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What the Nation Owes to Engineer
' Robert Miuigan. '
The Oregon‘s Phenomenal Run Lin-ge-
ly Due to Him—One 01 ‘1. 0 Two
\\ xxx-ships Prepared to Chase
Gel v’ezra :4 Fleet.
In the Engineering Magazine are re-
counted some exploits of ‘the fin ghting
engineers at Santiago.”le vritei
asks how it was that the correspondents
at the seat of war omitted to state that
on that Sunday morning when the
Spanish fleet bloke out from the har—
her the Ameiicans were unpi epared to
make a quick movement of any kind in
the face of the enemy The Ameiican
captains had everything in readiness——
except their boilers and engines.
The Oregon and the Gloucester w ere
alone prepared. It. is the captain. who
decides the number of' boilels- and quan-
tity of coal to be used. On the Oregon
the chief engineer was allowed to con-
trol his engines. The phenomenal run
of the Oregon has attra'cted- the atten-
tion of the- world. Its speedi'and effi-
ciency are a testimony to the unremit-
ting energy of its chief engineer, Rob-
ert Milligan. In the straits of Magellan
‘the men wanted to try the forced
draught. Forced draught. practically
answers Gen. Sherman‘s description of
war—it. is hell. The men insisted on be-
ing allowed to do it. "So they did, it,
and did- it again, and at. Santiago they
handled the forced dranghts like a play—
thing.” On the Oregon no salt. water
was laid- in the boilers. But. the other
ships “waited for the Spaniards with
engines uncoupled, boilers filled with
solt water when they were not empty,
and half the grates as clean. as whistles
and as cold as iceboxes.”
The Br-ooklyri’. had. only half her en-
gines and; half her boilers ready for use.
0n the alarm being sounded her empty
ROBERT MILLIGAN.
(Chief Engineer of the United States Bat-
tleship Oregon.)
boilers were filled with sea water and
the fires had to be laid and started.
Even at the end of the battle her for-
ward- engines were still uncoupled. The
New York was in. the same plight. The
writer claims for the Oregon a decisive
share in: the victory.
It is even officially conceded that but
for the Oregon the Colon-and probably
another Spanish ship would have es-
. ca-ped. So much for having engines in
order, boilers: ready, fires burning.
Here was a ship after a 15,000 mile run,
four months out of dock, with foul bot-
tom and increased displacement, almost
equaling her trial trip record. for speed.
And she fought as she ran. Inside of 15
minutes after the full speed signal was.
given she was making 15 knots. Within
an hour she was making nearly 17.
Ierc is an incident narrated. which
speaks volumes for what. the Americans
understand by discipline:
“For God’s sake, get on more boil~
ersl” That was the sort of message
sent from the bridge of one of the
United. States warships: to the chief en—
gineer half a dozen times- in an hour,
when the fleet was pelting the Span-
iards. The authority who in time of
war had his boiler rooms ready for
peace chafed at. the delay. His anxious
messages were beginning to worry the
.men below—machinists, water tenders,
,oilers, coal passers and firemen. The
chief engineer stood. in between, know-
ing that his men must keep coolhead-
ed, and he sent back word that all the
boilers were connected, filled, and all
the fires burning. “It’s the only way
.to keep the old. man quiet,” he said.
But all the boilers were not yet con-
nected when the fight finished.
. Here is the writer’s grim'description
of what kind of experience fell to the
lot of the engineers in these critical
houis:
“If you were sealed up in a heated
tank floating on the sea and ham-
incl ed at by missiles which now and
then let in daylight and splinters, you
would get a, dim idea of the lot. of the
1 engineer’s men aboard a. battleship in
action. But. the engineer’s men have'to
' work in the hurly burly, and you would
go mad in. your tank. The enemy’s shot
‘ Jounds the ship. but the engineer and
his men know not Where the enemy is
or where the. ship is'heading. And thg‘
can’t stop to think about it! Keep that
hearing cool, smother it in oil, drown
it in water! Keep it cool or then game s
up! The men on deck can let the
splintms lie where tl1e\ fall. but the
the splinters out of the machinery.
