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cm ish ok i hi: sattle fleet. (Continued from wag?' nine.)' as to all ol" your movements. After that date stich reports will he made to the Bureau of Navigation direct. 12. The above Instruments have been made in detail with r\ View to aiding yon In commencing the work without delay, bill much must be left to youi discretion. Kespeci fully, C. ?. Sparry, He,ir Admiral. C. S. Navy, Commander In Chief railed states At lantic Fleet. The Commanding Olllcer, U, S. S. Celtic. Naples. Italy . Money supply on a decidedly mam moth scale is indicated by the follow ing quoted memorandum from Mr. Mo (lowan to the Fla?; Olllce: With roferenco to tlie money situa tion, I have been figuring considerably land closely) of late; and I am con viuced thai it will be best to engage from the Chartered Hank of India or the HongKonk Shanghai Hunk (both of which promised to lei me have bids by about now i L75,00 Hritlsh gold for delivery in exchange for my bill of exchange in Colombo and to arrange through the consul general at Carlo for another U 100,000 (or so much thereof as may be needed) for deliv ery to the Individual ships in exchange for their bills as they arrive. My idea is that the entire transaction lie handled from the Hag olllce in both cases and all arrangements be per fected in advance; only, with refer ence in the I'ort Said money, separate bills will be tar the handles), and. in my opinion, the only ofllcially author ized way to secure and distribute the money, in view ol the fuel thai the ships will bo Coming through Fort Said one by one. The I'ort Said rale quoted ill the consul.general s cablegram is D.00'1 per cent, or $455.9,8 on U 100,000 ($48!i,(5f>0) ?practically par. 'I in- Colombo rate must be less than 0.75 per cent, or $2.7'!7.ll on C75,000 (5301,087.50), be cause the department, in us cablegram to Albany, quoted that Oguru for actual shipment by Sollgmau; and, of course, If the Chartered Hank or the Hongkong Hank wants lo do business, it must come under thai llgure. I think it will. In any event, how ever, I a in not prepared to recommend the tiiklliR of I'llited States gold from here, because it would most probably entail upon the oillcers and men a loss on exchange ashore considerably great er than that sustained by the govern ment in obtaining British money. 1 shall get the two bids on Colombo In (from the Manila brunches) just as soon as I can tomorrow, if possible; then 1 shall he Ii a position to make a ? |?eclflc recommendation, in order thai the entire money situation may be satisfactorily provided for. now while tlicrc is plenty or time. So as to he perfectly sure about the Port Said piogramme, I think it would be well to send a general signal, as SOOIl a-; the second squadron Is within wireless reach, asking whether the pay oMleor has authority to negotiate bills of exchange I need scarcely add that local needs are all arranged for my Manila bal ance on deposit being $30,741.17, with not he r $100000 coming by deposit on mj requisition on the navy pay office submitted today. s. Mcdowan, Pay Inspector, U. s N'avy, Flee Pay master, C S. S. Connecticut. Cavite, P. I.. November 4, 1008. In the following extract sugncsts just n trace of bitterness, it neverthe less describes conditions which were altogether extraordinary if not. in deed, amazing: When I was detached from ships duty on the Connecticut, I, of course, \aeatetl the pa>' office < ami It was surely small enough for even the ship's force to be crowded into. Being the llagsllip and the new arrangement not having been contemplated when the office space was designed, the Connecticut had no office room for the' Meet paymaster. The result was that I bought a small sewing table, sawed part of the legs off of it and set it up in one corner of my stateroom for a typewriter desk. In this stateroom t which was on the berth deck and none too large lor the purpose lor which it was constructed) it was nec essary for both the clerk ami myself to constantly work, one using the small writing desk Included in the combination bureau-dresser, while the other used the typewriter. A lile box was improvised ou top of the coffer dam outboard; and. during almost the entire cruise, this limited space had to serve as stateroom and office com bined, even aftei the work became so heavy that I secured the detail of a I third-Class yeoman to assist in the j clerical work. The correspondence became so voluminous and the number of papers handled for the flag office so numerous that, during a gn at part of the time, (he clerk, the yeoman, ami I were all three working in this stateroom office simultaneously, a drawing board having been borrowed i I IK.iii iIn- engineer tlcpartmeiil ami in stalled mi toi> ol (In- blink us au im [ provised desk. Tim round ol nil this was thai I succeeded in milking for, myself u vury crowded and inadequate! oftlce by giving up almost entirely the scanty quarters wliicli .1 occupied, leaving lor tin- practically nothing but sleeping room in this improvised olllce alter the Work ol' the day (and the night l was over. Amid such surroundings