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.Ad. SOLDIERS TRAVELING." " TORPEDO BOAT PORTER The Porter's name was given her in honor of Rear Admiral David D. Por ter. If she wero running at the rate of 24 knots an hoar, it would take her 68 ecoDda to pass over 000 yards of danger space. Her length is 175 feet; beam, 17 feet; extreme draft, 8 feet. Her guaranteed speed is 27.5 knots an hour. Her engines are capable of developing 4,200 horsepower, which is greater than that of the gunboat Yorktown. She is formidably armed, oarrles three torpedo tabes, and the guns have a very wide range. ri - a. -V TYPES OF REGULAR ARMY SOLDIER. a. -JSJ&Nau I Tj?r ill . 1 " iT , Pir rwisr but r' Og . 1 ZZH -g jUJ UocrtMcKtu. 'virn 58 Pv Stony PLAN OF THE BATTLESHIP TEXAS. ." Their Comfort Is Pretty Well Looked After Mow to What It Was. "When soldiers in the service of the United States are traveling, their com fort is pretty well looked after, " says F. F. Horner, general passenger agent of the Nickel Plate. "The government requires the rail road company to provide sleeping oars for the officers and also for the privates if it is possible to procure the cars. The Thirteenth regiment, which left Buffa lo a few days ago, was carried in tour ist cars, three men to a section, two oc cupying the lower berth and one the up per. Of coarse if men are to be carried in very large' numbers on short notioe such arrangements would be impossi ble, bat even then we would have to provide them with ordinary day coaches. "The volunteers who answer the pres ent call will . be carried in tourist cars if their journey lasts through a night. Otherwise they will go in day coaches. I don't think that any other oountry on earth looks after its soldiers so well. When I was soldiering, we considered a freight car perfectly satisfactory. We generally had to walk. Being packed into a freight car on a hot summer day was rather uncomfortable, and the men usually secured ventilation by knocking holes in the sides of the car with the butts of their rifles. When the officers remonstrated, the boys would say that they were 'just making loopholes to shoot the 'Johnnies.' " Buffalo Com-, mercial. VETERAN'S NOBLE OFFER. Asks to Serve Oat the Term In Prison of , Captain Hart. A Washington dispatch to the New York Journal says: Interest in the effort to secure a par don for John D. Hart, captain of the alleged Cuban filibuster Laurada, now serving a term in the Eastern peniten tiary, Philadelphia, grows intensely. Senators have petitioned for his pardon. Congressmen are signing petitions and a veteran of the civil war has offered to serve out Captain Hart's unexpired term. The other day William A. Clear, for merly a sergeant in Company A, Seven ty-first Pennsylvania volunteers, now an inmate of the Soldiers' home at Hampton,. Ya., addressed the following letter to the president: Hon. William McKinley : Dear Sih-tJ have the honor to present the inclosed petition for the pardon of Captain J. D. Hart, as he would be of great service to our common country and the cause of Cuban freedom. If you cannot do so conscientiously and law must have some one to suffer for his supposed offense, the undersigned is willing and ready to take his place in prison as soon as ho is pardoned and agrees to serve faith fully the balance of his time. I will be satis fled that I have performed a duty to my conn try. mnoereiy, your obedient servant, WILLIAM A. CLEAR, Late Sergeant Company A, Seventy-flrst Penn' sylvania Volunteers. , NURSES LEARN1NGTO SHOOT TORPEDO BOAT FARRAGUT, The Farragut is named in honor of Admiral David G. Farragut. She has a displacement of 273 tons and was built at the Union Iron works. She has an indioated horsepower of 5,600 and is fitted with two torpedo tubes. THE YARROW TORPEDO CHASER MANLY. i This little craft, recently brought from England, is named the Manly, after a hero of the Revolutionary war. She is only 60 feet long and is built more for speed than destruotiveness. Her beam is 9.3 feet, and her draft astern,, when under full speed, is 3.8 feet. The displacement of the boat is only 17 tons, and her speed is said to be close to 36 knots. The hull is of thin steel Expect to Co to Cuba and May Find Re volvers Useful. " - Delegates to the annual convention of the Nurses' Associated Alumnae of the United States and Canada, which has been in session at the International Health exposition, at the Grand Central palace, in New York, and who have voted to respond to any call for their services by the war department, are learning how to shoot The veteran revolver expert, Captain James S. Conlin, has a shooting range in the health show and has volunteered to teach gratis any trained nurse who applies to him the proper way to han dle, aim and fire a revolver. Asa result several young women have spent novel quarter hours learning how to shoot at a target without danger to themselves or their friends. They wish to be pre pared for all emergencies, though they have no expectation of, shooting at Spaniards in Cuba except in self de fense. New York Herald. , Weyler's Idea of an Invasion. General Weyler has declared that while he was captain general of Cuba he proposed to the then prime minister. Canovaa del Castillo," to declare war against the United States and to land 0,000 m6n on American soil. He still believed that a force of this size would be sufficient to invade the United States. He added that Spain might profit even now by the! : disorganized Amerioan army and navy to assnme the offensive. Special Cable to New York Sun. As Seleaeo Tiews tho Fight. A Rood manv cold blooded nannta am waiting anxiously for a trial of strength between two creat modern fleets. Thnv .want a scientific demonstration of their Wortn as war armaratns. Yonr tma scientific observer never nermitu hi feelings to uet the best of him. CIova- TORPEDO BOAT STILETTO The Stiletto is the only wooden torpedo boat in the "navy. She la also tfeV smallest torpedo boat in Unole Sam's fleet. t Her displacement isnly 81 tons and her indicated horsepower 859. She has two torpedo tubes and is the only torpedo boat in the service' that is not named after a naval hero. . ' TORPEDO BOAT FOX, The Pox was named in honor of Gustavus Vasa Fox. a retired naval nfl cerwho acted as assistant secretary of the navy from 1881 to 1865. She has a length of 146 feet; beam, 15.4 feet; draft 5.4. Her displacement inlnna is iiv her indicated horsepower 1.750, and she has a speed of 22.5 knots per hour. land Plain Dealer.
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