Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1885 — THE STEEL CRUISERS. [ARTICLE]

THE STEEL CRUISERS.

A Plan for Their Completion Decided Upon by the Navy Department. At the conference at the Navy Department, between Secretary Whitney, the chiefs of the bureau of steam engineering and of construction and repair, and the members of the naval advisory board, the plan for the completion of the unfinished cruisers Chicago, Boston and Atlanta was arranged and decided upon. The work on the vessels will be continued at the yards where they now lie by the Bureau of Steam Engineering and Bureau of Construction and Repair, and they will bear the same relation to the Government as the original contractors did. The bureaus will be held responsible for what is done, and the work will be conducted under the direction of officers representing the bureaus. The Naval Advisory Board will have its representatives at the yards, who will supervise aH work and material, as formerly. If any changes or modifications in the original plans are deemed necessary the same course will be pursued as before the Government took charge. „