II would have been impossible to achieve any kind ol' success had ii not been tor tile constant encouragement I received from superior authority and my earn est desire to do the most and best WOl'k possible under any and all con ditions and thus justify in the lullest attainable mutlSUI'Q tie- commander in Chief's confidence which I bad tiie honor to i njoy. A fairly good general idea ol' the scope and importance ol Mr. McCiow an s work and of the report thereon is afforded by this (losing parugraph: ! enthusiastically favor the greatest possible development of supply ships as an integral part of every group of lighting craft. With reference to what stores ami how much of each should be carried on board supply ships. I think the same general idea should be followed as I have suggested for battleships, namely, thai a great deal of (are should be exercised to main tain the symmetry of supplies to the end that all available supplies be on hand in such manner as to enable the licet to remain tit sea away from its base just as many days as possible a shortage in auy one necessary article fixing, of coursae, the limit of such sea service. In this connection I de-' sire particularly to invite attention to the fact that, tilthoug:, storoshipu should, of course, (arty a miscella neous and complete Mock of the va rious articles Which will be needed throughout the licet, the redistribution of the stowage space and the adoption of the general storekeeper plan on hoard cruising vessels should not by any possibility he allowed to effect a reduction of the supply of any ar ticle carried on board such cruising | ship as to render fie ,.; >n; call upon the sloresllip necessary. I mean that, with the control by one olllccr of nil j stowage space on board ship, there I ought to bo a considerable pain in total towage capacity end a resulting gain, in total time which all necessary supplies will hist; ami this gain, which is necessarily based on physical facts and economy of space, should not be in any instance allowed to be offset by any undue dependence on storeships o! any kind, for experience has amply proved Ihnl oven with good weather conditions no two vessels can always he counted upon to remain in company constantly, unless, of course, they are at anchor. I regard the province of the storcship, therefore, as what might in- called half way between the tight Ing ship and the storehouse; in fact, a Moating storehouse and nothing more and to take supplies out of a battle ship and place them on board a store ship which is expected to accompany that battle ship at all times is. in my ludgmeut, the gravest possible error, i! maximum economy being obtain able only by treating the storcshln simply as a mode of expeditious trans fer between the shore and the Meet, each fighting ship to keep its stowage spaces symmetrically lull at all times ami depending upon the storcship to replenish them only and as soon as supplies of any kind have been used in sufficient quantity to afford space for further stowage. It may be that my Impressions on this subject are wholly erroneous. I hope; they are. Hut it seemed to 1110 that there was in the recent past an effort being made to take more and more of the general supplies off the battle ships and de pend more and more upon the store ships for the replenishment thereof by constant small requisitions. If I am correct in this impression, it is my judgment that, though stich a proced ure may effect a temporary financial economy, such an advantage; is prac tically negligible in view of the result lug manifest loss in military prepared ness which such a programme would appear to entail. Piles I Pitetl Pisas! Williams' Indian Pile Ointment will euro Hlinti, Bleeding und itching Piles. It ab Borbs the tumors, illays inching at once, nets as a. poultice, gives instant relief. Williams' Indian Pilo ointment la pre pared for Piles and Itching <>f the private pnrts. Driuridsts, mail 60c and $1.00. WILLIAMS MPG. CO., Props.. Cleveland, Ohio Laurens Drug Co., Laurens, S. ('. I IN M. SETTLEMENT. Take notice that Oil the 12th day of .November. I will render a I'm a I ac count of my acts and doings as Ex ecutor of the estate of R. ('. Brown, deceased, in the office of the Judge of Probate of Laurens county, at II o' clock, a. m., and on the same day will apply lor a fluni discharge from my trusts as Executor. \ny in rsons indebted to said estate are notified and required to make pay ment on that date; and all persons having claims against said estate will pr< sent them on or before said date, duly proven, or bo forever haired. (?oldie O. Brown, Adminlst rat t lx. October 12, 1910. > Now is the time to - = = Insure Your Crops of - - - Cotton, Corn, Etc., AGAINST HAIL or your Horses and Nules Against Death From Any Cause SEE J. F. TOLBERT LAURENS, S. C. In New Office in Todd Building, South Harper St. \ METAL SHINGLES Laid 20 years ago arc as good as new to-day and have never needed repairs. Think of it! , Whaf other roofing will last as long and look as well? They're fireproof, stormproof, and very easily laid. 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