25c; portraits, 35c; ollette*
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(>oo<) Live Agents wanted In every
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Mia Htahle An excentlonal opuo'
tunity for the right pp.rties t?
make good money. Write at one*
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In order to introdnce my high gr&d?
Succession Flat Dutch and W&fcfield
Cabbage Plant* to :ho?e wh
have not used them before I w!l
rive with each flr?t order for
thousand plants at a #1.25, a ?lo
inr'r worth of vegetable* and flow,
eed absolutely free. W. R. Har<
Plant Grower. Enterprise J*.
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Level Farms for Sale?In Cordon
County, Northwest Georgia. Write
for free list. I have sold severa'
from the northern part of South
Carolina, farms over here, where
lands lie better, and are more productive,
and can be bought for
half, and less the money your
lands are selling for. Health and :
climate the best. T. M. Boa/. Box
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Warned?Every man, woman ?
child In South Carolina to kn?
that the "Alco" brand of Sap
Doors and Blinds are the lr
and are made only by the Angus'
Lumber Company, who manufa
ture everything In Lumber n."
Millwork and whon*? watchword *.
"Quality." Write Augusta Lurn
hop nnmimnv. Augusta. Georgia
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of keeping up our wonderful e?g
yield of the past. Our birds carried
off a long string of prizes during
the pa?t show so ison and we ]
can give the best quality to be
found. rCggs for hatching, $2.50 ^
per 15. Send in orders now for
future delivery. West Raleigh
Poultry Farms, B. M. Parker, Mgr.
West Raleigh, N. C.
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I la renins in South Georgia farm
lands; 5,600 acres of fine, level j
land, 8 miles from railroad; land
productive and no waste; 2 0 or
more houses; flowing well, 1 1
miles of fine fencing land, adapted
to general farming and stock raising.
Price $10 per acre. 3,100
acres located on railroad; 2,000 i
acres open, balance in woods;
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five; dwelling, good barns, 50
tenant houses, 3 artesian wells, ]
ginnery, etc. Cheap at the price
of $20 per acre. 8 67 acres, 1 1
mile from railroad station; 6 00
acres in cultivation, balance in saw ]
timber; land productive, lies well
and no waste; dwelling, barns, 1 i |
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If you are in the market for a
fine farm and mean business, call
to see us. Do not delay, as the
prices we have now are sure to
go higher. Address Allen & Crockett,
Americus, Ga.
<^uits the Race.
John Keith, a white farmer living
four miles west of Marion, com
mitted suicide Wednesday afternoon
by shooting himself through th\> head
with a pistol. Mr. Keith was about
4 0 years of age and no cause can
be assigned for his rash deed, as
both his health and finances we?e
in good shape. He is survived by
three sisters and one brother.
l>eatli Separates Them.
At Florence, Colo., Mrs. Francis
Rsper, 108 years of age, said to be
the oldest woman in Colorado, died
in the arms of her 111-year-old husband
Thursday night from burns received
when her clothing caught fire
from an open grate. Mr. and Mrs.
Esper has been married 91 years. *
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'Even a short man may have his
long suit.
It takes a good judge of whiskey
Lo let it alone.
It's better to be correct than it is .
Lo be corrected. W./
The phonograph heads the list of
shatter boxes.
Among others, the county recorder
i a o i? ? ?i n r\ f rl/in/1 u
IO <V 111 rill \J I UV
Not all politicians who study harmony
are musically inclined.
It is better to forgive than it is to
spend a week in the hospital.
Hut you can't be sued for nonpayment
of a debt of gratitude.
In delivering a speech be careful
nor to get the wrong address.
Only a fool lets people take him .
In after he has found them out. \ .
How far can you get from home
before you become a stranger?
\ n nsn-llv PMik^s his home
run after ho reaches the plate.
i' ? ) sta? Is such a
small sum that he is sent to Jail.
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Want a Square Deal.
Carrying forward his campaign
for. Canadian reciprocity, President
m.. i?i i _ i _ i __ _ ji _ ..A 1 i A
i <iil is musing a oireci. appeal iu ^
the American farmer on that issue. V
Ho declared that the impression
which had gone abroad that reciprocity
with the Dominion would injure
the farmer was entirely without
foundation, and by statistics and argument
he seeks to lend actual proof
to his assertions.
Mr. Taft in a recent speech in
Columbus, Ohio, asserted the reciprocal
agreement with Canada would
he a benefit rather than a detriment
to the agricultural interest of this
country. He said he stated this In
answer to the criticism which had
been directed against the measure
presumably on the part of the
farmer.
We believe what President Taft
says above is true, but still the
farmer is entitle to and should have
a square deal. If he is forced to
sell his produce in a free market he
should be given the right to buy
his clothes, his shoes, his hat, and
other things in a free market,
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