Stearrn pipes are. pierced. Mend ’em!
Crawl behind the boilers and stOp that
steam leak. Impossible. to shut off any-
thing. Scalde'd? Never mind? it’s all
in the day’s well. Don't let the water
down. Pass the coal lively. And while
you’re about it put out that fire in the
bankers.” o
It Used to Cost More.
braska, accordin-gto a recent court de-
cision in that state. Time has been
. oost.‘ .17“,
men in the engine room have to keep ‘
It. costs $25 tolcall a man a liar in Ne;
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when such pleusaatrics in. Nehrueks .
Itoca.
GEN. jULIo A. Eoca.
Beelected President of the Argentina 5
Republic After 1 Retirement .
of Twelve Years.
Gen. Julio A. Roca, after 12 years’ re-.
tirement to private life, has been elect-
ed anew to the presidency of the Ar-
gentine republic. Gen. Roca became
famous during a successful campaign
against the Indians of the Pampa. Un-
der his leadership Argentina gained
'an immense territory, in the greater
part of which the white mah had never
before put his foot. He returned to
Buenos Ayres 'with a great prestige.
An electoral campaign was just com-
JULIO A. ROCA.
(New President of the Argentine Republic.)
GEN.
mencing, and Gen. Roca was ifnmedi
ately made a candidate for the presi-
dency, and was elected for a period of
six years, from 1880 to 1886.
Gen. R0ca. was born in the province
of Tucuman, Argentina, July 17, 1843.
At an early age he entered the Na-
tional college of the province of Entre
Rios. The breaking out of the war with
Paraguay compelled him to abandon
his studies, and to enter the army as
a sub—lieutenant in the artillery. He
took part in the principal battles of the
campaign, and was promoted to the
Tank of staff major.
Peace with Paraguay being adjusted,
he was sent to the frontier, which was
‘menaced by the Pampa Indians. The
tribes of Central Pampa and the plains
of Patagonia were making frequent
raids into districts devoted to cattle
raising, and the government was com-
pelled to maintain an army on the
‘frontiers, where a line of fortresses
and blockhouses had been established
connected by telegraph.
Every Argentina. statesman had
failed to settle the frontier problem un-
til the young oflicer, who was then
.Lieut. COl. Roca, located in a. village at
the front of the line of defense, and
completed a. plan of conquest of the
austral lands of the republic, and sfib-
mitted them to the authorities of the
'nation. President Avellaneda, on being
informed of the new project, made
Roca the secretary of war.
As commander general of the expedi-
tionary forces of Rio Negro in 1878 Gen.
at the head of one of the (livi-
sions of the army, undertook the con-
quest of the Pampas. The Indian tribes
were surrounded, fought, pursued to
the boundaries of the Pampas, and a.
few months afterward the conquering
general reached the banks of the Rio
Negro, having subdued in his march
all the Indian population, and taken
possession of an immense territory.
After (1e11.;lloc:x‘s first term as presi-
dent expired, in 188:"). he visited Europe,
and there met the leading political
and military men of the old world.
Deep Plowing ls Profitable. '
Land that is plowed deep endure.
the droughts better than shallow
plowed land, as there is a. greater ab-
sorption of moisture. In other words,
the deeper the soil isplow edithe greater
its capacity for holding water. To pre-
vent. loss of this moisture the top soil
should be cultivated so as to simply
loosen it, which prevents evaporation
and at the same time keeps the weeds
down. The water in.- thc soil escapes
at the surface, and this should be pre-
vented by a mulch of loose dirt over
the surface, which' 15: effected by cultiva-
tion
Mari-fed Seventy Years.
KNOXXILLE, April ISL—Isaac C. Dy-
er and Wife of Claiborne county have
celebrated their seventieth wedding an—
niversary in the house where they were
married and have lived constantly.
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