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INCORPORATED, 1821, ' e 131111111, $200,000.
Edwin G.“ -KeeIer, President. . . I 1 , _
fig; Bavidlll. MiIIer.|Vice President,
Louis C. GreenJCashier.
DIRECTORS." ' ‘,
EDWIN O. KEELER, MOSES H. GLOVEB,
DAVID E. MILLER, A. J. MEEKER. ,
F. ST. JOHN LOOKwoOD, THEODORE E. SMITH,
111A OOLE,1 mCHARLEs F. TRISTRAM.
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DUES IS TICUOB THE WEAKE-..
h’nshincton Opinion 113 That \Vo .Voulgi Be
1‘10 l‘vIatch For Great Britain on the
“faster, but; an Expert Shows How
“is "Might Be Dangerous;
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19. ~~The possibil i-
ties presented in the president’s mess;
of yesterd oy naturally turn at tent-ion to
the condition of the United States no.
and toe. comparison of our naval force
with that of Great Britain.
’1 ‘hat the United States has tremendous
advantages in its goo graphical situation,
in its independence ofb the outside world
in the matter of internal food supplya 116.
all the meter: iul necessary for carrying on
:1 we r with anoth or gre..t nation, and in
the strength 01 item“ 111 wool. ness in the
character and number of its merchant
marine us compared wit.) the immense
loss which would be entailed on Great-
Britain through interference wish the .1 as
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commerce, does not nearly compensate this
country for the smallness of its available
fleet of war vessels as against; the power-
ful squadrons which the English could
muster at short notice. Naval oflicers, al-
though many of them do not conceal their _
feeling that a war with Great Britain
would not be unwelcome, fully recognize
this disparity, and ,their acknowledg-
ment of our weakness in this respect is
borne out by the naval lists of both ooun- _
tries. -
. A general understanding of "the comb
putative strength of the British and
American navies may be reached by any
layman. That the United States is lam-
entably weak in battleships—the great.
engines of war that have ncIlled float-
ing fortresses—cannot be denied. land.
his fully 50 battleships. and again III '
We tho but one in commission, I'In-
diInI. However, to this sale represents-_
11le of the molt powerful form or flfllting
VIIIIl may be added the double turreted’
monitorI Amphitrlto and MiInIonomoh
and the coast defense vessel Montorey, the
last named now in Californian 'vaterI. '
-ThI Oregon I121! thI Massachusetts, ‘Iis-
tori It the tinfluence can be mIdI unify for. J '
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. York, City of Paris, St.
Paul.
"and the United States not one.
Britain is also said to have 95 torpedo,
boats against Q‘American torpedo boats.‘
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their armor, While the Iowa, larger and
more formidable, cannot be placed in
service under a. year and a half.
sent to fight the vessels of the United
States and attack American cities, for the
interesés‘of England are so great and so
develorzed that she must perforce look well
1.3 the protect-ion 1 of her own territory or
territories :nich 51:3 does want other 1111-
ti 1:3: to ob... in A consideration of the
press 11$ situatiou with regard to Turkey
and also in connection with China and
Korea will show the meaning of this state-
ment: \ .
A "l XPPE T’S OPINIOI‘T.
1511‘. Scott. Thinks On}: Z‘Iavy could IiIake
Things Pleasant For England.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 19.——Irving M.
Scott, vice president and general manager
of the Union Iron works who has built
some of in e hes t v- :is‘1ips in the navy,
espresses the 133110. 1:1 wt ,although the
present strength of 1111) navy is not great,
there could be 'extemporized a suflicient
fleet to enable the United States to main-
tain the prestige of the flag. Continuing,
he or vein detail the number of vessels
10:11.y..nd those which could be readily
prepared forw war, saying: ’ “We can count
on 34 110va cady, besides 6 ’ourreted mon—
itors, ('1 guuboats and £3 battleships now
being built, making :1. total of 48.
“Tum there are 13 of the old Ericsson.
monitors that could be put in preparation
by having their turret arrangement re
moved, and two 8 inch appearing and dis-
appearing guns placed in a- barbette in
the old, making them very formidable
. vessels in the defense of our bays and her-
boss.
- “These could- be extempOrized for cruis-
ers and commerce destroyers: The New
Louis and- St.
They would rank up to the top
notch and would require only a short time
necessary to furnish them with guns. I
should think that within 30 days they
,could be put in shape.”
English Comparisonh, 7
LONDON, Dec. Til—The Globe, St.
James Gazette and other papers this after-‘
noon publish comparisons of the British
and United States navies. The Globe,
for instance, says: “Of America’ 1126 iron-
clads against Great Britain’ s 64, many
are useless, and of torpedo gun boats Great
Britain has 33 and the United States 1. ”
Continuing, The Globe states that of
torpedo destroyers Great Britain has 42
Great
Besides. The Globe points out, Great
Britain already has 13 ships in her North
American squadron, 5 on the southeast
coast; of America and 6 on the Pacific
coast. \
A dispatch from Liverpool says that the
message of President Cleveland (70 con-
gress has thoroughly disorganized the
American railroad market; on. the Stock
Exchange there.
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Germany Rolenfl; - '
BERLIN, Dec. 19. —The Cologne Gazette
says that the German government hII,
sanctioned the interment of the remains
6: Cardinal Paul Melohcrs, who died at
. Rome on Dan; 4, in Cologne cIthcdralu
All the
English battleships. howover, could not be '
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